#sonny jones

[soulmusicsongs]

Sissy Walk (Pt.1) - Sonny Jones (Sissy Walk (Pt.1) / Sissy Walk (Pt.2), 1969)

[sonnryse]

Jim Smith (No Shorts)

The path of least resistance is human nature. It’s also called the easy way out and real leaders don’t believe in it. The reason why we don’t believe in it is because it’s the path to failure for many different reasons. One of the things I respect about Jim Smith is he did not believe in doing things the easy way because he believes in doing things the right way. The easy way includes making excuses for where you fall short opposed to questioning and openly saying “this is not right and we are better than this”. My first team meeting with Jim was in Richmond, Va. All the managers in his area were in attendance. One of the metrics that needed immediate attention was increasing accessory sales. Jim asked calmly “why do we think our accessory sales are so bad”? The first manager said “no one wants to pay $19.99 for a car charger” and then manager after manager gave excuses on why selling accessories was impossible. In particular the last manager said the T-mobile a few doors down sells them for much cheaper. Jim stood up and said to this manger “If you feel its easier to sell accessories at T-mobile, then put in your two weeks and go work there”. The entire room got quiet. If anyone knows me I fought back laughing Jim was serious though. Everybody in the room knew at that point the only option was to get this thing figured out. Jim gaged the mindset of his team and in one sentence let everyone know our current performance was not good and it had to change. Others may not have approached the situation this way but others were not Jim. As the day progressed Jim laid out an excellent game plan on how we could all be successful. As a team we collaborated for the entire day until we felt like masters of accessory selling. We learned the features, benefits , and advantages of our accessories. He had a representative from the accessory company to field any question. Jim eliminated all obstacles and subsequently we went back and delivered amazing results. I have a few take aways from this one experience:

1) Listen to what your team has to tell you. Everyone wants to be heard 2) Challenge your team to think bigger (With love) 3) Don’t except excuses 4) Share your vision and make it possible to build on 5) Remove as many obstacles as possible 6) Take a synergistic approach (1+1=3) 7) Get the teams buy in and commitment

It would have been easy for Jim to except excuses however he understood the easy way does not yield results and doesn’t build strength on your team. Hold people to a standard and lead with a vision. Because of Jim I don’t believe in short cuts. The goal of any business is sustained growth and performance. There is no such thing as taking a short cut to deliver sustained growth and performance. The right way may be difficult at first but the short cut is difficult in the end.

[thefeeling-argentina]

Sonny & Richard Jones

The Feeling- Behind The Scenes (Boy Cried Wolf/Rescue Video Shoot) [x]

[inat40]

Sonny Jones - Follow You, Follow Me feat Tara Chase

Why did so many turn-of-the-millennium music videos feature lifts or liftlike rooms? I'm thinking 'Keep On Movin'', 'Ghetto Superstar', 'Men In Black', 'Virtual Insanity' - I swear this was a thing, just like dystopian chase scenes with men in wraparound sunglasses was for dance music.

I also like this YouTube clip for its glimpse into music TV around that time and the songs that, like this, didn't really last in the memory. (It got to number 42).

As it turns out it's an interesting case of 'impressionable young people massively screwed by the music industry'. WARNING: There's some rockist nonsense amid 'The story of Sonny Jones':

Sonny Jones was a music project pseudonym of a young fresh looking artist from Berlin Germany, who has used this name for his work as a  Blues, Jazz/Funk & Soulsinger and Songwriter in tribute to the film "Tapdance" stating an old tapdance school named "Sonny's Side of the Street" and the family  name of the legendary Jazz musician and composer "Quincy Jones".

After his first Hit in the UK 'Follow You Follow Me', a cover version of the Genesis classic, rising from the bottom straight up to No. 3 in the MTV Box charts right before Madonna and others in the year 2000, he still felt very unpleased with the forced change of his music style by the record companies central office in Germany, and he left the project right after its amazing start, to work more as a composer and songwriter now for others in the background of the music industry.

What many fans and detractors of his Pop-Hit version of the Genesis song didn't know: he actually was a completely different and more sophisticated and more advanced music artist before and his own first original production of that Cover version was more Rythm 'n Blues and Old School Hip Hop orientated, and the only reason why female award winning rap aritst Tara Chase and Phil Collins jumped in the boat of this idea at the first place, before the German central office of the record company has changed the whole style of the song to be more compatible to a younger German audience... That's why he was the music opener with a live performance for the rebirth of UK's biggest TV show "The Lottery Show" with UK's biggest audience rating in the history of the Lottery Show ever.

He was unable to feel happy about it all because it wasn't his taste of music, he had to present. He felt misunderstood, got sick and has canceled the next Maxi CD release of the song 'Rain in paradise', an own written song about a failed relationship to annouce the upcoming album release. A song which merely fit to the situation with the record company ironically. To get away from it all, he has used another pseudonym for his work as a music producer after this time from now on and gave this song to another artist to perform it for him. 2002: The music producer Gilmano was born.

In the interview with us he stated by himself: 'The story of Sonny Jones can be count as one of many typical examples of how record companies have destroyed the music landscape and life of actually authentic artists consequently by their producer driven teen oriented music marketing. That's why Teen pop music was criticized very badly in all of its decades and especally in the new century and became the paragon of music industry as a contrapositive opposite to the meaning of a many-faceted music landscape full of interesting artists. It often was count as one of the actually main reasons for the big going down of record companies and its power in the new internet century, where artists can show their different facets now much better and without being dominated by record comany strategies, far away from them in the web, reaching a bigger audience.'

Personally I quite like it.

[malkifunk]

Sonny Jones - Sissy Walk (by drean1964)