Terry Johnson

The longtime leader of doo wop legends the Flamingos, the multifaceted Terry Johnson also served as a Motown staff writer and producer during the label's commercial and creative heyday. Born Isaiah Johnson in Baltimore on November 12, 1938, as a youth he counted the Orioles' Sonny Til and the Swallows' Earl Hurley among his neighbors, while future Flamingos Jake and Zeke Carey were members of his ...more