George McCrae

George Warren McCrae Jr. (McCray, born October 19, 1944)

He was about to return to college to study law enforcement, when Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded for the band, but could not reach the high notes that were required for the song. The original intention was that Gwen, his wife, should record it, but she was late for the session and George recorded alone. topping the charts in the U.S. and the UK. The song was so successful that Rolling Stone magazine voted it the No. 1 song of the year in 1974. McCrae received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocalist the following year.

Two further single releases, "I Can't Leave You Alone", backed by "I Get Lifted", and "It's Been So Long," also reached the UK Singles Chart Top 10. and also continued to record with, and manage, his wife until their divorce in 1976.

While he continued to record albums including We Did It! and his second self-titled album George McCrae (both 1978), his commercial popularity slipped as the decade progressed. He married a second time, moved to Canada, and entered a period of semi-retirement, leaving TK at the end of the 1970s.

He returned with the album One Step Closer to Love in 1984, the title track from which entered the charts in the United Kingdom and Belgium. In 1988, he had a daughter, Marcella, with his then-girlfriend, Rosanna Molignini. He moved to the village Munstergeleen in the Netherlands and remarried again, to Dutch model Yvonne Bergsma, in 1989. They have a son, Shaka.

CRIA: Gold

George McCrae

Together(with Gwen McCrae)

1976 Diamond Touch

George McCrae

We Did It

One Step Closer to Love

Own the Night

1987 I Feel Love for You

With All My Heart

1995 Do Something

1996 Romance

2009 Time for a Change

2016 Love

Recorded 1989/Released 2026 Perfect Combination

Singles Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications Album US AUS AUT SWI NED BEL(FLA) SWE NOR IRE UK 1974"Rock Your Baby" 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 — 1 3 1 BPI: Gold Rock Your Baby"I Can't Leave You Alone" 50 10 92 3 11 — 4 3 — — — 9 "You Can Have It All" — — — — — — — — — — — 23 1975"I Get Lifted" 37 8 — — — — — — — — — — "Look at You" 95 31 — — — — — — — — — — "Sing a Happy Song" — — — 13 — — — 27 — — — 38 George McCrae"It's Been So Long" — — — 27 — — — — — — 4 4 BPI: Silver "I Ain't Lyin'" — 31 — 35 — — — — — — — 12 1976"Honey I" 65 18 — — — — — — 20 — — 33 "Love in Motion" — — — — — — — — — — — — Diamond Touch 1977"I'm Gonna Stay with My Baby Tonight" — — — — — — — — — — — — "Kiss Me the Way I Like It" 110 57 — — — — — — — — — — George McCrae (II) 1978"Let's Dance" — 93 — — — — — — — — — — "(You've Got) My Love, My Life, My Soul" — — — — — — — — — — — — We Did It!"I Want You Around Me" — 91 — — — — — — — — — — 1979"Don't You Feel My Love" — — — — — — — — — — — — 1984"One Step Closer (To Love)" — — — — — — — 19 — — — 57 One Step Closer To Love"Listen to Your Heart" — — — — — — — — — — — — "Never Too Late" (NED only) — — — — — — — — — — — — "Own the Night" — — — — — — — — — — — — Own the Night 1985"Let's Dance / Never Forgot Your Eyes" (UK only) — — — — — — — — — — — — Singles only 1986"Rock Your Baby (Frankfurt Mix)" — — — — — — — — — — — 92 1987"That's Love" — — — — — — — — — — — — I Feel Love for You"Girls Don't Lie" (UK only) — — — — — — — — — — — — 1988"Nice and Slow" — — — — — — 1 1 — — — 17 Singles only 1989"Rock Me All the Way" (NED only) — — — — — — — — — — — — 1990"Breathless" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — With All My Heart 1991"Calling Love" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — "Take This Love of Mine" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — 1994"All Around the World (The Fresh Taste of Happiness)" — — — — — — — — — — — — Single only 1995"Do Something" (GER only) — — — 82 — — — — — — — — Do Something"Wanna Be Your Lover" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — 1996"Little Things Softly" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — 2009"It's Been So Long 2009" (GER only) — — — — — — — — — — — — Time for a Change "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.