John Ellison

John Ellison (born 11 August 1941) is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful." He was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and was raised in Landgraff, West Virginia, a small, poverty-stricken coal mining village near Welch, West Virginia, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, receiving his Canadian citizenship in 2006.

Biography

In the mid-1960s, Ellison traveled to Rochester, New York, where he met the original members of the Soul Brothers Five, becoming the sixth member and prompting the band to change its name to the Soul Brothers Six. The other members of the group included Charles Armstrong, Harry Armstrong, Vonnell Benjamin, Lester Pelemon, and Joe Johnson. The group signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records.

Ellison was the lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the group; and while traveling to a recording session in Philadelphia in 1967, Ellison wrote "She's Some Kind of Wonderful." This original version reached number 91 on the US Billboard chart. In 1987, the book Sweet Soul Music named the Soul Brothers Six as a major influence on the sound of modern music. Not only has the trademark bass line in "She's Some Kind of Wonderful" been utilized by countless other artists for a variety of different songs, but the song has also earned the Soul Brothers Six a spot in music history. More than 50 different artists have recorded "She's Some Kind of Wonderful," making it one of the most recorded songs in the history of music. In 1995, Ellison received a citation of achievement from Broadcast Music for writing the third-most played song in the world.

John Ellison (politician)

John Ellison (born in 1953 in Elko, Nevada) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly since February 7, 2011 representing District 33.

Education

Ellison graduated from Elko High School.

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John Ellison (bishop)

John Alexander Ellison was the Anglican Bishop of Paraguay from 1988 to 2007.

Born in 1940, he was educated at the London College of Divinity and ordained in 1968, he began his career with Curacies at St Paul’s Woking and St Saviours Belgrano, Buenos Aires. In 1983 he was appointed Vicar of St Mary the Virgin Aldridge, a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate. Having retired, he is now an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester.

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