Toussaint Mccall
Died 2023From Monroe
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Toussaint Mccall died in 2023. Below are the shows Toussaint Mccall played in the Netherlands.
About
Also known as: Toussant McCall, Toussiant McCall
Best remembered for one of the most quietly devastating ballads in soul history, Toussaint McCall scored a serious hit in 1967 with "Nothing Takes the Place of You", which climbed to number five on the US R&B chart. The Monroe, Louisiana organist and singer recorded the track for Shreveport's Ronn Records, and while follow up singles and an album came out, none of them came close to replicating that magic. The song proved durable enough that Al Green covered it, Asleep at the Wheel took a country version into the charts, and Prince Buster cut a ska take on it. McCall kept performing and recording for local labels over the years, and in 1988 popped up in John Waters' film Hairspray, lip syncing to his signature song in a movie set six years before the track even existed. He was inducted into the Northeast Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2016, a fitting nod to someone whose one immortal tune kept finding new audiences for decades.
