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Eargasm

Eargasm is an album by the American R&B singer Johnnie Taylor, released in March 1976 on Columbia Records. The album contains "Disco Lady", which was a No. 1 pop hit for four weeks, and achieved the first platinum certification for a single, with two million copies sold. Eargasm was Taylor's first album for Columbia Records, after many years spent recording for Stax. The album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200; it spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Soul Albums chart, and peaked at No. 41 in Canada. Taylor's most commercially successful album, Eargasm achieved gold status in 1980 and platinum status in 2001. The album's second single, "Somebody's Gettin' It", was also a hit. The album helped Taylor earn the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's award for the 1976 "Entertainer of the Year".

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Eargasm is an album by the American R&B singer Johnnie Taylor, released in March 1976 on Columbia Records. The album contains "Disco Lady", which was a No. 1 pop hit for four weeks, and achieved the first platinum certification for a single, with two million copies sold. Eargasm was Taylor's first album for Columbia Records, after many years spent recording for Stax. The album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200; it spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Soul Albums chart, and peaked at No. 41 in Canada. Taylor's most commercially successful album, Eargasm achieved gold status in 1980 and platinum status in 2001. The album's second single, "Somebody's Gettin' It", was also a hit. The album helped Taylor earn the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's award for the 1976 "Entertainer of the Year".

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  1. release date: 1976 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "1976". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378534660

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