Songs that Jones worked on during this period include The Supremes' "Have I Lost You" (writer), Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross's "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" (writer), Junior Walker's "I Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (writer/producer) and the Four Tops' "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" (writer). As Jones was also initially a singer for the label, protocol demanded a pseudonym, so for some of her co-writes she used the name LaVerne Ware (not to be confused with another Motown songwriter/producer, Leon Ware). Jones and Sawyer were amongst the second string of writers at Motown, but still wrote for such artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, Commodores, The Four Tops and The Jackson 5. Eventually, she was to meet Pam Sawyer, who asked her to write for Motown Records. That winter, she joined the Los Angeles cast of Hair, the musical. During the summer of 1968, she performed in a play called Revolution, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In 1968, she joined the cast of Catch My Soul, a rock and soul version of the play Othello, which included cast members Jerry Lee Lewis, The Blossoms, and Dr. Jones studied piano, and acquired an advanced classical degree primarily in the works of Bach. Jones also recorded an album for the Uptown label entitled Come Go with Me which was released in 1966. So strong was Jones's following in Northern England that she was proclaimed "The Queen of Northern Soul".
Included among these was another Cobb-written song, " Tainted Love". īy then, Jones had recorded other songs for Uptown Records, a subsidiary of Capitol/ EMI. "Heartbeat" became a rhythm and blues tune which was recorded later by Dusty Springfield, Spencer Davis and many other artists. One performance occurred at a Rock and Soul show in Disneyland in the summer of 1965. She toured the United States, performing on several American television programs, footage of which still exists. Signing with Cobb's Greengrass Productions, she recorded her first hit record, "Heartbeat Pts 1 & 2," which Cobb wrote and produced. In 1964, Jones, in her late teens, was discovered by the songwriter Ed Cobb. Although she remained with the group for some four years, she soon found herself drawn into the Los Angeles pop scene. Jones' first taste of fame came at the age of 14, when, while still at school, she formed with Frankie Kahrl and Billy Preston the successful gospel group the COGIC Singers, with whom she recorded the album It's a Blessing. Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of seven, where she first started singing.
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