Song's chords D♯, A♯, F, Dm, G, Cm, Gm, A♯m, G♯, F♯
Album The Ultimate Collection
Info about song
"Joanna" is a song by Kool & the Gang from their 1983 album, In the Heart. Released as a single on December 17, 1983, the song was an immediate hit, peaking at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for one week. A romantic ballad similar to many of Kool & the Gang's later releases, the song's main subject is an eponymous girl named "Joanna". In the group's music video, "Joanna" is portrayed as the current owner of a small, roadside café named "Joanna's Diner" (filmed at the Colonial Diner in Lyndhurst, N.J.). Throughout the video, she serves the band members as both cook and waitress as they serenade her with the video occasionally flashing back to her younger days as a dancer at Harlem's famous Cotton Club in New York City and in love with the character portrayed by the group's lead singer, James "J.T." Taylor. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.