Willie Hutch, “I Choose You”, 1973, from The Mack.
Recognize that? Yeah.
The whole soundtrack is good.
Also, I recently happened upon the craziest version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Love Every Little Thing About You”:
Syreeta (Rita Wright), was married to Stevie Wonder and composed a lot of his early hits with him (i.e. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m [...]
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Perhaps one of the less-forgotten of all things forgotten, seeing as Frank Wilson was (a) one of Motown’s most successful producers and songwriters, and (b) the man behind possibly the most valuable 45 in existence.
The guy wrote “Love Child” and “Nathan Jones” for the Supremes—the two singles that largely brought them their second wave of [...]
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