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 [...]
Tags: Funk · Hip-hop · Learned · Motown · Outkast · Sampling · Soul · Stevie Wonder · Syreeta · The Mack · UGK · Willie Hutch
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 [...]
Tags: America · Appropriation · Daptone · England · Forgotten · Frank Wilson · Funk · Motown · Northern Soul · Soul
Dear world, today, Reverend Al Green called me on the telephone.
Around 2 pm, I was playing his version of “Pretty Woman” on Across 110th Street, the Saturday soul show. The phone rang. I picked it up, said “Hello, WKCR?” The caller paused and then said, “Hi, this is Al Green. What’s your name?”
He wanted to [...]
Tags: Al Green · Remembered · Soul · Surreal · WKCR