While Aretha's version of this song is, no doubt, incredible (practically everything Aretha cut during '67-'69 is pure MAGIC) this ORIGINAL version is white hot as well and if all were fair and just in the universe, would have been the hit. Perhaps it was just a tad too raw for the masses...
Southern by birth (North Carolina), Thelma relocated to New York c1967 and cut some incredible singles (including this one, as well as "Stronger" which is a past 45 of the day) that should have propelled her to stardom.
from 1968...
4 comments:
Thank you, another great song and thank you for the past emails, I will miss your emails but will continue to visit your blog. Thank you very much and best wishes for the future.
as always another great post, I will miss you in my in box but keep up the fine work.
Torch
Derek, cheers & thank you so much for all the e-mails over the years - finding 'you' in my inbox each morning has been an immense pleasure ;-)
Of course I'll be keeping up here - I hope bandwidth doesn't become a problem for you...
This actually did get some Pop airplay in New York on radio station WMCA. It made it up to the mid 30's on thier weekly survey back in '67.
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