
Who would believe that the soulful sister that sang "Tonight is the night" started her professional singing career at age 15 in the late 60's. Who later went on to influence the genres of RñB, Hip Hop and Soul.
Betty Wright, in '68 released her first album, and accomplished making a number one hit with the track, "My first time around". Three years later she made an even bigger contribution to the U.S music industry with her second album which was released under her own record label, MS B Records. Her musical genius influenced the likes of Mary J. Blige's "Real love", SWV's "I'm so into you" and the hot hit off Beyonce's latest album,
"Upgrade U" which was sampled from one of Betty's first recorded tracks, "Girls can't do what the guys do".
This clearly shows how much soul this sister had and started feeling it at such a tender age, that aint right but if you hot, you hot. No wonder the term chicken murderer is so commonly dear to us. My personal favourite is her track titled "Clean up woman", in which she schools ladies on what another woman will do with the good man they dumped. The lyrics goes something like this:
"A Clean up woman is a woman who gets all the love we girls leave behind. The reason I know so much about her is because she picked up a man of mine. Shoe, that's hot and sticky idn't it?
She really peri-peried-up the topic of love and relationships. This gives y'all women out there a lot of credit because it shows how open minded y'all are about this love and heartbreak stuff. Relationships are tough and sometime seems like a waist of time but eish... I know for a fact that I can't resist getting my head twisted over some woman that I can't stop thinking about. I guess the soul doesn't ask a lot of questions when the opportunity arises for a love at first sight encounter between to people. But one thing is for sho, I will definitely listen more to Y'all women in the future, especially to my homegirl Betty.
Information sampled from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Wright
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk
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