SpudShow 398 - Betty Wright

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Artist - Betty Wright

Track 1 - Pull your pants up
Track 2 - URA HO
Track 3 - Go

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Label - Ms.B Records/ Miami Spice Publishing

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Betty Wright (born December 21, 1953, in Miami, Florida) is a soul and R&B singer, who has influenced a generation of female singer-songwriters. The hottest members of the hip hop generation (including Tupac, DMX, and Li'l Wayne) have sampled some of her more famous material. Born singing gospel with family group the Echoes of Joy, Wright began switching to R&B music in 1965 when she was only 11. In 1968, she released her first album, My First Time Around, at the age of 15, and scored her first hit, "Girls Can’t Do What Guys Can Do". But it was not until the end of 1971 that Wright’s most successful phase of her career took place. The song, "Clean Up Woman", became a Top 5 pop and R&B hit, and would later influence a remix of Mary J. Blige’s "Real Love" single with the sample of its guitar riffs; R&B girl group trio SWV’s "I’m So Into You" also featured a sample from "Clean Up Woman," as did Afrika Bambaataa’s song "Zulu War Chant", and Sublime’s "Get Out!" remix. Beyonce has sampled "Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do" for her hit "Upgrade U". In 1974, Wright scored big with the songs "Tonight is the Night" (about a real-life love affair that happened with Wright when she was a teenager) and "Where is the Love" (which won her a Grammy for Best R&B Song). In the early 1980s, she founded her own record label, Ms. B Records, and in 1988 made music history by being the first woman to have a gold record on her own label, with the release of Mother Wit, which featured two of her biggest hits in years, "No Pain No Gain" and the "After The Pain." On both songs, Wright displays her powerful upper register capabilities and seven-octave range. By 2001 a compilation album The Very Best of Betty Wright was released, along with her first studio album for several years, Fit for a King. Still recording music to this day, she now mentors several young singers, and has done vocal production for the likes of Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez and Joss Stone. She has also been seen on MTV as part of Diddy's hit series Making the Band.
This year she struck gold again when "Baby" (her smash duet with Angie Stone) was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group.
For the first time ever Betty Wright has licensed digital distribution of her Ms. B Records catalog. The first reissues, Mother Wit and Fit For A King, will be available in early 2009 at digital retailers worldwide.

 

Betty Wright
"Pull Your Pants Up!!!" (mp3)
from "Fit For A King"
(MS. B Records)

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Betty Wright
"U-R-A-Ho (And You Don't Know It)" (mp3)
from "Fit For A King"
(MS. B Records)

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Betty Wright
"Go" (mp3)
from "Go"
(MS. B Records)

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