12-14-2022, 02:56 PM
"Ain't No Way"
This song has been playing in my head since last week. It came out of the blue and after a few days started driving me nuts. Naturally, it was Aretha's version playing in my brain, but I thought if I found some other version, maybe it would stop.
By gawd I found quite a few versions, a few were very, very good, but no white girls should even attempt this song.
One of the versions I found that was great was by the gal in the last post, Wendy Moten:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6MZBAZUOM OMG! Goosebumps
Also found this one by a woman I had never heard of before, Vanessa Haynes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1sSlh8Q...rt_radio=1
So, I'm thinking, Whitney Houston or Jennifer Hudson must have done this song so I checked it out. Turns out, both had, but not impressive enough to be included here.
Did you know, I didn't, that Aretha's sister wrote this song? Here they both are in the studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtC6ZOqVcQ
Two asides: The guy with the salt & pepper beard is Tom Dowd, he also produced one of my favorite albums, Derek and the Dominoes. The high soprano voice in the recording is Crissy Houston, Whitney Houston's aunt.
And this is what we all heard on our radios in 1968:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2Mu2zBzjw
This song has been playing in my head since last week. It came out of the blue and after a few days started driving me nuts. Naturally, it was Aretha's version playing in my brain, but I thought if I found some other version, maybe it would stop.
By gawd I found quite a few versions, a few were very, very good, but no white girls should even attempt this song.
One of the versions I found that was great was by the gal in the last post, Wendy Moten:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6MZBAZUOM OMG! Goosebumps
Also found this one by a woman I had never heard of before, Vanessa Haynes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1sSlh8Q...rt_radio=1
So, I'm thinking, Whitney Houston or Jennifer Hudson must have done this song so I checked it out. Turns out, both had, but not impressive enough to be included here.
Did you know, I didn't, that Aretha's sister wrote this song? Here they both are in the studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtC6ZOqVcQ
Two asides: The guy with the salt & pepper beard is Tom Dowd, he also produced one of my favorite albums, Derek and the Dominoes. The high soprano voice in the recording is Crissy Houston, Whitney Houston's aunt.
And this is what we all heard on our radios in 1968:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2Mu2zBzjw
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― Voltaire
― Voltaire