Have there ever been songs you heard where it was a black singer and you thought they were white? Here are some of mine:

Get Right Back To Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Boys Are Back In Town- Thin Lizzy/Phil Lynot
Soft And Wet- Prince (This was before I had the album and never had seen Prince. I thought it was a white girl singing.)
Love/Arthur Lee (all of their stuff)
Who is it for you?

i don't know the name of the song or the name of the singer (though i think she's dead, if tat helps) but there is a song with lyrics like "loving you...la la la la la, la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la...ooooohhhhh, oooooh!"



i know that doesn't help too much but, anyway, i though it was a white woman.

sallysassalot said:

Minnie Riperton "Loving You"??

aikam said:

that's it! minnie riperton...i thought her first name was minnie but i wasn't sure. thanks!

sallysassalot said:

no problem . She died of cancer years ago, her daughter Maya Rudolph is a regular on Saturday Night Live (one of her characters is Donatella Versace). I have'nt heard Loving You in awhile but I believe she singing Maya Maya at the end.

aikam said:

i never knew maya rudolph was her daughter...she's practically the only funny one on the show! well, her and the guy who does the brian fellows bit, lol.

sallysassalot said:

yep that's her, she also used to be on City Of Angels (great TV show they took off the air too soon ). I honestly don't watch Saturday Night Live as much as I used to. I'm a Mad TV fan.

aikam said:

mad tv is so much better! dixie wetworth and my black mama were the funniest skits...oh, and the whole 'owered expectations thing cracked me up every time, lol! yeah, i never watch snl anymore. the last time i watched was the janet jackson host/performer episode.

sallysassalot said:

that's the last time I saw it too lol (that was acutally the first time in years i watched it). I watch the older episodes of Mad TV on Comedy Central too. I love Stuart, Ms. Swan, the lady that scratches her throat when she talks - I can't think of her name right now but she has me in tears/bent over laughing. I remember one episode when she and her whole family went camping and they all stepped out of the trailer one by one making that noise with their throats...there was at least 20-25 family members lol. There are so many funny characters and skits, I love that show

Ashitty, Tracy Chapman and Darius Rucker are the only two that seem to come to mind.

Heather Headley


"I wish I wasnt in love in love with you"

ThreadCula said:

Isn't that her boyfriend or husband? She looks like a jacked-up Brandy in that pic.

okaypimpn said:

thats her husband
LOL...she sure does look like a messed Brandy there

okaypimpn said:

Darius, bingo! I started to mention him in the thread, but I was curious if someone else out there was alive and mention it on their own.

ThreadCula said:

Heather Headley...that's interesting.

I thought that MisTeeq, who sings that somewhat new song "Scandalous", a black British group, was Chirstine Aquerlia or that one girl that sampled "Family Affair".

When I first heard 'Cult of Personality' by Living Colour, I thought they were white.

Redayh said:

Very good pick.

okaypimpn said:

I'm not hip to Heather. But she does look like a roughed up Brandy. That's cold pimp.

When I first heard "Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson, I thought it was a white group.

vainandy said:

Damn! No way. How?

For years, I thought Prince was white...I was one of those narrowed minded African Americans that thought that black people didnt make rock music aka white people music

Hey, what can I say? I was very young and the disco era had a lot of white and black artists. Their voices sounded white to me at the time. This was also the first Brothers Johnson song I ever heard also. By the time "Stomp" came out, I knew better.

When i was little and I heard the oldie "Twist and Shout" I had no idea that it was by a black group (the Isley Brothers).

After hearing Hey Joe for the 1st time, I had no idea Jimi Hendrix was black.
A few weeks later I purchased the single and saw his picture on the record sleeve.



Messed me up for life.


(just kidding)

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

aikam said:

she is.

Anything by Charley Pride or Aaron Neville

Johnny Nash - ("I Can See Clearly Now" and in the 60's, "The Mighty Hercules" cartoon theme song - even though, on this one, he really sounds like Johnny Mathis, now that I think about it...)