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Thread started 04/30/06 11:33am

Novabreaker

Who's the singer who covers "I Want You", sounding a lot like TTD?

I used to hear this on the radio a couple of times some years ago (not that I listen to radio of course, but it came on a few times when I was in my mother's car). Maybe in 2001 or so. It was sort of smooth-jazz cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and the singer's voice sounded so much like TTD that for the first time I heard it I thought it was him. The phrasing was so much like, it totally fooled me. I'd like to hear it again.

Any ideas?
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Reply #1 posted 04/30/06 12:07pm

CinisterCee

You should look through AMG's 658 results for "I Want You" and let us know. lol
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Reply #2 posted 04/30/06 12:08pm

Novabreaker

Well, it's one possible solution...
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Reply #3 posted 04/30/06 12:10pm

CinisterCee

Novabreaker said:

Well, it's one possible solution...


haha smile
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Reply #4 posted 04/30/06 12:26pm

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Novabreaker said:

I used to hear this on the radio a couple of times some years ago (not that I listen to radio of course, but it came on a few times when I was in my mother's car). Maybe in 2001 or so. It was sort of smooth-jazz cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and the singer's voice sounded so much like TTD that for the first time I heard it I thought it was him. The phrasing was so much like, it totally fooled me. I'd like to hear it again.

Any ideas?


The only cover of "I Want You" I know is the one by Robert Palmer (he also covered "Mercy, Mercy, Me", was it even sequenced as one song?), but he for sure didn't sound like TTD, so I guess that's not the version you mean.
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Reply #5 posted 04/30/06 3:12pm

MikeMatronik

Madonna cool
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Reply #6 posted 04/30/06 3:17pm

abierman

MikeMatronik said:

Madonna cool



together with Massive Attack.....
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Reply #7 posted 04/30/06 3:58pm

MikeMatronik

abierman said:

MikeMatronik said:

Madonna cool



together with Massive Attack.....

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Reply #8 posted 04/30/06 8:34pm

Raajput

Novabreaker said:

I used to hear this on the radio a couple of times some years ago (not that I listen to radio of course, but it came on a few times when I was in my mother's car). Maybe in 2001 or so. It was sort of smooth-jazz cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and the singer's voice sounded so much like TTD that for the first time I heard it I thought it was him. The phrasing was so much like, it totally fooled me. I'd like to hear it again.

Any ideas?


El Debarge with Fourplay!
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Reply #9 posted 04/30/06 8:53pm

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Raajput said:

Novabreaker said:

I used to hear this on the radio a couple of times some years ago (not that I listen to radio of course, but it came on a few times when I was in my mother's car). Maybe in 2001 or so. It was sort of smooth-jazz cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and the singer's voice sounded so much like TTD that for the first time I heard it I thought it was him. The phrasing was so much like, it totally fooled me. I'd like to hear it again.

Any ideas?


El Debarge with Fourplay!

They did "After the Dance." Did they also do the album's title track?

I know Marc Nelson and Montell Jordan each covered "I Want You," but I doubt you're talking about them.
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Reply #10 posted 05/01/06 8:48am

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Novabreaker said:

I used to hear this on the radio a couple of times some years ago (not that I listen to radio of course, but it came on a few times when I was in my mother's car). Maybe in 2001 or so. It was sort of smooth-jazz cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and the singer's voice sounded so much like TTD that for the first time I heard it I thought it was him. The phrasing was so much like, it totally fooled me. I'd like to hear it again.

Any ideas?



The Avila Brothers produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
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Reply #11 posted 05/01/06 8:53am

Universaluv

Sam Cooke
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Reply #12 posted 05/01/06 9:19am

Novabreaker

No,not Sam Cooke. It's a new contemporary version in the vein of, say, Norah Jones or someone.
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Reply #13 posted 05/01/06 11:46am

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Novabreaker said:

No,not Sam Cooke. It's a new contemporary version in the vein of, say, Norah Jones or someone.



Like Graycap23 said, its the Avila Brothers.
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Reply #14 posted 05/01/06 11:56am

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Novabreaker said:

No,not Sam Cooke. It's a new contemporary version in the vein of, say, Norah Jones or someone.


was just kidding.... wink
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Reply #15 posted 05/01/06 12:01pm

Novabreaker

It isn't the Avila Brothers, I googled for that - that one is from 2005, it's not even really the same song and the vocalist sounds nothing like Terence Trent D'Arby.
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