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Slow Jam Of The Evening: "Cause I Love You" by Lenny Williams This song is on the radio right now at a loooong night at work.
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.....I'm glad I found ya..... I just lo, o, o, o, ove to be around you..... Anyone into this one? Andy is a four letter word. | |
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and the tears...would fill uuuuup...in the wellllls, in the wells of my eyes, oh baby... | |
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OMG, I just grabbed this off the shelf! I lov that song, but it also makes me laugh cuz I almost instantly think of Steve Harvey when I hear it. | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: OMG, I just grabbed this off the shelf! I lov that song, but it also makes me laugh cuz I almost instantly think of Steve Harvey when I hear it.
ohh, that one part from the kings of comedy? that shit was funny. | |
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From the liner notes of The Ultimate Collection:
Curiously, the song that ultimately became Williams' calling card, the melodramatic 'Cause I Love You, was never a single, but an album cut from Spark of Love. Lenny had cut an earlier version on the lone Motown LP. The song's highlight - the love narrative that brought down the house in The Original Kings of Comedy - is not in the original version, but evolved out of Lenny's live performances of the tune. "I'd been performing it live ever since I recorded it at Motown," said Lenny. "One night, my drummer at the time said, 'Hey, man, you gotta give that song something on stage; you gotta talk to 'em in there somewhere; sell it.' So, we broke it down at some point and I wrote a little story about what a man goes through when he loses his woman. The audiences loved it so much that when I recorded the song again at ABC, I added the talk." That passion-filled testimony has become a hallmark of of Lenny's career. "When people come to see me, ninety per cent of them are there to hear 'Cause I Love You, Williams said with a certain pride. "They sit there waiting on me to sing it, and they know the rap better than I do. If I make a mistake in reciting it, they'll correct me. Sometimes, I just start it - the audience finishes it, and I just stand there listening to them. That song has been great for me." | |
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