Marlena Shaw

Truly underrated






http://www.youtube.com/wa...6Bpnv-mZXs

whenyaneedmewhenyaneedmewhenyaneedmewhenyaneedme

love that part
love this song

soothin' isn't it??

Aisha hipped me to this chick
earlier this year

and I was NOT let down
[Edited 9/11/07 21:27pm]

Old school "rap" at it's best.

This is a great song. I wouldn't call it old school rap, though, it sounds more jazz to me.

"ain't black beautiful.....check out the boy mother's love....he quit his job"

This song is hilarious

even though she took him back at the end of the song.

DirtyChris said:

I'm not supposed(the calm & collected part)....tosituphereinthedarkwithmirrorsandnomoney(the snappy part).

Everytime I hear that part I

I miss how the singin' ladies would infuse their personality into their thing like she did. Angela Winbush, Betty Wright, Millie Jackson, Shirley Brown & Barbara Mason did the same too

Harlepolis said:

They sure don't make them how they use to.

I was joking when I added "old school" to "rap". In the 1970s, a "rap" had a totally different meaning that what the word later became. Back then, a rap was the part of the song where the artist broke down and talked for a little while. It didn't rhyme or anything, they just talked for a while. Lenny Williams had a rap in "Cause I Love You", Shirley Brown had a rap in "Woman To Woman", Millie Jackson was practically the queen of rap. I did a thread on it a few years ago. There are a ton of old songs that contain a "rap".

vainandy said:

I understand But the thing is alot of the time when I use to hear it on some Quiet Storm radio station they rarely ever played the full version, they tended to play the singing part only.

But that song is classic 70s, it's the type of song that could have only been done during the era of Afro-sheen and black is beautiful. It's the type of song that the R&B community of today (if we still have a R&B community ) will never be able to do.
[Edited 9/12/07 10:36am]