One of my favorite tunes, and I know Paligap must be tired of me talking about it.

Let us compare and contrast two brilliant versions


The Rotary Connection - Love Has Fallen on Me (1971)


Chaka Khan - Love Has Fallen on Me (1978, a live performance sandwiched by Clouds and Naughty...hot!)
http://www.youtube.com/wa...PIar7TNo4E
You'll have to visit the link, as the user has disabled embedding


My (slight) preference is for Chaka's if only for the female backing vocals in the chorus versus the male backing vocals in the original.


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[Edited 11/12/07 18:43pm]

Starting at the -3:07 mark on Rotary Connection was sampled this year

Cinnie said:

at the 3:07 mark? How about throughout the whole song?

RipHer2Shreds said:

The sensitive dynamics involved in the Rotary Connection arrangement (alternate voices, vocal counterpoint) seals the deal for me.
You can almost see the Broadway play potential of the song in this Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Stepney collab.



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

RipHer2Shreds said:

I meant on your Rotary Connection video, with the way the counter shows a negative countdown

Funny....

I thought Love Has Fallen On Me was a Bette Midler original guess I was wrong.

Never really was into the song,,,,,the following up song from that Chaka album is an earthquake wail revival though; Roll Me Through The Rushes

RipHer2Shreds said:

Thats her brotha Mark Stevens,,,,who played the bass in the studio version of 'Love Has Fallen On Me'

He was part of the Jamaican Boys @ one point but was thrown outta the band becoz of his drug use.

Harlepolis said:

...just like Moses. I do like that one, too.