I wonder how Stevie feels about this song. I mean, they did take the melody from his "Master Blaster".
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shorttrini said:

Oh I'm sure he thought great of it. I wondered how George Clinton felt when Kirk Franklin took the music from "One Nation Under a Groove" for "Stomp".

Timmy84 said:

I never thought about that! I gotta go listen to that again.

shorttrini said:

Listen to it REAL carefully and you see why Kirk Franklin got the same criticism Twinkie Clark got for including secular sounds in gospel music.

Speaking of, my favorite song of theirs is "Is My Living In Vain?"

Timmy84 said:

that is my song!.. there is an old video 1982 of them singing that live, have you seen it? Shirley Caesar, Rev. James Cleveland on the tape too... oh man, that whole tape is awesome...

Flowers2 said:

OH YES! I just saw it. All five of them TORE IT DOWN! Especially Dorinda, Denise, Karen and Twinkie near the end. You saw Dorinda's preaching at the beginning of the video? They're great!

Timmy84 said:

from beginning to end! I will watch that video all day... the whole video is alive! and Walter Hawkins on it too..

Flowers2 said:

Cool. But yeah that whole video looks off the hook.
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Since that whole TVone special i have been looking them up. I wasnt too deep into gospel music, but i like what i saw. more so i liked their personalities in the interviews, they came off really genuine and "cute". not all holier than thou like most people in that arena.

a few of their songs i heard of theirs was complete rip offs of secular music,w hich i thought was funny- i wonder if they ever got sued lol

anyway my favorite song of theirs is "World"

I wish i got into them sooner

Nvncible1 said:

You know, that entire TVone series really opened my eyes to all of the artist that were featured. I mean, I always liked them, but now I find myself listening more closely to their material, especailly Debarge. I hope that TVone does more Unsung, episodes. They were excellent.

Is My Living in Vain:

Timmy84 said:

you know i never heard of this group until i saw the Unsung show but i am intrigued. i am not into gospel at all but they seemed to be kinda rock n' roll for a gospel act. ami i right? is that why they got some flack for their songs by the church?

shorttrini said:

i agree! i loved all the stories. would love to see an Unsung story on Klymaxx!

dancerella said:

For the last quarter of this year, I have been listening to an awesome mix from DJ M.O.S. (dj'd at some party for Mariah) and this one is on it.

I love it!

I love this song. I remember the scandal in the church (pre Kirk Franklin) about songs like "You Brought Thr Sunshine" and "Fall Down" by Tramaine Hawkins being too secular (Penticostal Church, what did you expect). I find it so ironic that the church had complaints about crossover gospel songs in the past, yet now we see gospel superstars and mega pastors traveling on private jets. How times have changed.

totaldiva said:

You said it. Stranger things have happened too.

Timmy84 said:

Did you have to pull out that clip? I remember my church choir singing this when I was a child. I still feel this song and is one of my favorite gospel songs. You went there with this one.
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totaldiva said:

I had to. I knew you'd dig it.

Timmy84 said:

Or a Doobie Brothers sample on his latest album.

totaldiva said:

You can thank Reverend Ike for starting this mess. Unfortunately he helped open doors for the Prosperity Gospel Movement.

angel345 said:

You mean a Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald song ("This Is It").

angel345 said:

You are so correct. Now it is out of control. I remember attending Rev. Hezakaih Walker (HOW HE DOIN??) church in New York. It seemed that if you weren't head to toe in Gucci and Prada, you were out of place. This is not the church that my great grandmother (the State Mother) or my grandmother (State Missionary) taught me about.

Timmy84 said:

George was probably happy to make the money. Kirk didn't take the music, he paid for it and credited George, Garry, and Walter as songwriters.
Now Twinkie? Yeah, she straight jacked Stevie but he probably didn't care.
I like "You brought The Sunshine" and I remeber it playing on the juke box in my uncle's old night club.

Adisa said:

Ah I got you about Kirk & George, that was cool that he did that. Stevie probably didn't mind because he loves modern-day gospel, he recorded with After 7 and Kim Burrell in the past.

Timmy84 said:

Aside from that, Twinkle admitted that she used the melody. So, I don't really think it counts as a "jack".

shorttrini said:

Yeah, Twinkie did say that.

totaldiva said: