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Al b sure and Diana Ross - No matter what you do | |
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Classic. Wonder why they didn't do no video for it though. | |
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I think it would have turned a lot of people off to see old-ass Diana ALL OVER Al (like she did at some award show when they presented an award). Wasn't she in her mid to late 40s then? He was like 23 or 24? **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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47 but I see what you're saying. | |
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"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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I'll ask the same question I asked in my dupe thread. Does anyone know how the hell he was able to get Diana Ross "The Boss" (Fuck Rick Ross), featured on his record? | |
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Didn't realize that this thread existed. Thanks again Timmy84. I wanted show some love for Al B. Sure because I think he's overlooked as one of the best R&B producers during the New Jack Swing era. His work with Jodeci, Tevin Cambell, etc. was stellar!^^Wasn't Al discovered by Quincy Jones? Maybe he had some connection with Diana since they worked on The Wiz together. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Yep | |
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Al won the Sony Innovators Award that I think Q judged. That's possible... That just seemed so random back then. But it worked, that had to be one of his last hits to date.
Al wasn't really "discovered" by Quincy. Al entered a contest called Sony Innovators and Q was one of the judges.
I believe that with him winning the contest, he won a deal with Warner Brothers and he then released his first album.
As for him working with Diana, I remember reading/seeing somewhere that she had a thing for him after seeing him on some show and got word to him that she wanted to work with him. I believe he then wrote the duet for them for his 2nd album. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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Ah Ha! I was wondering if she had a little thing for him. I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. Al had the ladies sweatin him "on the strength" back then. | |
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Yeah that's how Diana got to do the thing with Al. She thought he was cute. | |
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I found this to be a quite interesting interview from 1990. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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I was listening to this just the other day! "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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