Gwen Mccrae – 90% of me is you
(born Gwen Mosley, 21 December 1943, Pensacola, Florida, United States) is an American R&B singer, best known for her 1975 hit “Rockin’ Chair”. She grew up singing in her pentecostal church and later discovered secular singers like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. She began performing in local clubs as a teenager, and singing with local groups like the Lafayettes and the Independents. In 1963, she met a young sailor named George McCrae, whom she married within a week. From 1963 she recorded as a duo with her husband George, and was first to receive a solo recording contract, with Henry Stone’s TK Records. She found success on the R&B charts with “Lead Me On” in 1970, followed by “For Your Love”. George & Gwen were discovered in 1967 by singer Betty Wright, who helped get them signed to Stone’s Alston record label. Their debut single, “Three Hearts in a Tangle,” was released in 1969; the follow-up, “Like Yesterday Our Love Is Gone,” marked the first time they worked with the writing team of Clarence Reid (who would later morph into the bawdy comic Blowfly) and Willie Clarke. Both were regional hits, as was third single, “No One Left to Come Home,” although none of those records broke nationally; meanwhile, the McCraes and Wright were collectively earning a reputation as stellar session vocalists. Following husband George’s unexpected solo success with “Rock Your Baby”, Gwen went on to have a major hit of her own in 1975 with “Rockin’ Chair”, a #1 R&B hit which also reached …
From the 1982 album Gone Troppo Credits: Henry Spinetti: Drums Herbie Flowers: Bass Mike Moran: Keyboards Ray Cooper: Feet, Fender, Rhodes, Glockenspiel George Harrison, Willie Green, Bobby King and Pico Pena: Vocals and Backing Vocals “(Yeah) You, I really really love you Nobody else will do That’s why I love you That’s why, why, why (Yeah) You, I really really love you Nobody else will do That’s why I love you That’s why, why, why Well babe you know I love you so I’d pay the world if you could know And when I see, you’re comin’ down the street My heart skips (a) beat You, I really really need you But yet you play me for a fool Why do you do me like you do, do, do (Yeah) Well babe you know I love you so I’d pay the world if you could know And when I see, you’re comin’ down the street My heart skips (a) beat You, I really really need you But yet you play me for a fool Why do you do me like you do Why do you do me like you do Why, why” GONE TROPPO Gone Troppo is an album by George Harrison recorded and released in 1982. It would prove to be Harrison’s last studio album for five years, wherein he would largely take an extended leave of absence from his recording career, with only the occasional soundtrack recording surfacing. By 1980, Harrison had been finding the current musical climate alienating. His commercial appeal had dwindled, with 1981’s Somewhere in England failing to go gold (despite featuring the John Lennon tribute smash hit, “All Those Years Ago”). With one …