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"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972). Written and produced by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, it was released in November 1971 in the U.S. as a 7" single with "I'll Love You Forever" on the B-side. The song's distinctive guitar lick was played by Willie "Little Beaver" Hale.
Wright, 1973. About a year later, Wright released her signature song "Clean Up Woman", written by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke and recorded when she was 17.The record reached number two on the R&B charts, where it stayed for eight weeks.
Chicago-based Vee-Jay Records head A&R man, Calvin Carter, brought back "Make It Easy on Yourself" from a trip to New York City where he scouted song publishers.Carter played the demo, featuring Dionne Warwick's vocal, for Vee-Jay artist Jerry Butler who commented: "Man, it's a great song, and the girl who's singing it, and the arrangement, is a hit."
“Asking my husband to clean up ketchup off the counter,” reads the text on a TikTok by @brooklynandbailey with 1.3 million views. After squeezing out the condiment on their counter, the ...
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"Clean Up Man" contains elements from "Clean Up Woman" by Betty Wright "U Ain't No Ganksta" contains elements from "Gangster Boogie" by Chicago Gangsters and "The Big Gangster" by The O'Jays "Rodney K." contains elements from "Mack's Stroll (The Getaway)" by Willie Hutch and "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Remix)" by James Brown
The lyrics sound as if they were made up on the spot by somebody with a lot of common sense, and Beaver talks that talk as he goes about his work, which is seeing to the aforementioned groove." [ 3 ] Hale's recording career effectively ended in the early 1980s, with his seemingly final album in 1980 and the closure of TK Records, due to ...
The Clean Up Woman follows the same formula as most urban gospel plays: Black folks with problems engaging in laughter, music and a spiritual epiphany. [2] The play is the highest grossing stage play since the theater's 1977 conception at Arts & Letters in Dallas. [citation needed] In 2012 the play was released on DVD. [3]