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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.
Following the group's break-up, Wright, who was already using the name Betty Wright, decided to switch musical styles from gospel to rhythm and blues, singing in local talent shows until she was spotted by a Miami record label owner, who signed her to her first label (Deep City Records) in 1966, when she was 12.
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."
The song contains a sample of "Clean Up Woman" by Betty Wright, [1] [2] described as "tropical guitar samples". [3]Fred Thomas of AllMusic described the instrumental as "happily melodic".
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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 ...
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