Among such luminaries as Bernadette Peters, Stephanie Beacham, Sir Stanley Baker, Vincente Minnelli, Harry H. Corbett, Cindy Wilson, Barry McGuigan, Ainsley Harriott, Robin Cook, Mike Figgis, Brian Jones, Sir Stephen Spender and the very lovely Tommy Tune...
...it would have been the 80th birthday today of the music-missed Syreeta Wright, one-time Mrs Stevie Wonder, and chart-topping duettist with Billy Preston. Of her hits, however, this is my favourite:
Oh, for the days when a flame orange maxi-dress with medieval sleeves was in fashion...
Long adored her.....
ReplyDeleteShe was an much-underrated talent. Jx
DeleteI loved the smoothness and range of her voice.
ReplyDeleteMe, too - had she had better management and material, who knows what she might have become? Jx
DeleteOh my gosh I had completely forgotten this song. I didn't think that I had ever heard it before. Then came the chorus and sadly I do remember it.
ReplyDeleteIt was a national earworm back in 1975, played on the radio all the time! I was 12. I loved it. Jx
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