1 Hit Wonder? GWEN GUTHRIE

[DonaldCleveland]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

The pounding bass-soundz of La Gwen:

"Ain't Nothing Goin' On But The Rent"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvwFIX-FC18

Was this a hit?:
"Outside In The Rain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUPg...elated&search=

What's the "ONE SONG"?

Supenatural Thing ?
Love Dont Go Through No Changes ?
This Time I'll Be Sweeter ?

Hell, she didnt even sing these.
She just WROTE THEM.
Sorry to sound dismissive, but you ARE on a computer, right?

Do the research.

[Videoskooter]

The "1 Hit Wonder" threads from 2 years ago were created to provide lists. I gave the "best known" track + the video (YouTube was starting up BITD) ("Ain't nothing going on but the rent" was her big hit over here) and members came in and gave the lists of other tracks that were successful. That was the idea behind it. No more no less, thats why there's a question mark on those topics.

Now, digging this up 2 years later and then point out that I can't do research (the vault, Discogs, wikipedia and many others) is cheap, very cheap!

[DonaldCleveland]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

The "1 Hit Wonder" threads from 2 years ago were created to provide lists. I gave the "best known" track + the video (YouTube was starting up BITD) ("Ain't nothing going on but the rent" was her big hit over here) and members came in and gave the lists of other tracks that were successful. That was the idea behind it. No more no less, thats why there's a question mark on those topics.

Now, digging this up 2 years later and then point out that I can't do research (the vault, Discogs, wikipedia and many others) is cheap, very cheap!

You are of course, somewhat correct.
I saw it as a new thread without tracking the correct origin date.
I was not the one who "dug it up". That was a good 4 posts BEFORE me.

But as I type this I think....2 years ago? What really changed?

I never accused you of not being able to do the research- merely NOT doing it. At the time that is. I think.

I still dont know how the facts eluded you 2 years ago? But it's all good right? In the end you know the importance of Gwen Guthrie.

[Videoskooter]

Yes I know, Donald, but that series BITD, was talking about HITS, tracks that charted! Gwen has composed and sung a lot of awesome stuff but, over here, it didn't do anything.

And by coming in and post, hey wait a minute, Gwen has released this and that and she's one of the greats: that's giving the proper credit to an artist that is considered by the general public as a 1 hit wonder! And that's the great result of a topic like this! And exactly that was the initial idea.

If I would open a topic like that 2day, I would do it completely different!

AMAZON



1. Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent
2. Padlock
3. Outside In The Rain
4. Peanut Butter
5. It Should Have Been You
6. Oh What A Life
7. (They Long To Be) Close To You
8. Seventh Heaven
9. Oh Donny No
10. Is This Love?
11. Younger Than Me
12. God Don't Like Ugly
13. Peek-A-Boo
14. Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent (Dub Mix)

Is everybody happy now? Can I go eat something??

[Jackson9]

two great post "RENT" cuts are Rockin' Chair (1988)
and a cover of John Lennon's Watching The Wheels (1991)
i think it's my fault that this thread has jumped back to page one,
i have been a lurker for years and never posted. i just happen to search for a thread about Gwen and couldn't help but post.

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Jackson9

i think it's my fault that this thread has jumped back to page one,
i have been a lurker for years and never posted. i just happen to search for a thread about Gwen and couldn't help but post.

And great you did join da club, Jackson, welcome and don't feel bad about it. Now everybody knows that Miss Guthrie has her place in the gallery of the greats! Sorry that I can not find a clip of "Padlock".

[boogyjuice]

Originally Posted by buckaroo

Don't forget 'Joyriders' and 'Thrill Me'. :D

Originally Posted by Energyguy

8)

Joyriders ! Great track

Maaan, i'm seriously passing out here !
These are the 2 tracks from that album of her which i've been playing on heavy rotation through the years,
and it's a TRIP to see other fans of these jams, for real.
Yeah, "Joyriders" is a slammin' composition/production by the team of Brian Alexander Morgan and Shelley Scruggs.
The team produced for Johnny Kemp in the same year, and one year earlier they released 2 awesome singles themselves :








And "Thrill Me" is in the good tradition of the Mtume-sound,
with Aurra/Mtume-keyboardist Philip Field who wrote and produced the track.
That bass-synth in there is seriously infectious !

Good news is that this album on which Deodato contributed too,
is soon going to be released on a Japanese cd-pressing :

Just For You [Limited Pressing]
Gwen Guthrie
Catalog No.: UICY-90991
Format: CD
Release Date: 2008/07/23
Price: 1524yen (1600yen Tax incl.)
[US$ 13.98]

Just for You @ Amazon

Just for You @ Amazon.co.uk

Worth to check is Gwen's recording-debut with the group East Coast, on Encounter Records in 1973 :

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildat...r=330180492623

The group was formed by Larry Blackmon from Cameo, and Cameo-keyboardist Gregory Johnson was also part of it.
Soon after that album they formed Cameo.

We miss ya Gwen
Peace...

[Jackson9]

i really want to hear this album.. the chances of it being put on CD must be a million to one.. it'll probably never happen.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Is everybody happy now? Can I go eat something??

[riddergeert]

Not to forget "Say yeah" (1984) by the Limit on which Gwen Guthrie featured on vocals.

[DonaldCleveland]

Originally Posted by Jackson9

i really want to hear this album.. the chances of it being put on CD must be a million to one.. it'll probably never happen.

Hey JACKSON9...THAT'S FUNNY~!! These pictures you have of This LP were submitted by ME to the Soulful Detroit website~!! (I'm honest_opinions)
The internet really is just a big copying machine. And sometimes the copies come back to you (or ME in this case).

[Jackson9]

DonaldCleveland.. lol.. and i'm "waldo" over on Soulful Detroit..

i hope you don't mind me using the scans.. it was my first time in doing so.. honest..

i love Gwen music's so much.. and i was soooo blown away when i saw your pictures.. i didn't even know such a LP existed..

respect to you always man