Before Stevie Wonder wrote a song called "I Wish" the author of "Sunny", Robert Hebb, wrote a song for his good friend Jimmy Church entitled
"I Wish."
It is now rediscovered and available!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQF-YiTLn8
Author: Bobby Hebb
Producer: Mickey Baker
Vocalist: Jimmy Church
Drums - Sticks Evans
Guitar - Kenny Burrell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Burrell
Okeh Records
(same label as Little Joe Cook)
Time: 2:20
I Wish
By Bobby Hebb
I Wish
That I could win your heart
I'd love you forever/until death to be apart
for your kind of love/is the love for me
Undying, Everlasting, and tenderly
I admire ....
which is soft, but yet so bold
Your cheeks have a smoothness
of a petal from the rose
so don't you see, I want you to be
the girl for me
Night has given away to darkness
And in darkness we are asleep
mmmm...but there is no sleep for me
for my thoughts of you are too deep
The touch of your lips, are....so nice
yes they send me way up to Paradise
but there is just one thing I want you to believe
that you are the one, and only girl for me
So don't you see, I want you to be
The Girl for Me
Here's what the person who posted it to YouTube wrote:
Sweet, Sweet, SWEET initially unissued
Doo Wop/Soul transitional recording by the Nashville based Mr. Church
& his vocal group of unknowns (unknown to me, that is).
Recorded
'round about 1963 for Okeh, it seems this gem languished in the
monolithic vaults of Columbia Records for quite a while. Another
wonderful recording mishandled by some A&R fools at the big record
company? I'm shocked.
SunnyTheSong Responds on YouTube:
This song was written by Bobby Hebb, author of "Sunny" for his friend
Jimmy Church. It was produced by Mickey Baker of Mickey & Sylvia
fame. Bobby Hebb replaced Mickey Baker and the duo Mickey & Sylvia
became Bobby & Sylvia and they signed to Battle Records. There are
some great session people on this recording. Jimmy Church did an
interview on Visual Radio with Joe Viglione on July 5, 2012 and talked
about this song. That interview is up on You Tube.
Jimmy Church on Visual Radio July 5, 2012
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Mickey Baker is hot again with his song
"Love Is Strange" (with Sylvia Robinson) in the movie MEN IN BLACK III.
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Pit Bull has a version of "Love Is Strange" also in the movie Men In Black III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrfwJGzUSM
Pitbull - Back in Time vs. Mickey & Sylvia - Love is Strange
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Listen to Bobby Hebb's guitar in the #10 hit from 1962 "Rinky Dink"...Bobby plays the "Love Is Strange" riff on the Dave "Baby" Cortez hit.
2:28-2:32 more Bobby Hebb guitar
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Chess Records
Rinky Dink
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Mickey Baker playing the riff on
LOVE IS STRANGE
by
Mickey & Sylvia
Also on Chess Records with a 17 year old Bobby Hebb playing the spoons is "She's Fine, She's Mine," Bo Diddley's flip of "Diddley Daddy" on Chess Records.
You can distinctly hear Bobby Hebb performing on Spoons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhEL45dJjrY
(E.McDaniels) ARC Matrix: 45-7837 37 4243
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUUfOYggDJw
Early Bo Diddley on Checker catalog #819 released 1955 playing on the Sylvania CR-2740
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Diddley Daddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWsCrlVPKg
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddley_Daddy
Writing and recording
The song was recorded on May 15, 1955 in Chicago. Originally called "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum,"
[5] it started out as a
Billy Boy Arnold composition, which
Leonard Chess, owner of
Chess Records (
Checkers
was a subsidiary label of Chess), had heard Arnold play and wanted
Diddley to record. However, Arnold had just signed a contract with
Vee-Jay Records,
and had recorded the song the day before at Universal Studios. When
Chess wanted Arnold to sing the song, the latter realized he had a
contract, responding, "I can't do it...I just recorded it for Vee-Jay."
Chess responded, "Goddam! Ain't this a bitch!" A solution, however, was
found on the spot: Diddley and
Harvey Fuqua, who happened to be around, rewrote the lyrics.
[6]
As it happened, the harmonica player
Little Walter
was in the studio, and he asked Billy Boy Arnold for his harp; Walter
plays the long solo after the first verse (Arnold plays harmonica on the
B-side, "
She's Fine, She's Mine"). Also decided at "the spur of the moment" was to have Chicago
doo-wop group
The Moonglows sing background vocals.
Another YouTube of "She's Fine, She's Mine"
Much clearer - the Rolling Stones probably got "Sweet Black Angel" on Exile on Main Street from this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENdozG_Me6w
Earlier song
In 1955,
Bo Diddley recorded "She's Fine She's Mine" for the B-side to his second single, "
Diddley Daddy" (Checker 819). Accompanying Diddley (vocal and guitar) were
Billy Boy Arnold (harmonica), Clifton James (drums), and Jerome Green on maracas. The song features a repeated figure on Diddley's
tremolo-laden guitar. The first verses are sung without lyrics:
- Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah (2x)
- Well you don't love me baby, you don't love me I know
"While this is a traditional blues in form, the unusual, almost
exotic, arrangement with its hypnotic beat combined with Bo Diddley's
anguished vocal takes this far out of the range of the ordinary".
[4]
Diddley recorded an unrelated song, "You Don't Love Me (You Don't
Care)" with completely different music and lyrics two months prior on
March 2, 1955, which was released on his
Go Bo Diddley album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Fine,_She%27s_Mine
The Hi Fi's with Bobby Hebb on Guitar
"I'm So Lonely"
Written by James Church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VyNEi73xk
Montel Records SJM 1005
Bobby Hebb toured with The Seniors but
he is not on their recordings.
THE SENIORS Bobby
13)Sloo Foot Sue
14)Why did you leavehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQEEjWdGAZ4EXCELLO 45-2130
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Is7EneeDI
When Jimmy Church and The Seniors
became the Hi Fi's, Bobby played guitar
on this single "My Dear" b/w
"I'm So Lonely"
15)HI Fis my dear
16)Hi Fis i'm so lonely (James Church) SJM 1005 Montel
Recording Co, Baton Rouge LACal Music Co, BMI
Time 2:25
EXCELLO RECORDS LIST
2130 - Seniors : Why Did You Leave Me / Sloo Foot Soo ( Dec 1957)
The Seniors with Jimmy Church
Artist Biography
Nashville-born
Jimmy Church entered music professionally while he was still in high
school as a singer in the R&B vocal group the Seniors, whose ranks
also included guitarist Bobby Hebb. They were good enough to be signed
by Excello, and he later moved on to the Hi-Fi's, who got a contract
with Baton Rouge-based Montel Records. He passed through Johnny Otis'
band in Los Angeles but preferred the music opportunities in the South,
returning to his native Nashville, where he began his solo recording
career on the Hickory label. He later moved to OKeh during the latter's
final active years, and to Sound Stage 7 and Peach
Tree. He also passed through the lineup of the King Casuals -- whose
ranks also included a young Jimi Hendrix -- before forming his own
group, the Jimmy Church Revue.
ack Listing
1. Rollin' Stone - The Marigolds
2. It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day) - Earl Gaines/Louis Brooks
3. Now Listen Baby - Good Rockin' Sam Beasley/Kid King's Combo
4. Pork and Beans - The Solotones
5. Lightnin's Blues - Lightnin' Slim
6. Courtin' in a Cadillac - Jerry
"Boogie" McCain
7. My Mumblin' Baby - Rudy Green
8. Pleadin' for Love - Larry Birdsong/Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers
9. Congo Mambo - Guitar Gable/King Karl/Guitar Gable & The Musical Kings
10. Irene - Guitar Gable/King Karl
11. Kiss-A-Me Quick - Jack Toombs
12. Havin' a Whole Lot of Fun - Johnny Jano
13. Hey! Baby - Al Ferrier
14. No Jive - Little Al
15. Little Lean Woman - Little Al
16. Chicken Hearted Woman - Clarence Samuels
17. My Home Is a Prison - Lonesome Sundown
18. Mean Ol' Lonesome Train - Lightnin' Slim
19. They Call Me Lazy - Lazy Lester
20. I'm a King Bee - Slim Harpo
Excello Story Vol 2 1955-1957 features The Marigolds; Bobby's brother, Hal Hebb, was in the Marigolds.
I'm not sure if he's on this particular recording. Working on getting that information.
So let's have some fun. In 2012 Mickey Baker, Bo Diddley & Sylvia Robinson have their hit in MEN IN BLACK III. Pitbull does a rap version of "Love is Strange" while Moes Def does a rap version with Bobby Hebb's "Flower" from Love Games sampled. We have a track or two where Bobby worked with Bo Diddley. See all the connections?
We also find a song, "I Wish" where Bobby worked with both Mickey Baker and Jimmy Church(thanks to Jimmy Church on Visual Radio July 5, 2012)
Stevie Wonder had a different song "I Wish."
Stevie Wonder covered "Sunny" on a live album, STEVIE WONDER LIVE and also a STUDIO rendition.
Stevie Wonder performing Bobby Hebb's "Sunny"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMvdh6AKRts
Stevie Wonder performing the Stevie Wonder song "I Wish"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH1BPQ7FLbc
Moes Def singing "Priority"
from Bobby Hebb's "Flower"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-VLp1IPto
Live version of Moe's Def
"Flower" is 2:20 in on this live rendition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-Y8kYufTM
Saw Moes Def in a film the other night.
He's made quite a few movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_Def
