GM: Our daughter Brianna loves Broadway and the song before “Can’t Nobody Love Me Like You Do,” sounds to me like it would be ideal for musical theater, “Caught Between a Good Thing and Goodbye,” like a song she would introduce me to. I will also perform Tina Turner’s “What’ Love Got to Do With It.” Of course, “Ring My Bell” is always the last song. 1, Donna Summer, who is sadly no longer with us, was back in the top spot with “Bad Girls.”ĪW: That is one of the cover songs that I will do in my set on the cruise as people may not be familiar with some of my music, so I try to do songs that were No. GM: After “Ring My Bell” ended its two week run at No. I was on a cruise tour about two to three years ago and Tito Jackson was also on that tour, performing alone. I had worked with Sister Sledge and Maxine before and it will be great being with them again, too. Also in the Top 40 at the same time were Sister Sledge with “We are Family,” Maxine Nightingale with “Lead Me On,” and The Jacksons with “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground),” all of who will be on the 2020 Ultimate Disco Cruise with you in February.ĪW: I haven’t worked with The Jacksons before, so that will be nice. 40 years! That has to really mean a lot to you and your wife as well. There was no rest and it was real nice.ĪW: Congratulations on your anniversary.
I traveled extensively because of that record. I was in England a lot and The Netherlands, too. I received an award from the United Kingdom for sales that happened there. Then I went overseas to support the record as it did very well there too. Then I did “The Merv Griffin Show” and more television appearances, including a music awards show which was my favorite. Tuesday morning we taped the show to be aired that weekend.
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They flew in a dancer and others, including a guy from New York to vigorously work with me, showing me how to dance with parts of my body I didn’t even know I had. My manager called and said they wanted me to do “The Midnight Special” with Wolfman Jack. I subbed for four months and then the song went gold after two weeks. As a matter of fact I had started doing substitute teaching while we were waiting to see if the music was going to take off. I loved it! As radio play picked up, did you do any television support of the song?ĪW: Yes. GM: I finished college a half-year after you and heard “Ring My Bell” a half-year after that. Ironically that song came out one year after I graduated from college. Thank God for T.K., as they were able to get the records out there. Productions, who were extremely successful in the disco market.
Frederick had an independent label at that time called Juana, and that is who we ended up hooking up with, with Juana distributed by T.K. I was singing all the time with the choir, the female gospel group, and in the studio, trying to get songs ready for me for a demo of a few songs to shop to the producers. The school was also big into classical music and had recorded with Leontyne Price. My high school teacher told me that I needed to get to Rust College and that it would be a great thing for me and little did I know that she was absolutely correct. I was in the choir, which was quite famous, which is the reason why I went to that school. He asked me if I would be interested in becoming a recording artist. I met my manager, Chuck Holmes there when I was auditioning for the the musical play Godspell. By the time I was in college, Stax had folded and I got started in Jackson, Mississippi. ANITA WARD: “Ring My Bell” was written by Frederick Knight, who is also a singer, and had a Top 40 hit on the Stax label, here in Memphis, in 1972 with “I’ve Been Lonely for So Long.” I hadn’t gotten in with the Memphis clique.