Jo Armstead

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Ashford and Simpson, along with Jo Armstead, and it was first recorded and released by Ashford in August of 1966, and it flopped.

It was then recorded later that year by the legendary Ray Charles, and that got everyone's attention.

So over the years, it's been covered by bands spanning many genres, like the garage rock band, the Chocolate Watchband in 1969, country rockers New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1972, the metal band W.A.S.P. in '86, and rock bands like Great White in '87, and Styx even recording a cover of it in 2006.

oh that was a nice section sometimes you hear tracks so often that you forget how good they are and uh for me that's a case in point with that last track from 1965 absolute classic northern soul the artistics and this heart of mine on okay From 67, before that we had Betty Harris on Sansu, I'm Evil Tonight.

Another Betty before that from 1965, and that was Betty Lovett, a great double-sider, written by the winning team of Joe Armstead, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

And Betty Lovett was just 19 when she recorded this.

I was lucky to catch her a few years ago and she tore the house down.