Man...this is 70s Funk with a capital F and a double U! Richard Tee, Gordon Edwards, and Cornell Dupree layin' down a rhythm so deep, all I can say is Haa'Mercy! 👑🎸🎵
Heard this tune first in 1973 at the age of sixteen. Lesson learned: this kind of music is contagious. Still find myself from time to time humming or whistling this song, and exactly in this version.
I'm a 54 year-old white male just happened to stumble across this lady today and wow what a treat! That is one incredible voice I will definitely be listening to her much more in the future her style of funk is contagious! Thank you for posting.
An all-time hit penned by Bill Withers and ably delivered by the unsung heroine of song, Esther Phillips. Perhaps it's no overstatement that the 1970s were the zenith of pop musical creativity in all known genres in the whole wide world!
Esther is so underrated her personal problems and the fact that general public.was not ready for singing this raw.and bluesy prevented her from becoming an icon she always had a small but loyal following I think her sound was just too black to crossover to mainstream white America although she had a couple of hit records
אני בת 60 מישראל וגדלתי על שיריה ואישיותה המרירה מלטפת בשנות ה-70 כנערה. רית'ם&בלוז תמיד עשה לי את זה. אסתר פיליפס מנוחתה עדן תמיד תישמר❤באמנותה ובשירתה המיוחדת.
I think, that Aaron Neville's version is better musically, but voice is too weak. In Esther Phillips's version I feel pain in her voice, because she was singing about her life. Also I feel the force in Esther Phillips's. Thats why I prefer Esther Phillips's version.
My friends feel it's their appointed duty They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me baby My answer yeah to all that use me stuff I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up Until you use me up My sister She sat me right down and she talked to me She told me I ought not to let you just walk on me She meant well But when our talk was through I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes You just keep on using me until you use me up Until you use me up Sometimes It's true you really do abuse me You get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me But oh baby baby baby baby when you love me Inlimitated I can't get enough I and I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up Until you use me up Talking about you using me but it all depends on what you do It ain't too bad the way you're using me 'Cause I sure am using you to do the things you do Ah ha to do the things you do
