Oleta Adams "Get Here" on Carson GREAT Performance 

Was that when she was playing in the hotel in St. Louis when Roland Orzabal saw her? Tears for Fears were in town playing a concert and they were more impressed with her little trio than the big show they were putting on. More real and more heart!!!

@@jamesbond4633 - I did the St. Louis Hotel gig with her, but I left before she hooked up with Tears for Fears. It was the trio format with me on bass and Russ Kammerer on drums.

@@rickmoors Sweet. In a French T.V. Interview Roland said that she married the drummer!!!! I saw her on tour with Tears for Fears when they played in Toronto. Just an awesome concert. Her voice and Roland's really gel together especially on the song "Woman In Chains". I get goosebumps hearing that song. Roland said Oleta left the night he saw her and he talked to her band about her. So that must have been you. Pretty cool. What was your set list like back in the day? Do you still play? My pedigree was playing drums in a polka band with my brothers when I was young. Now I play the guitar and sing too at open mics and blues jams!!!! I always say my Carnegie Hall is the open Mic on Friday nights at the London Music Club in London Ontario!!!!

@@jamesbond4633 - Yes, John Cushon, great drummer and great guy. I did some demos with he and Oleta shortly before I left. We did a combination of Oleta's original songs and covers, but she was great at interpreting them in her own way. She was a musical genius. One night in Phoenix she retired to her room and came down to the gig the next night with a 6 song Cole Porter medley she wrote in her room with no piano or any other musical instrument to assist - she heard it all in her head and transcribed it. I had an offer from a group called the Jan Park band who was signed to Capitol records at the time, and Oleta at that time was still playing high class hotels. I figured it might be my best chance to get a "record deal" which is what we all wanted at that time. Jan's band got dropped before the first rehearsal and Oleta had already hired my pal Roman Czerwinski to play bass at my suggestion. D'oh! It worked out OK though, I ended up keeping busy in L.A. ever since then. I work full time with several groups here including The Bonedaddys, Conjunto Jardin, The Bill Lynch band and a bunch of others, and still do a fair amount of session work. Glad you are still playing and enjoying it, James and nice catching up with you!

I love the bass line so much in "Get here"!

Set it on fire & did the slow motion walk away

There are ppl out there but not heard

Me right now

Impossible not to!

I was wondering how was she not crying but you can see tears at the end

Gave me chills listening to her beautiful vocals!!

I was thinking that her voice reminded me of Gladys knight today, especially as her voice seems to have gotten more powerful with age.

I thought the song was sexuaL.

@@mightyobserver12 You pervert … 🤣😂

This was the tail end of when this kind of soft heart felt music was still popular and being created. This and music like Extreme's "More Than Words" could still be hits. But it died out with the introduction of Grunge and Neo Soul.

​@@PhilMoskowitzThis was 1990-91. Grunge and neo soul didn't hit the scene until 1995/96.

❤

Traz boas lembranças 🙂🙂🙂!!!

Heard every word.

A gem from the 90's

2023.....and still the same.

It’s 2023 and still a tear jerker

Thulani Maphumulo if that’s a shout out to Brenda Russell then I’m with ya.

Wow. My mother passed last week. Her name is Brenda. Thank you for the comment. 😭

I did and so, so 👍

She plays it live every time. Recorded it that way.

Me either!

@jimwhite9735 - I would add "emotionally" to the front of your list.

Oletta Adams has the most amazing voice. Love all of ger songs ✌❤from The Bahamas 🇧🇸

I don't understand it either because her voice is So melodious, very rare.

@@barbarabuford5795 need a writer to make it Big. Singer Songwriter or think Dionne Warwick Burt Bacharach or Olivia Newton John and John Farrar or pick a great artist to cover like Linda Ronstadt with Buddy Holly songs. Not easy

@@RoryVanucchi That song is supreme! Brenda Russel sure is A writer...Oletta just got not enough promoted and/or (Thanks God) was not pop enough

There are many reasons she "never made it big", some of which were within her control and some not, but I'm glad to have what we do have on record from her prime. She can't sing like this anymore and it makes me sad to hear her perform in recent years. There was really no one quite like her on the scene in the 1990s.

@@barbarabuford5795 Give a listen to Lara Fabian. Didn't make it big in the U.S. but one of the greatest, most emotive singers ever. Anything from her concert, From Lara With Love.

was just about to say the same thing

Even now in 2023.

I saw her tonight in Wilmington Delaware! She's touring.