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Betty Wright

Her Hit At Seventeen “Clean Up Woman” No Longer Defines Betty Wright’s Career


May 19, 2014 - Our Vintage Cafe today with Betty Wright is from 2012. Betty Wright may be best known for a couple of songs she cut for her hometown TK records when she was still a teenager in Miami. "Clean Up Woman" and Girls Can't Do What The Boys Can Do" are still major (and much sampled) songs for her. We'll see if we can coax a version of "Clean Up Woman" out of Betty today. Wright later got into engineering, producing, and the business end of the music industry. She also became a vocal coach for people like Joss Stone. It was on Stone's Soul Sessions album that she met Questlove and the Roots who collaborated with her on Betty Wright: The Movie, the album she had recently released when this interview took place in 2012.

Session Setlist
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME DON'T CHANGE THE PLAY
SURRENDER
CLEAN UP WOMAN

Recent Release: Betty Wright: The Movie
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Label: S-Curve Records / Ms. B Records

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