ĭid the Bee Gees approach you to record Nights on Broadway? DaveParry Clarence Carter was singing the song on the floor and Mac Davis said: “You know what? I think a woman should sing this song, because it’s about a woman.” They put the lyrics in front of me. Then after I got divorced and moved house I couldn’t find it anywhere. How did you feel when Elvis showed his appreciation for your wonderful version of In the Ghetto? MullOtterĮlvis wrote me a note saying: “You did a great job.” I kept it in my kitchen desk for years. Others would say: “You don’t have to do that, girl. Some of them would laugh at me with my little pistol.

It wasn’t in my personality to become a scary gangster, but when the promoters tried not to pay I had to get my gun out even though I was shaking in my shoes. I didn’t like guns! Eventually I told them to get me one small enough to fit in my handbag. The first thing they told me was to get a gun. In the UK there was one chart, which is how it should be.ĭid you play the ‘chitlin’ circuit’ in the 60s? RedGammon To cross over you needed a big label and money behind you. Why do you think that your early 70s classic albums ( I’m Just a Prisoner, Stand By Your Man, Candi Staton etc) are less canonised than other ‘classic’ albums of that period by the Stones, the Beatles etc? mesmīack then I didn’t get on the same chart as those guys because Black artists on smaller labels were put in the R&B charts, not the pop charts.

Try me remix