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Thank you IGH!!
Thank you IGH!!
Me too IGH. Thanks again.nice
beautiful songs IGH
could not play the first one...loved Margie
Cham, if it say "embedding disabled by request, Watch on youtube"... just click WATCH ON YOU TUBE...
More songs to come...
IGH, you have most amazing memory if that song is for the young man who lives in my home....so cool
the girls and dem papa were singing this on our recent trip...lol
LOL@Cham... yep, the young man lives in your house.
"Don't play it no more " hit the spot!
Thanks IGH.
Both of those have tremendous nostalgia (Games that lovers play and don't play it no more).
R B Greaves was born in Georgetown, Guyana to American parent on a military tour.
This is the first time I am listening to games that lovers play.
R B Greaves was born in Georgetown, Guyana to American parent on a military tour.
Biography
Greaves was born in 1943 on the U.S. Army Air Forces base at Georgetown, Guyana.[1] A nephew of Sam Cooke, he grew up on a Seminole Indian reservation in the United States, but he moved to England in 1963.[3] Greaves had built a career both in the Caribbean and in the UK, where he performed under the name Sonny Childe with his group The TNTs. His debut recording "Take a Letter, Maria", released under the name R.B. Greaves, had been recorded by both Tom Jones and Stevie Wonder before the author recorded it himself at the insistence of the president of Atlantic Records, Ahmet ErtegÞn, who produced it. The song is the story of a man who had learned of his wife's infidelity the night before, and then dictates a letter of separation to Maria, his secretary. This song has a distinct Latino flavor, complete with a mariachi-style horn section.The record stayed in the Billboard chart for 15 weeks in the United States, selling a million copies. It received gold record certification from the R.I.A.A. on December 11, 1969.[3] By 1970, sales of this song totalled 2.5 million.[3]
Greaves recorded a series of cover versions as follow-ups, including Burt Bacharach's and Hal David's "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale".[1] Greaves left the label in the 1970s in favor of Bareback Records, and then signed to Sunflower Records. His only chart release for the latter label was "Margie, Who's Watching the Baby".[4] Greaves died from prostate cancer, in Granada Hills, California, on September 27, 2012 at the age of 68.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._Greaves