Leonard chess and etta james love affair
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The Story Behind Etta James’s Greatest Song
Etta James, one of the great American pop singers of the last half-century, died this morning.
Leonard chess and etta james love affair
Many of the much deserved tributes to appear so far have singled out her most famous single, the great “At Last,” enormously popular at weddings and famously sung by Beyoncé to Barack and Michelle Obama upon his inauguration as president (possibly still, somewhat regrettably, my favorite moment from the entire Obama presidency).
The New York Times went so far as to describe James as the “Powerful Voice Behind ‘At Last’” in the headline of the paper’s obituary.
But Etta James was no one-hit wonder. In fact, as truly great as that song is, James recorded another that was even better—and it’s one she co-wrote, although, for tax reasons, she gave songwriting credit to her then boyfriend.
(“It bugs me to this day that he still receives royalties,” James wrote in 1995.)
“I’d Rather Go Blind” (also, as it happens, sung by Beyoncé, when she played E