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Cissy Houston Sang Backup on Your Favorite Songs
You know her work as intimately as you do the hits of her daughter Whitney.
Van Morrison’s exuberant delivery on “Brown Eyed Girl” tends to camouflage the bittersweet undercurrents that flow through his debut single, disguising how the song is not a celebration of a current romance but rather memories of a lost love. Wexler, along with his co-producers Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, adapted their approach to suit the slightly softer sound of Springfield, yet they retained the services of the Sweet Inspirations, whose give-and-take with Dusty makes this single feel like genuine southern soul. Linda Ronstadt revived the Chips Moman and Dan Penn classic “The Dark End of the Street” for her breakthrough Heart Like a Wheel, combining the resonant deep soul of James Carr’s original with the plaintive yearning of the country-rock cover by the Flying Burrito Brothers.
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