Remember Me

[Auntie Beryl]

Marlena Shaw, of California Soul, Woman Of The Ghetto and thus sampled-by-Blueboy-on-Remember-Me fame, has died aged 81.

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/marlena-shaw-has-died/

[Benjm]

Sad news - she was great.

[Sam]

RIP. She was, indeed, great. The Spice of Life and Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? are fantastic albums.

I've always wondered about the 'Woman of the Ghetto' sample, because as far as I've ever been able to hear the line used by Blueboy ('remember me: I'm the whore who had your baby's eyes') doesn't actually appear in the (original album version of the) song. Is it in the fadeout, or on an extended version?

[G-Man]

It might be in her mammoth live performance on the Live in Montreux album from 1973.

[G-Man]

She was a superb singer, songwriter and interpreter of songs. All of the albums I have of hers (nine by my count) are great, but The Spice of Life was special. Her versions of "California Soul" and "Go Away Little Boy" are both superb, and her own "Liberation Conversation" is every bit the equal of "Woman Of the Ghetto".

[G-Man]

And this might be my favourite Marlena Shaw track, from 1977: