Quincy Jones Studio 1980

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Quincy Jones recorded “If I Ever Lose This Heaven” for his 1974 album, Body Heat. Minnie Riperton, Al Jarreau, and Leon Ware sang together on the song written by Ware and Pam Sawyer. Jones balanced the vocal acrobatics of Minnie Riperton and Al Jarreau against Leon Ware’s understated delivery, placing aContinue Reading

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Minnie Riperton’s “Baby, This Love I Have” was a collaborative writing effort with her husband Richard Rudolph and Leon Ware. The song opened her 1975 third studio album Adventures In Paradise. Riperton’s pure vocals and emotion epitomized a woman in love. She sang with a tasteful sensuality underscored by aContinue Reading

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Minnie Riperton wrote “Inside My Love” with Leon Ware and her husband Richard Rudolph. The soul-deep intimacy that Riperton was singing about was always interpreted as lust because of her earthy delivery. But in the liner notes from the posthumous Petals:The Minnie Riperton Collection Rudolph explains the emotional intentions ofContinue Reading

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