Yvonne Fair

Yvonne Fair

Yvonne Fair (June 3, 1942March 6, 1994) was an African American singer. Yvonne got her start as a latter-day member of the re-formulated Chantels and the James Brown Revue. While performing with Brown she recorded the song "I Found You," which he later re-worked into his own signature hit "I Got You (I Feel Good)." Signed to Motown Records in the early 1970s as a result of her work with Chuck Jackson, she appeared in a minor role as a chanteuse in the film "Lady Sings the Blues" before hooking up with producer Norman Whitfield for a first-rate series of singles: "Love Ain't No Toy," "Walk Out the Door If You Wanna," and what is perhaps the definitive version of "Funky Music Sho' 'Nuff Turns Me On." Her remake of the Kim Weston/Gladys Knight semi-standard "It Should Have Been Me" dented the lower end of the pop charts in 1976, as well as featuring in a special episode of BBC TV programme "The Vicar of Dibley" entitled "The Handsome Stranger", broadcast on 25 December 2006. In the UK it reached the dizzy heights of #5, being in the charts for 11 weeks, and the track itself became a club classic.She was married to Sammy Strain of The Imperials.

Fair died in Las Vegas in 1994.

Albums

* "The Bitch Is Black" (1975)Reissued on CD in 2008 by Reel Music - [http://www.myreelmusic.com/catalog/item/5370037/5335492.htm (Reel Music)]

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Releases on Tamla Motown (UK)
* "TMG913" Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On / Let Your Hair Down 7"
* "TMG1013" It Should Have Been Me / You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover 7"
* "TMG1025" It's Bad For Me To See You / Walk Out the Door If You Wanna 7" [http://www.vinylnet.co.uk/record-label-discographies.asp link]

Footnotes

james brown' original funky divas

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:x0ivad8kv8wn Yvonne Fair biography] on Allmusic
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