Jerry Jemmott shows huge amounts of restraint in not playing a single extra note until the very last bar of the verse where he uses a C# major arpeggio to create movement into the next section of the song. The bass line for ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ starts with a straightforward approach – a simple rhythmic pattern following the root notes of each chord. Cogbill’s lines tended to be busier (check out his work on Wilson Pickett’s ‘ Funky Broadway’ and Dusty Springfield’s ‘ Son Of A Preacher Man’). Although both players appeared on Aretha Now, the sparse, no-frills playing gives it away as the handiwork of Jerry – Mr. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their live stadium shows.A year after Dionne Warwick released ‘I Say A Little Prayer’, Aretha Franklin’s version of the Burt Bacharach-penned song appeared on her 1968 Aretha Now album and became her biggest selling single in the UK as solo artist – NME magazine liked it so much that in 1987 it topped their critics’ list of the 150 best singles of all time.īass duties for most of the Aretha Franklin recordings were handled by veteran session bassist Jerry Jemmott and Tommy Cogbill, who started his career as a guitarist but made his most important recorded cuts on bass. The band were among the first bands to have their videos shot by professional directors with 35 mm film movie cameras, which gave their videos a much more polished look. The band's controversial videos-which included partial nudity and suggestions of sexuality- became popular in the early 1980s on the then-new music video channel, MTV. The band worked with fashion designers to build a sharp and elegant image that earned them the nickname "the prettiest boys in rock". While they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene along with bands such as Spandau Ballet when they first emerged, they later shed this image. Since the 1980s they have placed 14 singles in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100 and have, according to the Sunday Mercury, sold more than 100 million records. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States.
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