WHAT A MAN

Created on 06/05/2006
Latest update on 12/02/2024

Artist: Linda Lyndell
Author: Dave Crawford
Label: Volt
Year: 1968

Two singles for Stax/Volt, produced by Dave Crawford, that's all she cut before retiring from performing, some say under threat of the Ku Klux Klan (Linda is white). Was convinced to resume her career at the opening of the Stax Museum in Memphis in May 2003. See also: I Don't Know.

Covers:

1969:

Laura Lee

1972:

Jackie Moore [shelved until 2005]

1993:

Salt-N-Pepa [n°3 US as Whatta Man; better lyrics, effectively rapped]

1996:

En Vogue

2012:

Jessica Manboy [in film The Sapphires]

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