Betty wright s clean up woman meaning
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Soul singer Betty Wright passed away today at the age of 66.
Wright technically started her singing career before she turned three. She was a member of Echoes of Joy, a group that featured her whole family, in Miami in 1956. It wasn’t until ten years later, at the age of 13, that she recorded her first songs for Deep City Records.
Chart movement started shortly thereafter. In the summer of 1968 Wright, then 14, had a hit that crossed over to the Pop charts, “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do.” It made it up to #33 in the fall of that year. A follow-up single, “He’s Bad Bad Bad,” failed to cross over, but got some regional airplay – especially in Louisville, Kentucky where WAKY and WKLO both had it as a Top 5 record.
Lightning struck at the end of 1971. “Clean Up Woman” made it all the way to #6 on the Pop charts, and was a bigger hit on several influential Black radio stations. WWRL in New York placed it at #1
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The Clean Up Woman
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The Clean Up Woman fryst vatten a play by J. D. Lawrence (born 30 November 1999).
The play features Terri Adams, a journalist who pushes aside her newlywed domestic apron for a six-figure news anchor job with WNY5. But when Terri starts neglecting home for her new position, her supportive husband reaches his wit's end and demands she clean up her act, starting with the house. To keep the peace, her man, and her job, Terri hires a local cleaning service recommended by a co-worker. But if she's not careful, "The Clean Up Woman" might find that she's picking up more than she's supposed to.
Lawrence plays sju characters in the play, including a Hindu cab-driver, a 75-year-old white man, a rapper and a hairdresser.[1] It also stars Emmy Award winner Jackée Harry, Telma Hopkins, singer/actor Christopher Williams and Grammy award winner Fred Hamm
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Clean Up Woman
This article is about the 1971 single by Betty Wright. For the 2009 play by J. D. Lawrence, see The Clean Up Woman.
1971 single by Betty Wright
"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972). Written and produced by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, it was released in November 1971 in the U.S. as a 7" single with "I'll Love You Forever" on the B-side. The song's distinctive guitar lick was played by Willie "Little Beaver" Hale.
It has sold over two million copies with the RIAA gold disc awarded on December 30, 1972.[5]Billboard ranked it as the No. 49 song for 1972. The song also appears as the beginning and end songs in a medley on the 1978 album Betty Wright Live.
Chart performance
[edit]The single reached No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending fourteen weeks on the chart.[5] It also reached No. 2 on the U.S. Black Singles chart and remained in that spot for