One in a million you by larry graham
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The heart-tugging ballad went gold, holding the number one R&B spot for two weeks and going into the pop Top Ten during the summer of 1980. their reaction was "what is this?" Understandable, since the label had hard funk hits with Graham as a member of GCS. Graham produced and played most of the instruments along with former GCS sidemen keyboardist Eric Daniels and guitarist William Rabb, with background vocals by Graham's wife, Tina Graham. It was tracked at Graham's home-recording studio. Larry Graham lyrics - 3 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'One In A Million You', 'Stand Up And Shout About Love', 'When We Get Married'. "One in a Million You" was written by master songwriter Sam Dees, whose credits include Loleatta Holloway's "Cry to Me," Frederick Knight's "I Betcha Didn't Know That," as well as hits by Atlantic Starr, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Dorothy Moore, and others.
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Her wisdom would help to result in Graham's first number one hit after signing a solo deal with Warner Bros. The bassist's mother, Dell Graham, had always stressed the importance of ballads to her son. So when I did ‘One In A Million,’ I was really going back to something that I’ve always been comfortable with.”Īs noted, that comfort paid off: Graham took “One in a Million” and turned it into a top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #1 R&B single.Larry Graham had sung and played on hits by Sly & the Family Stone ("Dance to the Music," "Sing a Simple Song") and his own band, Graham Central Station both bands not exactly known for ballads, but more so for funk/rock workouts. The end result was everybody got a chance, or more people got a chance, to hear that side of me which was really going back to the times when my mother and I performed together, because she would always have me singing ballads. Of course, in time, the record company did see that, ‘Hey, there’s something here,’ and then of course they got behind it and supported it as well. Despite the fact that at first it didn’t get a lot of attention from the record company, the folks who love and support me heard it and they made it what it became, so I’ve always been appreciative of that. “But I had the right to choose the single, and that’s the one I felt in my heart was the one. “At the time I did the song, it wasn’t a song that the record company was happy with me releasing because all of my records were mostly funk oriented, so I know that made them a little nervous,” Graham told the website Reflections in Rhythm in 2010.
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You may also be aware that he was already a pretty big deal prior to that band, having been smacking the bass for Sly and the Family Stone, but just in case you didn’t know that. Written by Sam Dees, who also penned such hits as Atlantic Starr’s “Am I Dreaming,” Glady Knight and the Pips’ “Save the Overtime (For Me),” and the George Benson / Aretha Franklin duet “Love All the Hurt Away,” “One in a Million” was the title track of Graham’s 1980 album, which was also his first LP after stepping away from his band Graham Central Station. Single Stories: Larry Graham, One in a Million You Friday, Septem80s R&B Single Stories Larry Graham 39 years ago today, Larry Graham hit his chart high on the Billboard Hot 100 with the most successful single of his solo career, a track which had actually topped the R&B Singles chart a few weeks earlier. 39 years ago today, Larry Graham hit his chart high on the Billboard Hot 100 with the most successful single of his solo career, a track which had actually topped the R&B Singles chart a few weeks earlier.