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"Brick House" is a song from the Commodores' 1977 self-titled album (released as Zoom in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the UK ...
Orange was the lead singer on the Top 10 hits "Brick House" (1977) and "Nightshift" (1985). The early band was managed by Benny Ashburn, [7] who brought them to his family's vacation lodge on Martha's Vineyard in 1971 and 1972. There, Ashburn test-marketed the group by having them play in parking lots and summer festivals.
The band employed a variety of musical styles for the album, highlighted by the popular anthem "Brick House". With Walter Orange's deep voice on the lead, and Ronald LaPread's bassline, this track peaked on the U.S. Hot 100 at #5, and the U.S. R&B Chart at #4. "Brick House" means a "stacked" woman with an hour-glass figure.
Brick is an American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s. Their most popular single was " Dazz ", (#3 U.S. Pop , #1 U.S. R&B , #36 UK Singles Chart [ 1 ] ) which was released in 1976.
Thomas McClary (born October 6, 1949) is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founder and lead guitarist of The Commodores. McClary is widely credited with having created the signature sound of The Commodores' original music.
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William King (born January 30, 1949) [1] is an American singer, musician and choreographer. He is a founding member of the Commodores , where he plays trumpet , guitar , synthesizer , flute , and congas / percussion and is the group's choreographer.
Written by Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie, the song is a slow ballad expressing a man's relief as a relationship ends. Rather than being depressed about the break-up, he states that he is instead "easy like Sunday morning"—something that Richie described as evocative of "small Southern towns that die at 11:30pm" on a Saturday night, such as his hometown Tuskegee, Alabama. [6]