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The song was written by Williams, Hank Redd, Nathan Watts and Susaye Greene and produced by Maurice White and Charles Stepney. [1] "Free" was Williams' breakthrough single reaching No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in May 1977.
June Deniece Williams (née Chandler; born June 3, 1950) [1] [2] [3] is an American singer. She has been described as "one of the great soul voices" by the BBC. [4]She is best known for the songs "Free", "Silly", "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" and two Billboard Hot 100 No.1 singles "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" (with Johnny Mathis).
“Aston Martin Music” came out the same year as the debut album by Drake and 14 years later, he’s still the go-to person you want on features. ... “Free” by Deniece Williams was her ...
"Silly" is a song written by Fritz Baskett, Clarence McDonald and Deniece Williams and performed by Williams. The soulful ballad was released off Williams' My Melody album in 1981 and became the most successful track off the album reaching as high as number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming an even bigger success on the R&B chart where it peaked at number eleven.
Sony Music: 1994 Greatest Gospel Hits — — Sparrow: 1996 Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams: 85 — Columbia: 2000 Love Songs — — 2001 The Collection — — Connoisseur/Sony Music 2016 Black Butterfly: The Essential Nicey — — Big Break "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Deniece Williams covered "I'm So Proud" as the title track to her 1983 album, reaching number 28 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart. [1] Phyl Garland of Stereo Review thought her version "displays Williams in a coolly assertive Sixties vein."
"Black Butterfly" is a song written by the song-writing duo Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in 1982, and most famously recorded by American recording artist Deniece Williams. Williams' recording was released in 1984 for Columbia Records and is on her 1984 album Let's Hear it for the Boy. The B-side of the single is the song "Blind Dating", also ...
The music video was released in mid-April 1984. [6] The song features background vocals from George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam , who would go on to form the duo Boy Meets Girl . In 2011, country singer Jana Kramer covered the song for the remake of Footloose and its accompanying soundtrack album .