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Although Live in New Orleans is a live album, "Before I Let Go" appears on the album as a studio recording. [4] Written and produced by lead singer Frankie Beverly, [2] [3] the song peaked at #13 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1981. [5] The song has been noted for its enduring popularity in Black American culture as a staple of gatherings and ...
Live In New Orleans is the first live album and fifth overall album by Bay Area-based R&B group Maze. Recorded live at Saenger Theatre in New Orleans , Louisiana November 14–15, 1980. With four new tracks recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco , California .
Maze, also known as Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly and Frankie Beverly & Maze, is an American soul band founded by Frankie Beverly in Philadelphia in 1970. [1] Under its original name Raw Soul, the band moved to San Francisco and was introduced to Marvin Gaye. Gaye took the group on the road with him as one of his opening acts, and in 1976, he ...
But it was Beverly and Maze's record "Before I Let Go," from their 1981 fifth album, "Live in New Orleans," that the band is most known for, becoming synonymous with Black cookouts, family ...
Frankie Beverly, the stylish singer, songwriter and founder of the R&B/funk band Maze, whose baritone voice drove such ‘80s hits as “Back in Stride,” “Too Many Games,” “Before I Let Go ...
The native Philadelphian wrote several R&B classics, including "Before I Let Go," one of the greatest breakup songs of all time. 'Before I Let Go' singer, Maze founder Frankie Beverly dead at 77 ...
In 2019, Beverly's hit single with Maze, "Before I Let Go" was covered by American singer Beyoncé as a bonus track on her fifth live album Homecoming: The Live Album. Beverly told Billboard that the cover was "one of the high points of (his) life... in a class of its own" and made him "feel bigger than ever! I feel like I have a huge smash out ...
Frankie Beverly, who with his band Maze gave the world an anthem that will forever be tied to cookouts and good times, died on Tuesday, his family announced. He was 77.