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Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright (born December 21, 1953), is a Miami-based soul and R&B singer-songwriter, who won fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night". A pioneering singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, she remains one of the few black female musicians to have a gold record on her own vanity label. She possesses a four-octave vocal range and is adept at using the whistle register.
Born Bessie Regina Norris on December 21, 1953, Wright was the youngest of seven children to Rosa Akins Braddy-Wright and her second husband, McArthur Norris. Wright began her professional career at the age of two when her siblings formed the gospel group, the Echoes of Joy. Wright contributed to vocals on the group's first album, released in 1956. Wright and her siblings performed together until the mid-1960s.
In 1965, following the group's break-up, 11-year-old Wright, who was already using the name Betty Wright, decided to switch musical styles from gospel to rhythm and blues, singing in local talent shows until being spotted by a local Miami record label owner, who signed her to her first label in 1966 at twelve. She released the singles, "Thank You Baby" and "Paralyzed", which found Wright local fame in Miami.
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Plot: Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance. While working in the general store he learns that the owner has been cheating his tenants. He is in love with owner's daughter, Madge, but sides with the tenants in his threat to expose the planters and their cheating.
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Plot: Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and run off to join a theatrical group where they fall in love and marry as their grandparents had intended.
Keywords: based-on-playLove is giving
When there is no more to give
Love is carin' so much about someone
Till it makes it make we wanna live
And when every (Every) everything passes away
Oh... whoa... (Well) and you can't tell night from day (Just one thing)
There is one thing you can say, oh, baby
My love is, ho... yeah
Love is,.crying when you know you share your share of tears, yes, you have (Oh, yeah)
Love is forgivin' over and over (Over and over)
Over and over (Over and over) all through the years
And when every (Every) everything right seems wrong
And all of your false friends (No good friends), ho, they're long gone
Check it out (Check it out), baby
My love will still be strong, you know why, you know why
My love is, yeah, oh, oh, oh... ho...
I heard a song not too long ago
Let's see
You think that people would have had enough of silly love songs, huh
Ah, but look around you and you see these?
You see, personally I think that the world could always use just a little more love
The greatest commandment ever laid down by God was His commandment of love
But we ladies, we get so wrapped up sometimes in the thing that we're doin'
We forgot to tell our man just how we feel and let him know that we know he feels the same
And you know his love is for real, huh
We forget to do it so much and so we're so slow
Sometimes we got to catch him before he's walkin' out the door
Aw, but I'm not gonna get caught in a trap
You see 'cause I will only take out just a little bit of time each day
And whisper in his ear and say, "Honey"
My love is, oh, oh, hey... sing
Love is giving, woo... woo... woo...
Love is caring, woo... woo... woo...
Mmm, hmm
Mmm, hmm
Mmm, mmm, hmm
There is one thing (There's one thing) you can say, yeah...
Oh, baby, hey, baby
My love is, whoa... yeah
(Oh...)
Oh, yeah, yeah