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You want to know where she got this sound...."BETTY DAVIS/IF I'M IN LUCK, I MIGHT GET PICKED UP"...Betty recorded it in 1973, you will not be sorry!

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THAT'S CORDELL DUDLEY ON LEAD GUITAR, AND HE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 15YEARS OR MORE..JIMMY GODWIN IS ON RHYTHM GUITAR..NOT LONG AFTER THIS RECORD WAS MADE, CORDELL WAS REPLACED BY CARLOS MORALES..BETTY IS LIVE AND WELL..SHE WAS HAPPY TO HEAR HER MUSIC WAS BEING REISSUED, BUT BEYOND THAT, SHE DOESN'T G...

LUCILLE WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF "BETTY DAVIS" FOR TRYING TOO BRING SEX INTO MUSIC...IF YOU THINK ALL WOMEN WANTED FROM MEN WAS LOVE AND MARRIAGE, YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND!!

CHECK OUT "BETTY DAVIS' THE NASTIEST THING SINCE LUCILLE BOGAN'S

BETTY PLAYED THE BLUES...AND ONLY THE BLUES...SHE WAS CREATING SOMETHING NEW...SHE DID NOT, AT NO TIME TRY TO BE LIKE ANYONE...COMMERCIAL SHE WAS NOT, FITTING IN, CONFORMING, NOT IN HER PROGRAM...HER MUSIC WAS FOR YOUNG PROGRESSIVE ADULTS,FOR PEOPLE WITH A MIND OF THEIR OWN...AHEAD OF IT'S TIME T...

BUMPTIOUSLY...I AM HER BROTHER

@carnalitajones...BETTY like all black artist of her period was labeled R&B (Only blacks were R&B)...There were about 12 R&B groups in the 70's who earned White Dollars...the rest of us earned a living...there was a thing called "CROSS OVER". These 12 CROSSED OVER..To the white market..Everything...

MILES AND JIMI NEVER PLAYED TOGETTHER..They did plan on playing together, with GIL EVANS producing, but JIMI died. GIL EVANS a few years later recorded a alblum of JIMI'S BEST, with a jazz flavor..If you do not know who GIL is..He produced what is considered the greatest jazz alblum of all time.....

GONNA LOV'EM...FUNKY...FREE...AND FOOLISH...BETTY WROTE THAT SHIT!!

BETTY WAS VERY FAR FROM COMMERCIAL..At know time did Betty ever speak to an audience directly, other than to give the names of the band. Even then she looked at who she introducing. When she performed she gave the crowd all her attention..She worked a stage, from one side to the other, all night ...

ARETHA ,CHAKA, DIANA ROSS, SANTANA, MANTRILL, GLADY'S KNIGHT, PATTY LABELLE AND THE BLUEBELLS, FOUR TOPS, TEMPTATIONS, STEVIE WONDER, GEORGE DUKE, STANLEY CLARK ,ISACC HAYS, BILLY PRESTON, COMMADORES, JOHNNY TAYLOR, HERBIE HANCOCK, MILES, BLUE MAGIC, LENNY WHITE, BOBBY BLUES BLAND, BILLY PRESTON...

THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN BY BETTY WITH HER ENTIRE GROUP IN MIND...HER BAND WAS MADE UP OF..HER BROTHER (BUSINESS)..1ST COUSIN DELANOR (BODYGUARD)..1ST COUSIN LARRY (BASS)..1ST COUSIN NICKIE (DRUMS)..FRED (KEYBOARDS)..CARLOS (GUITAR)..ALL IN OUR LATE TWENTIES,ALL SINGLE, AND ALL LOVED THE WOMEN..BUT ...

MR. CORDELL DUDLEY on guitar, from Pittsburgh, Pa...He spent most of his career doing Jimi Hendrix Tributes in Pittsburgh. He was one of my best friends. and when Betty asked me to find a guitar player, I didn't have to look far. Betty flew in to hear him play. he was the first person hired for ...

THIS IS NOT ABOUT A HOOKER!!!!!...This is about a girl going out on a Fri. or Sat. night..with her girls or by herself , just wanting to meet someone new...IF SHE'S IN LUCK...First song, off Betty's first record, 1973. This song will be 40 years old in 2013...THE WORLD, STILL IS NOT READY FOR BE...

AFTER HAVING LUNCH,AN LISTENING TO SONNYBOY WILLIAMSON (9 BELOW ZERO)...BETTY WATCHED A FEW CLIPS...BEFORE LONG, SHE WAS SINGING ALONG....SHE ENJOYED IT, SINCERELY!! I PLAYED A CLIP OF CHUCK BERRY&ETTA JAMES "HOOCHIE COOCHIE GAL'...HELENA SPRINGS A BACKUP FOR DYLAN AND TINA TURNER WAS OPENING ...

MY SISTER HAD JUST GOT MARRIED...HER HUSBAND RECORDED FOR COLUMBIA RECORDS, AND HAD A COPY OF THIS ALBLUM, 4 OR 5 MONTHS BEFORE IT'S RELEASE...MY SISTER MAILED ME A COPY...MY SISTERS NAME (BETTY DAVIS)...HER HUSBAND{MILES DAVIS}

YES, LET'S NOT FORGET KATHI(FROM THE GRATEFUL DEAD), POINTER SISTER, SYLVESTER OR CHOCOLATE(GRAHAM CENTRAL)...MIXING THEIR VOICES WAS DIFFICULT,BUT WHAT WONDERFUL RESULTS...ALL SEASONED PROFESSIONALS...BETTY LEARNED ALOT FROM THEM...AS THEY DID FROM HER...THIS WAS BETTY'S FAVORITE ALBLUM...SHE LI...

BETTY & MILES REMAINED GREAT FRIENDS AFTER THEIR DIVORCE...BETTY LIKED TO ROCK, SHE WAS DETERMINED TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE SOFT LOVELY SONGS...HER AND MILES WORKED TOGETHER ON ALL BETTY'S SLOW SONGS...'WHEN ROMANCE SAYS GOODBYE' IS BETTY AT HER VERY VERY BEST...SHEER PERFECTION..TOOK FOUR ALBLUMS,...

'CRASHIN FROM PASSION', WOULD HAVE BEEN THE TITLE OF BETTY'S FIFTH ALBLUM...THE COVER WOULD HAVE HAD BETTY LAYING ON A UNMADE BED OF SATIN SHEETS. ALBLUMS OF MILES AND JIMI HENDRIX, AND EMPTY BOTTLES...WITH BETTY DRESSED IN HER UNDIES AND SEEMED STOCKINGS. ONCE AGAIN BETTY'S OWN CONCEPT...THE MU...

BETTYS FIRST SONG SHE SOLD 1967....SHE WENT DOWN TO A CLUB WHERE THEY WERE PLAYING ONE NIGHT IN NEW YORK. TALKED THEM INTO LISTENING TO HER SING THIS ENTIRE SONG, JUST AS YOU HEAR IT HERE. AT THIS TIME BETTY WAS A PROFESSIONAL MODEL, WITH THE FORD AGENCY....MODELING WAS A MEANS TO AN END FOR BETT...

TO SEE BETTY PERFORM THIS SONG WAS LIKE WATCHING A BURLESQUE SHOW....SHE WAS GRINDING TO THE AUDIENCE THE ENTIRE TIME..MEN WENT CRAZY, YELLING, SCREAMING LIKE THE LADIES DID FOR MARVIN GAYE. BETTY WORKED HARD TOGIVE THIS SONG THAT CERTAIN FEELING, A FEELING OF HAVING SEX....THIS IS THE SONG MEN W...

BETTY'S TRIBUTE TO HER BEST FRIEND (DEVIN), WHO HAD BEEN JIMMI HENDRIX'S GIRL FRIEND. JIMMI WROTE THE SONG (DOLLY DAGGER) ABOUT HER. THE REASON JIMMI IS DEAD TODAY, IS BECAUSE DEVIN DIDN'T GO WITH HIM TO ENGLAND. DEVIN WOULD CHECK OUT JIMMI'S DRUGS BEFORE HE TOOK THEM. SMACK, COKE, ACID, WHATEVER...

The photo is Betty performing at RONNIE SCOTTS in ENGLAND....Betty was wearing a $300.00 night gown by Norma Kamali and $200.00 handmade bedroom slippers from France. At this time Betty's stage act became far more erotic, she was wearing night gowns,slips, etc. .Stuff she would not wear in the U....

BOOTLEG RECORDING...Not the finished product Betty would have had,but not as bad as some of the other BOOTLEG RECORDINGS of her music!

Betty wrote this song while we were in New Orleans recording(1979)....we had been there for a month or so, all Betty ate was fish and lobster. She always complained how greasy the fish was, and one day while talking to the band about the food, she said "THIS IS THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL"....That n...

BOOTLEG RECORDING....Betty put this down back in 1980....That is Betty's singing, but that is not her band performing....this is unfinished, unmixed....totally undone! Betty has afew tones that haven"t yet been recorded, nor bootlegged...YOU WON'T SEE ME IN THE MORNING was released in 2006 as a b...

To understand where Betty was coming from with her music, it is necessary to go back in time, and THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT is the song that takes you there. These are some of the artist Betty loved, and admired long before she wrote her first tune. Always remember Betty Davis is and was a song writ...

Nickie Neal (Drums) and Larry Johnson (Bass) are Betty's first cousins. The band Nickie and Larry played in was named FUNKHOUSE,out of Reidsville, N.C. Betty's (Keyboardist) Fred Mills and (Guitarist) Carlos Morales were also members of FUNKHOUSE....Few people understood Betty's Music (That incl...