J.J. Barnes - You Can Bet Your Love

For this release on the Motorcity label, J.J. and I wrote a song together that he wanted to be more funky than the usual Motorcity releases, and the result was "You Can Bet Your Love", recorded in 1990. J.J. has been my lifelong friend. He started out on several small Detroit labels before being picked up by Scepter, but then J.J. got his career into full swing, by the mid Sixties, when he and Edwin Starr both started out on the same label, Ric-Tic Records in Detroit. I first met J.J. Barnes in 1971 when my first business venture with my Father, when I was eighteen, was to put him on at Blackpool Mecca. I had written an article about him when I was fifteen for Collectors Soul Magazine called "J.J. Barnes The Uncrowned King Of Soul" Eighteen years later he signed to Motorcity and recorded about twenty five songs, this being one of the standout ones, and released on the CD, "The Very Best Of J.J. Barnes"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Motorcity
• Detroit
• Motown
• Funk
• Classic-Soul
• Male-Vocals
• Soul

[tustles]

Great tune Thanks so much My Friend KTF

[motown250]

nice track

[smilersweetness]

Excellent performance!

[Soulanddisco]

J.J. Barnes is just so underrated and unappreciated.

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