BETTY DAVIS -"They Say I'm Different" (1974)

The Women and Men of BLUES!

Here are the folks Betty pays tribute to in her song, plus many more:
W.C. HANDY, "Father of the Blues"; BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON ("Bo Weevil Blues") ; caberet star FLORENCE MILLS; slide king ELMORE JAMES ("The Sky Is Crying"); MEMPHIS MINNIE ("When the Levee Breaks"); LUCILLE BOGAN; JOHN LEE HOOKER ("Boom Boom", "Boogie Chillen"); IDA COX; ELIZABETH HEGAMIN; B.B. KING ("The Thrill Is Gone"); JIMMY REED ("Big Boss Man", "Bright Lights, Big City"); LIZZE MILES; BERTHA "CHIPPIE" HILL; BIG MAMA THORNTON ("Hound Dog"); LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS ("Mojo Hand"); HOWLIN' WOLF ("Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "Smokestack Lightning"); ALBERT KING ("Born Under a Bad Sign"); CHUCK BERRY, king of Rock'n'Roll; VICTORIA SPIVEY, a mentor to Bob Dylan; singer and actor ETHEL WATERS; T-BONE WALKER, forerunner to Chuck Berry; MUDDY WATERS, with harpist Little Walter ("You Need Love", "Hootchie Cootchie Man", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "You Shook Me All Night Long"); LEADBELLY Ledbetter ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night"); SONNY TERRY and BROWNIE McGHEE; SON HOUSE ("John the Revelator", "Death Letter"); FREDDIE KING ("Hide Away"); BESSIE SMITH, Empress of the Blues ("Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"); MAMIE SMITH; CLARA SMITH; BO DIDDLEY ("Who Do You Love"); ELIZABETH COTTON ("Freight Train"); out-and-proud GLADYS BENTLY; backbone of Chess Records, songwriter and bassist WILLIE DIXON (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters); LITTLE RICHARD ("Tutti Frutti", "Lucille"); ROBERT JOHNSON ("Crossroads", "Sweet Home Chicago"); gospel guitar dynamo SISTER ROSETTA THARPE ("Up Above My Head"); BIG JOE TURNER ("Shake Rattle and Roll"); SIPPIE WALLACE, mentor to Bonnie Raitt; ALBERTA HUNTER; MA RAINEY ("C.C. Rider"); J.B. LENOIR ("Mama, Talk To Your Daughter"); KOKO TAYLOR ("Wang Dang Doodle"); and ETTA BAKER.

See also:
BETTY DAVIS- "F.U.N.K." (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsSIoBcTt8

BETTY DAVIS- "F.U.N.K." (2.0) (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcohPUr1PI

BETTY DAVIS-"SHUT OFF THE LIGHT" (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWikmANtgM

BETTY DAVIS- "NASTY GAL" (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvvQq4leoo

BETTY DAVIS- "HE WAS A BIG FREAK" (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgWYeoIbts



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Betty Davis: vocals
Cordell Dudley: lead guitar
Larry Johnson: bass
Tony Vaughn: acoustic piano
Mike Clark: drums
Jimmy Godwin: rhythm and solo guitar
Debbie Burrell, Elaine Clark, Trudy Perkins: singers


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[goldcoastmm]

FunkRoll...who is on the track? This shit is so FUNKY!!!

[funknroll]

I just added the band info into the "More Info" box to help out. This is the band Betty put together after Larry Graham and Greg Errico's squad backed her on the previous album.

[jakeenan]

I can hear Richard Pryor's Reverend James L. White instead of lookin for money saying: "I want you dig down...I said waaay down....and come up.....with the FUNK....cos I gots ta have it!"

Nobody dug down and came up with the funk quite like Betty did....that why she the crowned Queen.

[CassandraAntares]

awesome vid, I've never heard this one before! real cool

[lenarita1]

oh betty, where are you?  come back to us, babe!

[chea943]

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 writter first. Betty's lyrics have always been overlooked, because of the raw, funky energy in her music. Totally unlike anything people had heard,or were hearing at that time (1974).

[nublackmusic]

Niva the soul diva is the next betty. check her out on youtube doing the stones brown sugar. completely different and only 23 . you're gonna love her!

[zihard1]

man, this is pretty good, compared to the brazilliam funky

[dojufitz]

What seperates her from some many singers is her inflection on the words......she gives them meaning...like a fine actor like Brando......no one sounds like her......unique.

[dojufitz]

her vocal expression 'for want of a better word' excells alot of other singers.....its something different ...........you don;t hear it with other vocalists.

[tripfunkmonster]

I want to bring Betty home with me.

[howlingsandy]

very cool song!. but sad that Arthur Crudup was left out. Her genre started with him. Little Richard & Sam Cook had doors open when 3 Crudup songs went gold early covers by Elvis, who said to reporters in 1956, "The colored folks been (performing) it for more years than I know. I got it from them ... in Tupelo... I used to hear old *Arthur Crudup* bang his box the way I do now and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw.