If you’ve ever been to that house you got the best of both worlds.”Ĭampbell told the guests at the service to follow Wright’s example. “She was the only one that could call me and say, ‘Be easy on certain people’ because I am rough sometimes. “Betty was the only person that could put me in check,” Campbell continued. ‘I’m going to be with the Lord, Luke.’ And we talked about Jazz in the Gardens and we talked about people she loved. Steve Greenberg, president of S-Curve Records, confirmed the singer's. “There was not a day I didn’t have a conversation with her leading up the day this strong, black woman called me up to say ‘I’m going home to be with the Lord,” Campbell said as he broke into tears at the lectern. Betty Wright, a luminary R&B singer known for her hits 'Clean Up Woman' and 'Tonight is the Night,' has died at the age of 66. We were friends to the end.”Ĭampbell said they spoke nearly every day. “We would sit in the living room and she would cook the fish and she would say you need to make sure your catechisms are right and you need to read that book because if you are trying to be in this business you have to have an understanding of this business. “I remember the days on 10th Avenue,” Uncle Luke said. She also spotted Peter Brown in Miami and sang with him on his breakthrough disco/pop hits, “Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me” and “Dance With Me,” in 1978. While still in high school and soon after Wright helped discover Miami talents and bring them into the Miami-based TK Records stable - like George and Gwen McRae, whose hits, “Rock Your Baby” and “Rockin’ Chair,” respectively, were staples of mid-1970s pop and R&B radio.
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