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chochief (October 4th, 2008 @ 10:48 am)

my fav songwriter in the world. thanks for the post.

skillet54 (September 29th, 2008 @ 2:12 pm)

please don't do the 'someone else can sing better than her argument'..she is a songwriter first...most songwriters write songs with someone in mind they'd like to perform it...they get great pleasure hearing someone else sing the living daylights out of a song they've written! for instance dolly parton wrote that tune whitney houston nailed...'i will always love you' dolly was like...yeahhhhhhhhhhh! so don't compare songwriter/singer to singers in most cases its pointless.

peter97624 (September 23rd, 2008 @ 9:02 pm)

WOw ! takes me back to the Great Songs of the 80's ! What happened to music since then ?

ohd00bley (September 23rd, 2008 @ 1:27 am)

I think Brenda & Brian Russell actually recorded Please Pardon Me first. But I agree Chaka's version is better. Of course she recorded Get Here and If Only for One Night first and they were also made popular by IMO better singers, Oleta Adams and Luther Vandross. Brenda's got some songwriting talent!

Harmonee301 (September 15th, 2008 @ 11:50 am)

Yes she is BRILLIANT. Thanks for sending me to Think It Over. I really enjoyed it

Mshoney720 (September 12th, 2008 @ 6:08 pm)

The bottom line is......Brenda Russell is a BRILLIANT SONGWRITER not neccessarily a great singer. Which is fine; there are MANY instances where she will WRITE a song for someone and they of course will perform/sing it much better than she can! That is NOT UNCOMMON in the business. I mean she wrote Please Pardon Me and Chaka Khan sang it. But there is no way in HELL Brenda could even TRY to sing the song even close to Chaka. Brenda is a SONGWRITER FIRST, then a singer!!!!

BlackBronson (September 12th, 2008 @ 7:03 am)

Harmonee301 go and listen to "Think It Over", and tell me Brenda isn't a genius: watch?v=fwYEoajKlmo

FFPages (September 9th, 2008 @ 8:28 pm)

tell them blackbronson. check the lady out.

Harmonee301 (August 12th, 2008 @ 1:34 pm)

I am very familiar with Brenda Russell and her work as a writer. Fantastic writer. She is still, in my opinion, a subpar vocalist. That's the beauty or music. It's all subjective to the listener. She sounds like half decent Karaoke. And when I put my version on the tube I will be sure to send you the link so you can see how it really should be done.

thegrammarfairy (August 9th, 2008 @ 9:43 am)

I see what you mean, bbennett04. I don't have the absolute finest musical ear, but I do have a pretty good one, and I did hear a few notes here and there throughout the song that were ever so slightly under pitch. TGF

oicw65 (August 7th, 2008 @ 4:40 pm)

I agree, Hey? why don't you send those two people that just don't get it Oleta's vid, it's here on the tube

oicw65 (August 7th, 2008 @ 4:37 pm)

Has anyone heard Olita Adams sing this?