Andrew Wright

Organist Andrew Wright co-wrote with bassist Calvin Lewis Percy Sledge’s silver number 1 R&B/pop common “Whenever a Guy Loves a female.” Both Wright and Lewis had been associates of Sledge’s cousin Jimmy Hughes’ (“Grab Away”) road music group. The duo also supported Arthur Alexander (“Anna [Move to Him]”). In 1965, they started playing behind Sledge. All acquired regular nine-to-five careers (Sledge was an orderly at Colbert State Hospital) and performed on weekends at night clubs around Sheffield, AL, and neighboring state governments. One night in a membership gig, Wright found some chord progressions that he loved. The very next day at rehearsal, Wright started playing the chords once again. They made a decision to develop it into along with a melody and started executing it, though it wasn’t however “Whenever a Guy Loves a female.” WLAY radio DJ Quin Ivy was a co-employee of manufacturer Rick Hall of Popularity Documenting Studios in close by Muscle Shoals, possessed a record store, Ivy’s Tune City, and was starting his own documenting studio. He wished to enter record creation. Ivy contacted Sledge about auditioning. He enjoyed the melody Wright and Lewis wrote but still wished a rewrite. Keeping the music exactly the same, the two transformed the title as well as the tale. “Whenever a Man Loves a female” was documented at Ivy’s studio room in past due 1965 using a number of the music artists who had performed on hits made by Hall: drummer Roger Hawkins, organist Spooner Oldham, bassist Junior Lowe, and Ivy’s co-producer/guitarist Marlin Greene. Through Rick Hall, Ivy delivered to the tape to Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Information. In springtime 1966, “Whenever a Guy Loves a female” became a million-seller, keeping the main R&B place for a month and the main pop spot for 14 days on Billboard’s graphs. The Whenever a Man Adores a female LP peaked at amount 37 play summer months 1966. The one was found in a 1987 Levi skinny jeans advertisement, reissued, and was lots two U.K. strike. A typical, “Whenever a Guy Loves a female” continues to be included in countless performers (Shirley Scott, Barbara Mandrell, Wes Montgomery, Yusef Lateef), striking number 1 Pop again, this time around for Michael Bolton in fall 1991.