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Perhaps one of the most underrated spirit producers from the ’70s, multi-talented manufacturer/vocalist/songwriter/instrumentalist Leroy Hutson began his profession in a variety of vocal groupings around his hometown of Newark, NJ, in the ’60s, but found his early achievement being a co-writer for Howard School roommate Donny Hathaway’s 1970 strike one …

Like Darlene Like and Cissy Houston, Dee Dee Warwick’s considerable presents as a spirit singer were mostly confined to program function. And like Aretha Franklin’s sisters, Dee Dee needed to have a problem with the darkness of the superstar sibling, Dionne Warwick. Certainly she acquired the skill to contend as …