She also wrote and performed in a one woman musical theatre show based on her own life, entitled 'Grace', which premiered in Los Angeles in 2010. 72.9K subscribers 50K views 9 years ago Another great cover of a motown classic.care of Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager. Grace - the brenda lee eager story - 2010 70s Soul 45 - Brenda Lee Eager - When Im With You - Mercury - mp3. In 2006, Brenda directed The Heaven on Earth (T.H.E.) Choir at the City of Angels Church in Culver City, California. She has also performed onstage, appearing in the musicals 'The Message is in the Music', (with Della Reese), and 'Wild Woman Blues', (with Maine Weldon). Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager : Love We Have (LP, Vinyl record album) - Duets between Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager done as serious, adult oriented. In 2000, Brenda released the album, 'Startin' Over' for the BMP imprint. She also penned the songs 'Why You Wanna Love Me Like That' for The Manhattans and songs for group 3 For 3 (guesting as vocalist on the group's 'My Beloved' in 1990).īrenda has been a background vocalist for many performers over the years, including: Grey & Hanks, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Womack, Carl Anderson ('Heavy Weather, in 1996), Norman Connors ('Easy Livin'), Ray Charles, Mavis Staples, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Graham Nash, Rodney Franklin, Teena Marie, Najee, Billy Mitchell, Nancy Wilson, Gerald Albright, Prince and Cliff Richard.Īs a songwriter, she has penned songs for the likes of Bobby Womack, the Staples Singers, Aretha Franklin, Cliff Richard, Gladys Knight, Shirley Brown and Prince. In the early Seventies, Brenda was part of the reverend Jesse Jackson's Operation Breadbasket Choir in Chicago.įurther solo singles followed her duets singles, including 'Good Old Fashioned Lovin'' (for the Playboy Records imprint in 1975) and 'Watch My Body Talk' (for the Private-I Records imprint in 1984). Jerry and Brenda then released a duet version of the Bacharach and David song '(They Long To Be) Close To You', which charted at number 8 on the R&B charts, number 91 on the national charts. Good old fashioned love b/w i'll get by - 1975 / watch my body talk b/w watch my body talk instr. The song was also awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A in April 1972. Cut from the 73 album The Love We Have Show more. The single reached number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 21 on the Hot 100, selling one million copies. Another great cover of a motown classic.care of Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager. It was featured on Butlers 1971 album The Sagittarius Movement. The song was arranged by James Mack and produced by Gerald Sims and Jerry Butler. In 1971, she began recording 45's with Jerry, which included her debut 45 'Ain't Understanding Mellow', which proved to be her biggest single to date. 'Aint Understanding Mellow' is a song written by Homer Talbert and Herscholt Polk and performed by Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager. When she was 17, she sang at her first gig at the Kings Club in Prichard, Alabama.īrenda then relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where she soon began singing background vocals for Jerry Butler in the group Peaches.Īin't understanding mello b/w windy city soul - 1971 / i'm a lonely woman b/w in my world -1972 / the love we had - 1973 / when i'm with you b/w let me be - 1974 She spent her early years in the small town of Lower Peach Tree, where she sang in, and attended the local church.īrenda began songwriting at an early age, and had her own group in her teens. Brenda Lee Eager, 8th August 1947, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.īrenda Lee Eager hails from Mobile, Alabama.
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