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    The Sweet Inspirations are an American R&B girl group mostly known for their work as backup singers on studio recordings for other R&B and rock artists...
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  • Sweet Inspiration or variants may refer to: The Sweet Inspirations, American R&B female vocal group The Sweet Inspirations (album), 1967 "Sweet Inspiration"...
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    Sweet Inspiration is the title of a Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham composition written for, and first recorded in 1967 by, the Sweet Inspirations. It became...
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  • The Sweet Inspirations is the self-titled debut album by American recording soul/gospel female group the Sweet Inspirations, released in 1967 by Atlantic...
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    Cissy Houston (category The Sweet Inspirations members)
    descant on the Aretha Franklin hit "Ain't No Way". In 1967, The Sweet Inspirations sang background vocals for The Jimi Hendrix Experience on the track "Burning...
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  • with "Sweet Inspiration", the latter being a Dan Penn/ Spooner Oldham composition written for and first recorded in 1967 by the Sweet Inspirations for whom...
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  • 4 on the Kent Music Report chart, and was the 18th highest charting single of the year in Australia. American R&B group The Sweet Inspirations released...
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  • that the female backing vocals were performed by The Sweet Inspirations instead of Clydie King and Merry Clayton; Buskin also does not credit the acoustic...
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  • song spent a total of sixteen weeks on the chart. It featured the Sweet Inspirations singing back-up vocals and is considered to be Van Morrison's signature...
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    Dionne Warwick (category The Sweet Inspirations members)
    group The Sweet Inspirations, and had some chart success, but were much sought-after as studio background singers. The Gospelaires, and later The Sweet Inspirations...
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  • Songs of Faith & Inspiration is the second album by American recording gospel/soul female group the Sweet Inspirations, released in the U.S. on Atlantic...
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  • To Love Somebody (song) (category Sweet Inspirations songs)
    The song has been recorded by many other artists, including Janis Joplin, Roberta Flack, Lulu, James Carr, the Sweet Inspirations, Nina Simone, the Flying...
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  • Myrna Smith (category The Sweet Inspirations members)
    Warwick's Gospelaires group which later evolved into the Sweet Inspirations. The Sweet Inspirations backed Dionne, Aretha Franklin and countless others, and...
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  • singer Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney Houston) and her group the Sweet Inspirations are credited as background vocals on several tracks, along with...
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  • Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd, conductor Gene Orloff, backing vocalists the Sweet Inspirations, bassist Tommy Cogbill, and guitarist Reggie Young. Dusty in Memphis...
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  • Peters – bass, lead vocals Joe Walsh – guitar, piano Jim Fox – drums The Sweet Inspirations – backing vocals "Live My Life Again" – (Fox) – 5:26 Jim Fox – drums...
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    TCB Band (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
    the nickname may also extend to Presley's background vocalists during that same period: the Imperials, the Sweet Inspirations, and JD Sumner and The Stamps...
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  • Elvis (2022 film) (category Films about racism in the United States)
    Bassingthwaighte as Dee Stanley Sharon Brooks as Sylvia Shemwell of the Sweet Inspirations Cle Morgan as Mahalia Jackson Liz Blackett as Minnie Mae Presley...
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  • 1968. Carolyn and members of the Sweet Inspirations performed backing vocals on the track. The Sweet Inspirations' founder Cissy Houston showcased her operatic...
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    pageant winner. Thompson began her acting career as a "Hee Haw Honey" on the American television variety show Hee Haw. She was also a girlfriend of Elvis...
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  • Scheff – bass Ronnie Tutt – drums Tony Brown – piano The Sweet Inspirations, J.D. Sumner & the Stamps Quartet, Kathy Westmoreland – vocals Joe Guercio...
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  • Tapestry (Carole King album) (category Grammy Award for Album of the Year)
    medley in which Streisand paired the song with the Sweet Inspirations hit "Sweet Inspiration" reached number 37 the following year. Various artists have...
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  • show Presley in Las Vegas with his back-up vocalists The Sweet Inspirations, Millie Kirkham and The Imperials, preparing songs such as "You Don't Have to...
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    Fool's Gold Loaf (category Cuisine of the Western United States)
    made by the Colorado Mine Company, a restaurant in Denver, Colorado. It consists of a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the contents...
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  • – Hammond organ (1, 5), electric piano (3, 6–7, 10), piano (8) The Sweet Inspirations – background vocals (all) Bobby Womack – guitar (6, 8–9) Horns:...
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  • and recorded in French) The Shangri-Las The Sweet Inspirations Decades later, the song, in its Sweet Inspirations version, would famously be sampled by...
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  • Judy Clay (category The Drinkard Singers members)
    with the Drinkard Singers – who later became better known as The Sweet Inspirations – on their 1954 album, The Newport Spiritual Stars. She left the Drinkard...
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    the Sweet Inspirations. Houston sang background on Franklin's hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's young daughter, Whitney Houston, in the early...
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  • drummer Ronnie Tutt) and his backup singers (The Stamps Quartet, The Imperials, The Sweet Inspirations, and Millie Kirkham). Rhythm guitarist John Wilkinson...
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  • This song uses a sample of The Sweet Inspirations version of The Ikettes's "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)", and the line "the voodoo that you do so well"...
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