Tell Me Somethin Good

[Cosmo Blues]

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Nice Bunch Of People

They played a couple times a year at these summer concerts in the city where I grew up. The shows were all triple bills.
Short drive for them, since they were from the south side of Chicago.
We luckily had a connection & got 4 backstage passes to every show.
So we hung out with Rufus several times. The whole bunch were pleasant & friendly every time.
I love the talk box thing they do on this song.

[Cosmo Blues]

2. I only wish I had a personal experience to tell

But I did find out Stevie Wonder wrote that song and the backstory. The story Chaka Khan tells is that Wonder was going to bring them a song in the studio, and when he dropped by and played her one he had written, she stunned her bandmates by telling the mighty Stevie Wonder she didn't like it; Chaka says she was 19 and pregnant, so she was a little prickly at the time. Wonder asked her astrological sign, and when she told him Aries, he delivered "Tell Me Something Good." According to Chaka, she loved it and they worked out the song together in the studio, although Stevie is the only credited writer on the song.

[Iggo]

3. That's when I knew I was done playing with toys.