{"id":351,"date":"2019-03-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/whats-happening-now\/?p=351"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:29:50","slug":"great-time-popping-out-some-demos-for-patti-labelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/whats-happening-now\/great-time-popping-out-some-demos-for-patti-labelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Great time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle<\/a>, who was the first artist to regularly sing my songs in 1978. Had she not started me off like that I\u2019m sure it would have been a much longer road to Earth, Wind & Fire<\/a>. She also put me in the studio with her friend whose name she didn\u2019t tell me but thought I would make an excellent collaborator for. We were almost two hours into writing before I realized it was Herbie Hancock! Anyway, I had a ball recording Patti demos last Sunday night with (L-R) Jordn George, Andrae Alexander<\/span>, and Drew L Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle, who was the first artist to regularly sing my songs in 1978. Had she not started me off like that I\u2019m sure it would have been a much longer road to Earth, Wind & Fire. She also put me in the studio with her friend whose name she didn\u2019t tell me but thought I would make an excellent collaborator for. We were almost two hours into writing before I realized it was Herbie Hancock! Anyway, I had a ball recording Patti demos last Sunday night with (L-R) Jordn George, Andrae Alexander, and Drew L Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-an-almost-daily-diary","category-in-music"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGreat time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle - What's Happening Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/whats-happening-now\/great-time-popping-out-some-demos-for-patti-labelle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle - What's Happening Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Great time popping out some demos for Patti LaBelle, who was the first artist to regularly sing my songs in 1978. 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