Willie Hutch - Lucky To Be Loved By YouLive at Soul Togetherness Weekender, Fleetwood, 2003. Backing band: Snake Davis & The Suspicions. Filmed by Ralph Tee & Ian Levine. Popular with Northern Soul fans in the UK for many years.
Willie McKinley Hutchinson, known professionally as Willie Hutch (December 6, 1944 — September 19, 2005) was an American singer, as well as a songwriter/producer for the Motown label during the 1970s.
Hutch produced albums by acts such as The 5th Dimension, Michael Jackson and Smokey Robinson .
Besides writing hit songs such as The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There", Hutch also recorded several albums for Motown (and later for Whitfield Records, run by former Motown producer Norman Whitfield), and had top 20 R&B hits with singles such as "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" and "Slick" (both 1973).
Following in the tradition of Curtis Mayfield, he recorded the soundtrack album for the blaxploitation films The Mack (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). He is the uncle to Cold 187um of the famed rap group Above The Law.
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