Chaka Khan - Sleep On It (REACTION)

[@clifton8929]

Chaka Khan is a Soul Culture Icon and Queen. From Rufus until today - the world is a better place with her in it. Magic!

[@Greg-io1ip]

Chaka is great. One of the best ever absolutely.

[@jamomathews9890]

That's her first solo album. Love has fallen on me is fire as well

[@TruthIsNotTemporary]

🚨🚨🚨🔥🔥🔥You cant MISS OUT on: FOURPLAY featuring CHAKA KAHN doing a cover of the ISLEY BROTHERS mega-hit “BETWEEN THE SHEETS”

[@Deeply6954]

1St Solo Album

[@laurabrevitz3944]

We all love Chaka. ❤

[@willmoney34]

Can't get enough Chaka!!!!!

[@williamprescott9304]

Her 1st solo album after Rufus. Brilliant

[@randyallaben9900]

Chaka is one of my very few hall passes. Jokingly approved by my lovely bride of 32 years. Totally in love with this woman. Musically and otherwise.

[@metaphoria3]

Man she can belt one of the greatest voices ever

[@mrnobody9104]

One of the greatest all time singers to grace the airwaves

[@bkbul.lee8812]

This is her first solo album Whitney, Cissy and Luther background on most of the song on this Album.

Hey! I have loved Chaka Khan for 50 years. You really would check her with De La Soul: "All Good" and I adore "Like Sugar" from her last album. She's my Queen of Funk!

[@ThePittsburghToddy]

Have you guys ever heard the story about how Prince pretended to be Sly Stone on a phone call with Chaka so he could trick her into meeting her at a studio? Funny stuff!🖖🏼

[@Deeply6954]

Love it Funky Beat ❤

[@metaphoria3]

Well said Chaka 👏

[@realbser1956]

Chaka is a gift from god.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Tell Me Something Good is my favorite Chaka Khan, but she has many. Thanks for sharing this song.

[@hklinker]

This song really started happening for me about half way through with that jazzy break.

[@BGRPiccu]

Up until now, I've heard just about everything you all have listened to, but I've never heard this. It's insane. Just added the album on Spotify. Can't wait to listen to it tomorrow.

[@michaelfcooper5561]

Looks like it was written and produced by Haimish Stewart of AWB. No wonder the quality

[@Greg-io1ip]

It was beautiful musically but also felt uplifting. Really nice song.

[@Greg-io1ip]

That opening reminds me of Earth Wind and Fire. Man those were special years. Earth Wind and Fire, Edwin Starr, Billy Preston, Ohio Players, 5th Dimension, Temptations, Sly, Nina, Aretha, Ray Charles... Early Jackson 5. It was a more loving time in America then.

[@timgrady4630]

Mercy , that voice echoes down the corridors of the best grooves ever , gentlemen . More , please .

[@tektoniks_architects]

Chaka Khan's voice is SO powerful. Try: I'm Every Woman, or: Tell Me Something Good.....classics.

[@emilymartinez6961]

I saw her in 74'- 75' when she was with Rufus and they were good enough to open up for The Who, so you should check out their stuff from back then. That was an unforgettable concert 👍🏻🤩

[@cweefy]

One of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Sweet Thing is my favorite from her.

[@ericoh123]

So grateful I was born in '59 to include her masterful brand of slick prog R&B into my teenage appreciation/entertainment orbit, being a small time regional musician of '70's rock, jazz, classical, theater pit, early alt. and nu wave on guitar/bass back then.

[@JohnWhite-xc3md]

I remember seeing Chaka singing with Eartha Kitt, and Gladys Knight on some tv special. No offense, but Chaka was giving lessons that night.

[@breal9028]

Chaka is so funky!! This was her first solo album after leaving Rufus.

[@sallyh5413]

I love her but I had never heard this track before either, thank you!! 🔥

[@SD-it9ne]

Rufus & Chaka Khan's hit 'Tell me something good" came out in 1974 but I believe she joined the group before then. She is one of my favorite female singers! "Sweet thang" "I'm every woman" "Whatcha gonna do for me"

[@324cmac]

I didn't follow much of her solo stuff. I was mostly into her with Rufus. This is nice.

[@KenBlair-jp5nz]

We have all her albums , I have been listening to her since Rufus .My wife saw her in concert in the late 70s

[@timothyjohnart]

and no auto tune in sight! ...I love watching you guys and your Producing brains ticking over.....great reactions, thanks. Peace from Australia.

[@somersetcace1]

Even when I was a kid and this kind of music was far from what I was into, Chaka was awesome. "Tell me something good!" The embodiment of funk!

[@Michael-Philip]

My sister was playing this in her room.. and I was playing Zeppelin in my room.. and we tried to blast each other out .. Until my mom charged in screaming ..

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Night in Tunisia by Chaka puts the J In Jazz…outrageous number, you get to check out another side of her prowess, she’s got some jazz hero’s on this track. Herbie Hancock and Dizzy Gillespie just to name a few thank you for the reaction. You guys have a beautiful day.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dominickferrari8368]

Try "Tell me Something Good " from the early 70's :)

[@metaphoria3]

Nice walking bassline 😎

[@lindapowers8592]

Her voice though 💜 Her voice though 💜 She started with Rufus in the early 70’s

[@loupi4bama]

I saw Rufus open for the Stones in 70 or 71 in JAX and she was their drummer... and singing lead. I've always been a fan.

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

Chaka's career started in the 1970s. ...early '70s. ...with the band: RUFUS [commonly quoted for the song: "Tell Me Something Good" (written by: Stevie Wonder) ...and (less often) "Ain't Nobody"--by the way: Rufus kicked ass. They have albums-and-albumsworth full of excellent material!]. Chak started he solo career with THIS album [1978] and went a bit more: "dance-floor diva"/"disco," etc. (which was "the staple," at that moment) in her sound/material (top me, personally: WEAKER than what she HAD been doing, BUT!: that isn't saying that: it was, somehow, "bad!" No. Wasn't!) ...but her core is in deep funk and Jazz. ...As far as I recall, her first approach at doing things professionally -which didn't HAPPEN, but: she WAS "courted!"- was that: after Baby Huey died (not sure if you know him ...but ya should!), she was courted to replace him in his, established, outfit (Baby Huey & The Babysitters --I believe was the name 🤷🤷). Covering Prince ["I Feel For You" (with the legendary Melle-Mel [Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five!] throwing a few "struttin' bars" into it -Let's recall that: to "middle America"?? at THAT point?? ...hip-hop was, basically, "an unknown" ..."a sideshow" ...and outside of N.Y., L.A, Chicago, maybe a few other places, the name Melle-Mel was NOT "legendary," it was, widely, unknown & unrecognized by the majority of people!! ...SO: THIS was an important and well-thought-out move, here!)], really, reestablished Chaka as a solo artist and as a viable force in the '80s ...but she ALWAYS had vast respect and love from her fellow musicians and writers! --Also (important: "side-note"): Chaka got her performing name from a name given to her (Africanized) by: a Yoruba Shaman/'Priest,"well-before her involvement with the Black Panther movement, in Chicago [where Chaka was raised] (Her first stepmother was deeply involved in the movement and Chaka, herself, was friends with Fred Hampton, even.💜💜). ...so the rumor that "Chaka Khan: is a "Panther name" (or Panther-sourced) is not true and is a common rumor. ...so: there is a *highly* spiritual component (and importance!!) to her name.

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

I recommend: Rufus' cover of the LEGENDARY Allen Toussaint's: "Whoever's Thrilling You (Is Killing Me!)" [I, actually, don't know who the initial recording artist, for this, was. I am mainly familiar with the Rufus version -but I *AM* aware that the excellent (and RIDICULOUSLY-FAR-underrated) Gayle McCormick (vocalist) also covered/did this song, around this same time-period, as did: Z.Z. Hill] You can't go wrong with Allen Toussaint! 🤘🤘

[@keithwright5134]

The back ground vocalists on this song are: Chaka, Hamish Stuart & Alan Gorrie from AWB and bassist and singer Will Lee. You should also react to Roll Me Through the Rushes, from this album, co-written by David Lasley who wrote You Bring Me Joy, covered by Anita Baker. You should listen to David's version too. David sang background for a lot of people including James Taylor (not the Kool & The Gang James Taylor) and Luther Vandross and has written some great songs. RIP David Lasley.

[@Deeply6954]

Check out we got the love George Benson Duet

[@cazgerald9471]

Chaka Khan - lead vocals, backing vocals Richard Tee - electric piano Steve Ferrone - drums Hamish Stuart - guitar, backing vocals Phil Upchurch - guitar Anthony Jackson - bass Will Lee - backing vocals Alan Gorrie - backing vocals Brooks Tillotson - French horn Jim Buffington - French horn Ken Bichel - S.R.M. synthesizer

[@WooBino.]

Chaka Khan , Chaka Khan , Chaka Khan

[@Alewifes_Husband]

As I heard early in the track the "horns" I had to listen closely as the song progressed to figure out if it was real brass or if it was synth. My ears heard both synth and horns. And it WAS, at least according to Wikipedia. Track 4 has two French Horns and a Synthesizer. Great track, I'd never heard it before that I can remember.

[@davidallanhardin]

Probably my least favorite song on the album, but Chaka can put a shine on anything. "Some Love" is the stand-out track for me.

[@metaphoria3]

More Ann Wilson (jazz singer) and Sarah Vaughn “Misty” Live would b a good one

[@yvonnestevens6179]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@eduardoluisfagundesdasilva4415]

Great singer. Make a video with Emerson Lake and Palmer- a instrumental song called: Hoedown. this song is from the album.

[@SOCCERNUT32]

Witch Funk Queen. No other

[@joepilkerton7956]

Album Presence Led Zeppelin or Pat Travers Putting it Straight

[@JohnWhite-xc3md]

Who is that bass player???

[@cptight88]

Just about any track from Rufus to Streetplayer lps is good. This is a throwaway track, tbh. Her solo career was mostly filler.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Nothing special. Totally commercial formula r+b....

[@Pablo_sanz359]

Chaka Khan is unique among all the female soul singers of her generation in that you don't really hear church in her singing. I don't know her musical background but I hear more Jazz influences than anything else.

[@bucdaddy5644]

Hey guys, great song great reaction, but I'm putting a request in for Donna Summer MacArthur's Park.