Minnie Riperton Love Lives Forever original sessions

I'm In Love Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWSmX-coW6E

Brass Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6PZNOhks-A

You Take My Breath Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfaY70vpLQ

Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1I50k0gnMg#

Here We Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzDsT_O0qlc

Strange Affair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_caev--7qd4

Give Me Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDguCoLQ7Q4

The Song Of Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mehCuXIAgA

Thanks for posting this. Wonderful to get these demo recordings. Minnie had a truly lovely voice and I could listen to her sing anything.

I may get crucified for saying this but I guess we are all adults on here and are entitled to our opinions. Mine is that I have always loved female vocalists above any other style of music. That is why you will see me on here frequently talking about Dionne, Phyllis Hyman, Denise LaSalle, the thread I recently started about Dame Shirley, and I have many other favorites as well. My collection is probably 80-90% female singers and groups.

However................Minnie Riperton is one singer that I will throw my body across the room at breakneck speed and hit the "off" button whenever that dreadful "Lovin' You" comes on the radio. She may have had other material that I might have tolerated but for my personal tastes, that song was so awful that I was never willing to give her a chance and listen to anything else she ever recorded.

OK go ahead......let me have it!

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Originally Posted by daviddesper

I may get crucified for saying this but I guess we are all adults on here and are entitled to our opinions. Mine is that I have always loved female vocalists above any other style of music. That is why you will see me on here frequently talking about Dionne, Phyllis Hyman, Denise LaSalle, the thread I recently started about Dame Shirley, and I have many other favorites as well. My collection is probably 80-90% female singers and groups.

However................Minnie Riperton is one singer that I will throw my body across the room at breakneck speed and hit the "off" button whenever that dreadful "Lovin' You" comes on the radio. She may have had other material that I might have tolerated but for my personal tastes, that song was so awful that I was never willing to give her a chance and listen to anything else she ever recorded.

OK go ahead......let me have it!

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Not gonna let you have it---but my Lord, you are missing out on an exquisite marvel of a vocalist. I would recommend her first solo LP, Come to My Garden. It's a gem of an album, baroque, lush and consistently thrilling. Perfect rainy/snowy day soundtrack. Charles Stepney's rousing, offbeat symphonic arranging and Minnie's heavenly vocals make it like a Joni-Mitchell-meets-Earth-Wind-and-Fire magic carpet ride. And very little saccharine in the mix.:D

And thanks so much for these tracks, waldo!

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Not gonna let you have it---but my Lord, you are missing out on an exquisite marvel of a vocalist. I would recommend her first solo LP, Come to My Garden. It's a gem of an album, baroque, lush and consistently thrilling. Perfect rainy/snowy day soundtrack. Charles Stepney's rousing, offbeat symphonic arranging and Minnie's heavenly vocals make it like a Joni-Mitchell-meets-Earth-Wind-and-Fire magic carpet ride. And very little saccharine in the mix.:D

And thanks so much for these tracks, waldo!

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Hear! Hear! Could not have said it better!

Oh my...if you love female singers you have deprived yourself of a rare delicacy.

The skyscraping grandeur of "Les Fleur." The unrivalled sensuality of "Inside My Love" and "Completeness." The heart-wrenching majesty of "Return To Forever." The silken perfection of "If I Ever Lose This Heaven." The high-drama of "Lonely Girl."

She was a muse and creative inspiration for Stevie Wonder, Leon Ware and Charles Stephney.

Do yourself a favor...

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Hear! Hear! Could not have said it better!

Oh my...if you love female singers you have deprived yourself of a rare delicacy.

The skyscraping grandeur of "Les Fleur." The unrivalled sensuality of "Inside My Love" and "Completeness." The heart-wrenching majesty of "Return To Forever." The silken perfection of "If I Ever Lose This Heaven." The high-drama of "Lonely Girl."

She was a muse and creative inspiration for Stevie Wonder, Leon Ware and Charles Stephney.

Do yourself a favor...

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Come on, somebody!!!! :cool:

If I had been introduced to her in some other fashion other than having "that song" dominate the airwaves in the 70s, we might not be having this discussion. But it was such a turn-off for me that I just cannot imagine her sounding any other way. If it is any consolation, I have equally strong feelings about three other songs.........Hey Jude, American Pie, and the Blue Suede version of Hooked on a Feeling.

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Originally Posted by daviddesper

I may get crucified for saying this but I guess we are all adults on here and are entitled to our opinions. Mine is that I have always loved female vocalists above any other style of music. That is why you will see me on here frequently talking about Dionne, Phyllis Hyman, Denise LaSalle, the thread I recently started about Dame Shirley, and I have many other favorites as well. My collection is probably 80-90% female singers and groups.

However................Minnie Riperton is one singer that I will throw my body across the room at breakneck speed and hit the "off" button whenever that dreadful "Lovin' You" comes on the radio. She may have had other material that I might have tolerated but for my personal tastes, that song was so awful that I was never willing to give her a chance and listen to anything else she ever recorded.

OK go ahead......let me have it!

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Do yourself a favor and give her another listen. She's an American treasure.

I have actually listened to one or two of the clips listed above and nothing grabbed me. Just too mellow and jazzy for me maybe?