Color Him Father

Color Him Father
"Color Him Father"
Single by The Winstons
A-side Color Him Father
B-side Amen, Brother
Released 1969 (1969)
Format 7"
Genre Rhythm and blues
Length 3:06
Label Metromedia
Writer(s) Richard Lewis Spencer
Producer Don Carroll

"Color Him Father" is a song released by funk and soul group The Winstons.

It was released in 1969, and reached number 2 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year. Its composer, Richard Lewis Spencer, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B song in 1970.[1]

"Color Him Father" is one of the most known songs by The Winstons. It was released as a single, and the B-side contained a song entitled "Amen, Brother". "Amen, Brother" contains what has now become one of the most heavily sampled drum breaks in the history of electronic music, especially jungle and breakbeat hardcore. This break has become known as the Amen Break.

"Color Him Father" is an unabashedly sentimental song in which a schoolboy expresses his love for his stepfather, a hardworking and generous man who married the widowed mother of seven children and embraced them as his own after her first husband was "killed in the war." The word "Color", in this sense, means "Label" or "To Call".

Cover versions

References

  1. ^ Harrington, Richard: A Celebration of Home-Grown Soul, The Washington Post, June 30, 2006.

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