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Charles Wright "Express Yourself" Singer & Songwriter Releasing New Music and Book!

Charles Wright Legendary R&B Singer Exclusive on Interviewing the Legends!

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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.

Charles Wright was born in Clarksdale Mississippi, where he grew up and was musically inclined by playing the guitar and singing in several doo-wop groups, including, The Twilighters, The Shield, and The Gallahads. Wright briefly worked as A&R Director for Del-Fi Records and was responsible for the hit recording of "Those Oldies But Goodies (Remind Me of You)" by Little Caesar and the Romans in 1961. By 1964, Wright formed his own band called Charles Wright & the Wright Sounds, which included John Raynford, and Daryl Dragon, the "Captain" of Captain & Tennille. Wright added more members to the group, and they became known as the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, and they played in several venues across Los Angeles.

In the 1970s the band was best known for their world-renowned hit, "Express Yourself.” It was written by Wright and distributed by Warner Bros. TM, where it would hit #3 and #12 on the R&B and Pop charts, respectively. Another hit record under Wright's reign was Do Your Thing, which set the stage for a 1970s pornographic study of Boogie Nights.

To date, Wright's songs have been covered by legendary artists around the globe.

During the rise of Hip-Hop in the 1980s, many rap artists sampled chunks of funk from Wright's wax, including N.W.A. and their smash track, "Express Yourself" Brand Nubian Funk, Naughty By Nature, Gang Starr, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs also gleaned inspiration from Wright's work.

PLEASE WELCOME LEGENDARY SOUL/R&B/FUNK/ SINGER/SONGWRITER AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST CHARLES WRIGHT TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …

 

WATCH FOR THE BRAND-NEW ALBUM

BY

CHARLES WRIGHT

COMING SOON!

AND

PURCHASE

THE RECENT RELEASE

BY CHARLES WRIGHT

‘TAKING IT BACK’

AT

 Amazon.com

 

Also

Up: From Where We've Come

An Eventful Journey

A BOOK

By Charles Wright author

"UP" contains historical moments, where the reader will experience inserts of the author's life long before he gained his status as a musical legend. And like his music, Wrights' story is a historical account of events that could only be told in his own personal and unique style.

Wright’s book is about a young boy and his family's trials and tribulations on a cotton plantation owned by a cruel sharecropper named Edward Miles, who was born with an unfair advantage, which he uses to dominate his subjects. At the critical age of eight, the boy's father demanded he pick no less than a hundred pounds a day, which according to the author, he has yet to be able to deliver. But any time he failed, he faced yet another one of his father’s vicious whippings. His father was involved with the cruel hearted landowner, who owned four hundred acres of fertile land, which he and his family were obligated to work 40 acres of. This, of course, called for an oversized family, which at that time was a sharecropper's dream.

The beatings continued practically on a daily basis and continued even after the family relocated to California due to the fact that his father had developed a habit of taking his personal frustrations out on the boy.

During the late forties and early fifties, his parents decided to opt out of the cotton business for good, but soon realized Mr. Miles was not so willing to let go. They plotted a scheme and leaving the plantation, they moved into Clarksdale, but only to realize how relentless the old sharecropper actually was. So in an effort to subdue the family, Mr. Miles used his influence among other white southerners to deny the boy's father employment.

Their saga continued due to one incident after another until finally, the child's mother sought help from her oldest daughter, who'd already moved out of state. The rest is history. His story takes too many twists and turns to explain in a brief synopsis, yet in the end it has a surprisingly pleasant way of resolving itself.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

CHARLES WRIGHT

VISIT

https://expressyourself.net/

Official website

www.facebook.com/charleswrightmusic

FACEBOOK

www.youtube.com/user/charleswrightz1

YouTube

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6fN2KrVTKQmaJPNWfIiIuh?si=6yf8nhONRXC296guwV128w&nd=1

Spotify

 

Discography

CHARLES WRIGHT

Singles

Act   Title Release   Year

Charlie Wright "Help Yourself" / "Number One" (1966)

Charles Wright         "(I'm Living On) Borrowed Time" / "Keep Saying (You Don't Love Nobody)" (1966)

Charles Wright         "Soul Train" / "Run Jody Run" (1972)

Charles Wright         "You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin'" / "Here Comes the Sun" (1972)

Charles Wright         "(Well I'm) Doin' What Cums Naturally" Part 1 / "(Well I'm) Doin' What Cums Naturally" Part 2 (1973)

Charles Wright         "You Threw It All Away" / "The Weight Of Hate"          (1973)

Charles Wright         "Is It Real?" / "Don't Rush Tomorrow" (1975)

Charles Wright         "You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin" / "Here Comes The Sun"

Happiness (2014)

Just Fine (2020)

 

CHARLES WRIGHT

Albums

Act   Title   Year

Charles Wright         Rhythm And Poetry (1972)

Charles Wright         Doing What Comes Naturally (1973)

Charles Wright         Ninety Day Cycle People (1974)

Charles Wright         A Lil' Encouragement (1975)

Charles Wright of The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band Going To The Party          (1997)

Charles Wright         Music For The Times We Live In (2002)

Charles Wright of The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band High Maintenance Woman (2003)

Charles Wright of The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band with The Gallahads          My Love Affair With Doo-Wop (2004)

Charles Wright         Finally Got It... Wright (2007)         

Music For The Times We Live In (2007)

Rhythm and Poetry (Remastered & Expanded) (2007)

Something to Make You Feel Good (2016)

Taking It Back (2021)

A Little Bit of Everything (2023) Coming soon!

 

As Charles Wright

and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Album    Year

Express Yourself (1970)

You're So Beautiful (1971)

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  • Charles Wright
  • Express Yourself
  • Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  • R&B
  • Soul music
  • Funk
  • New music
  • autobiography
  • Jesse Balvin
  • Johnny Guitar Walker
  • Ray Shasho
  • Interviewing the Legends
  • The Rock Star Chronicles
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The Zoom interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/c/InterviewingtheLegends in its entirety.

 

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