The Jones Girls | Nights Over Egypt (Change Request ReVision)
For this ReVision, I recreated my favorite song from this Detroit-based trio of sisters who were backup singers for many years for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, and Diana Ross, before breaking out on their own to form The Jones Girls.
Written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff protege, Dexter Wansel, this song, and arrangement are quintessential Philadelphia music mastery. Dexter, along with Cynthia Biggs, wrote many hits for other artists, including Yellow Sunshine, Instant Funk, Phyllis Hyman, The Jacksons, MFSB, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti Labelle, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Grover Washington Jr., Lou Rawls, and of course, The Jones Girls.
“Nights Over Egypt” was the second single from their studio album, 1981’s Get as Much Love as You Can, released on Philadelphia International Records. Most songs on this third studio album of theirs are written by TSOP kingpins, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, and the album reached number twenty-five on the Top Soul Albums Chart in the US.
For this version, I recreated this R&B Classic with Roland’s Jupiter-8, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Live Bass and drums, and the best instrument ever created, the 73 Suitcase Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.
