Mama Said Thank You For The Rain
Donny Hathaway And June Conquest – I Thank You / Just Another Reason
Curtom – CR 1971
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, US, 1972
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Just a quick one. The great Donny Hathaway in two duets with the less well known June Conquest on this 1972 single. (How someone can remain obscure with a name as brilliant as June Conquest is beyond me.)
Curtis Mayfield wrote the excellent A side and released this on his Curtom record label. I could be wrong, but I think the track was actually cut and first released as Hathaway's first single a few years earlier ('69?), but credited to just "Donny & June." Curtom presumably reissued it a couple years later to take advantage of the success he was finding with his first singles and LP on ATCO.
Honestly, my 45 here sounds pretty awful. I'm pretty sure I was given it for free by someone who had it sitting in her basement for the previous 20 years. I loved it and I Thank You once saw regular play when I had a chance to DJ a soul set in a previous life. All the use shows, with a lot of noise and distortion at all the loudest parts of the song. It's bad enough that I wasn't planning to share (and I really should get around to picking up a copy that's in good shape, you can still regularly find this single for cheap all over the place), but the record was putting a smile on my face at the end of a long week and I figured it might do the same for someone else.
I don't think I Thank You ever featured on a Donny Hathaway album or hist greatest hits packages. Unless you've got a long out of print, imported box set or an obscure Curtom retrospective CD, this 45 is it as far as I know (and the only way I found to enjoy it in my collection anyway). It's a song that sincerely does inspire gratitude in me (as poorly as I may show it). Fittingly, I get to cook breakfast today for both my wife and my mom, who's just been vaccinated, for a belated Mothers' Day.
Enjoy.
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