Remembering AlleeWillis with 10 of her most influential songs ❤️
Willis spent the better part of six years putting together a multi-media love letter to her hometown, anchored by this ebullient song that layered performances from 5,000 singers and instrumentalists, including the MC5's Wayne Kramer, Motown luminaries Martha Reeves, Lamont Dozier, Valerie Simpson and Paul Riser, actress Lily Tomlin, Mayer Hawthorne and Grammy Award-winning producer Narada Michael Walden.
Willis hooked up with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe via a mutual friend in the publishing industry, writing this single about three years before its release, with the duo using the interim to refine the song's structure and get Springfield on board. Clearly well worth the wait, and the effort.
While writing, she was not a fan of White's "ba-dee-ya" lyrics and fought to fill those in with real words; subsequently she called it "the greatest lesson I ever had in songwriting -- a great groove can make any lyric work." We knew love, and this song, were here to stay.
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