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Syreeta: In Her Own Wright

Tony Cummings, Black Music, December 1974

BACK IN 1967 Motown decided to give a break to one of their secretaries who was busting for a recording break. Nick Ashford and Val Simpson had written a catchy, charge-along ditty suitable for Diana Ross. But they gave 'I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You' to Rita Wright instead.

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