Vernon Burch - Get Up Try A Little Tenderness

Disco soul singer songwriter & guitarist Born in 1957, Washington, D.C. Died September 23, 2022 (Age 67) Though never achieving superstar status, Burch had an impressive decade of hits from 1975-85, and also played an important role backing other stars as a guitar whiz. With elements of Parliament and many of the self-contained funk band of the era, Burch recorded for a half dozen labels, including stints on Columbia, United Artists and Casablanca. In the process, he landed big R&B and dance hits with Do It To me and Changes, and his dance hit Get Up became the foundation for the Deee-Lite smash hit Groove Is In The Heart more than a decade later. But many soul music fans may know Burch for his time working in a series of legendary R&B acts. He was a teenage prodigy when he joined The Delfonics band, and he later played with the Bar-Kays for a half decade, backing many of the Stax Records albums of the time. As the 2000s arose, Burch became a minister, and in 2011 recorded The Inside Out Project as Reverend Vernon Burch.

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