Clean Up Woman

Clean Up Woman
"Clean Up Woman"
Single by Betty Wright
from the album I Love the Way You Love
B-side "I'll Love You Forever"
Released 1971
Format 7" single
Genre Soul
Length 2:40
Label Alston
Writer(s) Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke
Producer Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke
Betty Wright singles chronology
"Pure Love"
(1970)		 "Clean Up Woman"
(1971)		 "Baby Sitter"
(1972)

"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972). Written and produced by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, it was released in 1971 as a 7" single with "I'll Love You Forever" on the B-side, reaching number six on the U.S. Pop Singles chart—where it stayed for fourteen weeks[1]—and number two on the U.S. Black Singles chart. It has sold over a million copies with the RIAA gold disc awarded on December 30, 1971.[1]

Lyrics and subject matter The 7" single version simply refers to an unnamed 'Clean Up Woman' who 'cleans up', 'who gets all the love we girls leave behind' and collects any men 'dumped in the street'. The album version is extended with Betty Wright referring to the seductive manner of several well-known soul singers of the time (none referred to by name), and singing short snatches of song in each one's characteristic style.

The song also appears as the beginning and end songs in a medley on the 1978 album 'Betty Wright Live'.

References

  1. ^ a b Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 306. ISBN 0-214-20512-6. 

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