Chords for Freda Payne - Come Back To Me Love - The Backstory

_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ Now from [Gm] Detroit, Michigan, a 16-year-old senior from Central High School.
She's a pop vocalist.
Her name is Freda Farley Payne.
Tell me a little more about yourself, Freda.
Well, Mr.
Mack, my true love is jazz.
[Db] In [Eb] Detroit, coming up as a [Abm] teenager, most of my [Ab] training and experience [B] in the business, [G] music-wise,
had been [C] mostly jazz and [Am] big band.
I mean, I [D] was singing with big bands [Eb] when I was 14 years old.
When everybody was trying to get into the pop or rock and roll thing [Dm] that was just [Fm] starting,
she wanted to go to jazz [Eb] rock.
What kind of things do you like to sing?
[G] Jazz, mostly.
Yeah?
[B] All right, stand back there now and make Detroit proud of you.
When she sang at those shows, [B] we were shocked.
Everybody was like, whoa.
[A] Moment [G] of you _ [Bbm] and [Ebm] me, [Ab] dear, only two for [Abm] tea, [Bb] dear.
Freda always had her own [A] style.
[F] She was gifted with [Bb] her own sound and her own interpretation.
When you hear Freda Payne, you don't get her [Fm] confused with anybody else.
[F] Freda is a real singer's [C] singer, and her technique is so perfect
that sometimes you wonder if it's actually her singing.
Can anybody be that good?
Everybody was very impressed [Ab] with her singing skills.
She had a wide range of opportunities.
I sang for Jimmy Wilkins' big band.
I sang [G] on the radio on a show called Don Larger's Make Way [Gm] for Youth every Saturday
from the time I was 13 [Ab] until I was 16.
[Bbm] So my experience [Eb] was coming from the pop, _ [Gm]
jazz standard field.
[Fm] Flip, flip. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
All right, [N] that's the way to [C] start. _ _ _ _
[Fm] When [Cm] Motown started, all of this talent [Eb] just started coming together,
and they [Cm] were all jumping at the chance to be on record.
[C] A lot of us, most of [Eb] us got that chance,
[G] and some of us were very successful at it, [C] including Freda.
I was always on talent contests, and I'd [Eb] be winning the talent contest.
[D] She had people always [G] approaching her, wanting her to [C] appear at clubs
or [Ebm] come sign with their label.
Here's [Cm] this guy, very gaudy.
[C] He was a songwriter.
[Ab] He'd already had a couple of hits [Eb] with Jackie Wilson,
and I guess he was looking for talent, somebody to work [Bm] with,
and he saw me as this [C] young girl, and [Cm] he wrote three songs for me,
and they were [Eb] all kind of [Dm] poppish.
We went into the [C] studio called [Ebm] United Sound [F] on West Grand Boulevard,
which [B] was the main recording studio [Cm] in Detroit,
and he would just drill those songs into my head and [C] me rehearsing those songs.
He was such a taskmaster.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Gm] Freda's [D] constantly _ [Eb] looking for new projects.
She doesn't shy away from anything.
She is not just a one-trick pony.
[E] She can sing [Bb] lots of different styles of music.
She can do [C] whatever she wants.
[Dm] There's no limit.
[Ebm] She's been doing it her [C] whole life.
It was 1968, _ [Abm] going into [Gm] 69, I'd had a record deal,
a couple of record deals already.
_ [Ebm] I'd rather drink money water.
[G] I had moved out of Detroit.
[C] I was living in New York trying to [F] seek my fame and fortune,
and [C] that's when Brian Holland called me up.
We talked, and I said, look at you, you're a big star now,
Holland, Doge, and Holland, famous producers.
He said, yeah, but we just left Motown
and formed our own label called Invictus.
[Cm] Maybe you'd like to come over and be [A] with us.
Freda Payne [B] has always had a plan, whether it be [Bb] theatrical,
[A] whether it be R&B, whether it be pop.
[C] There's never a false move.
I flew back to [Gm] Detroit, signed with [Dm] Invictus,
and then [G] a year later I had a [Dm] number one record.
[C] I had Band of Gold.
_ _ [Ab] Freda Payne!
[Ab] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
It [D] was very powerful.
It was very [C] catchy, and the imagery of that Band [G] of Gold,
no one had sung about that before.
All of that [D] together just knocked [B] people out.
Plus she was [D] absolutely gorgeous.
It doesn't hurt to [G] look good.
_ After I got the hit of Band of Gold,
it's sort of like I [D] got the feeling that they expected me
to be this [Ab] soul singer, and I'm [C] not.
It has made it more difficult [Gbm] for me
to [Bbm] be accepted as a jazz artist.
[F] Like sugar, _ so sweet when you stir it up
[Eb] But it's a blessing to me, it's a blessing,
because [Em] that's sort of like my calling card.
People [C] think, well, okay, [Em] we know her for Band of Gold,
[Bm] but she does so much more.
_ _ [Db] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ She's a total package.
[Cm] I mean, this is a woman who can sing [Em] many genres.
She can act, she's [D] made movies.
They're still running your life,
allowing you to live only until they want you dead.
[Gb] Then bam!
_ It's just a chance [Em] I'm going to have to take.
She can dance.
[B] She's photogenic [Bm] beyond belief.
She's charismatic.
[Em] Freda is a [D] great storyteller.
[Db] Obviously she's talented, and talent [G] always survives.
She lasts because her gift lasts.
I see my [C] legacy in [Eb] show business
as [G] being one of survival
[B] and having a [Cm] profound love of [A] the art of performing.
She [G] has such grace, _ and it's so [Em] nice to see that
in someone who's been [Eb] in this business for years,
and they still [D] have grace.
You got to have a tough [Em] skin, you know, to [B] be in this business,
and she has that.
[E] Maintaining a certain [B]
amount of class about [G] myself,
that's how I see myself, [Db] that's my legacy.
[Gb] _ _ [B] To see her go full circle [A] right now, it kind of goes [Em] back.
_ [C] It's almost as if she's [Gm] reinventing herself
as [D] her original self, _ [C] as [Db] a jazz singer. _ _
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