Artist:New Birth
Song:I Can Understand It
Album:The Very Best Of The New Birth Inc.:Where Soul Meets Funk
New Birth was one of the best R & B groups of the early 70s. They went a little disco later on. New Birth actually started as a collective of groups put together by legendary R & B guru Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows). The idea was to have three groups under the New Birth Inc. umbrella and they would tour together. The group known as New Birth in the 70s started out as Love Peace & Happiness featuring Muskegon, MI born brothers Leslie & Melvin Wilson. There was also The Nite-Liters led by Tony Churchill and New Birth. New Birth disintegrated in the late 60s and Fuqua reformed the group to feature the Wilson brothers. They had several R & B hits in the early 70s on RCA including this fabulous version of Bobby Womack's I Can Understand It and an R & B version of the Skylark hit Wildflower. Leslie Wilson delivers a great vocal. New Birth split with Fuqua in 1974 and signed with Buddah Records and had the 1975 hit Dream Merchant. The group dissolved in 1979 but the Wilson brothers revived New Birth in 1994 and continue to tour today. This comp is designed as an overview of New Birth Inc. so it does include songs by the other groups. Here's a video of I Can Understand It by New Birth.
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