Solomon Burke was born in Philadelphia, started preaching at the age of seven, and eventually became the greatest R&B/soul singer you've never heard of.
He was never as big as Wilson Pickett or James Brown, even though he had 26 singles that made the Billboard R&B charts. One of his biggest, which was covered by the Rolling Stones and the Blues Brothers and made it to 429 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, is "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love."
No, not Stephen Bishop's "Everybody Needs Love."
Not Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime."
Not Jefferson Airplane's (or Queen's) "Somebody to Love."
Solomon took the riff that his church's band would play while the offering was being collected and went to town on some new words about love instead of money:
Come to think of it...he didn't change the words all that much:
Preach it, brother!
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