Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectables with

Dimitria L Lucas.

2020 just will not take its foot off anyone's neck.

This weekend, less than 48 hours, we lose Andre Herrel, founder of Uptown Records,

and then Little Richard, the architect of Rock and Roll, and then Betty Wright.

She may not be as well known as Herrel and Little Richard, but nonetheless an amazing

musical influence.

I know her music from my childhood with no pain, no gain, but her musical career spans

back to 1960s.

Her first big hit was in 71, singing about the heartbreak of losing her man to a clean-up

woman.

A clean-up woman, according to the lyrics, is a woman who gets all the love we girls

leave behind.

The reason I know so much about her is because she picked up a man of mine.

She's saying that it's just 17, like she's been married with children and put up 11

years of her life as someone secretary.

May Betty Wright rest in peace.

And Little Richard, Little Richard is more my father's music, but I respect his impact.

The morning he died, I was on YouTube watching videos of his performances and interviews,

and there's one from probably the 80s, late 70s, based on the hair with Letterman, a young

Letterman.

And he's asking Little Richard about his makeup and his flamboyant clothes.

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