I will admit that the most I ever really thought about Lou Rawls was when I would hear the Pharcyde song “Ya Mama” when Imani raps: “Cause you was beatboxing for Lou Rawls, in some bright red boxer drawers.”
Then I heard his cover of the Sam Cooke song “Bring It On Home to Me.” It starts with some typical Lou Rawls crooning for the intro, but quickly moves into a propulsive R&B stomp, with the increasingly dense horn lines throughout the song ramping up the emotion until the ecstatic finale. A good way to get Monday morning going. A little trivia - Lou Rawls actually sang back up on the original Sam Cooke version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA59XvgwGyQ
