SYREETA WRIGHT & G. C. CAMERON - I WANNA BE BY YOUR SIDE

I WANNA BE BY YOUR SIDE

SYREETA WRIGHT

SONGWRITER: STEVIE WONDER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STEVIE WONDER PRESENTS SYREETA

LABEL: UNIVERSAL SOUND OF THE WORLD

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1974

 

         Syreeta Wright(August 3, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights were songs in collaboration with her ex-husband Stevie Wonder and musical artist Billy Preston.

     Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1946, and started singing at the age of four. Her father served in the Korean War and Wright and her sister Kim were raised by their mother Essie and their grandmother. The Wrights moved back and forth from Detroit to South Carolina, before finally settling in Detroit just as Wright entered high school. Money problems kept Wright from pursuing a career in ballet, so she focused her attention on a music career joining several singing groups, before landing a job as a receptionist for Motown in 1965. Within a year, she became a secretary for Mickey Stevenson, just as Martha Reeves had done before her.

At any given time

And at any given place

I wanna be by your side, baby

Just to put a little smile

On your sad but lovely face

You need me right by your side

 

To stay right there and love you

I won't ever let you down

I wanna be by your side

I don’t care

Right there by your side

 

To convince this heart of mine

Well that's gonna take some time

I have heard those sweet things before

But I'd like to get to know

If your love’s that wonderful

Then you should be by my side

To stay right there and love me

I won't ever, ever, ever let you down

I wanna be by your side, I don't care

Right there by your side

 

I'll stay right here and love you

I won't ever let you down

I wanna be by your side

I don't care, right there by your side

 

I wanna be by your side, yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna be by your side baby

C'mon

I wanna be, oh, baby

Yeah, c'mon, woah, baby

I wanna be by, ooh, by your, by your

Show me what you can do

I wanna, I wanna.