YOUR KISS IS SWEET
SYREETA WRIGHT
SONGWRITERS: STEVE WONDER &
SYREETA WRIGHT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: STEVE WONDER PRESENTS:
SYRETTA
LABEL: TAMLA MOTOWN
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, in
1946, and started singing at the age of four. Her father served in the Korean War and
Wright and her two sisters, Yvonne and 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.
A year
later, Edward
Holland of the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team noticed Wright's singing and decided to try her out
for demos of Supremes' songs.
Motown CEO Berry Gordy shortened
her birth name to "Rita," and Wright released her first solo single,
"I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You", in January 1968. The
song was initially written for the Supremes (by then billed as "Diana Ross
& the Supremes"). They later recorded the song in 1968 and Diana Ross re-recorded
the song for her solo album, Surrender.
Wright
also performed demo vocals for the Supremes hit "Love Child"
and Ross's "Something's On My Mind", which Ross later recorded for
her self-titled
debut album. When Diana Ross left the
Supremes in early 1970, Motown boss Berry Gordy considered replacing her with Wright, but offered the place in the
group to Jean Terrell.
According to several sources, Gordy then changed his mind and tried to replace
Terrell with Wright, but this was vetoed by Supreme Mary Wilson.
Wright
also sang background on records by the Supremes and by Martha and
the Vandellas, notably singing the chorus to
the group's modest hit single, "I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing".
Wright met labelmate Stevie Wonder in 1968, and the two began dating the following year. On the advice of Wonder, Wright
became a songwriter. Their first collaboration, "It's a Shame",
was recorded by The Spinners,
in 1969. Motown
withheld its release until July 1970. The song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot
100. Wright also began singing background for Wonder, most notably
on the hit "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)",
which Wright co-wrote with Wonder. In September 1970, after a year-long
courtship, Wright, 24, and Wonder, 20, married in Detroit. The
couple then wrote and arranged songs for Wonder's Where I'm
Coming From, which was released much to
Berry Gordy's chagrin in the spring of 1971. The Wonder–Wright composition "If You Really Love Me" (which also
featured Wright prominently singing background vocals) reached number 8 in the
US that year. In 1971, following Wonder's exit from Motown, the couple
relocated to New York City where Wonder worked on two independent albums.
"Your
Kiss Is Sweet" is a song and single written by Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright and performed by Wright under the name, "Syreeta". Released
in 1975 it reached 12 on the UK charts in 1975, staying there for 8 weeks. It was her second, and biggest
hit in the UK charts. It appears on Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta,
Syreeta's second, full-length Motown album.
The song
was covered in Icelandic, as "Búkolla", in 1977 by Bjork on her debut
album Bjork.
This song goes out to all you fellas
Who think your kisses are sweet as candy
But honey got you beat by a million miles
*Your
kiss is sweet, as sweet
as candy
But honey beat your kisses by a million miles
Your
kiss is sweet, as sweet
as candy
But honey beat your kisses by a million miles
You
came and entered
my love and ran away
Leaving
these eyes of mine crying every day
Now you
are back and are saying
you want to stay
When
you left you stayed
too long
Might
as well keep moving
on and on and on and on and on
You
came and entered
my love and ran away
Leaving
these eyes of mine crying every day
Now you
are back and are saying
you want to stay
When
you left you stayed
too long
Might
as well keep moving
on and on and on and on and on
To you
my life was nothing
but a game
Now
you're here and I want to take the blame
How could you take all this
time and I could
feel the same
Sorry
for the tears
you cried
There's
another
I won't lie, I won't lie, I won't lie
So keep
on going
So keep
on going
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