J. J. Barnes Ive Seen The Light

I ve Seen the Light was the outcome of myself and Edwin Starr s cowriting. A piece of Luther Vandross type eighties style soul with a huge gospel influence throughout. J. J. loved it so much that he went back to Detroit and performed it on a local TV show there. Very few of the Motorcity releases had an extra appeal to the mainstream London soul crowd, but this one certainly did. I first met J. J. Barnes in 1971 when my first business venture with my Father, when I was eighteen, was to put him on at Blackp br, br,