Joyce Berry - People In Love (1982 official video)
- 8 years ago
This is the female version of the Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman composition with gender changed from 'her' to 'his' and from 'she' to 'he' where she sings in a lower register, lower than Eric Stewart from British pop group 10cc.
When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor.
Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.
Musicians:
Lead Vocals: Joyce Berry
Percussion: Jimmy Maelen
Electric Piano: Randy Kerber
Parlor Piano: Randy McCormick
Bass: Dennis Belfield
Electric Guitar: Charles Fearing
Acoustic Guitar: Dennis Budimir
Drums: Ed Greene
Background Vocals: Joyce Berry, Laurie Maitland,
Scarlett McCarthy
Strings Arranged by Gene Page
https://tributetovarioussongwriters.bandcamp.com/track/people-in-love
When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor.
Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.
Musicians:
Lead Vocals: Joyce Berry
Percussion: Jimmy Maelen
Electric Piano: Randy Kerber
Parlor Piano: Randy McCormick
Bass: Dennis Belfield
Electric Guitar: Charles Fearing
Acoustic Guitar: Dennis Budimir
Drums: Ed Greene
Background Vocals: Joyce Berry, Laurie Maitland,
Scarlett McCarthy
Strings Arranged by Gene Page
https://tributetovarioussongwriters.bandcamp.com/track/people-in-love