Detroit-born Bobbye Corridor was an eleven-year-old prodigy enjoying drums at a sock hop when Motown arranger Paul Riser heard her and requested her mom if she may come to Hitsville USA for a recording session. She remembered her early periods in an interview with NPR, “I sat there very proper and all-ears and very quiet. They would talk about how the music was going down. They would pop their fingers, clap their hands; some of them would do it with their feet – you know, just, ‘One [snaps], two.’ I felt so much at home.” She turned an everyday, enjoying percussion – with an emphasis on bongos and congas – on periods for artists like The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and Diana Ross & The Supremes.
She moved to Los Angeles as a younger grownup and continued her profession as a touring musician and first-call studio musician, leaving her imprint on traditional recordings similar to Janis Joplin’s Pearl, Invoice Withers’ Simply As I Am, Joni Mitchell’s For the Roses, Stevie Surprise’s Songs In The Key of Life, Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna, and Lone Justice’s self-titled debut. She defined to Liner Notice Legends, “Working in the studio is like a laboratory. We’re not thinking about [a] hit, but we know that that’s what we do. That synergy, that spark that ignites and makes hits, that’s what I think I do. That’s the way I was brought up, making hits…gold and platinum.”
Listed below are a number of distinctive moments from the profession of Ms. Bobbye Corridor.
Marvin Gaye – I Need You
Bobbye Corridor had a number of iconic moments with Marvin Gaye. She’s the bongo participant on “Inner City Blues” from What’s Goin’ On and was additionally a musician on the steamy Let’s Get It On periods. On this gem, the title monitor from Gaye’s 1976 launch, Corridor’s bongos float within the combine, virtually melodically, as important to the monitor as Gaye’s vocal.
Willie Hutch – Slick
By the point of this session in 1973, Bobbye Corridor was already coming into American properties weekly by means of tv on the Sanford & Son theme music, which was composed and produced by Quincy Jones. The soundtrack for The Mack, recorded on the top of the recognition of Blaxploitation movies, was produced by Willie Hutch, offering Corridor one among her early alternatives to play for the silver display screen.
Quincy Jones that includes Leon Ware & Minnie Riperton – If I Ever Lose This Heaven
This recording from Quincy Jones’ 1974 Physique Warmth put Bobbye Corridor within the room with lots of her friends from Motown, together with James Gadson, Chuck Rainey, and Wah Wah Watson – in addition to Leon Ware, co-writer of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You.” Along with Ware and Minnie Riperton on vocals, Al Jarreau provides vocal results to the jazz/soul pastiche. As with “I Want You,” Corridor’s intuitive rhythms accent the monitor’s numerous instrumentation. Physique Warmth was licensed gold and topped Billboard’s R&B and Jazz album charts.
Stevie Surprise – Chicken of Magnificence
Whereas Bobbye Corridor had accomplished different periods with Stevie Surprise, “Bird of Beauty” from Fulfillingness’ First Finale captures her enjoying the cuíca, a Brazilian drum typically utilized in samba music. Fulfillingness earned Surprise three Grammy Awards and topped Billboard’s Prime LPs & Tapes chart.
Holly Close to – Singer In The Storm
“I very seldom get to work with women,” Bobbye Corridor remarked to Tom Tom Magazine, however this collaboration with Girls’s Music icon Holly Close to gave her the prospect to play with an artist who had recorded quite a few albums with completely ladies musicians. On this monitor, Melissa Etheridge handles the guitar work, whereas Corridor drives the rhythm.
