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Chicago jazz bassist Richard Evans, a prolific arranger wrote Joyce Williams’s “ The First Thing I Do In The Morning,” a slice of subtly funky soul seductively spotlighting William’s deep, sensuous pipes. Original released on the Act IV label earlier in 1972, the Nickel label edition has a touch of Richard Pegue, remixed slightly but distinctively. The tune had not been intended for Williams. “Joyce and I were excellent friends. We met in 1968 or so,” said the Birmingham, Alabama-born Evans, who moved to Chicago at age five. “I met her through my first wife.” Nonetheless, Evans tried to talk the South Side singer out of cutting his tune. “I made a little demo with her singing on it,” he said. “I was just leaving Chess Records, and I was getting ready to do Woody Herman’s third album. I told her I wrote the song. I was going to use it on his album, but she didn’t have permission to make a record of it, because I had just written it and gotten copyright on it.” Despite his protests, Evans was nonetheless credited by Nickel for the arrangement of Williams’s versions.
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