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Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Back , Call , Fun , Young


I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Everything , Who , King , Company


I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Me , Know , Church , Singer


I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Singing , Morning , Church , Sister


I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Love , Me , Think , Ready


You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  You , Work , Background , Get


Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Boy , Dad , Soul , Church


My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Time , Man , Morning , God


My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Patient , Mother , Child , Gene


I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

Author: Merry Clayton - American Musician
  Always , College , Say , University


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