(*80*)Jean Knight — most well-known for her hit ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ — has died … this based on studies.
An unattributed press release purporting to be the soul singer and New Orleans native’s obituary is making the rounds on-line — and if it is to be believed … it says JK handed away final Wednesday, though the circumstances surrounding her loss of life are unclear for now.
Knight’s 1971 tune is well her greatest declare to fame, but it surely’s an enormous contribution to music and popular culture. ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ not solely carried out extremely nicely on the charts when it got here out — together with 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart, and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 — but it surely ended up being featured in quite a few movies and TV exhibits.
Just a handful of collection that used ‘MBS’ … ‘Family Guy,’ ‘black-ish,’ ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘Everwood’ and ‘The Deuce’ — simply to call a couple of. On the film entrance, it obtained performed in Will Ferrell’s ‘Semi-Pro.’ Beyond that … the observe obtained remixed/sampled a ton through the years.
Some of that notable acts who flipped this gem … Heavy D & The Boyz, Eazy-E, TLC, Queen Latifah, Everclear, Girl Talk, Beastie Boys and John Legend. ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ had additionally been coated a handful of occasions … famously by Precious Metal, Lyn Collins and plenty of others.
Jean had recorded plenty of different songs all through her profession … however none ever reached the success of ‘Big Stuff.’ Some of her different notable singles … “My Toot Toot,” “You Think You’re Hot Stuff,” “Carry On,” “Helping Man,” “Do Me,” “Jesse Joe (You Got to Go)” … and extra.
She was 80.
RIP
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