Have always loved this song so much. Written by Stevie Wonder. Robbie Neville did a great version of it. Greg Howe does a great instrumental version of it.

with Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea.

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The woman I was dating at that time in my life used to play that song all the time.
No, she didn't catch me, but I'll always remember that song.
Love that Funk, though. Always have. Pretty strange for a white boy from a New York cow town, but Motown and Funk have always appealed to me.

Alas, this is the studio version synced to a live performance.
There are s few tells:
1. The wah on the clavinet. He's not working the pedal while playing.
2. There's nobody playing the talk box guitar, which to me, is one the the critical aspects of the tune.
3. Near the end, Chaka's voice is blasting sway (Baby, baby baby, yeah) while she's holding the Mike about hip high, facing the crowd.
They played the weekly rock show in our city's skating rink during the summers while I was in HS & college. Too long a story, but we had backstage passes every week, so we got to meet Rufus & talk with them several times. Every one of them was as nice as could be.

Because it is over dubbed with the studio version, the old live concert versions are usually not up to par, I pick the studio versions almost every time because of the sound of the recording. And this because I love seeing Chaka Khan at this time in her life

A couple of the guys still called her YM, her original initials, though she'd been using Chaka since 8th grade.
She's a few years older than me, but was still in her teens when we met her.
I love her backing parts in this song: (The video also features Nile Rodgers.)

That song has been near and dear to my heart, which begs the question, should I have settled, Maybe