A live version and one with Stevie of Tell me Something Good.

With the help of Stevie Wonder (who wrote it in a very Sly & the Family Stonesque vein), Rufus & Chaka Khan broke into both the pop music and R&B charts in 1974 with the hit “Tell Me Something Good”.

Connection: (“wanting connections we found connections (Eco)”) An unlikely place to find a cover version of this track is Return of the Super Ape (1978) by Lee Scratch Perry & Upsetters

Digression: I find it strange that after 10 years of internet something like Youtube should come along: audio and video on demand. Why strange? Because we do not have audio on demand. There is no such thing as Youtube for music/audio only. For audio, one always has to resort to the download paradigm (Limewire, Napster, etc…) or filesharing sites and one-click-hosters such as YouSendIt. I found two live versions of Tell me Somehing Good without even trying, but I had to download it from limewire to find the studio version, without being able to share it with you on the fly.

And here is my fave Chaka track.