And of course those set down by Cissy Houston's group the Sweet Inspirations on Say a Little Prayer.
As a young singer, she helped form the Sweet Inspirations, a group that frequently sang backup vocals for Elvis Presley; she later won Grammys for her gospel albums.
The house at 362 Dodd was the two families' hangout — especially downstairs, where Cissy Houston kept recording equipment and sometimes held rehearsals of her group, the Sweet Inspirations.
The daughter of Emily ("Cissy") Houston whose vocal group, the Sweet Inspirations, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and the cousin of singer Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child.
"I'll be trapped by sounds, locked behind loops", relates Ghost, and you can't blame him for being mesmerised by the Abbot's backdrop, a soaring juxtaposition of Black Ivory's I Keep Asking You Questions (1971) and the Sweet Inspirations' Why Marry?
A jukebox, in a dark corner, was blaring "What the World Needs Now," by the Sweet Inspirations, and a man with his back to the television set and a highball in his hand was telling a group of his friends about a girl he had just treated to a huge Chinese dinner who had declared on their way out of the restaurant that she now wanted a barbecue supper.
That song with those vocals is kind of like Warren Zevon with the Sweet Inspirations to me".
Presley assembled new, top-notch accompaniment, led by guitarist James Burton and including two gospel groups, The Imperials and Sweet Inspirations.
