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Give It What You Got

(Solomon Roberts Jr.)

The guitarist and singer-songwriter Solomon Roberts Jr. wrote this song several years before he became the lead singer of the R&B/funk group Skyy in the late 1970s.

It was released by the group B.T. Express in 1975 and became a Top 10 R&B single and reached No. 31 on the Billboard Top 100 chart although did not chart in the U.K.  It first appeared on their 1975 album Non-Stop and appeared again in 1993 Do It!! Non-Stop: The Best of B.T. Express and the 2002 Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied).

In the movies the song was featured in 2002’s Auto Focus starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. 

B.T. Express recordings
(Roadshow S62191) (US promo 45)

Sources:

  1. http://funkymusic.tripod.com/bte/bt.html
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.T._Express
  3. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3jfrxqu0ldhe
  4. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:apfuxq95ldae
  5. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2457448/