SONG OF THE DAY
“You’re All I Need to Get By” by Jacob Lusk
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– Jacob Lusk (born June 23, 1987) is an American singer from Compton, California, who finished in fifth place on the tenth season of American Idol.
– His father worked as a music producer, but he died when Lusk was twelve.
– Lusk began singing when he was four years old, and performed at his church from the age of five. He attended United Faith Community School in Long Beach, California, and was the lead singer in the school choir, plays and programs. He is a minister of music at his church.
– In 2007, he joined a gospel group called InNate Praise formed by the late hip-hop singer Nate Dogg, and he performed with the group at churches around Los Angeles County.
– He received high praise from Randy Jackson for his performance of “God Bless the Child” during the Hollywood rounds as the best ever seen on Idol.
– Lusk was eliminated on May 5, 2011, finishing in fifth place.
– During the finale, he performed with Kirk Franklin and Gladys Knight.
– “You’re All I Need to Get By” is a song first recorded by the American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and released on Motown Records’ Tamla label in 1968.
– Written by real-life couple Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, it became one of the few Motown recordings of the 1960s that was not recorded with the familiar “Motown sound”. Instead, “You’re All I Need to Get By” had a more soulful and gospel-oriented theme surrounding it, that was influenced by the writers, who also sing background vocals on the recording, sharing vocals in a church choir in New York.