Keep Him Like He Is
Syreeta Wright
Syreeta, 1972

Syreeta’s music is a fixture at the WONDER-Full™ parties and is a fairly frequent topic of music conversation for me and I often forget that she is fairly unknown on a larger scale. My friend DJ Scribe already wrote a really nice piece about Syreeta and Minnie Riperton that included this album so I don’t want to duplicate that other than to say that Syreeta was married to Stevie Wonder for a short time which included them working on this album together.

I wanted to profile this song because I’ve never heard it mentioned or played - which makes sense because it’s such a quiet tender song which also happens to switch off between an unusual meter (6/8?) and a more standard 4/4 (it’s pretty rare to hear a DJ who plays any kind of American pop music [Soul, Rock, Hip Hop, etc…] to play anything that’s not in 4/4 at a party). That’s why I need to start a slow jams party! Not like a Force M.D.’s/Keith Sweat style slow jams party but a party for that other half of the music I have on my Serato hardrive that I try to cram into the first half hour and last 15 minutes of my 5-6 hour sets!

>> songs are available for two weeks [3.9 MB]

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