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Mister x tumblr12/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2002 she said of the song’s royalties: “Mr Big Stuff is better to me now than 31 years ago. ![]() The popularity of Mr Big Stuff endured thanks to various soundtrack and advertising syncs it became a reggae standard with the title Sister Big Stuff, and was sampled by artists including John Legend and Eazy-E. But she continued to record and release music until 1999, and had a minor hit in 1985 with My Toot Toot reaching No 50 in the US charts. It went double platinum and was nominated for best female R&B vocal performance at the 1972 Grammy awards.ĭisputes between Quezergue and Stax meant she was dropped the following year, and never matched the success of Mr Big Stuff. ![]() Mr Big Stuff topped the US R&B chart and crossed over into the main pop chart, reaching No 2 (kept off No 1 by How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by the Bee Gees). It was only after the success of Groove Me, a hit for King Floyd recorded the same day in the same studio as Mr Big Stuff, that Stax Records remembered Knight. With Knight audibly unimpressed by a flashy lothario’s car and clothes, upbraiding him for his casual cruelty against other women, Mr Big Stuff remains a gloriously spiky gem of the early 70s soul and funk scene – although it was initially refused by a number of labels. ![]()
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