12/27/2022 0 Comments Who sang one in a million you![]() ![]() The track was later re-recorded in California. In the demo that won, singer Mike Viola was hungover. ![]() So when I did ‘One In A Million,’ I was really going back to something that I’ve always been comfortable with.”Īs noted, that comfort paid off: Graham took “One in a Million” and turned it into a top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #1 R&B single.At the time, Adam Schlesinger was in the band Ivy and was just starting to form Fountains of Wayne when he entered Hanks and the producers’ contest to write a “faux-Beatles” tune called “That Thing You Do.” Schlesinger’s version was picked out of 300 entries. The end result was everybody got a chance, or more people got a chance, to hear that side of me which was really going back to the times when my mother and I performed together, because she would always have me singing ballads. ![]() Of course, in time, the record company did see that, ‘Hey, there’s something here,’ and then of course they got behind it and supported it as well. Despite the fact that at first it didn’t get a lot of attention from the record company, the folks who love and support me heard it and they made it what it became, so I’ve always been appreciative of that. “But I had the right to choose the single, and that’s the one I felt in my heart was the one. “At the time I did the song, it wasn’t a song that the record company was happy with me releasing because all of my records were mostly funk oriented, so I know that made them a little nervous,” Graham told the website Reflections in Rhythm in 2010. You may also be aware that he was already a pretty big deal prior to that band, having been smacking the bass for Sly and the Family Stone, but just in case you didn’t know that. Written by Sam Dees, who also penned such hits as Atlantic Starr’s “Am I Dreaming,” Glady Knight and the Pips’ “Save the Overtime (For Me),” and the George Benson / Aretha Franklin duet “Love All the Hurt Away,” “One in a Million” was the title track of Graham’s 1980 album, which was also his first LP after stepping away from his band Graham Central Station. ![]() 39 years ago today, Larry Graham hit his chart high on the Billboard Hot 100 with the most successful single of his solo career, a track which had actually topped the R&B Singles chart a few weeks earlier. ![]()
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