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Am I Black Enough for You?
By
Derek Malcolm
3 Jul 2009
The subject of Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary is soul singer Billy Paul, whose one worldwide hit was the ballad Me and Mrs Jones.
He ruined his burgeoning career by cutting the black activist song, Am I Black Enough for You?, maintains Blanche Williams, his wife and manager. Still, she supported him loyally through the hard times that followed.
There’s not enough about the conflicts between Paul and those who controlled his records but this is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute, with copious numbers to prove that he was — and still is — a singer who really had something.
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