Should people be expecting the same type of sound?Įddie Levert: It’s a little more. YouKnowIGotSoul: What can we expect from this album? Your last album “I Still Have It” came out a few years ago. I’m out promoting it and out in the cold weather just running around to all the radio stations to get people to buy it. I finished it and we just released it on the 29th of January. YouKnowIGotSoul: Talk about your new album that you’re working on.Įddie Levert: The title is called “Did I Make You Go Ooh” as well. “Did I Make You Say Ooh?” is something that would let their imagination go wild. He put the music down and I went home and I was like “How can I be suggestive but not be over the top?”. He was like “You need to do that” and I was like “Well, play me something. We were sitting in the studio and Edwin Nicholas who wrote a lot of songs with Gerald Levert, he kept telling me I needed to do something sensual and a little bit sexual. YouKnowIGotSoul: I know you just put out a new song called “Did I Make You Go Ooh?” How did that single come about?Įddie Levert: That’s a true studio song. Some people really need it and some people do really bad things with it. Then they wrote these great words about the love of money and people lying and cheating.
It started out just being a bass lick and then it turned into a song. Did you know “For the Love of Money” was going to be special?Įddie Levert: We knew it was special from the time that bass lick came on. YouKnowIGotSoul: As an artist, you’ve had moments in the studio where you could recognize what was going to be a hit based on your own instincts.
This is what people live and that’s why we’re still so prevalent. You’ve got to give people what they want. “For The Love of Money”, that’s still going on. That’s why people are able to associate with it because it’s every day living. Those songs like “The Love Train” and “For the Love of Money”, it’s still every day living. It’s everyday living and it’s still the same. The songs are still associated with life. How were you guys able to capture everyone?Įddie Levert: I think that’s what is so great about The O’Jays’ music. YouKnowIGotSoul: In today’s music industry, there’s such a division in listeners based on age. That’s just saying a lot about the song and the lyrics that people can still relate to those lyrics 40 years later. That’s a great achievement w within itself. They’re still associating this song to be a Grammy award winning song and that’s a tremendous thing. The song has lasted that long and it’s still relevant now. That must be big for you right?Įddie Levert: That’s the good thing about it. YouKnowIGotSoul: With the song itself, it’s 40 years old and it’s still being recognized today. I feel like “Wow, the song beat me out and now I can’t get in there!” Anyway, it was like I came through the backdoor to get there.
They nominate my song, but they don’t nominate me. How does it feel right now?Įddie Levert: You want the truth? The O’Jays have been nominated about 5 or 6 times and this is a terrible way to get into the Grammy’s. YouKnowIGotSoul: Congratulations on being inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame for the song “For the Love of Money”. We also talked about his new album and the challenges for him in today’s music industry. YouKnowIGotSoul had to talk to the legend about being inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame and his feelings. Along with that, Eddie Levert is showing no signs of slowing down as he released his last album “I Still Have It” back in 2012 and he’s back again with the new album “Did I Make You Go Ooh”. Their much deserved induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame shouldn’t be a huge deal at this point, but it’s a massive achievement considering that “For the Love of Money” came out in 1974. The group started finding success back in 1972, but they’ve surprising never won a Grammy despite all their commercial success. Just recently, The O’Jays’ song “For the Love of Money” was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. What else needs to be said about Eddie Levert? The O’Jays’ lead singer has been able to touch multiple generations with his music and his impact is still felt today.
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