Richard Skipper Celebrates Linda Clifford's Success 5/27/2022

Published: May 27, 2022, 11 p.m.

b'For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:\\xa0https://youtu.be/ADbhmJBGKkA\\n\\nLinda Clifford has made her mark among the classic R&B singers and also as a legendary disco diva. Electrifying audiences with her music and widely celebrated performances, this multi-talented and dynamic entertainer\\u2019s accomplishments are vast. Linda\\u2019s landmark recordings have spent a total of 60 weeks at #1 on Billboard Magazine\\u2019s dance charts earning Grammy Award and televised performances, Linda has appeared on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Soul Train, The Midnight Special (including two stints as host), Don Kirchner\\u2019s Rock Concert and The Merv Griffin Show. She is an exciting live performer with sold out live concerts around the world including New York\\u2019s Lincoln Center. She has the distinction of being featured on the Oscar winning #1 motion picture soundtrack album Fame and as an actress. Eventually, Linda signed with R&B giant Curtis Mayfield and his Curtom Records. More #1 success followed with her subsequent Curtom releases including Don\\u2019t Come Crying To Me, Shoot Your Best Shot produced by Isaac Hayes and Linda\\u2019s smash hit Runaway Love, which topped the Billboard Disco/Dance chart at #1 for 16 weeks and reached #3 on Billboard\\u2019s R&B chart. A hit duet singer with Curtis Mayfield, Between You Baby and Me, resulted in the pari recording a full length album. Entitled The Right Combination, the effort produced two more R&B hits by the duo. She scored another big success with the hit single Red Light, which appeared on the multi-million selling. Oscar winning #1 soundtrack album Fame. The song earned a Grammy nomination and spent nine weeks at #1 on Billboard\\u2019s dance chart and appeared on Linda\\u2019s followup hit album I\\u2019m Yours.'