Pat Lewis - Hello Detroit

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Pat Lewis sings the ultimate best ever version of Sammy Davis’s love song to the Motor City, written by Berry Gordy and Willie Hutch. At our Motorcity Reunion in 1989, they were playing the original version from the Hitsville USA Building, blaring out on the street, and I truly fell in love with it and gave it to Pat to record the ultimate definitive version. Pat is the artist with whom I produced more songs with than anyone else in the world. She is an incredible American soul singer and backing vocalist since the 1960s. She met Motown Records' in-house backing group The Andantes, and one day when one of the girls couldn't make the session for Stevie Wonder's Up-Tight, Pat stepped in and did it as well as several other Motown sessions. She signed to Solid Hit Bound Records and released a string of singles, including “Can’t Shake It Loose”, "Look At What I Almost Missed”, “Warning”, and “No One To Love". From the late 1960s onwards, she became a permanent backing singer for Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes and later on George Clinton too. She has also written several songs for Isaac Hayes. This wonderful song was written by me together with Leee John from Imagination, it was first recorded in 1992 but now remixed in 2023 to sound more authentic than it ever could before. I have most certainly officially recorded more songs on Pat Lewis than on any other artist in my entire life. She is the true consummate professional. In the early sixties, Pat along with her sister Diane Lewis, formed a group called "The Adorables" along with two other sisters Betty and Jackie Winston. They signed with Golden World Records, owned by Ed Wingate, who along with Joanne Bratton managed the group. Pat then went on to fulfill her dream and ventured out on her own as a single artist. She recorded her first single at Golden World Records, "Can't Shake It Loose." She also began singing background vocals for "The Andantes", the background group for Motown Records, so she began singing background at Motown, starting with Stevie Wonder's "Uptight", and also worked for numerous other recording studios. She also recorded a lot at Brunswick in Chicago on Jackie Wilson's album, "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher." In 1966, Golden World Records was sold to Motown. Pat then signed with Solid Hit Bound Records, owned by Don Davis and LaBaron Taylor, where she recorded several singles, "Look At What I Almost Missed," along with "Warning," and "No One To Love". In 1967, Aretha Franklin asked her to become one of her background singers on the road. She remained with Aretha off and on for a few years traveling and recording in the studio. In 1969, Don Davis owner of United Sound Recording Studio (writer/producer for Stax Records) called in Pat and her sister Diane for yet another session which was for Isaac Hayes' album "Hot Buttered Soul." Pat was hired to arrange and record background vocals. When the album was released it was a hit. Isaac asked if they wanted to travel with him. Pat gave Aretha Franklin her notice and they became "Hot Buttered Soul." Pat remained with Isaac Hayes from 1969 to 1982 as his opening act and his studio group. In 1989 she teamed up with Motorcity Records, and recorded more lead and backing vocals than any other artist out of all of them, as well as rejoining The Andantes. “Hello Detroit” is nothing short of a masterpiece.