I Found a Love

song by Pickett

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"I Found a Love" is a song from 1962, written and performed by Wilson Pickett. It was one of his early successes as the lead singer for the rhythm-and-blues group, The Falcons. This song caught the attention of Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler, who later worked with Pickett as a solo artist. Pickett's music style is characterized by his powerful, gospel-influenced "cornbread" singing, which he described as coming from the stomach rather than the throat. His explosive delivery helped define the soul music of the 1960s.

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Wilson Pickett
…on his own composition “I Found a Love” (1962), one of the songs that interested Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler in Pickett as a solo artist. “Pickett was a pistol,” said Wexler, who nicknamed him “the Wicked Pickett” and sent him to Memphis, Tennessee, to write with Otis Redding’s…
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…on his own composition “I Found a Love” (1962), one of the songs that interested Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler in Pickett as a solo artist. “Pickett was a pistol,” said Wexler, who nicknamed him “the Wicked Pickett” and sent him to Memphis, Tennessee, to write with Otis Redding’s…
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