The Winstons – Color Him Father

The Winstons were a 1960s funk and soul music group, based in Washington, D.C., who are most notable for recording a track called “Color Him Father” recorded in 1969, backed with a B-side entitled “Amen, Brother”, probably the most sampled record of all time. Midway through the track there is a drum solo (performed by G.C. Coleman) which has been sampled and used in thousands of hip-hop, pop, drum and bass and jungle tracks.[1] This beat is known as the “Amen break”, after the song. Their famous Amen break can be heard in thousands of songs, for example “Straight Outta Compton” by N.W.A.

The “Color Him Father” disc sold over one million copies, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on 24 July 1969. Main Source: YouTube User The Bachmaster

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Lyrics:

“There’s a man at my house he’s so big and strong

He goes to work each day, stays all day long

He comes home each night looking tired and beat

He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat

Never a frown always a smile

When he says to me how’s my child

I’ve been studying hard all day in school

Tryin’ to understand the golden rule

 

Think I’ll color this man father

I think I’ll color him love

Said I’m gonna color him father

I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will

 

He says education is the thing if you wanna compete

Because without it son, life ain’t very sweet

I love this man I don’t know why

except I’ll need his strength till the day that I die

My mother loves him and I can tell

By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister nell

I heard her say just the other day

That if it hadn’t been for him she wouldn’t have found her way

My real old man he got killed in the war

And she knows she and seven kids couldn’t of got very far

She said she thought that she could never love again

And then there he stood with that big wide grin

He married my mother and he took us in

And now we belong to the nman with that big wide grin

 

Think I’ll color this man father

I think I’ll color him love

Said I’m gonna color him father

I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will”

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