POSTGIRL’S RECORDINGS

Story by: Gail Nobles
Song by: The Commodores

Podcast Keyboard and vocals: Gail Nobles
Photo by: By Carl Lender
Usage: CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5927891

Brick House is a disco classic about a woman and her body, and how she was built. She was built like a brick house. The song was sung by the Commodores. The drummer sung lead which was Walter Orange and Lionel Richie played the saxophone. The song was released in 1977 on the Motown label.

One of the songwriters of the song Brick House was a woman believe it or not named Shirley Hanna-King. She wrote lyrics for the riff. Her husband William King played tapes for her. William is a founding member of the Commodores.

I remember when my father first played the song Brick House laughing. He would sing it all the time. So I put two and two together, and I kind of knew what the song was talking about. I guess I was about 6 yrs. old. My father was a young man then. I guess about 29 or 30 married to my mama. My mom would look at me when my daddy was somewhere in another room singing the song. Sometimes she would say, “I wish he would hush all that noise.”

Those were fun days of music. My father helped me to enjoy the song Brick House as I would listen to all of his jokes and hints and teasing.

You’re listening to Postgirl’s Recordings. The meanings of songs, and I’m you’re host, Gail Nobles.