Yvonne Fair

Born Flora Yvonne Coleman in Richmond, Virginia, Fair got her start as a latter-day member of the re-formulated Chantels and the James Brown Revue. Whilst performing with Brown she recorded the song "I Found You," which he later re-worked into his own signature hit "I Got You (I Feel Good)." Signed to Motown Records in the early 1970s as a result of her work with Chuck Jackson, she appeared in a minor role as a chanteuse in the film, Lady Sings the Blues. Fair then joined up with producer Norman Whitfield for a series of singles: "Love Ain't No Toy," "Walk Out the Door If You Wanna," and her cover version of "Funky Music Sho' 'Nuff Turns Me On." Her remake of the Kim Weston/Gladys Knight semi-standard "It Should Have Been Me" dented the lower end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1976. The track also reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1976, her only UK hit record. In addititon, the song featured in a special episode of BBC TV programme The Vicar of Dibley, entitled "The Handsome Stranger", and broadcast on 25 December 2006. She was married to Sammy Strain of Little Anthony & The Imperials. Fair died at the age of 51 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 6, 1994, and was interred at the Davis Memorial Park, Las Vegas. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.