Clean Up Woman

This article is about the 1971 single by Betty Wright. For the 2009 play by J. D. Lawrence, see The Clean Up Woman.
"Clean Up Woman"
Side A of the US single
Single by Betty Wright
from the album I Love the Way You Love
B-side"I'll Love You Forever"
ReleasedNovember 1971
StudioCriteria (Miami)[1]
Genre
Length2:40
LabelAlston
Songwriter(s)Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke
Producer(s)Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke
Betty Wright singles chronology
"Pure Love"
(1970) 		"Clean Up Woman"
(1971) 		"Baby Sitter"
(1972)
Official audio
"Clean up Woman" on YouTube

"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972). Written and produced by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, it was released in November 1971 in the U.S. as a 7" single with "I'll Love You Forever" on the B-side. The song's distinctive guitar lick was played by Willie "Little Beaver" Hale.

It has sold over two million copies with the RIAA gold disc awarded on December 30, 1972.[5] Billboard ranked it as the No. 49 song for 1972. The song also appears as the beginning and end songs in a medley on the 1978 album Betty Wright Live.

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  2. ^ Billboard Staff (October 19, 2023). "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. Retrieved February 11, 2024. Betty Wright hit the top 10 a year later with "Clean Up Woman," another impressively slinky funk gem...
  3. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "I Am Woman: Feminist Pop". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 96. ISBN 031214704X.
  4. ^ Molanphy, Chris (April 30, 2020). "Still Billy Joel to Me Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
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