"If I Were Your Woman" (Pre-American Idol)

A SWITCH MOMENT

Switch's 2nd Album

 After the success of SWITCH'S first album, as we were working on our 2nd album, we would have various meetings at the Motown building and from time to time we would have meetings at Berry Gordy's home.

On one of our meetings at the Motown building the whole band was together. So imagine 6 young guys who just had success with a hit album and we're all together having fun. I actually don't remember what the meeting we attended was about but I do remember what happened when we got downstairs in the lobby.

SWITCH playing on the iPhone

There was this girl that ran up to us as we got off of the elevator saying, "Switch, hey you guys are Switch...I love your music". We thanked her for supporting our music. Remember we had just finished a meeting and we were either on our way home or to get something to eat or on our way to band rehearsal. She met the whole band and at this point we were being very nice to her. But then....

She begins to tell us that she could sing, but before we could say anything she started singing, and it was like American Idol because SHE COULDN'T SING! - She started singing, "If I Were Your Woman, and you were my man"...by Gladys Knight. Here comes the sad part, Tommy DeBarge fell out in laughter because he couldn't believe what he was hearing. Tommy's laughter triggered the whole band's laughter and it was hard to control. Tommy was laughing at her, the rest of the band was laughing at Tommy's laughter.

The girl obviously got her feelings hurt, and just like American Idol, when a person is rejected then they tend to attack. This girl got mad at us and said, "well you guys don't look like your album cover" and this made me say..."Well how did you know who we were?" which caused more laughter from the band.

The sad thing is meeting her started nice, she was a nice girl, she let's us know that she can sing, we didn't ask her to show us, she choose to show us on her own, she couldn't sing and thus this little moment which could've ended well ended up in disaster, or laughter depending on how you want to look at it.

Thus a little SWITCH moment in history of many, many more to come.

Until next time - Phillip

SWITCH today, sharing some of the moments from the past with some of our newest band members.