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MINIT 1970. £20

You say: “This gets my vote for the version of More Than I Can Stand.” Kenneth Boss, via Facebook

Womack had spent much of the ’60s as a session guitarist and songwriter, but eventually landed a solo recording deal at Minit with producer Chips Moman at American Studios in Memphis. Unfortunately, Wilson Pickett had cherrypicked the best material in Womack’s songbook (I’m In Love, Jealous Love, I’ve Come A Long Way), so 1968’s Fly Me

To The Moon was heavily weighted with covers, but by 1970 he’d written More Than I Can Stand and How I Miss You Baby and the wheels were turning again. Moreover, the covers on his first LP had proved so effective that he now took on I Left My Heart In San Francisco and Jonathan King’s Everyone’s Gone To The Moon with very winning results.