What You Won’t Do for Love
Bobby Caldwell’s 1978 recording of “What You Won’t Do for Love” is the earliest release on file. Bobby Caldwell shares the writing credit with Alfons Kettner. Also recorded by Go West (released 1992), Goldie (released 1998) and Roy Ayers (released 1979), among 68 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. 2Pac’s “Do for Love” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit.
Bobby Caldwell wrote it with Alfons Kettner and cut it himself in 1978, and his writing credit sits right there on Tupac's track. Roy Ayers and Go West picked it up too, so this one song has been carrying people for a while.
Credited writers: Bobby Caldwell and Alfons Kettner.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1978.
2Pac’s “Do for Love” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.
- Roy Ayers1979
- Natalie Cole & Peabo Bryson1979
- Peabo Bryson with Natalie Cole1984
- Go West1992
- Goldie1998
- The Gutter Boys presents Gwendolyn2000
- MC Lyte2004
- Alexander O’Neal2008
- Jessie Ware2012
- Blank & Jones with Zoe Durrant2020
68 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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