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" | |||
| Released | November 1971 | |||
| Studio | Criteria (Miami) | |||
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| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | Alston | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke | |||
| Producer(s) | Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke | |||
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| 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. 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.