Clarence Carter (Official 4K Video) Strokin'

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Digitally remastered with high-quality audio. Carter went blind when he was just one year old. At the Alabama School for the Blind, he learned piano and guitar, and in the late '60s, he became one of the hitmakers at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he recorded "Patches," "Slip Away" and "Too Weak To Fight." The disco era was not kind to Clarence, but he adapted to the '80s sound by learning to program keyboards, which wasn't easy because they didn't come with Braille. Once he figured it out (like Stevie Wonder many years before), Clarence could work out a song in his home and then crank it out in the studio in a matter of hours. He estimates that the entire Dr. C.C. album cost about $4,000 to make.

"Strokin'" was based on a 1981 song that Carter recorded called "Love Building," where over a similar groove, he sings about "workin'." "Love Building," got a great response when he played it live, and Carter started improvising the "I'm strokin'" line, which went over well with audience members who recognized it as a term for sex. When he was working on his Dr. C.C. album, Carter decided to rework "Love Building" as "Strokin'." #Clarencecarter #officialmusicvideo #80smusic #90s #90smusic #90ssongs #90smusicvideo #80smusic #80song