“Wanna sing, son?”<\/p>\n
The way the story goes, Tyrone Davis was dressed to kill that night.<\/p>\n
With his elbows on the stage, he couldn’t help but catch the eye of his idol, Bobby “Blue” Bland (whose “Turn On Your Love Light<\/a>” we listened to a couple of weeks ago). However, Davis couldn’t have predicted what happened next: Bland leaned down and offered him the microphone.<\/p>\n Davis took the mic, and as he took the stage, Bland looked straight at him and said, “Be you. Don’t be me.”<\/p>\n Tyrone Davis was himself, and that was enough to jump start a career that took him to the upper reaches of both the pop and R&B charts.<\/p>\n “Turn Back the Hands of Time” was Davis’ second hit single and his highest-charting, reaching the top slot on the Billboard R&B chart and #3 on the Hot 100 in early 1970. Davis became known for his smooth baritone vocals and emotive delivery, which were often matched with rueful, romantic lyrics pleading for a do-over or second chance.<\/p>\n