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Michael Sutton a.k.a. Mike Sutton is best known for co-producing Down To Love Town by the Originals, writing Cheryl Lynn's Shake It Up Tonight, and part of the husband and wife singing duo, Mike and Brenda Sutton. Sutton interview written By Bernard F. Lopez If you've ever heard the 1976 Disco hit Down To Love Town by the Originals, Shake It Up Tonight by Cheryl Lynn or Don't Let Go of Me by Mike and Brenda Sutton, then you've sampled the fruits of Michael B.
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Sutton's labors. Nuova Elettronica Handbook For The New Paradigm. Whether he's playing the piano, producing, writing or even singing vocals he can wear the different hats required for each role. Michael Sutton sat down recently with DiscoMusic.com to talk about his music career.
Early Years & Gospel Music A West Coast native, Michael Sutton was born in 1948 and raised in Oakland, California. His exposure to music was from his father who was a Jazz trumpet player. Mike tried to play the trumpet as well, but he never took to it.
His mother ran a club called the 'Sophisticated Juliettes' where the patrons would pay him 25 cents to dance like Elvis Presley. Sutton's mother passed away during his teens so his grandmother, who was an active church member, took care of him and brought him to church often. It was in church that he began playing the Hammond B3 organ and meeting musicians. Despite not having any formal training or knowing how to read music he became very good at playing the organ.
Sutton was invited by another church to play on an album they were recording in Los Angeles to which he eagerly accepted. While visiting this church he met a young girl by the name of Cheryl Lynn who would later go on to Disco fame with Got To Be Real. Having tasted a little freedom and being around other musicians he decided to leave home at age seventeen and head for Los Angeles since his grandparents were very strict and against Rock and Roll and the music scene. While there he made ends meet by playing the organ at churches in the area.
Album cover featuring Mike Sutton and his wife Brenda Sutton. By 1967 he had married his now ex-wife Brenda with whom he would collaborate and write many songs with. The two had met in church and started performing in a little choir called the Stan Lee Ensemble and they were also writing songs together. A minister they both knew came up to them one day and said they should try their hand at performing other than Gospel. He said, 'There's a big difference between your salvation and occupation.' Living in the notorious neighborhood known as Watts, Sutton moved his wife and three children to Hollywood and took a job as a janitor at Fidelity Studios. It was here that he and his wife recorded some tracks, but they were never picked up for release.
Mike Sutton Meets Stevie Wonder Mike and Brenda found some managers during the early 1970s who promptly booked them into gay and swinger type clubs throughout the city. One of their managers was taking voice lessons with Seth Riggs who was coaching many top singers. The manager told Mike and Brenda Sutton that Stevie Wonder was looking to audition background singers and if they would like to meet him. Mike said they got to meet Stevie Wonder one night and even performed some of their songs they had written. Wonder liked their work and later introduced the Sutton's to Iris Gordy of Motown Records. The two were signed to Motown as writers and artists and were paid just enough to support themselves. Sutton explains, 'We had no knowledge of the music industry and were so eager to get in there and write that we didn't even use an attorney We just took it (contract) home and signed it.
No discussion of money or anything-we just signed it.' He goes on to say that the piano he used to write music was even missing a few keys. The Hal Davis Connection Mike and Brenda Sutton performing on stage while standing between a floor-standing microphone. Things did not take off until Sutton was introduced to the late Motown record producer Hal Davis (Diana Ross, Thelma Houston, and Jackson 5).