Who Knows What the Future Holds | I’ll Forget You
By Pat Lewis & Samantha Linn
This multigenerational project features lauded Detroit soul singer Pat Lewis (who worked with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, and George Clinton) performing the music of Detroit musician/songwriter Samantha Linn. Although Linn wrote, recorded, and released the songs previously, these particular renditions featuring Lewis on lead vocals were recorded in 2015 as part of a project commissioned by Trinosophes, Three Fold’s parent organization, and have not yet been released.
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Detroit soul music icon Pat Lewis was born in Pennsylvania in 1947, moving to Detroit as a small child in 1951. By the early 1960s she formed a vocal quartet, The Adorables, with her sister and two childhood friends, which became the house session vocalist for Detroit’s Golden World Records. From there, Pat’s career took off. First there was a single, “Can’t Shake it Loose” under her own name, followed by a fateful last-minute call to appear on Stevie Wonder’s hit, “Uptight.” Signed to Solid Hit Bound Records, she released a string of 45s in the ’60s that saw regional airplay and would become future Northern Soul classics. By the end of the decade, Lewis began a role that would last the rest of her life as a back-up singer for Aretha Franklin. She also became a permanent backing vocalist and a songwriter for Issac Hayes and in the next few years, she started a long-term association with George Clinton. Most celebrated in Detroit and the UK, Pat Lewis remained highly active musically in both places and was remarkably present and accessible in her hometown music scene. She passed away at home on September 2, 2024. [Biography courtesy Joel Peterson]
Samantha Linn is an artist and musician who has performed in Outrageous Cherry, Bam, Common Families, Black Lagoon Swallows the Sea, The Arch Mystics, April in the Orange, The Heaven and Hell Cotillion, Dear Darkness, and Frizz.
“Who Know What the Future Holds”
Pat Lewis, vocals
Written by Samantha Linn
Unreleased recording, 2015
Detroit Commissioning Project, Trinosophes Projects
Produced by Matthew Thibodeau
Arranged by McKinley Jackson
Matthew Thibodeau: Guitar, bass
McKinley Jackson: Piano and organ
Todd Boschma: Drums
James Hughes: Flute, saxophone, clarinet
Jimmy Smith: Trumpet
Matt Martinez: Trombone
“I'll Forget You”
Pat Lewis, vocals
Written by Samatha Linn
Unreleased recording, 2015
Detroit Commissioning Project, Trinosophes Projects
Produced by Matthew Thibodeau
Arranged by McKinley Jackson
Melvin Davis: Backing vocals
Matthew Thibodeau: Guitar
McKinley Jackson: Piano and organ
Shelley Salant: Bass
Tom Starr: Drums
James Hughes: Flute, saxophone, clarinet
Jimmy Smith: Trumpet
Matt Martinez: Trombone
Detroit soul music icon Pat Lewis was born in Pennsylvania in 1947, moving to Detroit as a small child in 1951. By the early 1960s she formed a vocal quartet, The Adorables, with her sister and two childhood friends, which became the house session vocalist for Detroit’s Golden World Records. From there, Pat’s career took off. First there was a single, “Can’t Shake it Loose” under her own name, followed by a fateful last-minute call to appear on Stevie Wonder’s hit, “Uptight.” Signed to Solid Hit Bound Records, she released a string of 45s in the ’60s that saw regional airplay and would become future Northern Soul classics. By the end of the decade, Lewis began a role that would last the rest of her life as a back-up singer for Aretha Franklin. She also became a permanent backing vocalist and a songwriter for Issac Hayes and in the next few years, she started a long-term association with George Clinton. Most celebrated in Detroit and the UK, Pat Lewis remained highly active musically in both places and was remarkably present and accessible in her hometown music scene. She passed away at home on September 2, 2024. [Biography courtesy Joel Peterson]
Samantha Linn is an artist and musician who has performed in Outrageous Cherry, Bam, Common Families, Black Lagoon Swallows the Sea, The Arch Mystics, April in the Orange, The Heaven and Hell Cotillion, Dear Darkness, and Frizz.
Image: Pat Lewis [foreground] and Melvin Davis [background] courtesy Samantha Linn, 2015