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Fact #131696

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Short story:

The Source Featuring Candi Staton release You Got The Love on Positiva Records in the UK. The track is a re-mix based on the original version of the song, recorded by Staton in 1986 for a documentary about a grossly obese man.

Full article:

Candi Staton : We were out in Nassau, Bahamas, and there was this guy who was 900lb - I';ve never seen anything like it. He wore a tent and had balls as big as basketballs hanging on his leg. They wanted a song just for the documentary, so I went to Chicago and recorded it.

I'd forgotten about they song and they (The Source) had re-mixed it to such an extent I wasn't even familiar with the changes and the chords - I didn't even know how to sing it.
(Source : interview with Tim Jonze, The Guardian, September 12, 2014)