Minnie Riperton - Lover And Friend Lyrics

Fabulous!!!!!

Gone waaaaay too soon. This was one of my favorites. This was the song track to my 'real' marriage to man who was my friend before he became my lover. Rest easy KP.

Timeless...real love music!!!

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Loving Minnie....one of my mom’s favorites....Cancer be gone...in the name of Jesus!!!

I remember my oldest sister buying when it first came came out. IT Was right next to Natalie Cole album

Special song for two Lovers, Should have lasted a lifetime, then one grew up.

One of my favorite Minnie Riperton cuts!

Now that brings chills, no music like that anymore

Xoxo xoxo xoxo, Minnie!!!

And in the last 30 years ago, for a quarter of the last century, somewhere in Chicago, the last time I ever heard that song I was going on 11, turning 12 years old in 1989.. and I have been fighting to figure it out who played this song. I was living on South Cregier Avenue on the Chicago South Side
at first, in that later part of the year I was living on North Sheridan Road, and then West Pratt Boulevard, with my mom when this song is playing, just shortly before moving back to the South Side in 1990......at that time, attending Charles P. Caldwell Elementary School..... That being said.... one of another twist and surprised on this tune that I never knew it was Minnie Ripperton that played this sweet 1978-79 song. And I just found it again at the age of 41 in present day, Brooklyn, NY ,New York City, USA (2019)..........As l was learning about this song, it was Minnie Ripperton's last album prior to her death. And this song played pretty melody good.
So therefore ,. RIP Minnie Ripperton..... Happy 40th anniversary of your eternity 😢.
The truth is, I was just still a toddler into my early childhood, when singer Minnie Ripperton died in Summer, 1979..... That's why I never knew it was her.
40 years after her death, her music still lives on in her memories in I hope today's radio stations; if not, I pod cast, etc. Millennials, teenagers, and people in their twenties........ you must try this song for once....... you might get an education on what this really cool music is like......... because I am still listening and learning in 2019... and so can you... Thanks for allowing me to address my take on this song. This is beautiful.🇺🇸☕🌈🥞🍳🥓😢🌈😎 Minnie Ripperton your song made my day.

This is one of my top favorite tunes by Minnie Riperton, I like the lyrics and the musical arrangements 🎼🎵🎶♩🎤🎹🎸🎷🎺🎻😀😍

Stevie Wonder is the best song writer and composer of all time !!!!

this song went to #20 on the R&B charts in 1979!!!

I This Song And It's ALWAYS In My Head I Got A Lover And Friends Our Love ❤😍 Will Never End.😂

Pass the bread cause this was my jam and he became my man.

21 dumbass idiots need a lover and friend (and a brain.)

damn, stil after all & over these years! what a voice! what a song!

I love it 💖💖💖

My favorite Minnie Riperton song! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love this song

One of my favorites singing into a hair brush in my teens 💕

My eyes and my heart still weep for this song bird we lost much , much too soon . The most purest singer to have ever come along in past 40 or 50 years . My eyes are still tearing for this Goddess . She was so sweet , so innocent , probably never harmed a living thing in her life , ever . RIP Minnie , gone but not forgotten .

She was a perfect angel her voice was Gods gift to the music industry...i always will cherish her voice

One of the greatest vocalists ever! No one comparable!

Luv you Minnie Rest Peacefully❤❤💋

Oh, how I miss you beautiful lady!

Love This Song.........

I Love ❤️ this song.........

Fuck that dumb picker wood white boy.

Beautiful song.....memories

This is the worst shit I have ever heard. I heard this on the oldie station and I thought it was a joke. I looked it up and it's just as bad on YouTube. Cannot believe anyone thinks this woman could sing. Absolutely awful. Actually gave me a headache.

+Daij62 , I'm not even going to try and figure out why people do that. I'm not wild about Metalica but I sure ain't gonna go on a thread of their music and slander it. What's wrong with people?

trolling

ill just say it...... FUCK OFF YOU WHITE BITCH!!!!!!

If you don't have anything good to say, Don't say shit. Find some talent of your own because I see nothing on your channel.

What do you know about music anyways? stick to your glocks. LOLLOL!!!

I thought I recognized Stevie Wonder playing in the back ground. Minnie Riperton was the bomb.

Yes, she's the bomb.I miss her so much. Herusic was different but good in the late 1970s.

I hate when bad things happen to good people.  Let that be why her actress/daughter Maya is so successful.

+Tammy Calfee R.I.P. Minnie

thank you

One of my favorites from Minnie. She sings this song funky and jazzy.

BOY I TELL YA WHAT A BEAUTY WHOA!(RIP)

Great song! One of my favorite Minnie Riperton songs. She's missed so much.

+joecool97 This song still brings tears to my eyes. Minnie had a beautiful voice. I am so glad her daughter Maya Rudolph became famous also

great song my favorite female artist

I can't believe I've been quite a fan of Minnie's without hearing this song. Good gracious! Her vocals here are phenomenal, almost like the human version of a lark. And can we please recognise how amazing the bass line of this one is? Beautiful!

iliveibreathe Its a synthesized bass. Played By Stevie Wonder. That's him counting at rhe beginning and playing piano too. The Wonder Man.

iliveibreathe for elain blea she my babydoll

iliveibreathe love that dance too!

That's What you call the Wonder Bass.

One of my obscure faves since she pasted

Beautiful

A ~GD #classic pic!

MinnieR. had such a unique voice. So lilting, and almost like she came out of the 1940's. A very different style.

@Frances A Danna Beautiful voice

Honey I would go we would be the last to know we were meant for each other and for friends we became lovers. Keep on being my friend, our love will never end. We will have it all. Yes!

+Thalia Sanders I can still remember watching Stevie and Don doing the tribute to her on Soul Train.

i love this song its
 for the perfect person in your  life

I got you!

Author G D Grace loves Minnie

so do i author g d grace

@patricia Makhija Yessssss

I remember it too. I called like she was my mom...for about a whole week straight!!!!

One of my ALL TIME favorite voices. Unmatched. Timeless. Perfect. Angel.

With the exception of Mariah Carey, these folks now a days just don't cut it. They are not singers they are entertainers.

That's what they're all. Mainly visual performance.

I was 12 years old, I still remember because they played this song continually. We sure do miss her.

It is Nice if you can have this beautiful type of love.

TeeAnnification I did once. I blew it😢

YOU BETTA KNOW....HE PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS ON THIS CUT....BAD BOY!!!!

Minnie was a icon in my day 1978, yes in deeeddyyyy. ,

in daddy 📡🚼🎶

lmaooo ! I'm Only 17 , but Minnie is my Maaaans , I LOVE her . I Guess You Could Say I Have an Old Soul (=

I was 8 years old when Minnie passed and it really affected me! I remember sitting onmy front porch when the radio announced it and i just started crying! I understood that GOD called her home! Shoot, she might be up there directing a quoir! I just thenk God that i am still able to listen to her beautiful voice

shavell40 i did too i was crying my eyes out.

I only was 4 months when she passed she passed July 79

love stevie on this cut. a classic beauty of a song. minnie was the best. mariah is 2nd to minnie. she was classically trained. thank you for posting. I GOT YOU AS A LOVER AND FRIEND. that's my husband mo!.

she was a GREAT LOST to the music world. She is still miss. this is when music was music

Stevie is SO nasty on the synth bass on this cut...

all one voice live composition 📡

Saw her perform this on Unsung and fell in love with it, not sure why i never took to it before. A nice song with a catchy beat and likeable lyrics.

Damn she was the bomb! RIP Minnie. U are missed.

Thank you so much for posting this beautiful song. Minnie will be gone 31 years, this July. An artist who has truly been missed. Thank you again.