‘Mr. Large Stuff’ Singer Jean Knight Reportedly Useless at 80

An unattributed press release purporting to be the soul singer and New Orleans native’s obituary is making the rounds on-line — and if it is to be believed … it says JK handed away final Wednesday, though the circumstances surrounding her demise are unclear for now.

Knight’s 1971 track is definitely her largest declare to fame, however it’s an enormous contribution to music and popular culture. ‘Mr. Large Stuff’ not solely carried out extremely properly on the charts when it got here out — together with 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart, and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 — however it ended up being featured in quite a few movies and TV reveals.

Only a handful of collection that used ‘MBS’ … ‘Household Man,’ ‘black-ish,’ ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘Everwood’ and ‘The Deuce’ — simply to call a number of. On the film entrance, it bought performed in Will Ferrell’s ‘Semi-Professional.’ Past that … the monitor bought remixed/sampled a ton over time.

A few of that notable acts who flipped this gem … Heavy D & The Boyz, Eazy-E, TLC, Queen Latifah, Everclear, Woman Speak, Beastie Boys and John Legend. ‘Mr. Large Stuff’ had additionally been lined a handful of instances … famously by Treasured Steel, Lyn Collins and plenty of others.

Jean had recorded a number of different songs all through her profession … however none ever reached the success of ‘Large Stuff.’ A few of her different notable singles … “My Toot Toot,” “You Suppose You are Sizzling Stuff,” “Carry On,” “Serving to Man,” “Do Me,” “Jesse Joe (You Obtained to Go)” … and extra.

She was 80.