Staple Singers, ‘When Will We Be Paid?’ (‘Record World’ magazine, January 17, 1970).

The Staple Singers’ “When Will We Be Paid?” originally appeared on the group’s 1969 LP We’ll Get Over and was released as a single late in that same year. The tune, written by Randall Stewart and produced by Steve Cropper (Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Blues Brothers), didn’t make a big radio splash but was the first Staple Singers record of the 1970s being pushed by Stax.

Check out a nice find below of the group performing “When Will We Be Paid?” live in 1971.

Previously on Vintage Ads (Look & Listen): Don Harrison Band, ‘Red Hot’ (1977)