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- ↑ It had previously been issued in a house version by Chicago-based Ricky Dillard, of the Nightwriters. Music of the Nightwriters, particularly that which was released in the late 1980s, is considered to be very important to the development of house music. For example, the Nightwriters' record, "Let The Music Use You", sung by Dillard, is considered to be "the record that defined deep house". See Phil Cheeseman, The History of House Music Archived 7 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine ; Trugroovez.com.
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