2+2+1=

The Ponderosa Twins Plus One • 13 songs • 39 min

2 + 2 + 1 = Ponderosa Twins Plus One is the only album by American vocal group Ponderosa Twins Plus One, released in 1971 through Horoscope Records. The album was produced by Bobby Massey of the O'Jays and Michael Burton, a songwriter and producer of All Platinum Records. The album spawned two singles, a cover of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me", and "Bound". "You Send Me" became the band's most successful single release, and both songs charted on Billboard's Best Selling Soul Singles. The track "Bound" was sampled by Kanye West in his 2013 song, "Bound 2". This was followed by a set of copyright infringement lawsuits by the ex-Ponderosa Twins Plus One member Ricky Spicer, directed at West and related parties. The same track was sampled in 2019 by Tyler, the Creator’s "A Boy Is a Gun", for which Bobby Massey received sample credits on. The album was reissued on vinyl in Japan by P-Vine Records in 1990. After West's sampling led to resurged interest in the group, the album was reissued again in 2013 and 2022. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_+_2_+...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)