A follow-up, "My Baby Specializes", also made the R&B chart, before she returned to Atlantic for one more record with Vera, "Reaching for the Moon", and a final solo hit "Greatest Love" (No. 45 R&B in 1970). Subsequently, she worked as a backing vocalist with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Donny Hathaway and Wilson Pickett. Stricken with a brain tumor in 1979, she returned to gospel music shortly after her recovery, and sang occasionally with Cissy Houston's gospel choir in Newark, New Jersey. Clay died of complications following a car crash. She was 62 years old. She was survived by two sons, Todd and Leo Gatewood, a brother, Raymond Guions, and her sister, Sylvia Shemwell. References External links Discography 1938 births 2001 deaths 20th-century African-American women singers American gospel singers American soul singers Musicians from Fayetteville, North Carolina Stax Records artists 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers People from St. Pauls, North Carolina Scepter Records artists Atlantic Records artists The Drinkard Singers members