How Can You Say Goodbye

It was recorded for Sidney Joe Qualls’s 1974 Dakar album I Enjoy Loving You, in the Chicago soul orbit built around producer Carl Davis and his collaborator Sonny Sanders. The song was issued as part of the album’s original 1974 Dakar/Brunswick release. The track sat on a warmly received Chicago soul album that collectors and critics have long treated as a deep-soul gem. Contemporary trade coverage also identified it as a Dakar release in 1974, placing it within Carl Davis’s high-profile Chicago soul pipeline. The song has remained notable as a sampling source, appearing in records by Ka, Defari with Dilated Peoples, Danny Brown, and Arrested Development featuring Configa. That reuse has kept the track circulating well beyond its original soul audience.