"Color Him Father" is a song written by Richard Lewis Spencer and recorded by American rhythm and blues group the Winstons.

A cover by American singer Linda Martell on Plantation Records also charted in the same year, reaching No.

The stepdad is portrayed as a hardworking and loving gentleman who married the narrator's widowed mom, who had seven children, and embraced them as his own after her first husband was "killed in the war".

[2] With the rise of hip hop in the 1980s, the break was widely sampled and became a staple of drum and bass and jungle music.

[5] The Winstons' original version was released as a single, and the B-side contained an instrumental track titled "Amen, Brother".

"Amen, Brother" contains what has now become one of the most heavily sampled drum breaks in the history of electronic music, especially jungle and breakbeat hardcore.

7" vinyl single[4] "Color Him Father" has been notably covered multiple times by performers of various musical styles.

Keb' Mo' included it on his 2001 album Big Wide Grin In late 1969, "Color Him Father" was notably covered for the country market by Linda Martell.

In his review of Color Me Country, Mark Deming of Allmusic praised her "rich, smooth voice" on the track, also commenting that it " fares well in a subtle C&W arrangement fortified with pedal steel.

Reviewer Alice Randall explained how the word "color" in the lyric held a special meaning in Martell's interpretation of the song: "Linda Martell effectively directs, not pleads, not suggests, directs us to understand that stepfather's fundamental identity is as father, not his skin color.