If you like ’60s R&B guy groups (and who doesn’t?) The Originals area about as good as they get. While they didn’t produce records during Motown’s truest heyday, and therefore didn’t get the songs of Holland-Dozier-Holland and Smokey Robinson (like the Temps, Four Tops, and Miracles did), they soldiered forth in the very late ’60s and ’70s and offered great music and good albums.
No album was as cohesive and well thought out, however, as this classic. Finally, they DID get the songs of Lamont Dozier, and it is adult-oriented soul music at its best. There isn’t a bad track on the album, the vocals are top-notch, the artwork was fun and contemporary for its day, and the whole piece is in a class by itself.
It starts off with a great spoken intro of “Why’d You Lie“, the strings are soaring on songs like “California Sunset“, and the whole thing feels like a throw-back to a time when beatiful music was of utmost importance.
Thanks to Motown for releasing such a class production in 1975, and thanks to BBR for re-releasing it to soul music officionados in this new millenium. Highest quality!
A1 Why’d You Lie 3:59
A2 Don’t Turn The Lights Off 3:54
A3 It Could Never Happen 4:41
A4 Good Lovin’ Is Just A Dime Away 4:10
A5 California Sunset 5:09
B1 Sweet Rhapsody 4:44
B2 Fifty Years 4:58
B3 Let Me Live In Your Life 4:41
B4 Financial Affair 4:06
B5 Nothing Can Take The Place (Of Your Love)3:27
**Enjoy**
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