Jubilee Offer: Patriotic Classics for £2.50 |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Audio CD
Thank You for recording:
An album of some of the greatest Tamla songs by writer arranger Lamont Dozier with Gerald Albright, Paulino De Costa, Freddie Washington
Like most Tamla albums there are both great and forgettable tracks, not least the awful and thankfully last track Dance Remix of the classic I Hear A Symphony - at least there are two other excellent versions.
There is easily a big enough proportion of great tracks on this 14 track recording to outweigh the below par ones
It is cool, chilled, soulful, jazzy.
One downside, Dozier, like many writers, sings too much, sometimes croons rather than swings
Perhaps if he had concentrated more on the arrangements, Quincy Jones style, he could have produced a truly remarkable and timeless classic.
With all its faults this contains versions of This Old Heart of Mine, Heat Wave, Stop In The Name of Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Baby I Need Your Loving and more, each of which is worth everything you pay.
Gets a 5th star for printing all the lyrics to these classic Motown Classics
An album of some of the greatest Tamla songs by writer arranger Lamont Dozier with Gerald Albright, Paulino De Costa, Freddie Washington
Like most Tamla albums there are both great and forgettable tracks, not least the awful and thankfully last track Dance Remix of the classic I Hear A Symphony - at least there are two other excellent versions.
There is easily a big enough proportion of great tracks on this 14 track recording to outweigh the below par ones
It is cool, chilled, soulful, jazzy.
One downside, Dozier, like many writers, sings too much, sometimes croons rather than swings
Perhaps if he had concentrated more on the arrangements, Quincy Jones style, he could have produced a truly remarkable and timeless classic.
With all its faults this contains versions of This Old Heart of Mine, Heat Wave, Stop In The Name of Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Baby I Need Your Loving and more, each of which is worth everything you pay.
Gets a 5th star for printing all the lyrics to these classic Motown Classics
Format:Audio CD
Love Motown? Love H-D-H? Then your collection is not complete without this.
Ok, he sounds a bit knackered on quite a few of the tracks, but he was no spring chicken when he recorded this. As far as I know this was the last 'new product' to come out of the legendary H-D-H so I reckon we owe him a purchase. Just how much pleasure did they give us?
Ok, he sounds a bit knackered on quite a few of the tracks, but he was no spring chicken when he recorded this. As far as I know this was the last 'new product' to come out of the legendary H-D-H so I reckon we owe him a purchase. Just how much pleasure did they give us?
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have something of an obsession with the great songwriters of the 60's and 70's singing their own songs (Jimmy Webb, Barry Mann, Paul Williams, Dann Penn) so when I came across this oddity I could not resist.
Lamont Dozier mostly sings this amazing collection of songs as though he has never heard them performed before, with little reference to the original arrangements, and many at a bizarre tempo so much in contrast to the frantic originals.
In a way, it is hard not to romanticise that no matter how flawed, this is how these songs have been inside his head for 35 years - in another way, this is of cringing nite club quality.
Worth a go if like me you enjoy the concept of songs made famous by others being performed by the composer, but fans of stuff like Michael McDonalds "Motown" and Seals "Soul" BEWARE.
Lamont Dozier mostly sings this amazing collection of songs as though he has never heard them performed before, with little reference to the original arrangements, and many at a bizarre tempo so much in contrast to the frantic originals.
In a way, it is hard not to romanticise that no matter how flawed, this is how these songs have been inside his head for 35 years - in another way, this is of cringing nite club quality.
Worth a go if like me you enjoy the concept of songs made famous by others being performed by the composer, but fans of stuff like Michael McDonalds "Motown" and Seals "Soul" BEWARE.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Music > Pop
- Music > R&B & Soul
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
