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Post by tempfan on Nov 23, 2004 12:43:23 GMT -5
Motown/ Hip-O Select releases The Temptations 1973 album "1990" this Friday NOVEMBER 26TH! This CD Edition will consist of 5000 Non-Numbered limited edition copies. The album was Norman Whitfield's final LP with the group in 1973. This album worked the successful Whitfield formula: short radio hits that snapped with soul and tight rhythms, complemented by spaced-out suites about a screwed-up society that took up almost a whole LP side. The album features "Let Your Hair Down," a No. 1 R&B smash, and two singles that hit the Top 10, the sublime "Heavenly" and "You've Got My Soul On Fire." Yet the album, although No. 2 R&B and Top 20 Pop, has never been issued on CD until now. For more information, to order and to listen to sound clips please visit Motown Hip-O Select Website at hip-oselect.com/catalogue_temps1990.asp |
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Post by janebse on Nov 23, 2004 15:53:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the information. I ordered it.
Harry Weinger is really turning out the vault. One after another he is releasing records. He responds to the fans’ desires, and, of course, he has to answer to the “powers that be” which makes him an amazing man.
Although this is an album, Harry also puts together recorded singles by a singer and issues them as CD's. It's more complicated than I am making it sound.
I just bought a 2-disk set of Marvin Gaye produced by Harry with many partly finished, some never released songs of Gaye's and other efforts by Gaye on it. Harry says he “loves Marvin” and so put together “Let’s Get It On” with the original album plus all sorts of bits and pieces.
Singers do a lot of demos. For example, remember when we discussed Ali Woodson doing a demo for the Tempts on their last album LEGACY. On the final album, the songs were all sung by the current Tempts, but Ali sang a demo and worked on one of the songs. Singers do a lot of demos.
A demo made Jimmy Ruffin famous. Jimmy Ruffin did a demo on “The Brokenhearted” which was originally intended for THE SPINNERS but Gordy liked Jimmy’s version better and that was the one he released.
A singer might make demos of hundreds of songs. Sometimes the producers liked the demos better than whatever the person they had originally intended to use for the song did, and so released the demo as the final record. However, the singer is not always aware that he is making a demo.
David Ruffin talked about recording many songs that he thought would be released only to later hear them being sung on the radio by Stevie Wonder or someone else. It was then he realized that he was making a demo.
Eddie Kendrick described it as, "I am a singer, and I sing whatver the producer wants me to sing."
Jimmy Ruffin recorded many more songs for Motown than were released. Some of these have come to light and stunned people by the brilliance of Jimmy. "You know how to love me" is one and shares the same backing track as the released Temptations track "Too busy thinking about my baby." Oddly the Marvin Gaye version of "Too busy thinking about my baby" had a totally different backing track. "He who picks a rose" which although has the same lyrics as the released Edwin Starr version does not have the same backing track. This track again shares its backing tracking with another released Temptations record, this time titled, "I've go to find a way (to get you back). There are also unreleased versions of "I've got to find a way" by Tammi Terrell and Choker Campbell.
The point I wanted to make is that The Temptations may have many songs in that mysterious Motown vault that they did the demos on. But trust Harry to find them and put them on a CD for us.
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Post by Ivory on Nov 23, 2004 16:49:15 GMT -5
Thanks, now I can finally have a better version than the LP I have. I knocked a big chunk out of it making a photo for "The Temptations Album Pages" website.  |
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Post by TemptsFanforLife on Nov 24, 2004 12:15:30 GMT -5
Thank you Tempfan this is great news. 1990 was a great album. It wasn't Norman's last lp with the Tempts though. He worked with them again in 1981 on the Back To Basics lp producing the first side which included such hits as Miss Busy Body and Sail Away. I can't wait to get my copy of 1990. Maybe Motown will one day release the entire Temptation catalog.  |
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Post by kalisa2 on Nov 24, 2004 12:44:05 GMT -5
Hey TFFL!!  Good to see you back here!! I hope that you are feeling much much better!! I just now saw your post where you said you had been ill... |
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Post by brunneng on Nov 27, 2004 11:01:11 GMT -5
That hippo place is cool! Ahhh, hippoes. Such nice figures! ;D ...all I need... |
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Post by edafan on Nov 28, 2004 18:26:06 GMT -5
It is great to order xmas gifts one really wants
Edafan
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Post by brunneng on Nov 28, 2004 19:01:54 GMT -5
It is great to order xmas gifts one really wants Edafan True and even more fun to buy and keep it!! ;D ...around and around and around... |
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Post by TemptsFanforLife on Nov 29, 2004 0:45:16 GMT -5
Hey TFFL!! Good to see you back here!! I hope that you are feeling much much better!! I just now saw your post where you said you had been ill... Thanks Kalisa2. Its good to be back. I'm not a hundred percent but I'm working on it. |
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