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I can recall when this rather dull-looking Soul/Disco album used to sit in secondhand racks around the UK and go nowhere. It was precisely the kind of average-looking Soul LP you used to get in the late Seventies that promised little other than filler fleshing out a single hit.
But then DJs and Soul Lovers began to look under the hood (away from the obvious winner of the hugely popular club classic "You're Gonna Get Next To Me") - and found a quality Soul album with almost all of the tunes penned bv the smiling Californian singers on the cover - BO KIRKLAND and RUTH DAVIS. Here are next to you details...
UK released December 2014 - "You're Gonna Get Next To Me: The Complete Claridge Recordings" by BO KIRKLAND and RUTH DAVIS on Ace/Kent-Soul CDKEND 425 (Barcode 029667242523) contains one LP and six Bonus Single Sides and pans out as follows (64:30 minutes):
1. I Feel The Love In This Room Tonight
2. To Make You Love Me
3. Train of Desire
4. You're Gonna Get Next To Me
5. We Got The Recipe [Side 2]
6. Easy Loving
7. Sure Got A Thing For You - BO KIRKLAND
8. Can You Feel It
9. Grandfather Clock - BO KIRKLAND
10. Stay Out Of My Kitchen
Tracks 1 to 10 are the album "Bo & Ruth" by BO KIRKLAND and RUTH DAVIS - released December 1976 in the USA on Claridge 1002 and June 1977 in the UK on EMI International INS 3007
11. Loving Arms (1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 427, B-side of "That's The Way The Wind Blows")
12. That's The Way The Wind Blows (1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 427, A)
13. That's A Bet (1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 432, B-side of "Stay By My Side")
14. Stay By My Side (1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 432, A)
15. Heartbreaker - RUTH DAVIS (1978 USA 7" single on Claridge 434, B-side of "Love In A Love Zone")
16. Lost In A Love Zone - RUTH DAVIS (1978 USA 7" single on Claridge 434, A)
This CD will allow fans to sequence the following US and UK 45's as follows:
1. Grandfather Clock [9] b/w Sure Got A Thing For You [7] - BO KIRKLAND
(1975 USA 7" single on Claridge 409)
2. Easy Loving [6] b/w We Got The Recipe [5]
(1976 USA 7" single on Claridge 414)
3. I Feel Love In This Room Tonight [1] b/w To Make You Love Me [2]
(1976 USA 7' single on Claridge 421)
4. You're Gonna Next To Me b/w Stay Out Of My Kitchen (If You Can't Stand The Heat) [10]
(1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 424)
[Note: the 3:05 minutes single edit isn't on this CD, hence no track no provided]
5. That's The Way The Wind Blows [12] b//w Loving Arms [11]
(1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 427)
6. Stay By My Side [14] b/w That's A Bet [13]
(1977 USA 7" single on Claridge 432)
7. Easy Loving [6] b/w Can You Feel It [8]
(August 1977 UK 7" single on EMI International INT 536)
8. Lost In A Love Zone [16] b/w Heartbreaker [15] - RUTH DAVIS
(1978 USA 7" single on Claridge 434)
As you can see from the lists above - you get the 10-track album with six non-album single sides added on as bonuses - all of it remastered onto CD for the first time. The 12-page booklet is festooned with those American Claridge label 45s as well as repro-ing the rare Promo-Only Picture Sleeve to the UK release of "Easy Loving" (Page 3) and an EMI International Press Sheet from June 1977 on the release of the UK platter. And while the NICK ROBBINS remaster is truly fabulous (great audio on every track) - it isn't going to take fans long to work out that there's a major omission here - the 7" edit of the album monster hit "You'll Get Next To Me". It seems like a major mistake to leave it off. Don't get me wrong - the extended album cut at 7:19 minutes is a DJ's dream really - but most folks are familiar with the shorter cut. Worth mentioning...
The album openers with the lovely mid-tempo "I Feel Love In The Room Tonight" and is followed by a stepper "To Make You Love Me". We go full-on smoocher with the strings and sway of "Train Of Desire" where their voices sound sweet. But the opening three are thoroughly trumped by the Side A finisher - the full album version of "You're Gonna Get Next To Me". Even now it's such a winner with that impish chant throughout and its good to hear the tune stretch out too.
The Bo Kirkland solo cut "Sure Got A Thing For You" is fabulously slick and slinky Seventies Soul - very Marvin Gaye "Here, My Dear!" territory. It gets into a groove and shuffle that just won't quit and the remaster brings this out to the full with lyrics "Tried to think of something cute to say...but all that came out of my mouth was Hi..." Of the singles "Stay By My Side" is a more sophisticated Disco tune than the market of the time was used to (it's equally chipper B-side is good too). Her solo 45 "Lost In A Love Zone" is the funkiest of the lot.
It's not all genius by any means and that missing edit of the huge hit is a bit of an oversight - but with the great presentation and especially the upgraded audio quality - fans should dive in and enjoy...
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