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"...In The Morning When She Wakes…Touch Her Face…
Sunshine Keep Her Safe…"
A second companion Volume to the 2CD set "Keep On Truckin': The Motown Solo Albums, Vol.1" on the American reissue label Hip-O Select issued in 2005 (see separate review) – this is the kind of Soul reissue to have fans frothing at the gash (and with good reason). Here's the Boogie Down details…
USA released October 2006 - "The Thin Man: The Motown Solo Albums, Vol.2" by EDDIE KENDRICKS on Hip-O Select B000739702 (Barcode 60251704348) is a 3CD set - a non-numbered limited edition of 5000 and is laid out as follows:
Disc 1 (79:40 minutes):
1. The Thin Man
2. Tell Her Love Has The Need
3. Son Of Sagittarius
4. Boogie Down
5. Hooked On Your Love
6. Honey Brown
7. You Are The Melody Of My Life
8. Trust Your Heart
9. Girl Of My Dreams
10. Loving You The Second Time
Tracks 1 to 10 make up his 5th US album "Boogie Down!" – released February 1974 on Tamla T-330V1 in the USA and April 1974 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11266
11. If Anyone Can
12. Happy
13. Get The Cream Off The Top
14. Body Talk
15. Fortune Teller
16. Skippin' Work Today
17. You Loved Me Then
18. I’ve Got To Be
Tracks 11 to 18 are his 6th US album "The Hit Man" – released June 1975 in the USA on Tamla T6-338S1 and September 1975 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 12001
Disc 2 (79:04 minutes):
1. He's A Friend
2. A Part Of Me
3. I Won't Take No
4. Never Gonna Leave Me
5. Get It While It's Hot
6. Chains
7. The Sweeter You Treat Her
8. It's Not What You Got
9. On My Way Home
10. All Of My Love
Tracks 1 to 10 make up his 7th US album "He's A Friend" – released January 1976 in the USA on Tamla T6-343S1 and March 1976 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 12016
11. Goin' Up In Smoke
12. The Newness Is Gone
13. Sweet Tenderoni
14. Born Again
15. Don't You Want Light
16. Music Man
17. Thanks For The Memories
18. To You From Me
19. Don't Put Off Till Tomorrow
20. Skeleton In Your Chest
Tracks 11 to 20 are his 8th album "Goin' Up In Smoke" – released September 1976 in the USA on Tamla T6-346S1 and November 1976 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 12043
Disc 3 (73:53 minutes):
1. Something Shady (Is Going On)
2. Baby
3. I Want To Live (My Life With You)
4. You Got It
5. Intimate Friends
6. Diamond Girl
7. Then Came You
8. I'll Have To Let You Go
9. California Woman
Tracks 1 to 9 are his 9th and last album for the label, "Slick" – released August 1977 in the USA on Tamla T6-356S1 and November 1977 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 12071
10. Let Now Be Now, Let Love Be Love
11. I Need You More Now Than Ever
12. That's All Behind You
13. Go On With Your Bad Self
14. Johnny Faraway
15. If I Can't Love You Then I Can't Love Me
16. Nothing Is Real
17. I'll Be Your Servant
Tracks 10 to 17 are all PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED bonus tracks called "Motown Lost & Found" with the bulk of them (10 to 16) being outtakes from the 1972 "People...Hold On" album sessions
All 3 CDs are Brown & Yellow with the Tamla World logo - aping the way the US LP labels would have looked. The 32-page booklet pictures both the LP sleeves front and rear in full colour, gives detailed notes on the song-writer and session players involved, lists US singles and their B-sides that came off each album (details from the actual Motown session logs) and there's a continued essay on Hendricks' career by noted Motown writer BRIAN CHIN. In between the exact reproduction of album sleeves are high-quality colour pictures of Kendricks from the early Seventies - in fact the booklet like the silver digipak that houses the whole thing - has an overall classy feel about it. But the best bit - as always with Hip-O is the wonderful audio quality...
Like Volume 1 - all tracks have been digitally remastered with great care and affection by one of Universal's top tape engineers SUHA GUR - a name that has turned up on countless superb Motown compilations to date - especially the excellent 2CD "Gold" series.
Starting in 1974, this set's material begins with soulful funkiness and ends up with slightly cheesy disco. The sound on "Tell Her Love Has Felt The Need" is typical of so many tracks - a funky backbeat, falsetto vocals, Bacharach-type brass fills - all of it sounding clear, warm and well balanced. What a fantastic listen it is - and very reminiscent of Marvin Gaye’s "Let's Get It On". The music and lyrics do dip a bit by the time we reach the disco sets, but then the whole package redeems itself with the excellence of the unreleased material on Disc 3 from the 1972 "People...Hold On" album sessions. "I Need You More Now Than Ever" is as lovely a soul song as ever graced the charts of the time - astonishing that its languished in Motown's vaults until now.
A job well done…and I'll happily refer Soul Lovers back to Volume 1...
