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"…Come To Me…"
A timely and official CD reissue
of a long-forgotten Tamla Disco LP from late 1976 including two chart hits –
Thelma’s cover of the Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes 1975 classic “Don’t
Leave Me Way” and “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” – and it sounds amazing too. Here
are the glitter ball details...
UK released February 2015 -
"Any Way You Want Me" by THELMA HOUSTON on SoulMusic Records SMCR
5126 (Barcode 5013929082632) an 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue and Remaster with Six Bonus Tracks that break down as follows
(53:38 minutes):
1. Any Way You Like It [Side 1]
2. Don't Leave Me This Way
3. Don't Know Why I Love You
4. Come To Me [Side 2]
5. Don't Make Me Pay (For
Another Girl's Mistake)
6. Sharing Something Perfect
Between Ourselves
7. If It's The Last Thing I
Do
8. Differently
Tracks 1 to 8 are the album
"Any Way You Like It" - released December 1976 in the USA on Tamla
T6-345S1 and January 1977 in the UK on Tamla Motown STMP 12049
BONUS TRACKS:
9. Do You Know Where You're
Going To (Previously Only Issued in New Zealand)
10. Together (Previously
Only Issued in New Zealand)
11. Today Will Soon Be Yesterday
– non-album B-side to "Don't Leave Me This Way" US 7" single on Tamla 54278
12. You've Been Doing Wrong
For So Long – non-album A-side – USA 7" single on Tamla 1316
13. One Out Of Every Six
(Censored Version) – non-album A-side – USA 7" single on Tamla 54275
14. Don't Leave Me This Way
(US Tamla Single Edit) – non-album A-side version on USA 7" single Tamla 54278
Licensed from Universal -
ALAN WILSON has done the remaster - and the audio is fantastic - full of power,
presence and detail. The album is very much in the Disco/Light Soul vein with a
mixture of steppers and smoochers Produced by people like Michael L. Smith who
had worked with Jerry Butler, Jermaine Jackson and The Temptations. The 16-page
booklet is pleasingly packed with details about her recording history courtesy
of David Nathan’s affectionate liner notes while the rear pages picture US, UK
and foreign 45s of note.
I'd be hard-pressed to say
that "Any Way You Like It" is a masterpiece – it isn’t – but there are likeable
ballads on here like "Come To Me" (Jermaine Jackson had a hand in the writing)
and the huge hit "Don't Leave Me This Way". The album managed a respectable No.
5 placing on the American Billboard R&B charts. The Bonus Tracks smartly
include two rare foreign sides making their CD debut here as well as four other
non-album single sides.
A 3-star album given a
5-star reissue on a CD that’s pitched at mid-price - Disco lovers should dive
in...
