When Patrick Adams produced Eddie Kendricks

[remicks]

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When Motown legend, Eddie Kendricks, paired up with one of New York's more creative independent producers, Patrick Adams, for an album project in 1979 ......
How'd it turn out???






SOMETHING MORE
Eddie Kendricks

A1 Pleasure Man
A2 I Just Want To Be The One In Your Life
A3 Your Love Has Been Good To Me

B1 I Never Used To Dance Arranged By - Leroy Burgess
B2 I Can't Let You Walk Away
B3 Something More
B4 No Wonder (I Can't Get Over You)


Since nothing ever gets mentioned about it and perhaps not a 12" was released from this outing (?) ..... should I suppose not so good??
I just bought this LP , but before I give it a debut listen ...
... I'd be most interested in what anyone in advance can tell me to expect of it !!!




This will be BTW , Eddie's last solo LP ......


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[The Boogie Doctor]

The reviewer from allmusic.com doesn't think you should have very high expectations:

"Whoever's idea it was to depict Eddie Kendricks wearing an oversized orange sweater, baggy pants and dull brown brogan loafers on the cover, should have been fired. The cover surely didn't inspire sales, and like a dirty car seems to ride badly, a drab album cover makes the music inside sound bad. Most of the songs are bland and unmemorable. A decent cut, a remake of "I Just Want to Be the One in Your Life," wouldn't have made the cut on previous Kendricks albums. The up-tempo, disco oriented "I Never Used to Dance," lacks the beat and rhythms that enhanced his Motown recordings. A big problem here is that the producers don't require Kendricks to reach for notes like Motown did, and his vocals sound lazy and uninspiring. "Pleasure Man" is simply dull, as is the title cut. I couldn't, with a straight face, recommend this to even diehard Eddie Kendricks fans."

But hey, if you can boogie down to it, then that's all that matters right?

[remicks]

Originally Posted by The Boogie Doctor

The reviewer from allmusic.com doesn't think you should have very high expectations:

"Whoever's idea it was to depict Eddie Kendricks wearing an oversized orange sweater, baggy pants and dull brown brogan loafers on the cover, should have been fired. The cover surely didn't inspire sales, and like a dirty car seems to ride badly, a drab album cover makes the music inside sound bad. Most of the songs are bland and unmemorable. A decent cut, a remake of "I Just Want to Be the One in Your Life," wouldn't have made the cut on previous Kendricks albums. The up-tempo, disco oriented "I Never Used to Dance," lacks the beat and rhythms that enhanced his Motown recordings. A big problem here is that the producers don't require Kendricks to reach for notes like Motown did, and his vocals sound lazy and uninspiring. "Pleasure Man" is simply dull, as is the title cut. I couldn't, with a straight face, recommend this to even diehard Eddie Kendricks fans."

But hey, if you can boogie down to it, then that's all that matters right?

This one's goin' up in smoke I guess

Haven't yet heard the music inside .... but do agree with the comments about this lackadaisical cover ...

The orange sweater's not the only thing that seems over sized .... Never noticed before what BIG hands Eddie had ... as featured here .....


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[eddie]

Some of those tracks were on Eddie Razor & Tie CD Vintage '78. Here are some soundclips. "Something more" appears to be the best of the 6 here.

allmusic ((( Vintage '78 > Overview )))