Release Date: 16 March 2015
Label: Soul Music Records / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5013929082731
Genres: Pop
Release Date: 16 June 2014
Label: Masterpiece
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8717438197883
Genres: Pop
Description
Following the success of their best-selling 4th album for Capitol records, Sky High! (reissued by Soulmusic records in 2011, SMCR-5023) which included the international success Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, the Tavares brothers (Ralph, Tiny, Pooch, Chubby and Butch) reunited with that LPs producer, (former Motown staffer) Freddie Perren for their 1977 set, Love Storm.
Love Storm included the US R&B and top 30 pop hit Whodunit which achieved top 5 status in the UK and charted in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
Other original material (mostly written by producer Freddie Perren and collaborator Keni St, Lewis) included the UK top 20 hit, One Step Away and the Butch Tavares co-penned ballad Fool Of The Year.
Description
The Tavares brothers' debut album, Check It Out, established them as soul stars, and when they delivered their fourth album, Sky High!, in 1976, they became disco stars as well -- at least for a few years. The man Tavares has to thank for its popularity in the disco world from 1976-1978 is Freddie Perren, who made sure that Sky High! had both soul appeal and disco appeal. Perren did the same thing when he produced Tavares' fifth album, Love Storm released in 1977 on the Capitol label. Perren brings a fair amount of disco gloss to the major hit "Whodunit" with its lyrics pleading to several 1970’s TV detectives (Baretta / Kojak …) and the Latin-tinged "Watchin' the Woman's Movement", but the album also has plenty of unapologetic soul crooning. Listen to the ballads "Keep in Touch", "Out of the Picture" and "Fool of the Year", or a heartfelt cover of Jesse Belvin's 1956 doo wop hit "Goodnight My Love". Also memorable is Tavares' cover of the Jim Weatherly song "The Going ups and the Coming Downs" which Gladys Knight & the Pips had recorded in 1974. The album is in the style Perren had used on 1976's Sky High!, with a mixture of R&B material and radio-friendly disco-oriented tracks.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
West, Bruce & Laing
Various Artists
The Residents
The Pentangle
The Fall
The Fall
Thea Gilmore
Sheena Easton
Tavares
Tavares
Tavares
Tavares
