Condition: Used
Tammi Terrell - Irresistible
Motown LP 1969 Canada
Condition
Record: VG+, minor marks only
Cover: VG++ clean ( see pic )
Back cover has two inches of handwriting
Tammi Terrell's solo album, Irresistible
(Motown #652, released 1/1969).
Though the album was released in 1969, many of the music tracks sound like they were recorded perhaps over a five-year period (1963-1968).
SIDE 1
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LOVE ME
THAT'S WHAT BOYS ARE MADE OF
COME ON AND SEE ME
WHAT A GOOD MAN HE IS
TEARS AT THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR
THIS OLD HEART OF MINE
SIDE 2
HE'S THE ONE I LOVE
CAN'T STOP NOW (LOVE IS CALLING
JUST TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR
HOLD ME OH MY DARLING
I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT YOU
Subject: TAMMI TERRELL
Album Review"Irresistible" (Motown #652, released 1/1969)
Here's my track-by-track mini review of Tammi Terrell's solo album, Irresistible (Motown #652, released 1/1969). Though the album was released in 1969, many of the music tracks sound like they were recorded perhaps over a five-year period (1963-1968).
By Charles Duke
SIDE 1
* "COME ON AND SEE ME"
The standout track of the album, and its second single (Motown #1095, 1966). Good stops and starts in the rhythm. One of those horn-and-strings-driven mid-tempo Motown songs (rhythmically recalls "Dancing In The Street"). I remembered it the second I heard it. (The B-side of the single, "Baby Dont'cha Worry," does not appear on "Irresistible.")
* "THIS OLD HEART OF MINE"
Really speeded-up; almost in the tempo of a speeded up "I'll Be Doggone," with a background part that sounds one-half Supremes, one-half Andantes. this track is incredible
* "HE'S THE ONE I LOVE"
Not a bad cut at all. A mid-tempo groover that would be typical of a Gladys Horton-led Marvelettes track.
* "CAN'T STOP NOW (LOVE IS CALLING)"
Rhythmically recalls Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher.
, it wouldn't have been commercial enough to be promoted as a single at the time.
* "HOLD ME OH MY DARLING"
The tempo, rhythm, male background, and organ sounds like a track originally intended for Mary Wells back in her earlier Motown hit-making days. This track would've been a B-side at best. Kind of recalls Mary's "Your Old Standby." (Actually, after further research, this track WAS the B-side of the first single, "I Can't Believe You Love Me.")
SIDE 2
* "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LOVE ME"
I don't see how this single actually placed higher on the pop charts than "Come On and See Me." Whoever wrote and/or arranged this track seems to have been influenced by Little Anthony & the Imperials' "Going Out of My Head."
* "THAT'S WHAT BOYS ARE MADE OF"
Slightly faster version of the same song (with requisite gender change) that was The Spinners' 1961 debut single on Tri-Phi. Written by Gwen Gordy and the Patrol's own Harvey Fuqua!
* "WHAT A GOOD MAN HE IS"
Not a bad track--actually, a pretty funky one! Might've been a hit with some adjustments. Sounds too raw, though, for Motown. Kind of recalls The Marvelettes' "Here I Am Baby."
Motown had what I would call "hard singers" and "soft singers" among its female roster. Wanda Young (of The Marvelettes) would be a "soft singer;" Martha Reeves would be a "hard singer." I'd place Tammi in the latter category as far as this collection goes.
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