Staying in a mellow mood, a track that keeps popping up on my YT feed is by Barbara Mason & The Futures. In the same vein as the Dells/Dramatics & Chuck Cissel tune posted earlier. A wonderful deep soul ballad 'We Got Each Other'. I've never really listened much to The Futures, considering them to be mainly a funk outfit, but they compliment Barbara Mason beautifully on this track, perhaps I need to explore their catalogue further? The deep male vocal is terrific. I've no idea which member it is, if anyone knows please leave a comment. Barbara responds to 'I love you Barbara' with 'I love you too Johnny', at 2:27 so does this hint/suggest that it's John King?
As far as I can see it was only ever issued as the flip to 'Make It Last' (a pleasant modern soul dancer) on Buddah in 1975 reaching #38 US R&B. It looks like originally 'Make It Last' was scheduled as A side as promos have it on both sides, but the issue has 'We Got Each Other' as A side. Perhaps it was considered a double A sides as 'Make It Last' also entered US R&B chart reaching #35 US R&B. There is, however, a double sided promo for 'We Got Each Other' which has mono short version on A side and stereo long version on the B side. The only other appearance I can find is as a bonus track on The Futures - Castle In The Sky reissue on CD in 2013, and it is longer than the single version at 6:01, so I've posted both the single and the album version. It does not seem to feature on any of Barbara Mason's studio albums for that period.
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