Philly International meets Baltimore DJ legend Teddy Douglas who does his
soulful house remixes on ten Philly tunes for release on fellow
Baltimorean DJ Spen's (Sean Spencer) Quantize label. Available on
Traxsource
now for pre-order for release on Friday (29 Oct 2021) with the official
release being 12 Nov.
Jean Carn(e) is prominent with three of her recordings involved,
including "Was That All It Was, "Free Love" and "Time Waits For No One". A
common misnomer/misconception (which I also believed for years) is that it
was Jean Carn singing on Dexter Wansel's "Sweetest Pain", which is also
included, but it was in fact Terri Wells. London's S.E.L. (Soulful Emma
Louise) was drafted in for this new version. She, of course, recorded the song as a single in 2018 and it also appears on her latest album "Loc'd In Consciousness" released in May.
Other songs include versions of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
original of "Don't Leave Me This Way" (a hit at the same time for Thelma
Houston's cover of it) and "Bad Luck", Teddy P's "You Can't Hide From
Yourself", The O'Jays' "Stairway To Heaven". There is also a version of
Angie Stones, O'Jays "Backstabbers" sampling, "Wish I Didn't Miss
You".
The final track "Without Your Love", which is an
instrumental, I don't recognise so may be an original?
The album title has a strapline 'A Tribute To Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff'
but that must be more of a nod to the PIR label than their compositions as
only three of the included songs were written by them "Free Love", "Don't
Leave Me The Way" and "Stairway To Heaven". Leon Huff co-wrote
"Backstabbers" ("Wish I Didn't Miss You") with McFadden &
Whitehead.
Thanks to Bill Buckley's excellent Soul&Jazz&Funk for the tip on
this one.
| Rating: | 8.6 |
| Genre/Style: | Soulful House / Philly / Cover Versions |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Quantize |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 29/10/2021 12/11/2021 |
| Value: | $9.99 |
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