Saturday, May 2, 2015

LP #14 The Temptations – In A Mellow Mood (1967)


A man whose taste is eerily similar to mine noted last year that this album is “extremely well done … with great soulful arrangements of show tunes and some other standards.” That pretty much sums it up; obviously the Temps did a great job on songs by Motown writers such as Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield, and Barrett Strong, but this LP shows that they could bring a “Lot O’ Soul” (to borrow from the title of their previous album) to other material as well. In more recent years, established artists releasing “standards” albums has almost become a cliché, but this one is one of the best ever in that genre.
 
Favorite tracks:
Ol’ Man River
Try To Remember
Hello, Young Lovers
With These Hands

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