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The Very Best of The Originals

The Originals

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The Very Best of the Originals includes their hits from the late '60s through the mid-'70s, along with some LP cuts, B-sides, and unreleased tracks. The first six songs were produced or co-produced by Marvin Gaye in 1969 and 1970 (including the hits "Baby I'm for Real" and "The Bells"). These have been sometimes cited as forerunners to his What's Going On album, but it would be wrong to view them as a What's Going On supplement. They're in much more of a lush, group vocal, sweet soul style, although some traces of ideas Gaye would play with in the early '70s are present, particularly in the way the background voices weave around each other. The one previously unreleased Gaye production, "Just to Keep You Satisfied," would be reworked, with the same backing track and backing vocals but with a different lead vocal and lyrics, on Gaye's Let's Get It On album. The rest of the tracks are largely in a competent sweet soul mold, also including "Suspicion," a previously unreleased Holland-Dozier-Holland number from 1966 with a more up-tempo sound; "Game Called Love," a 1974 cut composed and produced by Stevie Wonder; and "Down to Love Town," a 1976 disco smash.

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Disco Classic Must Have...Find It Here...

Yeah u can find that 12" Disco gem called "Down To Love Town" right here.Also there are a lot of other great tunes like " The Bells" etc.

has to be......

the song 'baby i'm for real' has to be in heaven's top ten most beautiful songs. can anything get mellower?

The Very Best of The Originals

Although iTunes has compiled most of the best songs from The Originals, those of us old enough to remember this group and had collected all of their music know that there are a lot of great songs that they produced that aren't here. Hopefully iTunes will see fit to expand their collection of this wonderful group who brought so much joy and emotion to me and my contemporaries.

Biography

Formed: 1966 in Detroit, MI

Genre: R&B/Soul

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '00s, '10s

Often called "Motown's best-kept secret," the Originals scored only a handful of chart hits during their lengthy career, most notably the powerful 1969 ballad "Baby I'm for Real," but their behind-the-scenes contributions as songwriters and backing vocalists cement their place in the label's enduring legacy. The Originals were led by singer Freddie Gorman, a Detroit native who in 1957 formed the Fideletones with longtime friend Brian Holland. After issuing "Pretty Girl" on Aladdin Records in 1959,...
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