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![]() Artist: Various Artist Title: Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers Vol 1-3 Year Of Release: 2013 Label: Ace Records Genre: Soul, R&B Quality: flac lossless Total Time: 03:27:49 Total Size: 912 mb Tracklist --------- vol 1 01. What Should I Do - Little Ann 02. Happiness Is Here - Tobi Lark 03. You Did - Priscilla Page And Rony Darrell 04. My Sweet Baby - J T Rhythm 05. I'm Shooting High (I Reach For The Sky) - O.C. Tolbert 06. Love, Friends And Money - James Lately 07. (Marriage Is Only) A State of Mind - James Carpenter 08. That's All She Wrote - Gil Billingsley 09. The Deacons - Dave Hamilton 10. You Won't Miss The Water - Chico & Buddy 11. I'll Take My Flowers Right Now - The Barrino Brothers 12. Just A Mistake - The Ebonettes 13. Shoop Doop - Dave Hamilton 14. Sweep It Out in the Shed - Tobi Lark 15. Lean Lanky Daddy - Little Ann 16. Your Love Is What I Want - The Ravins 17. Who Are You Trying To Fool - Dave Hamilton Orchestra 18. Talkin' About Love - Tobi Lark 19. I'm Pretending - Priscilla Page 20. Nothing In This World - Dottie & Millie 21. All I Want Is You - O.C. Tolbert 22. Deep Shadows - Little Ann 23. Heavenly Thing - The Mark-Keys 24. Blue Funk - Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers compiles mostly obscure material to which the Detroit session guitarist contributed his funky, grooving licks, including sides from Hamilton himself, Little Ann, Tobi Lark, Priscilla Page, and JT Rhythm. vol 2 01. Spoken Intro To 'The Two Of Us' - Danny Cobus 02. The Two Of Us - Danny Cobus 03. Lean Lanky Daddy - Little Ann 04. You Got Me Turned Around - O.C. Tolbert 05. Challenge My Love - Tobi Lark 06. I'll Give You My Love - Sue Ann Jones 07. We're In Love - The Additions 08. Ain't That Groovy - Dave Hamilton Band 09. Falling In Love - The Tokays 10. Talkin' About My Baby - Dottie & Millie 11. My Sweet Baby - The Mark-Keys 12. I'm Going Back Home - J T Rhythm 13. I'm Me Just Me - Gil Billingsley 14. Tammie - Richard Coombs 15. That's Enough - O.C. Tolbert 16. Just A Mistake - The Barrino Brothers 17. One Way Street - Little Ann 18. Pisces Pace - Dave Hamilton 19. Who - Jackie Dee 20. The Smile On Your Face - Little Ann 21. Give It To Glory - O.C. Tolbert 22. All I Want Is You - J T Rhythm 23. No One Can Take The Place Of You - The Ravins 24. Tears Running And Falling From My Eyes - James Lately 25. That's All She Wrote - O.C. Tolbert Dave Hamilton was a producer, session musician, and songwriter on the Detroit soul scene starting in the 1960s. You can't really tell that from the liner notes, which basically say nothing about Hamilton's role in this music other than that the CD was compiled from his collection of tapes. It can be presumed, though, that Hamilton was involved in all of these records in some capacity, and he does have songwriter and production credits on some of the tracks. Most of them date from the mid- to late '60s, although some were done as late as the early '80s; some were unreleased demo-type tracks, and several came out on the Topper and TCB labels, indicating that Hamilton might have been involved with those companies. So, the music? It's acceptable, and not exceptional, period Detroit soul. As was the case with several small Detroit-area soul labels of the time, it often sounds like a minor-league Motown (indeed, Hamilton played on some Motown sessions himself). Motown is a good model, but nonetheless, adhering to a role model does not, in fact almost always does not, mean the resultant product stands up to the prototype, and that's the case here. Sometimes the micro-model is obvious; Tobi Lark's "Challenge My Love" sounds a lot like a Mary Wells song, "Ain't That Groovy" (an instrumental by the Dave Hamilton Band) like a Marvin Gaye backing track, Dottie and Millie like an amalgam of the Marvelettes and early Supremes -- you get the picture. It's not bad, but there's the nagging feeling that the musicians involved were just below the standard good enough to get involved with Motown itself. As is the case with several Kent/Ace compilations, the decision to sprinkle in a few disco- and urban contemporary-influenced cuts from a decade or later than the end of the 1960s disrupts the groove as surely as a hoseful of cold water in the face. vol 3 01. Until the End of Time - The Additions 02. What Should I Do - Little Ann 03. Sweep It Out in the Shed - Little Ann 04. The Wind - Simon Barbee 05. I Don't Know What You Got - Chico & Buddy 06. Along Came A Woman - O.C. Tolbert 07. True True Love - Tobi Lark 08. Blue Vibes - Dave Hamilton 09. It Takes A Lot Of Living - The Future Kind 10. In The Morning (When I Rise) - Elayne Starr 11. The Smile On Your Face - Little Ann 12. Love, Friends And Money - James Lately 13. Send My Baby Back To Me - Charmaine 15. You Did - Dave Hamilton Band 16. I Love The Way You Do - J T Rhythm 17. The Bad Things (You Said To Me) - The Barrino Brothers 18. Ride The Gospel Train - The Tolbert Family Singers feat. Brother O C Tolbert 19. Look Up And Smile - Chicago Pete 20. Side By Side aka Just A Mistake - The Ebonettes 21. Possession - Little Ann 22. Goodness - O.C. Tolbert 23. I Mean You Girl - Richard Coombs 24. Honest I Do - The Tokays Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers, Vol. 3, the third volume of rare soul from the vaults of Detroit producer and musician Dave Hamilton, adds a couple dozen more cuts to what's already available from that source, most of them previously unreleased, although a few are taken from rare singles. It's not easy to characterize what's here, since it's a grab bag of local soul with various approaches, most of it done in the 1960s from the sound of things (the copious liner notes do not always give dates, or even estimates of dates, for specific tracks). Unsurprisingly, Motown casts a large shadow over much of the material in the production, songwriting, and even the singing. It's not like listening to a bunch of Motown outtakes; the style isn't quite replicated so imitatively and, to be more blunt, you wouldn't mistake any of the people involved for Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, or Martha Reeves. Instead, it's a varied, listenable assortment of tracks, usually with a pop-soul slant, in which the artists who are involved exhibited some talent, but not enough to make you think they should have been famous or have had big hits. Some tracks make the grade more than others: Simon Barbee's "The Wind" is a nice, lush, sweet soul ballad, and Charmaine's "Send My Baby Back to Me" (which actually made it onto a 1964 single) is rather like early-'60s Motown girl group-influenced records by the likes of the Marvelettes and Mary Wells. It's one of the few songs here where everyone involved seems focused on creating a catchy commercial disc, instead of just throwing some ideas that are in line with commercial trends together to see what sticks. More idiosyncratic are Priscilla Page & Pepe the Poodle's "Throw the Poor Dog a Bone," with constant irritating dog barks, and the Tolbert Family Singers' "Ride the Gospel Train" (from the late 1980s), with exceptionally hoarse vocals by O.C. Tolbert. There's no harm being done by combing through Hamilton's holdings so thoroughly, and the music's not bad, but these compilations are digging so deeply into the barrel that they have a limited appeal even to soul specialists. Download links: Вернуться назад |