LEROY HUTSON: "Love Oh Love" 12" Vinyl Stereo LP 1973 Curtom CU-5020 PROMO VG+
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Leroy Hutson
Leroy Hutson is an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, best known as former lead singer of R&B vocal group The Impressions. His music concerns '70s soul, as noted in the June 29, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He is the father of producer JR Hutson.
Perhaps one of the most underrated spirit producers from the ’70s, multi-talented manufacturer/vocalist/songwriter/instrumentalist Leroy Hutson began his profession in a variety of vocal groupings around his hometown of Newark, NJ, in the ’60s, but found his early achievement being a co-writer for Howard School roommate Donny Hathaway’s 1970 strike one “The Ghetto.” Hutson would afterwards replace Curtis Mayfield in 1971 as the business lead vocalist in the Impressions and remained with them until 1973, when he implemented in Mayfield’s footsteps and released his own single career. His simple, imaginative productions established the bar high for everyone on the label (including its owner) to check out fit. Although his lyrics weren’t as politically fueled as Mayfield’s, Hutson’s love-inspired music were in charge of a string of middle-’70s classics that he and Curtom are most widely known. While he’d enjoy the industrial success throughout a string of albums in the middle- to past due ’70s, he also lent his creation and songwriting abilities to many labelmates, like the Organic Four. Following the shutting of Curtom Information in 1980, Hutson’s profession reduced into obscurity apart from 1982’s jazz-funk-tinged Heaven. However, he provides maintained a solid cult pursuing among spirit collectors even today, and in 2000 Sequel Information had the nice feeling to reissue not merely the initial albums on Compact disc but a two-disc anthology spanning the best strikes of his profession.
Love Oh Love
1973 Curtom Records CUK - 5020 Promo
Tracklist
A1 So In Love With You 2:59 A2 Love Oh Love 3:48 A3 When You Smile 4:21 A4 Getting It On (Theme For The "Jay Johnson Affair") 3:59 B1 Time Brings On A Change 4:45 B2 I'll Be There, I'll Still Care 3:07 B3 I'm In Love With You Girl 2:40 B4 As Long As There's Love Around 3:31
AllMusic Review by Donald A. Guarisco
After working as a writer and producer for such soul music stalwarts as Donny Hathaway and a stint replacing Curtis Mayfield as the lead vocalist in the Impressions, Leroy Hutson embarked on a solo career with 1973's Love Oh Love. The album combines the kind of smooth soul music that Hutson performed with the Impressions with more ambitious and conceptual outings in the vein of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. When Hutson sticks to love songs, Love Oh Love is magical: "So in Love With You" combines a honey-sweet romantic vocal from Hutson with a spine-tingling string arrangement to create an elegant and heartfelt ballad, while the title track raises its tale of lost love to an up-tempo level with jazzy horns and a percolating rhythm arrangement. "As Long as There's Love Around" is another effective romantic track that layers Hutson's velvety vocals over a complex instrumental track that combines gentle strings and brash horns with an insistently grooving bassline. The progressive-minded tracks are less satisfying: "Time Brings on a Change" is a political commentary song whose use of a Martin Luther King sample is a little too gimmicky for its own good, and "Getting It On" is a funk instrumental that fails to work any memorable hooks into its pleasant groove. Despite these problems, nothing on the album is less than listenable and everything flows together nicely to create a cohesive (if somewhat short) album. In short, Love Oh Love is one of the most consistent albums in the Leroy Hutson catalog and a good introduction to his silky soul style.
Condition:
VG + = Very Good . Vinyl has a few surface scuffs and/or very minor scratches (but no ‘feeler’ scratches). Label shows some evidence of wear, no writing; record label and sleeve no liquid stains.
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