Soul LP OVATIONS “Hooked on a Feeling” MGM Sound of Memphis orig ’72 promo NICE

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Artist(s):   THE OVATIONS  

Title:  “Hooked On a Feeling”

Label:   MGM Sounds of Memphis ~ # SOM 7001.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is white & orange with black text, “DJ copy”.     

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is nice VG+ to VG++ with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are several faint marks that produce very soft tics in a couple places, but no loud clicks or pops.  Plays very enjoyably with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  A very nice playing copy.

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG+ with obvious signs of wear and handling, but still quite serviceable.   Light wear on front panel, and creasing at bottom right corner.  Bottom seam has approx 2” split at opening, and top has approx ½” split.  Reverse has promotional DJ sticker. 

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Hooked on a Feeling
• I Can’t Be Satisfied
• One in a Million
• Take It from One Who Knows (A Loser)
• Medley: Were You There/ Touch the Hem of His Garment

Side Two:

• So Nice to Be Loved By You
• Touching Me
• Don’t Break Your Promise
• Mr. River
• You’ll Never Know

 Review: 

“After moving from the Goldwax label to Sounds of Memphis around the beginning of the 1970s, Hooked on a Feeling was the first of the group's LPs in the new decade.  Featuring their Top 20 R&B single "Touching Me," it also included all five of their other songs to have seen release on Sounds of Memphis 45s, as well as four other tracks to fill out the program.  Sometimes it felt as though the Ovations were being fronted by a Sam Cooke who'd been resurrected to sing lead for a '70s sweet soul group, so strong was Louis Williams' resemblance to Cooke in the vocal department.  That's not to say that Williams was in Cooke's league, or for that matter that the material was up to the level of Cooke's classics, only that the similarity is unmistakable even to casual listeners who don't collect soul records.  The record featured fair period soul with backing by the Hi Rhythm Section on the tracks that had been released on singles (though not on the ones done specifically for the LP), with a slicker production than what was usually associated with Memphis soul records of the period.  Certainly the Williams-Cooke connection was emphasized in the offbeat gospelish medley of "Were You There?" with Cooke's "Touch the Hem of His Garment."  An additional offbeat selection was a cover of B.J. Thomas' "Hooked on a Feeling," another of the cuts that had already been released as a single.”

(courtesy Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com.)

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