Paul Revere & The Raiders - Your Love (Is The Only Love) (Dennis Lambert / Brian Potter) Columbia 3-10126 - 1975
Cuando su último single oficial fué publicado, hacía casi unos diez años ya que Paul Revere & The Raiders habían dejado atrás su época dorada. La cara A del single en cuestión era una aguerrida versión del "Good Times" de The Easybeats, debídamente setentizada. En la cara B, casi a modo de despedida, aparecía esta sorpresa: Una multicolor canción que parece sacada del repertorio de algún grupo de northern soul de los 70. No en balde está compuesta por Dennis Lambert y Brian Potter, que ya habían escrito algunos grandes éxitos para The Four Tops, además de para The Grass Roots, Glen Campbell y muchos otros.
Pero, el público del Sonido Philadelphia no solía seguir a grupos de rock que andaban ya cuesta abajo. Los fans de The Raiders se habían hecho mayores y estaban por otros menesteres y, los pocos que quedaban, no se identificaban demasiado con los sonidos del soul de guante blanco. Además y después de todo, esto era tan sólo una cara B. Total, anonimato garantizado.
Probablemente, otro gallo habría cantado si la canción hubiera sido un single de The O'Jays o de The Spinners. Ya ves, también en la música, la apariencia, el nombre y el envoltorio parecen ser decisivos. Un gran canto del cisne.
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When their last official single was released, it was already about ten years ago that Paul Revere & The Raiders had left behind their peak and golden times. The A side of the single was a hard and duly seventized cover of "Good Times" by The Easybeats. On the B side, almost as some kind of goodbye, there was this suprise: A multicoloured song which seems more taken from the set list of some 70s northern soul group. Indeed, it was written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who had already penned some great hits for The Four Tops, and also The Grass Roots, Glen Campbell and many others.
But, the Philadelphia Sound audience didn't use to follow rock bands on their way downhill. The old fans from the Raiders were already grown up and with their 9 to 5 lives and, those few left, wouldn't get too indentified with these white eyed soul sounds. Also and after all, this was only a B side. So, anonimity guaranteed.
Probably, it would have been a quite different thing if the song had been a single by The O'Jays or The Spinners. You see, also in music, appearance, name and envelope seem to be a decisive point. A great swan song.
http://rapidshare.com/files/354921888/Paul_Revere___The_Raiders_-_Your_Love.mp3
Cuando su último single oficial fué publicado, hacía casi unos diez años ya que Paul Revere & The Raiders habían dejado atrás su época dorada. La cara A del single en cuestión era una aguerrida versión del "Good Times" de The Easybeats, debídamente setentizada. En la cara B, casi a modo de despedida, aparecía esta sorpresa: Una multicolor canción que parece sacada del repertorio de algún grupo de northern soul de los 70. No en balde está compuesta por Dennis Lambert y Brian Potter, que ya habían escrito algunos grandes éxitos para The Four Tops, además de para The Grass Roots, Glen Campbell y muchos otros.
Pero, el público del Sonido Philadelphia no solía seguir a grupos de rock que andaban ya cuesta abajo. Los fans de The Raiders se habían hecho mayores y estaban por otros menesteres y, los pocos que quedaban, no se identificaban demasiado con los sonidos del soul de guante blanco. Además y después de todo, esto era tan sólo una cara B. Total, anonimato garantizado.
Probablemente, otro gallo habría cantado si la canción hubiera sido un single de The O'Jays o de The Spinners. Ya ves, también en la música, la apariencia, el nombre y el envoltorio parecen ser decisivos. Un gran canto del cisne.
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When their last official single was released, it was already about ten years ago that Paul Revere & The Raiders had left behind their peak and golden times. The A side of the single was a hard and duly seventized cover of "Good Times" by The Easybeats. On the B side, almost as some kind of goodbye, there was this suprise: A multicoloured song which seems more taken from the set list of some 70s northern soul group. Indeed, it was written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who had already penned some great hits for The Four Tops, and also The Grass Roots, Glen Campbell and many others.
But, the Philadelphia Sound audience didn't use to follow rock bands on their way downhill. The old fans from the Raiders were already grown up and with their 9 to 5 lives and, those few left, wouldn't get too indentified with these white eyed soul sounds. Also and after all, this was only a B side. So, anonimity guaranteed.
Probably, it would have been a quite different thing if the song had been a single by The O'Jays or The Spinners. You see, also in music, appearance, name and envelope seem to be a decisive point. A great swan song.
http://rapidshare.com/files/354921888/Paul_Revere___The_Raiders_-_Your_Love.mp3
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