Off White Records: VARIOUS ARTISTS - MAINSTREAM MODERN SOUL VOL 2 1969-1976 (CD)

CD released: Jul 28, 2017

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Tracklisting:

1.	The Grass Ain't Greener - Charles Beverly
2.	You Can Be Cured - Randolph Brown
3.	Come Back With Your Love Pt 1 - Special Delivery
4.	You've Got A Lot To Give - Chocolate Syrup
5.	I'll Never Be The Same (Part 1) - Chapter Three
6.	Oh My Love - Almeta Lattimore
7.	I'll Never Trust Love Again - Mcarthur
8.	When There's No Such Thing As Love (It's Over) - Lenny Welch
9.	Your Love Is Slipping Away - Lee Bates
10.	Please Don't Set Me Free - Jeany Reynolds
11.	Never Did I Stop Loving You - Alice Clark

12.	Let Her Know - Bobby Earl Williams
13.	I Know Something That You Don't Know - Ellerine Harding
14.	You Are The Spice Of My Life - Neah Or Nia Johnson
15.	I've Got To Tell You - Count Willie With Lrl & The Dukes
16.	I'Ve Been Trying To Love You - Lenny Mcdaniel And The Last Nickle
17.	Love Bug - Sugar Billy
18.	You'll Do It - Calvin Arnold
19.	Today Or Never - Eleventh Commandment
20.	Your Love Is Like The Rising Sun - The Steptones
21.	Where There's A Will (There's A Way) - Terry Huff
22.	Slow Down World - Charles Colbert
23.	Everyone Has Someone - Linda Perry

VARIOUS ARTISTS

MAINSTREAM MODERN SOUL VOL 2 1969-1976

Label:	KENT
Cat No:	CDKEND468
Barcode:	29667084321
Packaging:	CD Jewel Case

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The Mainstream family of labels was a major source of black

music through the early/mid-70s. Owner Bob Shad was

primarily a jazz producer but had enough nous and

appreciation of soul music to go with current trends. His in-

house arrangers included veteran hit-maker Bert DeCoteaux,

fellow jazzer Wade Marcus and the up-and- coming Patrick

Adams. Adams' production on Chapter Three's 'I'll Never Be

The Same' is soul with an early disco beat; Chocolate Syrup's

uptempo 'You've Got A Lot To Give' is of a similar ilk.

Mainstream had several great harmony vocal groups - Special

Delivery, the Steptones and Eleventh Commandment all

contribute excellent examples of the genre.

The rarely seen or heard flip of Almeta Lattimore's 'These

Memories', 'Oh My Love' sounds equally haunting and is one

of several great Detroit productions co-opted onto Mainstream.

Others include McArthur's very soulful 'I'll Never Trust Love

Again', Charles Beverly's 'The Grass Ain't Greener' and the

Steptones' 'Your Love Is Like The Rising Sun'. Charles Colbert

is a mystery artist whose Mainstream tape of 'Slow Down

World' debuts here. Billy "Sugar Billy" Garner is our BGP label

hero who recorded for the Fast Track subsidiary four years

after his New Day recording of 'I Got Some'.

Shad clearly dug southern soul and licensed in tracks from Lee

Bates, Lenny McDaniel and Randolph Brown; he even issued a

southern ballad by Count Willie & The Dukes. The jazz

influence can be felt mainly from the female singers Ellerine

Harding, Neah Johnson and Alice Clark - all of whom benefited

from Mainstream's jazz track record. Jeany Reynolds made an

impressive big band-backed vocal debut on Mainstream some

years before her disco hits as Jeannie, while veteran New York

balladeer Lenny Welch offers the neglected 'When There's No

Such Thing As Love (It's Over)'.

These twenty plus tracks maintain Mainstream's quality 70s

soul reputation. Compilation and note by Ady Croasdell.