I didn't think that Whispers album was that bad. It's also available for download.
I forgot the exact reason Dick Griffey released all of those albums, but it was connected to his lawsuit against RCA, and his move to Elektra distribution.
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I have a[kool an the gang]lp that ain't so[kool]either!!
The last one I bought was "Something Special". That, along with "Celebrate!" before it, was too much of a pop album for my tastes. I thought it was a bad direction for such a good band.
Arrrgggghhhhhh....don't get me started with the Fool and The Gang bizness!...Sorry,
Bell brothers, I loved you all but JT's introduction to the group may have gotten you guys
big hits but it was the beginning of the end of the Kool sound, IMO...
Anyway, I wanted to add another to my thankfully short list of bad releases. Dr Buzzard's
Savannah [[they didn't even bother with the phrase "Original") Band's Calling All Beatniks
was largely a major fail. Like the later Ohio Players album, it was an album with basically
only one track that I thought was stellar and can still listen to today: the Cory Daye led
We Went Into This Thing. Her delivery gave me chills, otherwise I was like WTF?...
Excellent Jerry, indeed always great to hear songs which get you moving. From what i remember reading somewhere is that for a number of years, Collage used to be the touring band for The Whispers. I've heard audio from one of The Whispers' Budweiser shows at Anaheim, during their Rock Steady era. That was some impressive high energy gig.
Of course in all fairness to smokey,many of those songs were written by others and a bad song is a bad song no matter who's singing it.
I think "I Am My Brother's Keeper" by The Ruffin Brothers is a big disappointment, pretty bad.