Philly Playlist>>Brenda & The Tabulations}The Singles: 1967-1977

[no_place_like_motown]

Dry Your Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je9BOBUBHoE

Stay Together Young Lovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqbHePCFE0

Just Once In A Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_k31Vjypik

When You're Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBedAMBdSVQ

To The One I Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKJ4aP7ZvbY

That's In The Past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krx1746qkg

A Reason To Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLmDeppMTz0

That's The Price You Have To Pay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Nok_63zhc

The Touch Of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqVXwLJVDQ

And My Heart Sang Tra La La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXVxaA0IfI4

Don't Make Me Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZo2B9y4VE

A Child No One Wanted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNiHVTvqJI

Right On The Tip Of My Tongue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ejD0czYUU

A Part Of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAb8p3483sI

A Love You Can Depend On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTxcsRb4qA

Little Bit Of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4V79H9N0eM

One Girl Too Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqocpaQcqGk

Key To My Heart/Love Is Just A Carnival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wETYTMMlfs4

Walk On In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfFklPn83kU

Home To Myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z9nmB8ulBc

[[I'm A) Superstar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCbA7IsKKA

Let's Go All The Way [[Down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdVaw1lykU

[splanky]

As soon as I saw this thread I knew I was gonna be pissed off if it included any songs
I don't presently have then I remember I don't have a physical copy of One Girl Too Late.
Okay...maybe I can fix that. Though I'm not a big fan of her disco tracks like Superstar I'd
totally forgotten how gorgeous the cut Home To Myself is!...OMGGGGGGG!!! Is that on cd
anywhere?... I had a friend years ago who told me he couldn't listen to Brenda Payton; her
sound was too street girl or some such nonsense but she and Linda Jones owned my ears
back in the day. That was music. The use of dynamics on The Touch Of You would stop my
heart. Not too many producers today know how to use that technique properly...Anyway,
great thread!...

[144man]

I'd completely forgotten how much I like "A Child No One Wanted" and "Right On the Tip of My Tongue". Thanks, nplm, for reminding me.

[no_place_like_motown]

I'd completely forgotten how much I like "A Child No One Wanted" and "Right On the Tip of My Tongue". Thanks, nplm, for reminding me.

144man,

Your comments are appreciated and the reason why I do these playlists. :)

[no_place_like_motown]

As soon as I saw this thread I knew I was gonna be pissed off if it included any songs
I don't presently have then I remember I don't have a physical copy of One Girl Too Late.
Okay...maybe I can fix that. Though I'm not a big fan of her disco tracks like Superstar I'd
totally forgotten how gorgeous the cut Home To Myself is!...OMGGGGGGG!!! Is that on cd
anywhere?... I had a friend years ago who told me he couldn't listen to Brenda Payton; her
sound was too street girl or some such nonsense but she and Linda Jones owned my ears
back in the day. That was music. The use of dynamics on The Touch Of You would stop my
heart. Not too many producers today know how to use that technique properly...Anyway,
great thread!...

Hey Splanky,

You know in all the years I've been collecting music and talking endlessly with hundreds of folks about old school music, I've never heard anyone say that Brenda's sound was too street! That's a first for me. LOL I always wanted to listen to Brenda because she was so soothing and her delivery on so many of her ballads were sung with so much sincerity that she made you believe every note she sang. I always feel like crying when I listen to "Dry Your Eyes", "When You're Gone", "Right On The Tip Of My Tongue", "The Touch Of You" and "Home To Myself". For real!! Very few singers can touch me in that way.

"Home To Myself" is on her "I Keep Coming Back For More" CD. "One Girl Too Late" is on two various artists comps -- "Lost Soul" and "Want Lists." FYI, HTM was originally cut and written by Melissa Manchester in 1973.

I remember reading some years ago that her Epic recordings were going to be released with unissued tracks but sadly nothing ever surfaced. I was really looking forward to that CD! :[[

[splanky]

Thanks, no_ place...It's out of stock on Amazon's main page but I just ordered a used copy from
an individual seller....

[nosey]

I agree with everything you said Splanky! My buddy Dennis was her boyfriend at one time and he was stationed on a ship off the coast of Nam when he heard Dry Your Eyes and said he cried like a baby. Of course no one believed she was his girlfriend. Brenda indeed was the bomb!

[Soul Sister]

Love Brenda's voice!

Hi Nosey!!!
:)

S.S.
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[no_place_like_motown]

Here's something quite interesting from a Van McCoy thread that I found in the SDF archives that I never knew. The post is from Bobby Eli:


By Eli [[151.197.225.98) on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:06 am:
Van was a dear friend of mine and a joy to work with. I played on many of his sessions and he was a gifted producer.
He was a wiz at stacking backing vocals. Just listen to Right on the tip of my tongue.
He could do both male and female parts!!