The Formations/AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS [[1967)

[MIKEW-UK]

1967 Top Of The Stairs on Bank, licensed by MGM 1968, 1969 for Corner Boys on Neptune, oddly enough the same year release as the HotWax release Silent Majority 'Frightened Girl'. [[I am assuming so many name changes due to contractual issues?)

Members of the team were co-writing with Leon Huff from the very outset, and I can see how their collaborations with Leon, Thom Bell, Roland Chambers etc led to them being such prominent writers producers with all the acts i mentioned above.


Anyway, here's an seldom heard Formations track issued after 'At The Top of The Stairs', flip side to the inferior 'Love's Not Only for the Heart', with all the trademarks of the emerging Philly sound - french horns etc, great harmonies

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[Methuselah2]

1967 Top Of The Stairs on Bank, licensed by MGM 1968, 1969 for Corner Boys on Neptune, oddly enough the same year release as the HotWax release Silent Majority 'Frightened Girl'. [[I am assuming so many name changes due to contractual issues?)

Members of the team were co-writing with Leon Huff from the very outset, and I can see how their collaborations with Leon, Thom Bell, Roland Chambers etc led to them being such prominent writers producers with all the acts i mentioned above.


Anyway, here's an seldom heard Formations track issued after 'At The Top of The Stairs', flip side to the inferior 'Love's Not Only for the Heart', with all the trademarks of the emerging Philly sound - french horns etc, great harmonies

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Wait a second. Wait a second. B-side? Say it isn't so, Mike. Clearly literally wreaks of A-sidedness, from start to finish. A-sidedness on the order of HDH's GOING DOWN FOR THE THIRD TIME by The Super Dolls [[as DJ Hy Lit would call them). LONELY VOICE OF LOVE is terrific--very Isley Guys [[yes, Hy Lit again). Thank you so much for posting this. A true beauty--a neglected beauty.