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mike s (mike_s)
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The O Jays have just had a new album released (or about to be). It's on Sanctuary and called Imagination. Is this the one they were working on with Beyonce's father?
Producers are listed as Jam and Lewis and Ron Fair. Anyone heard it?
Also I see the Whispers had an album out fairly recently called Dr Love on Quicksilver. Is this new material or old stuff?
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Raymond Ennifer (benlynx)
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http://www.soultracks.com/ojays.htm

O'Jays: Imagination

1. Made It Back
2. Repair Man
3. Make Up
4. Imagination
5. Chauvinistic
6. Separate Ways
7. Why You Wanna Settle For Less
8. Busy Tonight
9. One Good Woman
10. I Would Rather Cry
11. The Christmas Songs

Review of Imagination
It is always refreshing � even comforting � to hear a new O�Jays album. Especially now in 2004, when it is impossible to hear solid group soul on the radio and nearly as tough to find it on CD. And the O�Jays have been doing it so long and so well, I listen to any album by them predisposed to liking it -- even if it is a fairly average O�Jays disc such as Imagination. Since the O�Jays� departure from PIR over a decade ago, their albums have generally boasted fantastic vocal work but inconsistent material and production, and Imagination continues that trend. However, amidst the uneven cuts are a few gems. The disc�s high point is the title cut, the O�Jays� first collaboration with hitmakers Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis. It is a fantastic midtempo number that should have steppers dancing all winter and which stands with the O�Jays� best Philadelphia work. Equally engaging is �Make Up,� a simmering slow cut that recalls their great 80s ballads �Your Body�s Here With Me� and �Hurry Up and Come Back.� Eddie Levert and Walter Williams� alternating lead vocals are excellent throughout, especially on the other Jam/Lewis number, �Why You Wanna,� and on �Made It Back� and �Chauvinistic.� While the remainder of the cuts aren�t as memorable, the performances are, and the disc�s bright spots make Imagination another O�Jays disc worth owning.
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Raymond Ennifer (benlynx)
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Whispers - Dr Love

Tracks

1) Needle in a Haystack
2) Dr. Love
3) You Got a Man on Your Hands
4) You Can't Fight What's Right
5) It Only Hurts for a Little While
6) Dip
7) Story Book of Love
8) As I Sit Here
9) Never Again
10) I Was Born When You Kissed Me
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Manny (manny)
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Hello Submarine!

Hey, Mike and Raymond,
Thanks for posting the track lists and the reviews. I keep on are a true O'Jays fan, but keep on heard their PIR and Imperial and Bell material. Their albums after left PIR seems to me a little soul-less and some "bland". From this period I only got "Serious" (wich I only likes "Friend Of A Friend"); "Emotionally Yours" (wich I only likes "Close", "Lies", "Love & Trust" and the title track) and the last "Heartbreaker" too much synthetic music, fine voices but don't have a track that hooked me. Here I stoped to buy O'Jays music.
If I heard something different at the radio of their new material i can change my opinion.

Peace & Soul Food!
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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Hi Mike & Ray,

That Doctor Love LP was released in the early 80s, after they had started having hits on Solar. The LP was originally issued as Intermedia QS-5075. That LP contains songs that they had recorded as for the L.A. based label, Dore. It's basically a issue of their 60s sides. There is an LP listed as "Shhh" on the Dore label, which was released in the 70s. I wonder if this LP is one & the same?

Here's a year by year date of issue, track by track
1 - 1967 (Dore 794)
2 - 1966 (Dore 751)
3 - 1967 (Dore 792)
4 - 1967 (Dore 792)
5 - 1964 (Dore 724)
6 - 1965 (Dore 735)
7 - No Information
8 - 1965 (Dore 740)
9 - 1969 (Dore 833)
10- 1966 (Dore 758)

Also, Needle In A Haystack was re-released as the B Side of Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong (Soul Clock 1004) in 1970.
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Kdubya (paladin)
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Post Number: 400
Registered: 5-2004
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Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 7:53 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

nice review I was going to post on it last week, but I got caught up discussing someone known as R.....Jam & Lewis and the Ojays.....dam.
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mike s (mike_s)
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Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 6:06 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for the info on the Whispers, Juice. I should have guessed really old stuff. I recall Needle in a Haystack now.

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