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Lover Girl has a refrain, never gonna find me another lover girl like you which sounds a lot like Smokey Robinson’s singing on I Second That Emotion. The backing vocals also sound like the same person. The voice is highlighted and Frazer shows a softer touch and sustains the higher tone. The title itself conveys classic Black music. The only song on the album where we get to hear Frazer slip into his natural register. More overtly socio-political and would fit right in with Curtis Mayfield’s Freddy’s Dead. A little bit of Funk in the mix, of the type that Norman Whitfield introduced to The Temptations sound when they went all psychedelic Soul shack. That is one of three singles off the album and another is Bad News. Sam Cooke helped to kick this off with A Change Is Gonna Come. This is a Black Pride song under the cover of a love song. If I Got It (Your Love Brought It) has Memphis style horns and reaches back further to the Deep Southern Soul styles of countless lesser-known black vocal groups, like The Ovations say. Certainly, there is a little of Curtis Mayfield too, but we will come to that soon.
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More the fluidity and smooth velvet of Smokey Robinson and Russell Thompkins, Jr of The Stylistics. You Don’t Wanna Be My Baby kicks it off and instantly you hear Frazer sing with a falsetto that is pure, clean and smooth as whipped cream. Some of the original Memphis Boys (from American Studios)…musicians from the Daptones-Big Crown Records stable. To this end there appears to be a large cast of players. If it’s right, it’s right and the when is irrelevant. There is nothing wrong sounding like a previous time if the execution is worthy. Their stated aim was to recreate a Soul sound but not sound retro. The producer is Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys. So, there’s some Marvin Gaye pedigree for you. Frazer is the co-lead singer and drummer. He found initial attention in another group of retro-Soul purveyors Durand Jones and the Indications. Where Aretha recorded key tracks to her classic, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You album and Dusty outdid her on Dusty in Memphis.įrazer hails from Brooklyn but was raised in Baltimore. Anyone hooked on Casey Kasem’s American Top Forty in that time will instantly recognise the Motown to Philly Soul to Stax sounds.Īnd especially the American Sound Studios of Memphis and Chips Moman. The debut solo album by Aaron Frazer is actually a time vortex where you are transported back to the latter Sixties in America when Soul music was on an artistic plateau.