Title: Saying Something
Label: Wand
Catalog: 669
Year: 1965
Genre: soul
Art Direction: not listed
Cover art: not listed
Grade: *** stars
Hard to believe that in the mid-'60s record companies were reluctant to release record albums that reflected people of color. How else to explain Wand slapping this hysterically bland, MOR cover on an album featuring two of soul's most gifted singers.
Even stranger andmore disconcerting, why was the guy wearing white gloves? Today you'd be concerned the guy was some sort of whack job who didn't want to leave fingerprints ...
Hard to believe that in the mid-'60s record companies were reluctant to release record albums that reflected people of color. How else to explain Wand slapping this hysterically bland, MOR cover on an album featuring two of soul's most gifted singers. Even stranger andmore disconcerting, why was the guy wearing white gloves? Today you'd be concerned the guy was some sort of whack job who didn't want to leave fingerprints ...
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