Artist: The Contours
Album: Essential Collection
Genre: Early R&B, Soul
Label: Spectrum Music
Released: 2000
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Do You Love Me (Gordy) (1962)
- Shake Sherrie (Gordy) (1962)
- You Get Ugly (Singleton-Ossman) (1963)
- Whole Lotta Woman (Robinson-Hoggs-Gordy) (1963)
- Don'T Let Her Be Your Baby (Gordy) (1963)
- Baby Hit And Run (Wetherspoon-Dean) (1964)
- It'S So Hard Being A Loser (Wetherspoon-Dean-McMullen) (1967)
- First I Look At The Purse (Robinson-Rogers) (1965)
- Just A Little Misunderstanding (Broadnax-Wonder-Paul) (1966)
- Determination (Robinson) (1966)
- Your Love Grows More Precious Everyday (Potts-Davis) (1967)
- Can You Do It (Street-Gordy) (1964)
- Can You Jerk Like Me (Hunter, Stevenson) (1964)
- Searching For A Girl (Paul) (1965)
- The Stretch (Stevenson-Wakefield) (1963)
- So Grateful (Gordy) (1963)
- You Better Get In Line (Gordy) (1962)
- Move Mr. Man (Gordy-Nicholls) (1962)
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A lot of Contours, including three tracks by Dennis Edwards: "Your Love Grows More Precious Everyday," "It's So Hard Being a Loser," and "Baby Hit and Run." Joe Stubbs explodes on "Just a Little Misunderstanding," and gravel-voiced Billy Gordon, the voice most associated with the Contours, handles the rest. Critics of Motown's homogenized sound forget about "Do You Love Me," "Shake Sherrie," "First I Look at the Purse," "Don't Let Her Be Your Baby," "Can You Do It," and "Can You Jerk Like Me." The instructional "You Better Get in Line" is a solid, but often omitted recording. Contours fans will relish three early tunes: "Whole Lotta Woman," "I'm Grateful," and "The Stretch." Two gripes: The inclusion of "You Get Ugly," a bad novelty song, and the omission of "That Day When She Needed Me."
by Andrew Hamilton