The “Exhibit” album in reality represents the best steadiness of what the Sylvers did nicely. Songs akin to “Cotton Sweet“,”Ain’t No Excellent In Excellent-Bye” or even the the break hit “Boogie Fever” all have a mix of soul,sass and adolescence that outlined the Sylvers sound. In fact the ballads “The Roulette Wheel of Love” and “”Storybook Lady” include the ones glorious Sylvers harmonies and fantastically crafted melodies. At the fan faring funk of “Loose Taste” along side the tougher grooves of the tough “Clap Your Arms To The Song” and “Ain’t Nothin’ However A Birthday celebration” to find the gang sinking their enamel into the heavy heavy accountability funk grooves. In fact this album was once produced and organized via Freddie Perren,one of the vital masterminds in the back of the Jackson 5’s early manufacturing group.
Tracks
A1 Cotton Sweet 2:55
A2 The Roulette Wheel of Love 3:25
A3 Boogie Fever 3:25
A4 Storybook Lady 3:20
A5 Ain’t No Excellent in Excellent-Bye 3:40
B1 Loose Taste 2:59
B2 I Can Be for Actual 3:38
B3 Clap Your Arms to the Song 3:30
B4 Stay On Keepin’ On (Doin’ What You Do) 3:16
B5 Ain’t Nothin’ however a Birthday celebration 5:24
If the Jacksons may just do it and the Osmonds may just do it, then, via gosh, so may just the Sylvers. Through the mid-’70s, this multi-talented, nine-member circle of relatives crew was once recording veterans. And having peppered the R&B charts with singles within the early a part of the last decade,the Sylvers would take the highest spot with the seminal proto-disco “Boogie Fever” in 1975.
Produced via Freddie Perren, who had already introduced magic to the Jackson 5, “Boogie Fever” had all of the proper stuff. And whilst the track attracts simple comparisons to Perren’s paintings with the Jacksons, it additionally stands sturdy in its personal proper. It was once catchy, hooky, well-harmonized, and would set the main tone for 1976’s Exhibit. On the other hand, even if Perren gave the band a bona fide hit, his taste additionally firmly entrenched the band at the bubblegum street — a trail they wouldn’t in reality leave from till later within the decade. That mentioned, whilst each “The Roulette Wheel of Love” and “Ain’t No Excellent in Good-bye” are firmly stamped with Perren’s taste, there may be a lot more percolating around the album. Leon Sylvers, who would later to find luck with the famed Sun label, demonstrated a real aptitude for funk as he wielded his pen for “Clap Your Arms to the Song” and “Freestyle“. The latter, which opens facet two, is a specifically juicy, enthusiastically sung, and horn-heavy jam that allies itself extra to the funk of Kool & the Gang than to Motown soul.
Exhibit mishmashes its sounds, and whilst the result’s just right, it in reality does really feel every now and then like a revue, a bit of bit funky, a bit of bit soul. However that’s its handiest actual failing. For probably the most phase, the Sylvers have sufficient kick to stay the groove going all evening lengthy.
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