Thursday, April 28, 2005
"Have You Ever Loved Somebody," Freddie Jackson (2/21/87)
...and welcome to the wonderful world of record labels' release schedules, which caused Freddie to replace Melba at #1 twice in 3 months. [The charts also moved faster back then: in 1987 alone there were 32 singles which topped the R&B chart; last year, it was less than half that.] This song's opening harp strum brings to mind "Sukiyaki" (the good version, I mean) and then settles into another solid, classy FJ midtempo body-rocker. Pretty simply, either you get this or you don't, and for some reason - even though I'm a gay Caucasian guy raised on a northern Indiana farm, far out of the reach of R&B radio - I do. B+
...and welcome to the wonderful world of record labels' release schedules, which caused Freddie to replace Melba at #1 twice in 3 months. [The charts also moved faster back then: in 1987 alone there were 32 singles which topped the R&B chart; last year, it was less than half that.] This song's opening harp strum brings to mind "Sukiyaki" (the good version, I mean) and then settles into another solid, classy FJ midtempo body-rocker. Pretty simply, either you get this or you don't, and for some reason - even though I'm a gay Caucasian guy raised on a northern Indiana farm, far out of the reach of R&B radio - I do. B+
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