Saturday, November 29, 2008
"She's on the Left," Jeffrey Osborne (9/24/88)
Well, hello there Mr. Osborne! After fronting L.T.D. on a trio of #1s from 1976-78 (the glorious "Love Ballad," "Back in Love Again," and "Holding On"), Osborne embarked on a solo career, racking up considerable success with the likes of "I Really Don't Need No Light" (#3, 1982), "Don't You Get So Mad" and "Stay with Me Tonight" (#3 and #4, 1983), "The Last Time I Made Love" (a duet with Joyce Kennedy, #2 in 1984) and "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)" (#2, 1986). But a return to the chart's peak eluded him until 1988's deliriously tinnily-arranged "She's on the Left," a song which frankly is beneath a man of Osborne's prodigious vocal gifts. There's not a lot here to work with, really - "she's on the left, she's on the right, she's in the middle of my mind"? - but he works it as hard as he can, and credit to his talent, he basically gets it over. In lesser hands this would suck; in Osborne's it's alright. (Upgraded a notch for singing it so damned convincingly.) B
Well, hello there Mr. Osborne! After fronting L.T.D. on a trio of #1s from 1976-78 (the glorious "Love Ballad," "Back in Love Again," and "Holding On"), Osborne embarked on a solo career, racking up considerable success with the likes of "I Really Don't Need No Light" (#3, 1982), "Don't You Get So Mad" and "Stay with Me Tonight" (#3 and #4, 1983), "The Last Time I Made Love" (a duet with Joyce Kennedy, #2 in 1984) and "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)" (#2, 1986). But a return to the chart's peak eluded him until 1988's deliriously tinnily-arranged "She's on the Left," a song which frankly is beneath a man of Osborne's prodigious vocal gifts. There's not a lot here to work with, really - "she's on the left, she's on the right, she's in the middle of my mind"? - but he works it as hard as he can, and credit to his talent, he basically gets it over. In lesser hands this would suck; in Osborne's it's alright. (Upgraded a notch for singing it so damned convincingly.) B
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