I always loved "baby I'm for real" and "the bells" but I totally slept on a bunch of originals tracks. Some are so great! I knew about and liked "good loving is just a dime away" but I just got a stock copy with this on the flip, so awesome:

also, about a year ago I discovered "ooh you (put a crush on me)" also awesome:

any other great tracks I'm missing by the Originals? By the way, the suspension group is not related. Thanks.

im someone who cares worth a listen !

I have the green LP (Baby I'm For Real?) & quite like it. I think the only 45 I've kept is "I Like Your Style"/"We Can Make It Baby".

I have the green LP (Baby I'm For Real?) & quite like it. I think the only 45 I've kept is "I Like Your Style"/"We Can Make It Baby".

yeah, the green lp is baby i'm for real. i do know and like "I like your style" but it has more of a generic motown sound so it's not as good as the later 70s ones to me. I do really like "we can make it baby" but it's not as good a ballad as the bells or baby i'm for real.

yeah, the green lp is baby i'm for real. i do know and like "I like your style" but it has more of a generic motown sound so it's not as good as the later 70s ones to me. I do really like "we can make it baby" but it's not as good a ballad as the bells or baby i'm for real.

I just listened to "we can make it baby" and listening now it definitely is different than the other two ballads I mention, it has shades of early 70s Marvin Gaye in the sound

Great vocal group and sooooo underated , you can see why this man chose them as his all time favourites ......

Ya probs know this one Bob? flip to "The Bells" a long time fav of mine by the guys such a wonderful group!

steve

https://youtu.be/xPMdV761870

Ya probs know this one Bob? flip to "The Bells" a long time fav of mine by the guys such a wonderful group!

steve

I don't know if I ever flipped it over or not. This sounds like the Dells, pretty good.

Their original of "Just To Keep You Satisfied" on the extended re-issue of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" is absolutely sensational. It's also on the 2008 compilation "Complete Motown Singles Volume 10", despite it being un-released as a 45 to the best of my knowledge. If I'm wrong about that I'd be glad to be corrected.

Their original of "Just To Keep You Satisfied" on the extended re-issue of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" is absolutely sensational. It's also on the 2008 compilation "Complete Motown Singles Volume 10", despite it being un-released as a 45 to the best of my knowledge. If I'm wrong about that I'd be glad to be corrected.

I didn't know these two tracks. the originals version is nice but also has that early 70s marvin gaye sound. it sounds like a grower that I have to listen to multiple times though. The monitors version is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0E9xUFpi08

I think the 70s tracks I like are probably influenced by having listened to a lot of rap music, I like the thick production style and thick harmonies.

The Monitors is also the first use of Marvin's "God Is Love" backing track on the flip of "What's Going On". Also unreleased until recent anthologies I think.

Edited October 27, 201113 yr by garethx

There's also an unreleased version of "The Bells" by Bobby Taylor over the rhythm track of "Baby I'm For

Real" that made me feel like I was in a parallel universe the first time I heard it.

Great group, Freddie Gorman is one of my favorite voices

Really love the whole Definitions LP well worth picking up. Lie No 2 is the track for me, brilliant just brilliant!

i,m sure i read somewhere that marvin gaye produced the originals. thanks for the songs, just bought a record by the originals, because of listening to these songs

Complete with Soul Train dancers here is one of my faves..."Let me live in your life"

Chris

Complete with Soul Train dancers here is one of my faves..."Let me live in your life"

Chris

nice one, I didn't know this one. I'm sure you know this but that's not an original soul train line done to this song. thanks a lot.

>>> Freddie Gorman / The Originals <<<

"I'll wait for you" is different on the album.

More soulful than Northern, and on the funky side.

S35112 was the number previously allocated to Edwin Starr " Aint It Hell Up In Harlem" which got a release on M1284

Don't think this got a release due to name copy with the TV character hitting the screen

Edited October 31, 201113 yr by Dean

freddies outing on rene 901 is worth a listen ......love has seen us through ( ignore the space invader game in background lol)

Yes love "Our love has seen us through". Going way back in time, I have a soft spot for Freddie Gorman "The day will come" on Miracle.

nice one, I didn't know this one. I'm sure you know this but that's not an original soul train line done to this song. thanks a lot.

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To be honest mate I have loved this track for ages and seeing the dancers really distracted me from the quality of the track...I had to look away!

Chris

How about this one, as good as anything they have done....

Superb scans, brilliant - makes it worth coming on here for stuff like this. Thanks for sharing

How about this one, as good as anything they have done....

I like god bless whoever sent you off this LP

i,m sure i read somewhere that marvin gaye produced the originals. thanks for the songs, just bought a record by the originals, because of listening to these songs

Read somewhere that they were his favourite group at Motown, I think he used C.P. Spencer as backing on the "Lets get it on" set, For those who love "The Bells" flip it over to the ultra soulful "I,ll Wait For You", there is the extended intro take of the same song on the "Portrait" set which is also wonderful. Great group.

Kev

Superb scans, brilliant - makes it worth coming on here for stuff like this. Thanks for sharing

Thank You for sharing scans too Dean.

Thanks to ALL contributions from Soul Source members, sharing knowledge, scans, favourite tracks.

My Wants list forever growing.