Another record I bought for a buck. It had three songs I liked—I Saw Her Again, Words of Love, and Dancing in the Street. I was very slow to develop—when ‘I Saw Her Again’ was a radio hit, I didn’t figure out the singer was confessing to (another) booty call. I thought it was about seeing an acquaintance out walking and having a cup of coffee, say. ‘Words of Love’ held up well, but I can’t imagine why they did ‘Dancing in the Street.’ After I played this record, I needed to play Martha and the Vandellas loud to really enjoy it.
The Wikipedia article says that the false start on the last chorus of ‘I Saw Her Again’ was a flub that sounded good enough to producer Lou Adler that he left it that way. I had to dig a bit into YouTube to find the original 45 rpm version; all the rechanneled stereo versions sounded tinny to me. The album I have is mono.
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