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Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Does Your Mama Know About Me 2:52
  2. So This Is Love 2:57
  3. I Am Your Man 3:30
  4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 2:45
  5. Malinda 2:46
  6. Fading Away 2:49
  7. You Gave Me Something (And Everything's Alright) 3:23
  8. It's Growing 2:58
  9. One Girl 2:29
  10. Try A Little Tenderness 2:57
  11. Day By Day Or Never 2:47
  12. If You Love Her 2:34

Notes

A marvelous but underrated collection by Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, one of the few mixed groups to record for Motown. Tommy Chong, later of Cheech & Chong fame, was a member and co-wrote their biggest record, "Does Your Mama Know About Me," a song about an interracial relationship. Though their biggest hit was a ballad, they built their reputation by singing spirited live versions of Motown and soul classics. Bobby's tenor dripped with soul, as his crooning on Ashford & Simpson's "I Am Your Man" attests. "Malinda," one of Smokey Robinson's catchiest songs, will have you singing along with the chorus. A good version of the Temptations' "Fading Away" and the Fantastic Four's "You Gave Me Something" will have you finger-snapping and hand-clapping.