Date: 1971
Release: Gordy #GS-959
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The late Norman Whitfield‘s creative juices flowed like the Mississippi River on The Undisputed Truth’s sophomore album. The original group consisting of ex Pep and Ohio Player, Joe Harris, and ex Delicates‘ Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce. While Whitfield and his partner Barrett Strong didn’t write any new material for the album; (all songs were previously released by other Motown artists) new arrangements made the cuts totally unlike previous renditions.
Motown’s sales department couldn’t have been happy campers trying to find the follow-up to the group’s smash “Smiling Faces Sometimes” to release as a single because it’s not to be found on this collection. The best song-and arguably one of Whitfield’s finest productions- “You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell (Right Here On Earth)” got the honor. Slicing some minutes does not a single make. Besides, it had been on the Temptations’ Psychedelic Shack album the year before and b-sided their number one smash “Just My Imagination” earlier in the year (1971).
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