That is testimony, perhaps, to the unique, inimitable performance, first put on tape at the Motown studios with producer Ivy Jo Hunter during early 1967. REMAKES: The Isley Brothers’ considerable career in the music industry has inspired many versions of their hits – but “Behind A Painted Smile” is not one of them. In 1975, a federal court found in favour of the group. That venture gave the brothers their first million-selling smash, “It’s Your Thing” – and drew a lawsuit from Motown, claiming that the hit was created while the Isleys were still under contract there. affection for “Behind A Painted Smile” is that it occurred after the Isleys had quit Motown in December 1968 to start their own label, T-Neck Records. Which was precisely why those records cast a spell over a generation of rock ’n’ roll musicians worldwide.” The same flavour is apparent in other tracks made at Motown by the three brothers, including “Got To Have You Back” and “Tell Me It’s Just A Rumor Baby.” “On their greatest records,” wrote one critic, “they sounded demented, frenzied, deranged. “Behind A Painted Smile” is a perfect example of the unhinged vocal style which the Isleys – Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly – had cultivated ever since their breakthrough with “Shout” in 1959. Thus, the brothers gained their second-biggest British hit since “This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)” reached the Top 3 in 1966. to select “Smile” as the A side of a single the following May, and to promote it strongly enough to secure a Top 5 placing. It took the initiative of Tamla Motown U.K. 45 (“All Because I Love You”) which didn’t chart at all when first released in late ’68. T he Isleys’ British success with “Smile” was all the more unusual, given that the track had merely occupied the trio’s Soul On The Rocks album in 1967, then appeared as the flip of a U.S. Oh, and Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” had only just wrapped up its three-week run at Number One. Walker & the All Stars and “Nowhere To Run” by Martha & the Vandellas, were also moving up the best-sellers. The very week that “Behind A Painted Smile” made its chart debut, Stevie Wonder’s “I Don’t Know Why” was climbing the Top 20, while two reissues, “(I’m A) Road Runner” by Jr. SONGWRITERS: Ivy Jo Hunter, Beatrice Verdi.īACKSTORY: The spring of ’69 was a prosperous season for Motown Records in Britain, where the company was better known as Tamla Motown. singles chart (as Tamla Motown 693) on Wednesday, April 16, 1969.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |