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Tymes
Grace & Savour
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. Someway, Somehow I'm Keeping You
2. The Crutch
3. Miss Crace
4. Are You Lookin'
5. So Much In Love
6. The Sha-La Bandit
7. Innerloop
8. North Hills
9. You Little Trustmaker
10. The Look Of Love
11. Alfie-For Once In My Life
12. The Love That You're Looking For
13. For Love Of Ivy
14. City
15. Wichita Lineman
16. People
17. The Way Of The Crowd
18. Those Were The Days
19. God Bless The Child
20. Make Someone Happy

CD Details

All Artists: Tymes
Title: Grace & Savour
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock
Style: Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929505629

Synopsis

Album Description

Digitally remastered collection from the R&B vocal outfit containing a pair of their original albums on one CD: Trustmaker and People. Trustmaker brought the group to the youth market in the early 70's, and People employed a similar formula to their Parkway albums with a mixture of show and movie tunes plus a sprinkling of distinctive originals. When the ear-catching Philly doo-wop combination of 'Ms Grace' hit the top of the UK charts on RCA in January 1975, it marked a return to the best-sellers in the third phase of the career of The Tymes. Previously they had enjoyed a UK hit with their up-beat version of 'Funny Girl' show-tune People on CBS/Direction in 1968 (while their chart history had begun with shuffling beat-ballads 'So Much In Love' and 'Wonderful Wonderful' on Parkway Records in 1963). Shout. 2009.

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CD Reviews

Two brilliant, very different, albums paired on one cd

James E. Bagley | Sanatoga, PA USA | 01/04/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Philadelphia's The Tymes had a trio of top 20 hits released in 1963 on the Cameo-Parkway label ("Wonderful! Wonderful!," "Somewhere," and the chart-topper "So Much In Love"). Unfortunately, the British Invasion and a crumbling record label kept them off the upper regions of the charts for the next five years. A remake of "People" from the musical Funny Girl for the Columbia label put them back in the pop and r&B top 40 in late '68/early '69, and led to the creation of the People album which makes up the second half of this cd. People is a an interesting hodgepodge of movie themes (The Look Of Love, Alfie, The Love Of Ivy), show tunes (the title track, Make Someone Happy), current hits (Wichita Lineman, For Once In My Life, Those Were The Days), and standards (God Bless The Child), and a couple of new songs (The Love That You're Looking For, City). What unifies this eclectic album is the incredible harmonizing of The Tymes. They make everything sound great. The orchestration is also top-notch.

In spite of the success of the "People" single and the quality of the People album, The Tymes were dropped by Columbia. They resurfaced in 1974 on the RCA label with the soulful Trustmaker album which leads off this cd. The strongest album of their career, Trustmaker includes their top 20 pop and r&B hit "You Little Trustmaker" and the uniquely lush yet finger snapping "Ms Grace" which topped the British charts but inexplicably bombed on the US charts. Even better than these gems is Trustmaker's nine-plus minute "Are You Lookin'," a sociologic tale of hypnotically epic proportions. The success of the Trustmaker album led to additional albums on the RCA label, the most noteworthy contents of which was the top 3 r&b hit "It's Cool" in 1976. I would have loved to have seen "It's Cool" included as a bonus track on this already stellar cd. Maybe it is being saved for another Tymes' two-fer. We can only hope."