Here's one for Motown maniacs!Get Ready completes the final instalmentof the Motown trilogy following the release of the soulful classics of Dancing On The Streets and Reach Out.
Human Nature comprises Toby Allen and Michael Tierney on vocals, Andrew Tierney on keyboards and Phil Burton on guitar.
The album also features guest appearances by Motown legends such as R&Band soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive William "Smokey" Robinson Jr, on the title track Get Ready. That song so happens to be his last song Robinson ever wrote andproduced for The Temptations that took them to No 29 on the US Chart in1966.
Mary Wilson, the only Supreme who remained in the group when it was formed in 1959, appears in River Deep-Mountain High. That single was among the first recordings that Ike and Tina Turner did for Phil Spector's Philles Records. Rolling Stone magazine put it at No 33 on their list of the 500Greatest Songs of All Time.
Also appearing on the album is one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records, The Temptations, on The Way You Do That ThingYou Do. This single was their first charting single on the Billboard Hot100, peaking in the Top 20 at number 11.
To cap the guest artiste list is R&B and soul singer Martha Reeves,lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas before embarking on a illustrious solo career in 1977. She sings in (Love Is Like A) Heatwave, which became a cult classicespecially with the British Mods as much for Reeves' earthy gritty voiceas for the writing and production. The song was an early live staple for The Who, it was cut by The Jam in 1979 and it went gold when Linda Rosenthal sang it.
Get Ready is not only an album full of symphonious Motown musicalmagic, but also of lyrical and rhythmical history that shaped the veryfoundation of American music that we know of today.
A hit surely not to be missed! - NST 18/05/2008
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