Music Week
20/01/2012
One of 10 simultaneously released new additions to the Harmless label’s budget Backbeats range – which typically retail around the £4 mark – Philly Busters is issued at just the right time to take advantage of the 40th birthday of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International label, whose vaults it raids for this set.
Compiled by Northern Soul specialist Kev Roberts and former Mastercuts chief Ian Dewhirst, it’s a delight. Opening with The O’Jays’ sublime Darlin’ Darlin’Baby (Sweet Tender Love), it also includes McFadden & Whitehead’s I Heard It In A Love Song, an only slightly inferior anthem to their classic Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now; The Stylistics ultra-smooth Found A Love You Couldn’t Handle; and Billy Paul’s Let The Dollar Circulate, which dates from the recessionary year of 1975, and includes references to rising inflation, petrol prices and unemployment. Sound familiar?
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