"Motown In Mono and Stereo" "Take Some Time Out For Love The Isley Brothers"
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
- "From the 1966 album, 'This Old Heart of Mine'"
"Take Some Time Out For Love"
Take Some Time Out For Love (Thomas Kemp-Robert Gordy) published Jobete 01-Mar-66
The Isley Brothers; recorded Hitsville, completed 17-Mar-66 ; produced by Robert Gordy
29-Apr-66; 45 (M): Tamla T 54133 A [reissued on Tamla 54182]
May-66; LP (M): Tamla T269 This Old Heart Of Mine
May-66; LP (S): Tamla S269 This Old Heart Of Mine
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Has anyone else ever noticed the "WOO HOO WOO HOO" part that pops up throughout are exactly the same every single time? They never vary in inflection or duration. In fact, it sounds as if maybe those whoops were added in after the song was recorded - I'd bet that the brothers went into the studio, sang "WOO HOO" few times and the sound engineer or producer Robert Gordy simply spliced together the best two "WOOs" to fit within a four-beat bar and dubbed that edit in at the spot we're hearing.
Shades of Twist and Shout with this song. Motown had gold in their hands but didn’t put it to good use. Often Motown gave the Isley Brothers leftovers to record. Even This Old Heart was planned for the Supremes.but instead given to the Isley Brothers. Once the Isley Brothers recorded it, they owned it.
Lastly, perhaps the Isley Brothers were developing into their own powerful musical talent that could not be limited or contained by the formula Motown machine.
Such fantastic points. This one though has always bugged me. It's not a bad record, it's a fun record and like you said, the first time I ever heard it I instantly thought this was a nod to their "Twist and Shout" days. But I've never understood why Motown went with it as a follow up to "This Old Heart Of Mine," which to me sounded like the group breaking new ground. So why regress with a throwback?
If anything, "Take Some Time Out" might have been a good first song - but only because they had "This Old Heart," which sounded like an automatic winner, I can see why they held it back. But the ideal song to follow "This Old Heart" would have been "I Guess I'll Always Love You"- and I thought that WAS the follow up for along time. When I found out they went with this one, it just didn't make sense back then and it still doesn't make sense.
Should have been a bigger hit, but motown didn't promote the song, relying on name recognition
I think the song may have been too dated when it came out. It didn't even make the R&B chart and I'm sure it's because urban radio felt it was too old of a sound, being so close to Twist And Shout that had been a hit two years earlier. It reminds me of his fast music changed in the 70s and 80s - if someone put out a record that had a beat that was out of step with whatever the latest dance was, that record went nowhere. Fast. I really feel that may have been the problem with this record coming out in '66.