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Sophisticated Soul

Released

Another mystery in the many mysteries of Motown is why the Marvelettes weren’t more successful. This 1968 album, mostly written by Smokey Robinson, is aptly named, featuring gorgeous under-rated songs like ‘Don’t Make Hurting Me A Habit’ and ‘My Baby Must Be A Magician’. Ashford and Simpson contribute the melancholy ‘Destination Nowhere’ and spritely ‘Your Love Can Save Me’ and Marvelettes lead vocalist Wanda Young never sounded so beguiling as here on album highlight, the funk-soul killer, ‘Here I Am Baby’. Classy girl-group pop-soul.

Harold Heath

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