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The Dramatics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fantasy
• ASIN: B000000XGT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,046 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Their best from the Stax/Volt years but..., July 12, 2003

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Although this is a great compilation of The Dramatics' recordings for Stax Records it should have included the full-length LP versions of "Toast To The Fool" and "In The Rain"--this is (almost) unforgivable because these two songs are among the group's signature tunes. This 16-track compilation, however, does give you a great retrospective of the music that made The Dramatics one of the premier Soul Harmony groups of the 1970s.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first CD!, February 9, 2002

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"msdrams" (Dramville) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This is the very first Dramatics CD I ever bought. I love it, I love it! Wee Gee Howard is on half the songs on this CD, and L.J. Reynolds on the other half. My favorite Dramatic is L.J., but I love the whole group. On this CD, you will get the best Dramatics hits from 1971-1974. My favorites include "Whatcha See", "In the Rain", "You Could Become the Very Heart Of Me", "I Dedicate My Life To You", "Toast To the Fool", among others. If you don't have this CD, then you don't know what you are missing out on!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S WEEGEE NOT LJ REYNOLDS, January 15, 2002

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Dr. Larry Grimm (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

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Let's give William "Weegee" Howard his due here. He is the lead singer on this album (not LJ), and the lead who sang the hits Watcha See is Watcha Get and In the Rain. His replacement, LJ Reynolds, also covered those tunes but with nothing like the effect created by Weegee. Another reviewer states that Ronny Banks asked Teddy Pendergrass to be the lead of the Dramatics. If he did, it was to replace Weegee after he left the Dramatics due to "ego conflicts." Either way, Weegee had the most passionate voice you could ever hear and he was often compared in his early days (1970) to David Ruffin. (By the way, the Dramatics served as back-up singers for Johnny Taylor before they cut their first record (Whatcha See). Listen to Taylor's tunes in 1968/69 and you will hear the Dramatics ("Jodie's got your girl and gone. Gotta get home cuz you work too hard....") Weegee had one hit, and one album, after he left the Dramatics (Hold on to Your Dreams). Sadly, he never was able to establish a stable life and he wasted one of the greatest voices to ever bless us. He wore himself out with his lifestyle and died a couple of years ago in New York (Weegee always lived in Detroit).