More...The Best of the Delfonics" [Original recording remastered]

The Delfonics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: M.I.L. Multimedia
• ASIN: B00000I3XC
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,583 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lying to Myself

2. I Told You So

3. First Thing on My Mind

4. Hey Baby

5. Think It Over

6. Pardon Me Girl

7. Seventeen (And in Love)

8. I Don't Want to Make You Wait

9. Love Is

10. Can't Go on Living

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Phoney

2. The Way Things Are

3. (Sing A) Clean Song

4. I've Got Everything

5. Oh My Love

6. The Same Things That Make You Laugh

7. Men of Action

8. Your Name

9. Tell Him

10. This Time, This Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The voice, May 21, 1999

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"lostsessions2" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More...The Best of the Delfonics" (Audio CD)

Has there ever been a better voice than William Hart? Okay, maybe Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin, but other than that, NO! Also, check out the horns and strings.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a voice, January 20, 2000

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Edward D. Turner "lostsessions" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More...The Best of the Delfonics" (Audio CD)

Has there ever been a better voice than William Hart? Okay, maybe Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin, but other than that, NO! Also, check out the horns and strings.

4.0 out of 5 stars In order to clarify for Fans, December 27, 2010

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Jonathan Schult "Musicman" (Mass. Park, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More...The Best of the Delfonics" (Audio CD)

I purchased this 1999 issue of "More...The Best of the Delfonics" when it was first released, and judging the prices they're now getting for it, I'm glad I did.

This is a reissue of two albums, 1974's "Alive and Kicking" coupled NOT with "the ultra rare "Delfonics Return", as the Amazon page erroneously says, but with the unreleased 1976 album "The Professionals".

Both albums are definitely worth having. "Alive and Kicking" contains the previous year's "Think It Over", "Lying to Myself" (both of which charted to the lower regions of the R&B charts) plus their last two Top 30 R&B hits, "I Don't Want to Make You Wait" and "I Told You So". The harmonies are still lush on these, as well as album cuts "Hey Baby", the gorgeous "First Thing On My Mind", and especially the Norman Harris co-write "Can't Go On Living" (which Harris also arranged). The album was produced by Stan Watson, but you'd be hard pressed to discern it from Thom Bell's production, Watson was obviously a great student of Bell.

"The Professionals" was produced by Hart & Hart (William and Wilbur). Unfortunately, they didn't write many good tunes for this one, but there are still glimmers of the old sound on such cuts as "I've Got Everything", "Oh My Love" and "Your Name" (a rare upbeat tune for the group). Times and the music landscape had changed in just two years, people wanted to dance, and so there was no room for the Delfonics sweet sound, so this album wound up being shelved.

Fortunately, it's now being reissued along with the remainder of the Delfonics oeuvre, the rarity of this particular disc notwithstanding. Six albums was their Philly Groove output, all are reissued, all are worthy of having. But don't pay the overinflated prices here, check around, they can be found much cheaper.