The Contours - Dance With The Contours (2011)

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The Contours - Dance With The Contours (2011)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:05:51 | 149 / 268 Mb
Genre: Early R&B, Motown, Soul

Of the Motown acts to have big hits in the 1960s, the Contours are one of the least known; it could be more people can rattle off the lyrics to "Do You Love Me?" than identify the group that sang the song. But like all Motown groups of consequence, they recorded a surprisingly voluminous amount of material for the label, much of which was unreleased at the time. It's still astonishing that there are enough unissued cuts from 1963 and 1964 alone to comprise the bulk of this 26-track CD. It does include a couple of official 1964 singles ("Can You Do It" and "Can You Jerk Like Me"), but the other two-dozen masters were previously unreleased before this 2011 compilation appeared. It's also impressive that these recordings aren't obvious throwaways. At the same time, however, there's not much in the way of obvious first-rate contenders for 45 release, and much of it sounds like decent album filler. (In fact, about half of it could have been planned for a late 1964/early 1965 LP that might have been titled Dance with the Contours, hence the title of this CD anthology.) More often than not, they're uptempo tunes that take advantage of the group's knack for danceable grooves paced by some of the grittiest lead vocals ever heard on Motown sides of the early to mid-'60s. Sometimes they specifically echo the "Do You Love Me?" formula, and might have been passed over for release by quality control for precisely that reason.

Track List:
01. Can You Do It
02. Do The See Saw
03. He Couldn't Do The Monkey aka He Couldn't Do The Crossfire
04. I Don't Want To Talk
05. Foot Stomping Time
06. The Limbo Is Here To Stay
07. Let's Do The Uncle Willie
08. Party Groove
09. Okey Dokey
10. Love Is Uncertain
11. Shake Everything You Got
12. Giant Steps
13. Preview It Doesn't Have To Be So
14. Minnie The Ugly Duckling
15. Wanted
16. Boy Meets Girl
17. Don't You Wanna Go
18. You Hurt Me So
19. You Changed My Life Around
20. Throw You Out Of My Mind
21. Tonight
22. I Didn't Know How Right it Was (But Ooh What A Night it Was)
23. Somebody's Daughter Oughta
24. Nobody Fine As Dinah
25. Can You Jerk Like Me
26. I Can't Stop Dancing
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Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
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