The Righteous Brothers’ ‘Lovin’ Feelin” Album

Blue-eyed soul was a key a part of the American pop sound of the mid-Sixties, as Bobby Hatfield and Invoice Medley, in any other case often known as the Righteous Brothers, loved the fruits of their new cope with Phil Spector and Lester Sill’s Philles label. The landmark single “You’ve Misplaced That Lovin’ Feelin’’’ was climbing the charts all over the place and, on January 23, 1965, the duo entered the album chart with the LP of the identical identify.

The prelude to this new daybreak in Bobby and Invoice’s profession was the sudden rush by their former label Moonglow to benefit from the truth that ‘Lovin’ Feelin’’ was all around the charts and the radio. The repromoted Proper Now! and Some Blue Eyed Soul albums have been each on the bestsellers within the early a part of January, however now the “brothers” might actually begin wanting ahead – or in order that they thought, till it grew to become clear pretty shortly that they weren’t going to see eye to eye with Spector, who in flip offered their contract on to Verve/MGM later in 1965.

However for now, their first Philles album had a monster hit to propel it, the Spector collaboration with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil that led off the report. Not for nothing did fellow entrepreneur Andrew Loog Oldham place an advert in Melody Maker to explain the epic efficiency and manufacturing as “tomorrow’s sound immediately.”

Spector additionally co-wrote ‘There’s A Lady’ with the singers for the album, whereas Medley had a solo credit score on ‘Soul Metropolis’ and there have been covers starting from Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” to the compulsory present tunes comparable to George Gershwin’s “Summertime” and Hammerstein and Kern’s “Outdated Man River.”

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The album was the best new entry on that week’s Prime LPs chart at No.112, then after a climb to No.68, catapulted to No.18. It spent 4 weeks at No.4 from the tip of February, and emphasised that soulfulness by peaking at No.3 on the R&B chart.

Purchase or stream the Righteous Brothers compilation You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.

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