Mercury Records Collection: SR-61287: I Got Love

SR-61287: I Got Love / Melba Moore

Label Type :	red Mercury type C
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR 61287-A- M1 -I-III PH D
	SIDE-B	SR 61287-B- M2 -I-I PR

Comments

with original Mercury/Philips/Vertigo inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

A Broadway actress and a later Disco diva Melba Moore's (maybe) first full-length album.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

She is rather famous when the disco roamed the planet in the late 1970s. Yes it's her earliest album, released maybe in 1970, when she was starring in the Broadway musical “Purlie”.

The sound production heard in this album is a kind of Phiily-Soul-like new Soul. Whether her singing is great or not, the sound of that day is always attractive :)

It's interesting to see two Laura Nyro tunes on this album.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	I Got Love (from the Broadway musical “Purlie”) (Geld - Udell)	2:58
A-2	Time And Love (L. Nyro)	3:10
A-3	I Messed Up On A Good Thing (J. Fragale - C. Ballard, Jr.)	2:39
A-4	Purlie (from the Broadway musical “Purlie”) (Geld - Udell)	2:38
A-5	Captain St. Lucifer (L. Nyro)	3:21
A-6	I Love Making Love To You (J. Fragale - A. Badale)	2:53
SIDE-B
B-1	We're Living To Give (To Give To Each Other) (J. Fragale - A. Badale)	3:05
B-2	Sunny (B. Hebb)	4:12
B-3	The Flesh Failures (Let The Sun Shine In) (from the Broadway musical “Hair”) (Rado - Ragni - MacDermot))	3:18
B-4	Easy To Be Hard (from the Broadway musical “Hair”) (Rado - Ragni - MacDermot)	3:38
B-5	He Come Down This Morning (from the Broadway musical “Raisin In The Sun”) (R. Britton - J. Woldin)	3:14
B-6	The Facade (J. Fragale - L. Stallman)	3:26

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Melba Moore (vo).

Arrangements by Thom Bell (A-1), Jimmmy Wisner (A-4), Charlie Calallo (all others).

Recorded maybe in 1970.