I’ve enjoyed CDs in the TIME-LIFE Body + Soul series and I pick them up whenever I run across them. Body + Soul: Love and Tenderness from 1998 includes–according to the cover–Twenty-four Sensual Grooves.
If I had to pick one of these songs as “sensual” I’d have to go with Major Harris’s “Love Won’t Let Me Wait” from 1974. Of course, Sylvia’s “Pillow Talk” from 1973 has its moments, too. Also included is an extended version of Barry White’s “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby.”
Although I wouldn’t categorize it as sensual, I like Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Wither’s version of “Just the Two of Us.”
There’s plenty of variety on Body + Soul: Love and Tenderness. Do you remember these songs? Any favorites here? GRADE: B+
TRACK LIST:
| 1 | Barry White– | I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby | 7:13 |
| 2 | Larry Graham– | One In A Million You | 4:12 |
| 3 | Aretha Franklin– | Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) | 3:28 |
| 4 | Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram– | One Hundred Ways | 4:21 |
| 5 | Regina Belle– | Baby Come To Me | 4:14 |
| 6 | Bobby Caldwell– | What You Won’t Do For Love | 4:47 |
| 7 | Force M.D.’s*– | Tender Love | 3:56 |
| 8 | Earth, Wind & Fire– | That’s The Way Of The World | 5:46 |
| 9 | Stacy Lattisaw– | Love On A Two Way Street | 4:11 |
| 10 | The Delfonics– | Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) | 3:23 |
| 11 | Dorothy Moore– | Misty Blue | 3:42 |
| 12 | The Spinners*– | Love Don’t Love Nobody – Pt. 1 | 7:13 |
| 13 | Roger*– | I Want To Be Your Man | 4:05 |
| 14 | Shirley Murdock– | As We Lay | 5:58 |
| 15 | Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly– | Can’t Get Over You | 4:42 |
| 16 | Lionel Richie– | Truly | 3:23 |
| 17 | Blue Magic– | Sideshow | 4:14 |
| 18 | Major Harris– | Love Won’t Let Me Wait | 5:32 |
| 19 | Karyn White– | Superwoman | 4:35 |
| 20 | Atlantic Starr– | Always | 4:03 |
| 21 | GQ– | I Do Love You | 4:48 |
| 22 | The Stylistics– | You Are Everything | 2:57 |
| 23 | Sylvia*– | Pillow Talk | 4:09 |
| 24 | Grover Washington, Jr. And Bill Withers– | Just The Two Of Us | 7:24 |
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Most of them are unknown to me! A few I know and like! Maybe I’d appreciate it more if I listened to it!
Bob, many of the songs on this double CD set are from the 1970s so you probably would know them if you listened to it.
Their idea of sensual and my idea of sensual seem to differ. Have I been doing it wrong all this time?
Jerry, maybe some some of these songs are aimed at JD Vance types…and their couches.
Back in the day, we’d refer to it as “make-out music”—and make-out we did! Of the songs here, my favorites are Aretha’s “Until You Come Back to Me” (which was written by Stevie Wonder and was one of the few times Aretha covered a Motown artist’s song); Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do for Love” (it wasn’t until I read his obituary that I discovered Caldwell was white); “That’s the Way of the World” by Earth, Wind, and Fire; and the aforementioned “Pillow Talk” (Sylvia Robinson was a pioneer in the development of rap & hip-hop, but is primarily remembered today for being the Sylvia in Mickey & Sylvia who sang “Love Is Strange”). Anyway, a good selection of listenable music here.
Deb, I agree with you assessment of BODY + SOUL: LOVE AND TENDERNESS–listenable music. I’ve enjoyed the other CDs in the BODY + SOUL series.
Barry White and Lionel Richie set my teeth on edge. Not big on EWF either. Sy;via’s orgasm in “Pillow Talk” is amazing. The Delfonics — yeah baby! I don’t remember/recognize some of the other tracks. Larry Graham? Roger?
Fred, Sylvia and Donna Summer both had songs with “interesting” sound effects.
Always dug the James Ingram song.
JJ, I’ve always enjoyed James Ingram songs. I need to dig out another of Ingram’s CDs for listening this week.
The Stylistics, You Are Everything
‘The Delfonics, Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
Earth, Wind & Fire,, That’s The Way Of the World
Jeff, excellent choices!