The Tymes - So Much In Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:18
Size: 96.8 MB
Styles: R&B
Year: 1963/2012
Art: Front

[2:34] 1. Alone
[2:42] 2. My Summer Love
[3:01] 3. Wonderful! Wonderful!
[2:38] 4. That Old Black Magic
[2:15] 5. Let's Make Love Tonight
[2:05] 6. Goodnight My Love
[2:19] 7. So Much In Love
[2:22] 8. You Asked Me To Be Yours
[2:30] 9. The Twelfth Of Never
[2:26] 10. Way Beyond Today
[2:40] 11. Summer Day
[2:18] 12. Autumn Leaves
[2:10] 13. So Much In Love (Single Version)
[2:37] 14. Roscoe James Mcclain
[2:51] 15. Wonderful! Wonderful! (Single Version)
[2:25] 16. Come With Me To The Sea
[2:15] 17. Surf City

The Tymes were one of the top R&B vocal groups on the starstudded Cameo Parkway roster, and the success of this album, which went to #15 on the charts on the strength of the #1 smash title track and the #7 hit Wonderful! Wonderful!, bears eloquent testimony to that fact. But what makes this album really special is that, unlike many LPs of the era, it really is an album, not just a collection of hits and covers thrown together to capitalize on a charting single. In fact, you could argue that So Much in Love is the first concept album in the R&B genre, as spoken word interludes chart the course of a love affair from beginning to end. This classic piece of early Philly soul comes with the original front cover and track listing intact, garnished with four single sides (including the single version of So Much in Love) and a track (Surf City) which previously appeared only on the rare 1963 various-artists compilation Everybody s Goin Surfin.

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The Tymes - Best Of The Tymes

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:31
Size: 120.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Pop-Soul
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[2:18] 1. So Much In Love
[2:51] 2. Wonderful! Wonderful!
[2:24] 3. Come With Me To The Sea
[2:27] 4. Stranger In Paradise
[2:32] 5. Malibu
[2:17] 6. Words Written On Water
[2:14] 7. Anymore
[2:08] 8. Somewhere
[2:20] 9. Here She Comes
[2:36] 10. Hello Young Lovers
[2:26] 11. Way Beyond Today
[2:30] 12. One Little Kiss
[2:35] 13. Address Unknown
[2:10] 14. Wonderland Of Love
[2:33] 15. To Each His Own
[2:10] 16. Chances Are
[2:41] 17. My Summer Love
[2:09] 18. The Magic Of Our Summer Love
[2:17] 19. The Lamp Is Low
[2:20] 20. And That Reminds Me
[2:17] 21. View From My Window
[2:05] 22. Goodnight My Love

Philadelphia's Tymes were one of the sweetest vocal groups to ever step into a recording studio. Led by the warm, expressive tenor of George Williams, whose voice and phrasing were heavily influenced by Johnny Mathis, and blessed with a producer at Cameo Parkway Records, Billy Jackson, who knew exactly how to record them, the Tymes hit right out of the box with their debut single, the sparse and elegant ballad "So Much in Love" in 1963. Written by Williams, the song was given a simple, floating arrangement by Jackson that was driven by what would become the group's trademark finger snaps and featuring smooth-as-honey vocals by Williams and fellow group members Al "Ceasar" Barry, George Hilliard, Norman Burnett, and Donald Banks. the Tymes followed this classic with a version of "Wonderful! Wonderful!" (the song that launched Mathis' own career in 1957) that was every bit as strong as "So Much in Love," and completed the hat trick with a third impressive single, "Somewhere." Everything the Tymes recorded with Jackson at Cameo Parkway had this same high quality, and the future looked more than bright, but the group's run on the pop charts pretty much ended with the advent of Beatlemania in 1964, which signaled a sea change in the recording industry. For some reason Cameo Parkway never released the Tymes catalog on CD until 2005, and this collection marks the debut of the Tymes in the digital age, some 40 years after these classic ballads were recorded. Gorgeously arranged and sung, the tracks compiled here have an elegant, timeless quality that works in part because of their simple sparseness, which allows the Tymes plenty of breathing room to do what they do best, which is sing like the angels sing. "So Much in Love," "Wonderful! Wonderful!," and "Somewhere" are all here, along with other gems like "Here She Comes" (one of the few instances where the Tymes go upbeat) and the sublime "The Lamp Is Low." Better late than never, this CD is essential listening for fans of the vocal group genre. ~Steve Leggett

Recording Date: April, 1963 - September, 1964

Best Of The Tymes

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