What You Won't Do for Love

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共9首歌曲

艺人: Bobby Caldwell
语种: 英语
厂牌: Clouds
发行时间: 1978年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by M.F. DiBella

Bobby Caldwell is one of only a handful of white vocalists (Van Morrison and Simply Red's Mick Hucknall, to name a couple more) who legitimately transcended the blue-eyed soul tag. Caldwell's genuine mix of R&B and jazz signatures as well as his bittersweet yet buttery vocal tones conjure up images of a smoothed-out version of Chet Baker. On this, his breakthrough album, the native New Yorker scored a hit with the timeless &What You Won't Do for Love& and also polished off another near-classic on &My Flame.& While a few of the compositions echo the dying grip of disco and some of Caldwell's vocal arrangements sound more like a hipper version of Tony Bennett (&Can't Say Goodbye&), the crooner does possess the pipes to carry the offering. Caldwell even tries his hand at the experimental on the short but sweet instrumental &Kalimba Song.& Time will likely render much of Bobby Caldwell disposable, but at the album's best, the songs do carry a singular sound and contain the power to place themselves in a time period, which may just be good enough for lovers. The cut &What You Won't Do for Love& will always stack up, as even hip-hop producers saw fit to sample the horn riff and bass track a number of times (listen to 2Pac's &Do for Love,& for one).

What You Won't Do for Love

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