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Following three "psychedelic soul" albums produced by Norman Whitfield, The Temptations' 14th studio album, Sky’s the Limit, marked a return to a more soulful, Motown sound. Released in 1971, tenor Eddie Kendricks would depart the group just before the al

A mysterious European model/chanteuse with a deep voice, Nico's solo 1967 debut Chelsea Girl was released mere months after the groundbreaking The Velvet Underground & Nico album. Titled after Andy Warhol's experimental 1966 film of the same name, the dar

Etta Is Betta Than Evvah! was released in 1976, at a time when she wasn’t ruling the charts but wasn’t adverse to climbing back into the Top 40 either. The ten funky cuts on this record do not lack bravado and she certainly sings her heart out on what wou

Released on the Impulse label in 1969, Albert Ayler’s album Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe was entirely written by Ayler's partner, Mary Maria Parks. Along with The Last Album, which contains outtakes from the same session, this was Ayler's la

The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield had experimented so successfully with psychedelic soul on their previous release, Cloud Nine, they continued on that path with the group's eleventh album, Puzzle People, in 1969. Featuring the #1 Pop hit

The 16th studio album by Diana Ross & The Supremes, Let the Sunshine In was issued by Motown in 1969. Included is "I'm Livin' In Shame," the sequel to the previous year's #1 hit "Love Child," as well as the Smokey Robinson song "The Composer," which hit #

Pure Smokey was William “Smokey” Robinson’s second solo album after leaving The Miracles. It was issued on Motown’s Tamla label in 1974 and presents mostly songs composed by Robinson along with Marv Tarplin, another ex-Miracle who joined Robinson in Calif

Ridin’ High was first released in 1966, a period in which The Impressions were dominating the charts and recording fantastic albums. All songs were written by Curtis Mayfield, who sings lead vocals and plays guitar along with tenor vocals by Fred Cash and

Released by the Kapp label in 1970, Parallelograms was the first album by American psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs. Disappointed by the meager promotion of the LP by Kapp, she retired from the music world and continued working in her profession as a

In The Groove, the eighth studio album by Marvin Gaye, released by Motown on August 26, 1968, was reissued and retitled as I Heard It Through the Grapevine after the unexpected success of that song, which became one of the biggest hits of 1968. This marke

The first and only studio album recorded by the duo team of Motown artists Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells, Together was released on April 15, 1964. It became the first charted album credited to Gaye, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and yielde

Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse (1965-1966), brings forth a collection of previously unreleased recordings of the iconic pianist Ahmad Jamal captured live at the hallowed Seattle jazz club. Featuring trios with bassists Richard Evans and Jamil