Who's Making Love [Import]

Track Listings

1. Who's Making Love

2. I'm Not The Same Person

3. Hold On This Time

4. Woman Across The River

5. Can't Trust Your Neighbor

6. Take Care Of Your Homework

7. I'm Trying

8. Poor Make Believer

9. Payback Hurts

10. Mr Nobody Is Somebody Now

11. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water

12. Twenty Years From Today

13. Save Your Love For Me

14. Rumors

15. Lovin On Borrowed Time

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Midprice CD Reissue for Seminal Album, plus Four Bonus Tracks.

Who's Making Love,Johnnie Taylor,Ace/Stax,R&B/Soul

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Taylor came up on the gospel circuit and was cutting records for Sam Cooke's label when he was a kid. His first secular recordings for Stax were about taking the blues to church, but on this one, backed by Booker T. and the MGs, Isaac Hayes, and the Memphis Horns, he breaks out into a soul blues spectacular. The title cut is priceless--"Who's making love/to your old lady/while you was out making love"--but throughout the album, the backing musicians stretch out while Johnnie wails his woes. All in all, a great mix of soul and blues. --Robert Gordon

Customer Reviews:

"STAND BY ME...FATHER".......2002-11-21

REMEMBER THE SOUL STIRRERS? HOW ABOUT SAM COOKE OR EDDIE FLOYD? WELL, JOHNNIE TAYLOR ALONG WITH SAM & EDDIE WAS A MEMBER. IN 1968 "WHO'S MAKING LOVE SOLD WELL OVER 3 1/2 MILLOIN COPIES. ONLY MARVIN GAYE'S; "I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVIVE" OUTSOLD JOHNNIE'S SINGLE, THEN. THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED WITH SO MANY POTENTIAL SINGLES. "POOR MAKE BELIEVER", "HOLD ON THIS TIME", "I'M NOT THE SAME PERSON(I USE TO BE)AND "TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOMEWORK" ALL JUST JEWELS IN THE CROWN. 1960'S "STAND BY ME, FATHER"; WAS JOHNNIE'S BREAK FROM GOSPEL TO SOLO STATUS. "WHO'S MAKING LOVE"; WAS JOHNNIE'S SURGE TO "STAR STATUS" 1976'S "DISCO LADY"; WAS THE FIRST CERTIFIED PLATINUM SINGLE. NEED I SAY MORE?

I can't believe that's me the first in wrting about this.......2002-01-02

Johnnie Taylor must be remembered as one of the best southern soul singers, along with his Stax-mates (Otis Redding, William Bell, Eddie Floyd) and James Carr or Arthur Alexander. He's got a tender voice, that suits perfectly in bluesy, but also country-gospel soul stuff, and this record contains the danceable title track, that was later covered by
blue note's funky-jazz sax machine, Lou Donaldson.

Goldilocks (1958 Original Broadway Cast)

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A beguiling album
Broadway FLOP yields a HIT original cast album
a classic cult musical
Straight from Broadway's Golden Age: It's Goldilocks!
Worth your investment - A real delight!

Goldilocks (1958 Original Broadway Cast)
Joan Ford , Walter Kerr , and Jean Kerr
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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The Leroy Anderson Collection

ASIN: B0000027WO
Release Date: 1992-05-19

Tracks:

Act I: Overture
Act I: Lazy Moon
Act I: Give The Little Lady
Act I: Save A Kiss
Act I: No One'll Ever Love You
Act I: Who's Been Sitting In My Chair?
Act I: There Never Was A Woman
Act I: The Pussy Foot
Act II: Lady In Waiting
Act II: The Beast In You
Act II: Shall I Take My Heart And Go?
Act II: I Can't Be In Love
Act II: Bad Companions
Act II: I Never Know When
Act II: Two Years In The Making
Act II: Heart Of Stone

Customer Reviews:

A beguiling album.......2004-10-31

Someone had a brilliant notion in getting Leroy Anderson to write a show. (It wasn't the first time; he was hired for "Wonderful Town" but was ditched in favor of Leonard Bernstein.) That it didn't quite work may owe to the fact that he was largely written out, the best of his imperishable vest-pocket tone poems long in the past. Still, this is an utterly captivating score, superbly interpreted. If you want a complete idea how it sounds you might want to get MCA's budget two-disc anthology of Anderson conducting his own music, including several of the show's dance numbers; they almost make you forget how great Arthur Fiedler was with this master of the pops.

Broadway FLOP yields a HIT original cast album.......2004-02-13

This is another splendid original cast recording from Goddard Lieberson and Columbia records. Great score by Leroy Anderson by a fine cast headed by Elaine Stritch who is in great voice here. Don Ameche is her nemesis/love interest and Pat Stanley nearly steals the show with her first act number "The Pussy Foot."

The record is short (45 minutes) and does not include the dance pice "The Town House Maxixe" which can be heard on MCA's Leroy Anderson collection. What is on the CD is quite delightful and Sony has done a first rate job coaxing excellent sound from the early stereo tapes. The booklet gives a good essay on the history of the trobled show and a detailed plot summary.

a classic cult musical.......2002-10-19

GOLDILOCKS is one of my all-time favorite 'lost musicals'. It struggled through three months and 161 performances on Broadway, only to close after scathing reviews and dwindling audiences.

GOLDILOCKS was written by theater critic Walter Kerr as a love-letter to the silent movies that had captivated him as a child. The story concerns sardonic silent-actress Maggie Harris (Elaine Stritch) who has a stormy love-hate relationship with her cocky director (Don Ameche). Complications arise in the form of beautiful Lois Lee (Pat Stanley), who sets out to steal him for herself. Maggie decides to make one more picture under the assumed name of Goldilocks, and makes one last grab at romance...

The reason why the show failed so miserably was the weakness of the book, which was magnified a thousand times over by the greatness of the score; which features "Lazy Moon", "Lady in Waiting", "The Pussy Foot", "Where is the Beast in You?", and my personal favorite "I Never Know When to Say When".

Through its lovely cast album, the musical has a devout cult following and no wonder. Elaine Stritch in her first Broadway leading-role (after years of supporting work in revivals of PAL JOEY and ON YOUR TOES) and the sparkling score of Leroy Anderson is fantastic stuff. Highly recommended.

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Straight from Broadway's Golden Age: It's Goldilocks!.......2001-06-29

I first discovered Goldilocks through the double draw of Leroy Anderson and Elaine Stritch. Elaine Stritch I already knew as Joanne in Company singing "The Ladies Who Lunch", and Leroy Anderson was one of my favorite composers, known for such light programmatic and novelty orchestral pieces as The Syncopated Clock, Belle of the Ball, Bugler's Holiday, The Typewriter and Plink, Plank, Plunk. That combo of names caught my eye as I was flipping through the record bins one day, and as I scanned the album cover I saw the names Don Ameche, Nathaniel Frey and Margaret Hamilton which absolutely clinched the deal. I left the store with the record and went straight home to play it. From the moment I dropped the needle (yes, I've had it that long) I was captivated, and it has since become one of my perennial favorites.

The score is top notch, particularly in the material for Stritch and the perfectly cast Don Ameche. It does sag a bit in the material for the secondary couple, but I think that's because it's the primary couple who are the comedians while the secondary couple gets stuck with the sappy side of romance. Yes, there are book problems. Walter Kerr later admitted that they kept beefing up the comedy at the expense of the love story, and reading through the book (which through an incredible stroke of good fortune I found at a local Half Price Books) that's a fair criticism. But this weakness doesn't overwhelm the show and make it unworkable. I have to agree with the assessment that with The Music Man already running featuring a slightly more lovable con artist and a sweet rather than brassy leading lady, Goldilocks wasn't able to measure up to the competition. Taken on its own terms though, Goldilocks works wonderfully.

To mention particular favorites of mine in the score, I have to start with Stritch's Act 2 torch song, "I Never Know When To Say When". Why didn't this become a standard? It stacks up with the best Broadway has to offer. You can hear the pain in Stritch's voice as she laments the mess she's made of her relationhips. "Give the Little Lady" near the top of Act 1 doesn't really cover much in the realm of plot, but it's just so much fun, and "The Beast In You" never fails to get me laughing. All of these feature Stritch alone or with the chorus, but her duet with Ameche, "No One'll Ever Love You", is just as good, and Ameche's solo number, "I Can't Be In Love", in which he discovers to his astonishment that he is indeed in love, is priceless. Then on top of that is "Bad Companions" for Don Ameche's shady sidekicks Nathaniel Frey (an excellent comic character actor who appeared in many better known shows such as Damn Yankees and She Loves Me) and Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West sings!) which is a hoot from start to finish. These are the standouts in my book, but the whole score is eminently listenable, pleasant and tuneful. Of course with Leroy Anderson writing the music it couldn't be anything else.

I sometimes wish I had been born 30-40 years earlier so I could have actually seen what I am only able to get the barest hint of from reading the libretto and listening to the cast album. I strongly recommend to anyone who has had enough interest to wind up here reading these reviews to make this show a permanent part of your collection. More people need to know this show!

Worth your investment - A real delight!.......2001-01-14

Having learned about the life of Leroy Anderson through the recent PBS story on his career,I was very interested to hear this famous composer's only Broadway show.

This original cast recording is a gem. The majority of the songs are first rate, the perfomers are all first rate and the recording quality sounds as fine as anything on the market today. What a shame that the show had such serious problems, such as a weak book and opening with such hits as West Side Story and Music Man already running on Broadway.

Tracks:

Who's Making Love?
I'm Not the Same Person
Hold on This Time
Woman Across the River
Can't Trust Your Neighbor
Take Care of Your Homework
I'm Trying
Poor Make Believer
Payback Hurts
Mr. Nobody Is Somebody Now
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
Rumors [*]

Album Description

Import exclusive 24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1968 album packaged in a digipak. Includes the bonus track 'Rumors'. Stax.

Album Details

24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak.

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Sensual Collection

Manufacturer: Executive Hits Enterainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA3O4M
Release Date: 2004-05-11

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this is SUB SUB -not Johnny Taylor as the album cover shown implies
Stax soul brother SUPER BAD

Who's Making Love
Johnnie Taylor
Manufacturer: Ace/Stax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004U35L
Release Date: 2000-08-07

Tracks:

Who's Making Love
I'm Not The Same Person
Hold On This Time
Woman Across The River
Can't Trust Your Neighbor
Take Care Of Your Homework
I'm Trying
Poor Make Believer
Payback Hurts
Mr Nobody Is Somebody Now
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
Twenty Years From Today
Save Your Love For Me
Rumors
Lovin On Borrowed Time

Album Details

Midprice CD Reissue for Seminal Album, plus Four Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

this is SUB SUB -not Johnny Taylor as the album cover shown implies.......2006-06-13

I am browsing this because I am a fan of Doves -which is what late '90s Manchester Dance Band Sub Sub became after their studio and equipment were burned in a fire.

I will return with a new review, after I have listened to it. I just wanted to correct the erroneous impression that the amazon page has given.

Stax soul brother SUPER BAD.......2004-01-18

THE 60'S SOME OF THE BEST R & B MUSIC EVER. ATLANTIC, MOTOWN AND YES THE DOWN HOME OF STAX RECORDS. IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT WHO'S MAKIN' LOVE. THIS IS A SOUL CLASSIC,BOOKER T. AND THE MGs THE MEMPHIS HORNS AND ISAAC HAYES. JOHNNIE TAYLOR SINGS HIS --- OFF.ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES OF THAT ERA. GO MR. TAYLOR WITH YOUR BAD SELF.

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Who's Making Love...
Johnnie Taylor
Manufacturer: Stax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000566Y7
Release Date: 1969-01-01

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