Digitally remastered edition. Major Harris remained faithful to the Philadelphia soul sound, when the famous Jerry Ragovoy-produced How Do You Take Your Love in New York City, in 1978. How Do You Take Your Love has an all-star cast as the participants include, among others, the ubiquitous session player Sammy Figueroa on percussion, Alfa Anderson, Diva Gray and Luther Vandross on background vocals which certainly gives the album that Philly sound. "Night Moods" (which Chaka Khan recorded in 1981), "Pretty Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)", "You're So Good, You're Bad", "I Wanna Dance With You", "Lucky Day" and the title song are mostly slow jams, but the 10-minute "I Wanna Dance With You" brings together Philly soul and Philly disco and manages to be laid back one minute and exuberant the next. "I Wanna Dance With You" starts out as a slow ballad and stays that way for about four minutes; then, Harris increases the tempo considerably and turns the song into a lush but funky disco-soul workout.
M**E
Very enjoyable reissue 70s soul
This is a very good album by an artist who hit his peak early with the 'My Way' album that contains the classics 'Love Won't Let Me Wait', 'Loving You Is Mellow' and 'After Loving You'. The follow up album 'Jealousy' wasn't as good, the melodies are too complex and it didn't resonate with me on reissue recently. This album though is most enjoyable, the song writing is solid, the singing as good as always, the music is performed and produced to a high standard. Although recorded in 1978 this is modern soul rather than disco, Only the opening epic 'I Wanna Dance With You' moves from ballad to uptempo disco sections. 'Pretty Red Lips' initially sounds a complete steal from 'Me & Mrs Jones' by Billy Paul but soon becomes its own song. So all in all a welcome addition that will please fans of 1970s sophisticated soul as promoted by such as Ralph Tee and Andy Peebles. The artist enduring into the 1980s and had a dance-soul minor hit with 'I Believe In Love' on Society Hill with a more electronic sound and also had a 'boogie blues band' too. That first album was always a hard act to follow though.
P**Y
Great soul music
One of the best Philly albums great mid - tempo tracks and great production this made major Harris a Philly great.
C**K
soul heaven
very nice 70's set
G**7
Worth the investment
Great musicality. Major Harris at his best.
M**D
Five Stars
Loved this cd
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