The Tymes have been around since the late 1950s, adding their own beautiful coda onto the doo-wop era with "So In Love." The signature "ooh-eee-ooh" and intermittent a cappella portions of that classic were so purely, honestly romantic. And the song just rolled on, as smoothly as a wave -- you could gently sway along to it and pop your fingers to the perfect, clean linear 4/4 beat. If there were such a category as a love march, this song would be its exemplar. A sample of So In Love follows (simply to give you a taste of the early street-corner love magic of the group. Simply click on the link, listen and come right back [just click on your browser's "BACK" button]:
SO IN LOVE [a/k/a So Much In Love]
Now for an amazing contrast: The group evolved with the times (no pun) and managed to absolutely retain their harmonic and stylistic integrity. When I first heard this song "Trustmaker," I was an undergraduate at University. The song grabbed me by the lapels and kept playing in the background of my mind. Amazingly, it was still THEM! Great harmony, double pace beat (but still straight 4/4), and a pure hit, but this time, with a nice modulation to add to the intensity and rocket the song to a climaxing coda to its coda. These guys had soul from the start and never, ever lost it. The pumping' bass line takes you right up the scale, note by note, increasing the impact of the song.
They have been as diverse and flexible as they are survivors of wave after wave of fad music. This song, "Trustmaker" came out in the disco era (the mid 1970s) and received a small run of airplay. Yet, it is a great song, in the melodic, "up and down the scale" tradition of the Spinners. It comes beautifully produced, fully orchestrated with a funky climbing bass line and a rich, upbeat sound. It was great to dance to...
Enjoy the pure positive energy of this song. Listen for the deluxe "heighten the excitement" modulation and lots of rev-ups to great verse vocals and instrumental parts...that crescendo builds endlessly. When the song ends, you're still hungry. I love that in a song.
The song rocks. Click on the link and listen - don't think. Just feel the pulse! It is truly a RadioDAZZ chest-thumper!
I apologize for the missing video -- YouTube had it disabled. Heck, let me see if I can grab another version with a video (even if it's one of those featuring a record spinning around, or just a picture of an album cover). Let's see...
http://youtu.be/orzBIG0-jzg
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http://youtu.be/orzBIG0-jzg
Got it for you! Now will you pul-eeze follow me on Twitter. If I don't get 100,000 total followers within six months, the Russian Mafia is going to beat my pet ferret (I've named him "Diogenes") to death with a balalaika* [c'mon - look it up]. Give me a couple of weeks and I'll even follow you back (unless you're peddling your seductive webcam pictures, selling viagra and painkillers, or selling an e-book about orgone energy). Please follow both...
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