In Praise Of: Love Unlimited

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Listening to The Best of Love Unlimited tonight. Gorgeous beyond belief. Not sure there could be better girl-group singles than "Walking in the Rain (With the One I Love)" and "It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart It's Spring)." Costumes are uniformly elegant. No silly melismatic warbling over the codas. Barry White is once again a master producer. And both Glodean and Linda James could have flipped my switch. I miss the '70s.

Guess I'm supposed to ask a question here. Okay: could they take both the Three Degrees AND the Emotions simultaneously?

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 10 January 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...
Can't believe this thread didn't take off. The best of Love Unlimited arrived in the post yesterday and it is incredible. I'm stunned that this band aren't rated up there with The Supremes and Ronettes in the music press and on here.

Can anyone recommend a good book about this band and/or Barry? If anyone can help me get hold of a copy of the Behind The Music: Barry White special then that'd be great.

Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 4 February 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Not to be confused with the dull Love Unlimited Orchestra stuff.

Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 4 February 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I just mentioned them in the disco thread, but I'll repeat my anecdote about seeing and hearing them for the first time on an old rerun of Soul Train the other week and getting really excited.

Too bad some of their best stuff is out of print. Such as the Under the Influence of..., the one I have (aka downloaded). "Oh Love, we Finally Made It" is a fantastic song, and plus it has that great double entendre where you can interpret the "Love" in the title as your Lover, or as the hot sex you finally had.

Zachary S (Zach S), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

walkin' in the rain on soul train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6l8dzyzaoY

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Jeez, the guy in the back is rocking out a little too hard for that song. He keeps pointing at someone in the sky.

Zachary S (Zach S), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

oh my god, "i'm so glad i'm a woman" is fucking sweet.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:05 (sixteen years ago)

sorry, this is only about the luo which btw is not dull:
when i was in new york in spring we spent some time in a record shop (record as in vinyl) near the strand bookstore. there was a love unlimited orchestra record playing which i immediately fell in love with. "music maestro please". i bought it for an astronomic prize like 25 dollars or something and haven't listened to it since. thanks for reviving the thread, i think i know now what to put on the turntable tonight.

alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:58 (sixteen years ago)

what's the difference between LU and LUO?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:16 (sixteen years ago)

Can anyone recommend a good book about this band and/or Barry? If anyone can help me get hold of a copy of the Behind The Music: Barry White special then that'd be great.
I don't quite get why VH1-Classic doesn't just show all the old Behind the Musics on repeat -- they're a ton of them and the series was, for the most part, done really well. I'd love to see the one on Barry -- b/c I agree, the dude clearly was an important figure in soul--on several levels--and even with him dead there hasn't been much of an acknowledgment of his achievements outside of the (admittedly classic) "Never Gonna Give You Up"...

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

his episode of biography was pretty great. it was made before he passed away, so there's plenty of words from the man himself (and glodean). pretty incredible story (his rise/breakthrough, anyway)

guammls (QE II), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

barry's autobiography is a great read. he comes across as this enormous, loving, slightly-dotty mountain of a man. saying how grown men used to come to him for advice on relationships when he was 14!

i would still love to see that behind the music special, can't believe a torrent of it doesn't exist. i do have a show about him that was on ch4 a few years back, not sure what it was though.

NI, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

"If This World Were Mine" has possibly the greatest bassline I've ever heard

Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 02:55 (fourteen years ago)


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