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Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration
(1992)
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Contemporary soul-pop artists, including Patti Austin, Tevin Campbell, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jone, Take 6, Howard Hewett, and Dianne Reeves, take a pop-song approach to Handel's classic Christmas oratorio. Handel's wonderful melodies are updated with synthesizers, drum machines, and slick pop production from Quincy Jones and Take 6's Mervyn Warren ...
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The Very Best of Howard Hewett
(2001)
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Howard Hewett
Rhino's 2001 collection, The Very Best of Howard Hewett, is a terrific collection, containing a generous 16 tracks that span not only his solo hits, but "Heaven Sent You," the Stanley Clarke tune he sang lead on, plus two songs that he sang for in Shalamar ("This Is for the Lover in You," "Somewhere There's a Love"). For most listeners, this is ...
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It's Time
(1994)
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Howard Hewett
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If Only...
(2007)
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Howard Hewett
Although Howard Hewett is best known for his contributions to Shalamar (which he joined in 1979 and left in 1985), the R&B veteran has actually devoted a lot more time to his solo career. By 2007, Hewett had been performing as a solo artist for 22 years, whereas he only spent six years with Shalamar (not counting his contributions to some ...
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One Life to Live: The Best of Love
(1994)
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My Cherie Amour
(1994)
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Soul Train Gang
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Intimate
(2005)
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Howard Hewett
Intimate, a live performance incorporating many of Howard Hewett's most popular material, is the next best thing to a new studio album (between 1986 and 1992, he released an album every other year; only one has surfaced since 1994). A seasoned backing band supports him on a set that covers all of his solo releases and adds a Shalamar medley of ...
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Anthology
(2004)
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Shalamar
The person responsible for picking the piercingly tinny, discombobulated remix of "Right in the Socket" over its vastly superior album-version counterpart ought to be smacked by a dolphin. All-important miscues like this can be a very sore point when anthologizing a group, especially when the group in question has been anthologized well over a ...
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The Look
(1983)
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Shalamar
The Look found Shalamar incorporating elements of new wave pop into their stylized dance funk, as demonstrated by such glossy pop-funk as "Dead Giveaway" and "No Limits (The Now Club)." The sound is appealing on such uptempo numbers, but the ballads are slightly weaker, lacking strong, memorable hooks. Similarly, the funk numbers tend to blend ...
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Uptown Festival
(1977)
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Shalamar
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Make That Move
(1996)
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Shalamar
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Friends
(1982)
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Shalamar
Although the group had been around since the late '70s, Shalamar didn't really gel until vocalist Howard Hewett joined original members Jeffrey Daniel and Jody Watley. While Friends' predecessor, Three for Love, offered more hits, Friends is a sometimes-cautious though fulfilling continuation of the style. The biggest hit and leadoff track, "A ...
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A Night to Remember: Uptown Soul Classics
(2002)
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Shalamar
A Shalamar feast (15 songs) featuring all of their lead singers: Gerald Brown, Jody Watley, Howard Hewett, and Sidney Justin. Brown, Shalamar's first male lead, mimicked Smokey Robinson on "Uptown Festival" (unedited) and a remake of the Miracles' "Ooo Baby, Baby," both included. Exit Brown, for unknown reasons, and enter Howard Hewett for their ...
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I Commit to Love
(1986)
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Howard Hewett
Howard Hewett made a smooth transition from being a member of the trio Shalamar to becoming a bona fide solo artist. His first single to hit the Billboard R&B charts was the romantically enchanting "I'm for Real." Too fast to be a ballad and not fast enough to be a jam, Hewett still captivated radio and his audience with this moderate number. The ...
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Disco Gardens
(1978)
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Shalamar
Uptown Festival was Shalamar's first album, but Disco Gardens was Shalamar's first worthwhile album. To say that there was a world of difference between the two might be an understatement. Much of Uptown Festival had a robotic, impersonal quality, and it was obviously the work of a manufactured studio act. But when Shalamar introduced its Jody ...
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Allegiance
(1992)
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Howard Hewett
This is the follow-up to his 1990 hit Howard Hewett. For this, Hewett split the production duties between Tommy LiPluma, Narada Michael Walden, Barry Mann, Nick Martinelli, and himself. One would think that he would get lost in this, but the opposite becomes true. While on the surface this seems like a by-the-numbers effort, with its unearthly ...
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12" Collection
(1994)
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Shalamar
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Greatest Hits [Solar]
(1982)
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Shalamar
Some dismissed Shalamar's Solar recordings as lightweight fluff, and it's hard to disagree with people who think that. It's not like they don't have a valid point. Shalamar recorded dance-oriented, puppy-love tales designed for promo shots on Soul Train. Ballads weren't really high on their list of songs to record. The sum of the group has proven ...
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The Journey Live...From the Heart
(2002)
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Howard Hewett
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A Night to Remember [Single]
(1993)
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Shalamar
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Take That to the Bank
(1993)
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Shalamar
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Howard Hewett
(1990)
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Howard Hewett
On this album, Howard Hewett has a string of solid ballads and mid-tempo numbers before bowing to some experiemental material. The first release was "Show Me." Hewett delivers a compassionate performance as he craves to make good on the lyric. For two consecuive weeks it held the number two spot on the Billboard R&B charts. On a more mid-tempo ...
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Go for It
(1981)
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Shalamar
Coming on the heels of two Top Ten LPs, Shalamar's 1981 Go for It, their second album of the year, barely stumbled into the Top 20, reflecting the band's own brief mid-career slump. Still intent on delivering up-tempo R&B hinging on urban beats, disco strings, and funky interludes, Shalamar was suffering from the beginning of inter-band strife ...
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The Best of Shalamar [EMI]
(2002)
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Shalamar
Any Shalamar compilation that attempts to whittle the group's essence down to ten tracks is going to fail, but that's not really the point of this budget disc, which merely ties up ten of their most familiar singles. As a brief introduction, it's satisfactory, featuring "A Night to Remember," "Over and Over," "Right in the Socket," "The Second ...
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Smooth Grooves: Ladies' Men
(2002)
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Various Artists
This edition of Rhino's Smooth Grooves series delivers what it claims -- 12 tracks from some of the greatest crooners in smooth, urban, quiet storm, and contemporary soul. That means there's Teddy Pendergrass, Keith Sweat, Al Green, Luther Vandross, Howard Hewett, and the Isley Brothers, along with Silk, Al B. Sure!, Tony Toni Tone, and other ...
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