CD Album - R. Dean Taylor - The Essential Collection - Spectrum Music

CD Album

Artist:	R. Dean Taylor
Title:	The Essential Collection
Label:	Spectrum Music
Country:	Europe
Date:	10 Jul 2001
Catalogue:	544 515-2
Barcode:	731454451529
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	R. Dean Taylor	Gotta See Jane	E. Holland, R. Dean Taylor, R. Miller	Rate
02	R. Dean Taylor	Back Street	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
03	R. Dean Taylor	Ain't It A Sad Thing	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
04	R. Dean Taylor	Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got	Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong	Rate
05	R. Dean Taylor	There's A Ghost In My House	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland Jr, R. Dean Taylor	Rate
06	R. Dean Taylor	Don't Fool Around	R. Dean Taylor, Edward Holland Jr	Rate
07	R. Dean Taylor	Indiana Wants Me	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
08	R. Dean Taylor	Woman Alive	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
09	R. Dean Taylor	Loves Your Name	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
10	R. Dean Taylor	Taos New Mexico	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
11	R. Dean Taylor	Fire And Rain	James Taylor	Rate
12	R. Dean Taylor	Shadow	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
13	R. Dean Taylor	Two Of Us	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	Rate
14	R. Dean Taylor	Poor Girl	R. Dean Taylor, Edward Holland Jr	Rate
15	R. Dean Taylor	Let's Go Somewhere	R. Dean Taylor, Edward Holland Jr, James Dean	Rate
16	R. Dean Taylor	Candy Apple Red	R. Dean Taylor	Rate
17	R. Dean Taylor	Sunday Morning Coming Down	Kris Kristofferson	Rate
18	R. Dean Taylor	Just Like In The Movies	R. Dean Taylor, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland Jr	Rate
19	R. Dean Taylor	My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland Jr, R. Dean Taylor	Rate

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Original Motown recordings

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Ross Hartman 26th Apr 2021		"My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle" was slated to be a VIP single in March, 1964, but was canceled. One other previously-unreleased track here: "Just Like In the Movies". "There's A Ghost In My House" is a stereo alternate take that previously appeared on the 1973 album "Sounds Superb".



RogerFoster 12th Apr 2016		Review Interesting little collection of R. Dean Taylor's Motown recordings. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 17 were released in the US as the LP "I Think Therefore I Am" in December 1970 on Rare Earth RS 522, and then issued in The UK as the LP "Indiana Wants Me" in August 1971 on Tamla Motown STML 11185 following the massive UK chart impact of "Indiana Wants Me". The other tracks are split fairly evenly between US singles released in the 1964-1966 period and tracks recorded after the success of "Indiana Wants Me". This leads to a curiously schizoid compilation with a handful of tracks having that classic mid-60s Motown sound whereas some others are cheesy 1970s efforts. One of the strangest recordings on here has to be "My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle", co-written by Mr Taylor and Holland-Dozier-Holland. The lyrics are pure novelty, musically it sounds like The Supremes' "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" Bizarrely, the version of "There's A Ghost In My House" on here is a very different mix from what appeared on the original 1967 US single on VIP 25042 and the 1974 UK #3 hit on Tamla Motown 896. At the time when I bought this I found this infuriating, but since the "proper" version has appeared on subsequent collections I now see it as some interesting curio. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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