Review: “Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973”

The sound is familiar but different.  The harmony is spellbinding if a bit woozy.  You’ve only given me a flower/I wish I had the whole bouquet… The track, led by acoustic guitar and gently funky percussion, is spare and raw.  If I should ask you for an hour/Is there a chance that you would stay/And maybe spend the day?  The falsetto is recognizable but eerily haunting.  The song is “You’re A Song (That I Can’t Sing)” performed by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons for the album Chameleon, the group’s first effort…

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