Tellin' It Like It Is: The Mala Sessions The Van Dykes

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  • Release Date: 08/01/2000
  • Label: SUNDAZED MUSIC INC.
  • UPC: 090771616425

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Tellin' It Like It Is: The Mala Sessions

1LISTENNo Man Is an Island 2:38
2LISTENWhat Will I Do (If I Lose You) 2:19
3LISTENTears of Joy 3:15
4LISTENI've Got to Find a Love 2:01
5LISTENHey Mr. Lonesome 2:41
6LISTENNever Let Me Go 2:32
7LISTENI've Got to Go on Without You 2:54
8LISTENI Won't Hold It Against You 1:58
9LISTENYou're Shakin' Me Up 2:07
10LISTENI'm So Happy 1:49
11LISTENYou Need Confidence 2:21
12LISTENDoin' the Best I Can 2:42
13LISTENI'm for Real, Baby 2:00
14LISTENA Sunday Kind of Love 2:50
15LISTENSave My Love for a Rainy Day 2:42

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This is, in fact, a CD reissue of their 1966 Bell album Tellin' It Like It Is with bonus tracks. Yet it also serves as a simultaneous best-of and an "everything you need to hear by" comp, since the group was active for such a short time, and that LP contained most of their recordings. The Van Dykes were unabashedly derivative of the Impressions and were imitating the kinds of records the Impressions had done two or three years before the Van Dykes cut their own sides, at that. That made them a bit anachronistic even in their own time, and like most such imitative artists, not nearly as significant as their prototypes. That doesn't mean that this isn't good, if somewhat second-tier, soul. Rondalis Tandy had one of the highest and most resonant falsettos in soul music and had a good knack for penning Curtis Mayfield-like tunes. The four bonus cuts include the non-LP B-sides "Save My Love for a Rainy Day" and "A Sunday Kind of Love," as well as a couple of previously unreleased cuts that have an old-school harmony soul aura similar to the rest of their output. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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