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Mellow Grooves.
Artist: Leo’s Sunshipp
Title: We Need Each Other
Year: 1978
Label: Lyons Recording Company
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 4.0/5.0
Review
Don’t let the extraterrestrial name fool you, Leo’s Sunshipp definitely kicked royal mellow grooves, and would have been around much longer if tragedy hadn’t struck. This was their one and only album. The group split after one of the lead singers passed (Johnny Simon), he had cancer. Such a shame, this was a very talented group with a lot of potential. This album DEFINES mellow soul, it strikes similarities to Marvin Gaye’s classic I Want You LP.
What makes this album unique is the fact that they never finished recording it (because of the death), but released it as a full LP, it’s just THAT dope. There were 4 vocal tracks, and 4 instrumentals to those vocals.
Check out the sound!
Get Down People
Madame Butterfly
Give Me The Sunshine
Design
This cover is kinda hot. It definitely doesn’t feel like the cover of a soul album, but that’s what surprised me about it. The cover simply supports the name of the group. The name was derived from the fact that all three members were born under the astrological sign of LEO. We Need Each Other is a message to the listeners, the album was originally going to be a self-titled debut, but the death to Simon led to this album title instead.
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