Artist:   EDWIN STARR

Title:   “Hell Up in Harlem” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Label:   MOTOWN.  Label is blue with silver text.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is M 802V1.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG+.   Front panel has a few scuff marks on the right side, and light traces of ring wear.  Seams have some light wear, but no splits.  Corner tips have been bumped.  Reverse has a few light traces of ring wear.  No writing or stickers. 

Includes factory inner sleeve (lightweight cardboard) in EXCELLENT condition.  Bottom seam of inner sleeve has a small split (approximately 1”) beginning to appear at center, nothing serious.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Ain’t It Hell Up in Harlem Easin’ In Big Papa Love Never Dies (Helen’s Love Theme) Don’t It Feel Good to Be Free

Side Two:

Runnin’ Jennifer’s Love Theme Airport Chase Mama Should Be Here Too Like We Used to Do Ain’t It Hell Up in Harlem (instrumental)

Review:

“With productions and songs from Freddie Perren and Fonce Mizell, “Hell Up In Harlem” is the scathing and soulful soundtrack of the motion picture starring Fred Williamson.  This was Edwin Starr’s last album for Motown, which probably accounts for the woeful lack of promotion. Two singles were released, "Hell Up in Harlem," the first, should have remained an album cut, as its appeal was limited, despite a dogmatic vocal by Starr.  The follow-up, however, "Big Papa," should have been a monster. Written by Freddie Perren, it has the same power, forcefulness, and drive of numbers that Norman Whitfield had produced for Rare Earth and the Temptations.  The flips of both singles, "Don't It Feel Good to Be Free" and "Like We Used to Do," are mellower than the push sides. The bone picker, however, is "Easin' In," a great midtempo number with cool backing vocals, and a great reading from Starr; it has chart buster written all over it, yet Motown never released it as a single...”

[Review courtesy Andrew Hamilton, at allmusic.com.]

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