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Natural Resources

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Released
  
September 8, 1970

Genre
  
Soul

Natural Resources (1970)
  
Black Magic (1972)

Recorded
  
1969-1970

Label
  
Gordy

Producer
  
Henry Cosby; Clarence Paul

Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy (Motown) label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who". The album marked a return from lead singer Martha Reeves, recovering from a time in a mental institution after an addiction to painkillers nearly wrecked her (though it still took her until 1977 to beat her addiction). This was the next-to-last album for the Vandellas, whose success had peaked in the mid-1960s.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Something" (George Harrison)
  2. "Easily Persuaded" (Dick Cooper, Clarence Paul, Ernie Shelby, Morris Broadnax)
  3. "Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb)
  4. "I'm in Love" (Ernie Shelby)
  5. "Love, Guess Who" (Clarence Paul, Ernie Shelby)
  6. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil)
  7. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (Jackie DeShannon, J. Holiday, R. Myers)
  8. "The Hurt Is Over (Since I've Found You)" (D. Browner)
  9. "Take a Look" (C. Otis)
  10. "Won't It Be So Wonderful" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
  11. "I Should Be Proud" (H. Cosby, J. Hinton, P. Sawyer)
  12. "People Got to Be Free" (F. Cavaliere, E. Brigati)

Personnel

  • Lead vocals by Martha Reeves
  • Background vocals by Rosalind Ashford, Lois Reeves, Sandra Tilley and The Andantes
  • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

    • References

    Natural Resources Wikipedia
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