
BEST OF/20TH CENTURY - Eddie Kendricks
Personnel includes: Eddie Kendricks (vocals).Producers: Frank Wilson, Leonard Caston, Norman Harris, Daryl Hall, John Oates.Compilation producer: Harry Weinger.Recorded between 1973 and 1985. Originally released on Tamla. Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Universal Matering).Liner Note Author: A. Scott Galloway.Arrangers: Jerry Long; Frank Wilson ; Sanford Shire; Jimmie Haskell; Norman Harris; David Van De Pitte.Recommended for easily satisfied casual fans only, diehard Eddie Kendricks janissaries won't find much satisfaction with this scanty run-down of Kendricks' solo career, which found the ex-Temptation constantly on the R&B charts and no stranger to pop chart success. Sadly, his two biggest pop darts ("Keep on Truckin'" and "Boogie Down") are not the lengthy album tracks but the short radio edits. Just when "Keep on Truckin'" starts kicking you're rollin' into "Boogie Down," which turns out to be a shortie too. Miraculously, his disco