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The song "Who's Making Love?" was among Johnnie Taylor's biggest chart hits, with Taylor's tough but impassioned vocal supported by a potently energetic performance by the usual Stax Records crew (including Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and the Memphis Horns. But Who's Making Love, the album assembled to accompany the single, is for the most part dominated by more measured and blues-based material. While "Take Care of Your Homework" generates a potent groove (and reads like a sequel to "Who's Making Love"), and "Hold on This Time" is a remarkably successful emulation of the Motown production style, for the most part, Who's Making Love suggests Taylor was most comfortable with slow, sorrowful laments such as "Can't Trust Your Neighbor" and "Poor Make Believer," and while these tunes lack the dancefloor drive of Taylor's uptempo hits, no one can deny he knows how to make the most of the dramatic sweep of a tale of love gone wrong, and his tales of lovers gone astray (and paying the price) carry a weight not unlike that of his earlier gospel period. Who's Making Love captures some of the high points of Taylor's career as a Southern soul man, and finds him nodding to his past and well as his future in his search for inspiration.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Raymond Jackson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Don Davis, Producer, Remix Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Al Jackson, Jr., Producer, Drums, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Jack Ashford, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Love, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Isaac Hayes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Arnold, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - The Memphis Horns, Brass Band, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Taylor, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - RON CAPONE, Recording Engineer, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Bettye Crutcher, ComposerLyricist - Allen Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Davis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Stax Records
Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - James Lately, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Raymond Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Donald Davis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Bettye Crutcher, ComposerLyricist - Allen Jones, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - David Porter, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Raymond Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Don Davis, Producer - Al Jackson, Jr., Producer - Thomas Kelly, ComposerLyricist - Dale Warren, Producer - Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Donald Davis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Stax Records
Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - David Porter, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Donald Davis, ComposerLyricist - James Lately, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1993 Stax Records
Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - STEPHEN CROPPER, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Raymond Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Donald Davis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Don Davis, Producer, Remix Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Al Jackson, Jr., Producer, Drums, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Love, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Isaac Hayes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EDDIE MILLER, ComposerLyricist - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Arnold, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - The Memphis Horns, Brass Band, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Taylor, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - RON CAPONE, Recording Engineer, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Allen Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Stax Records
Johnnie Taylor, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Stax Records
Album review
The song "Who's Making Love?" was among Johnnie Taylor's biggest chart hits, with Taylor's tough but impassioned vocal supported by a potently energetic performance by the usual Stax Records crew (including Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and the Memphis Horns. But Who's Making Love, the album assembled to accompany the single, is for the most part dominated by more measured and blues-based material. While "Take Care of Your Homework" generates a potent groove (and reads like a sequel to "Who's Making Love"), and "Hold on This Time" is a remarkably successful emulation of the Motown production style, for the most part, Who's Making Love suggests Taylor was most comfortable with slow, sorrowful laments such as "Can't Trust Your Neighbor" and "Poor Make Believer," and while these tunes lack the dancefloor drive of Taylor's uptempo hits, no one can deny he knows how to make the most of the dramatic sweep of a tale of love gone wrong, and his tales of lovers gone astray (and paying the price) carry a weight not unlike that of his earlier gospel period. Who's Making Love captures some of the high points of Taylor's career as a Southern soul man, and finds him nodding to his past and well as his future in his search for inspiration.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:34:02
- Main artists: Johnnie Taylor
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Stax
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 1978 Fantasy, Inc. ℗ 1990 Stax Records
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