The O'Jays In Philadelphia-The O'Jays

[Gotsoul]

One of their best ever, full of good soul here they were still a quartet with-William Powell  on some of these tracks in[1969]but gone by the time this LP was released...Looky Looky-One Night Affair-I've Got The Groove-Let Me Into Your World...just some of the goodies here, a great album from a great group.

[The Yank]

This is one of the group's  best albums. They were definitely a quartet when the album was first released in 1969 on Neptune.

Are you talking about the reissue on Philadelphia International ?

 

[Roburt]

Yes, 4 in the group on this album. When Neptune went under (70) the group returned to Cleveland. They spent lots of time in local studios, working on tracks for themselves & on stuff for other local artists. This stuff escaped on Saru Records  -- Elements, Sir Stanley, David Peoples, etc  (later on Horoscope / Astroscope / All Platinum). Around 71 (when they were working on the Saru stuff), Bobby Massey decided to quit group & stay in the studio rather than touring. So group dropped to a trio & BM worked with loads of other artists (Ponderosa Twins, etc.).  

Edited March 18, 2016 by Roburt