The Undisputed Truth - MA (1976)

A Song from the Album:

Higher Than High (Gordy, 1976) (Vinyl - LP)
SIDE ONE
1. Higher Than High - 3:17
2. Poontang - 3:37
3. Life Ain'T So Easy - 4:12
4. Boogie Bump Boogie - 5:07
5. Ma - 6:30

SIDE TWO
6.Help Yourself - 3:53
7. I'm In The Red Zone - 4:44
8. Overload - 3:10
9. I Saw You When You Met Her - 4:56

Album Notes
Special Thanks To The Following Musicians:
Keyborads - Mark Davis, Victor Nix
Bass - Michel Julius, Lequeint "Duke" Jobe
Guitars - Johnny Mcghee, Kenji Brown Melvin "Wha Wha" Watson Ragin & Norman Zelle
Drums - Butch Azevedo, Henry Garner & James Gadson
Congas - Terry Santel, Eddie "Bongo" Brown
Trumpets - Kenny Copeland, Freddie Dunn
Sax - Michael Moore

HISTORY 1971 - 1981: http://www.the-undisputed-truth.com

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Norman Whitfield was responsible for the radical change in The Temptations' sound. He brought in some adventure and innovation to Motown. The idea with the Undisputed Truth was problably to try out new stuff and experiment. At least you get this feeling when you look at the sleeves of Cosmic Truth and Higher Than High. The members of the group are not listed, only the studio musicians. The original trio broke up in the mid-seventies and a new line-up was formed, based around original member Joe Harris. The new people coming in was Taka Boom (sister of Chaka Khan), Virginia McDonald, Tyrone "Lil Ty" Barkley and Calvin "Dhaakk" Stephenson. Whitfield kept on toying with their sound and they underwent a dramatic change in image and sound, resulting in a range from psychedelic soul and funk to black rock. They got dirtier and nastier and shocked the fans with the clear Funkadelic influences on their releases from the second half of the 70's. Painted faces and white afros became their special trademark.
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Test Psychedlic Soul Funky Pop

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Psychedlic
• Soul
• Funk
• Pop
• Norman
• Whitfield
• Showgroup
• ^L^

[hylozoik]

THAT'S really MA (Here the Text)

"Smiling Faces is on their first official Vinyl LP..

SIDE ONE

1. You Got The Love I Need - 03:05

2. Save My Love For A Rainy Day - 04:00

3. California Soul - 03:55

4. Aquarius - 02:39

5. Ball Of Confusion - 10:30

6. Smiling Faces Sometimes - 03:16

[youngghostmack10]

@deelowda1965 dude she went to kenwood academy as well my brother or sister what ever u may be and her music teacher who recently retired at the age of 80 a white lady who was also my music teacher has the pictures and did u know that chaka got kicked out of kenwood her junior year and then she went over to hating ass calumet highschool she was kicked out because she was a fighter!! i bet u didnt know that my friend?!

[deelowda1965]

@youngghostmack10 ....Chaka Khan actually went to Calumet High School on the south May street on the south side of Chicago....thought u might want to know that.

[Salival2901]

@abolfazle rofl

[abolfazle]

@Salival2901 If you have no notion of it: Just shut up.

[Salival2901]

@abolfazle

Bullshit!

The Undisputed Truth is the psychedelic alternative to the Temptations or Rare Earth. Latters where to do the commercial success, the Undisputed Truth to do what he liked most!!!!

[Way2overit2]

I want to watch The Wiz now.

[SullyB1308]

Hi, Undisputed Truth had a piece of a saying to start off one of their songs & I can't remember which song it is, but here is the saying, "BY CRIPES LOOK, THERE ARE 4 EARTH BEINGS DOWN THERE ON THAT EARTH LANDING STRIP, LET'S BEAM THEM ABOARD, BY CRIPES LOOK AT THEIR FACES, I'VE NEVER SEEN EARTH BEINGS LOOK LIKE THIS BEFORE" I'm not to sure but I think it might of been an extended version to METHOD TO THE MADNESS, does any one have this version.

[abolfazle]

@MrRolDogg The Undisputed Truth was the "Test-Group" for Norman Whitfield. If the song was successful he gave it to Rare Earth or the Temptations. So, in fact, THIS is the original. ;-)