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TAMMI TERRELL=SWEET SOUL CLASSIC!!!
When "I Can't Believe You Love Me" was released as a single in 1965 with its flowing arrangement and bad bass line, I became hooked on the soulful sound of Tammi Terrell! This is the collection to have as the sound and selection show what a great singer this little lady was and what a sad thing it was that she went too soon. The stirring "That's What Boys Are Made For" is a great Terrell vocal and the hit single "Come On And See Me" is a true motown classic with a great vocal and cooking arrangement that should have been a much bigger hit that it was!!! Funky and unusual is "What A Good Man He Is" followed by the buoyant and majestic "Tears At The End Of A Love Affair" which flows in the cooking "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" that has a great driving arrangement. All of Tammi's album "Irresistible" which is aptly titled is featured here plus newly discovered gems such as the stunning "Lone Lonely Town" and the hauntingly gorgeous "Slow Down". When Mary Wells left Motown, Tammi became Marvin's new duet partner and was extraordinary as shown in the classic "Ain't Mountain High Enough" which is a Motown Masterpiece!! If you love classic 60's Motown don't miss the great set!! This lady was smooth and soulful and grows on you and it is a lasting effect!!! Thank you Tammi and God Bless You!!!

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She finally gets her due solo!
Very few CDs contain anything by Tammi Terrell other than her duets with Marvin Gaye. But this collection goes beyond the tip of the iceberg. It chronicles her entire career at Motown; the duets are represented in the final track with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Rare tracks like "Slow Down" are a boon to die-hard fans like me.

According to Tammi's sister Ludie, Tammi was never married to anyone, much less to boxer Ernie Terrell. However, she was the niece of another boxer, Bob Montgomery. She assumed the stage name Terrell simply because it was shorter than her birth name, Montgomery.

Thanks to this CD, Tammi finally gets her due not just as Marvin's duet partner, but as a solo artist who died before she could realize her full potential.

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She Left Us Way Too Soon
Tammi Terrell was just 24 years of age when she died of a brain tumor on March 16, 1970. The disease had been discovered three years earlier after she collapsed in mid-performance.

Born Tammi Montgomery, she retained her stage surname after a brief marriage to boxer Ernie Terrell. Her first charted single, which came in 1961 when working with the James Brown Revue, was I Cried on Brown's Try Me label. It only made it to # 99, but it would have been a nice touch to include it in this compilation nevertheless.

Her other single hits are here, however. beginning with I Can't Believe You Love Me which, b/w Hold Me Oh My Darling, reached # 27 R&B and # 72 pop early in 1966. Next up that summer was Come On And See Me/Baby Don'tcha Worry [# 25 R&B/# 80 pop]. Both on the Motown label, she was then paired with Marvin Gaye, of course, for a string of successful hits on the subsidiary Tamla label.

In the midst of this run there was one more single release for Tammi - 1969's This Old Heart Of Mine [Is Weak For You] b/w Just Too Much To Hope For [# 31 R&B/# 67 pop]. Both are in this wonderful collection.

But for her untimely death there is little doubt that Tammi would have gone on to become one of the premiere female R&B vocalists of the 1970s, and beyond. This is a real bargain you should not resist.