Timothy Wilson – Love Is Like an Itching In Your Heart
Timothy Wilson
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Greetings all.
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Today’s selection is a very groovy cover version of one of my all time favorite records, the Supremes’ ‘Love Is Like an Itching In Your Heart’.
The artist is the little known (outside of soul collector circles), but excellent singer Timothy Wilson.
Wilson, who was born in Maryland was an early member of the Serenaders, alongside George Kerr and Sidney Barnes, and went on to record a grip of excellent 45s under his own name for labels like Veep, United Artists, Buddah, Blue Rock and Sky Disc between 1965 and the early 70s.
Wilson’s version of ‘Love Is Like an Itching In Your Heart’ (produced by Kerr, who worked on a lot of Wilson’s sides) was released on Blue Rock in 1969.
Sticking to the general template of the original, the pace is a bit faster (making it great for the dancers) with booming saxophone. Wilson has a high tenor voice that often veers to the edge of falsetto and it gives his version of the song and edge missing from the original.
Though he appears to have made his last record in the 70s, Wilson has toured as a member of the modern incarnation of the Teenagers (as in ‘Frankie Lymon and…’).
I hope you dig the record, and I’ll see you all on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
Great tune. And who can forget that great song writing team of Holland, Zozier and Holland.
It’s a disconcerting version for sure (I love the original), but it grows on you, and really picks up and comes into its own during and after the sax section. Great find, I know I’ll listen to it often.
Yes, indeed. The production is less slick that the original, but it manages to make it in spite of that fact.