The New Lamont Dozier Album “Love & Beauty”

The New Lamont Dozier Album

“Love & Beauty”
( LP Invictus Records, 1974 )
Catalog # KZ 33134

Tracklisting:
A1 Why Can’t We Be Lovers (4:01)
A2 Don’t Stop Playing Our Song (3:30)
A3 If You Don’t Want To Be In My Life (2:54)
A4 The Picture Will Never Change (5:30)
B1 Don’t Leave Me Know (3:12)
B2 Don’t Leave Me Know (Instrumental) (3:12)
B3 New Breed Kinda Woman (2:58)
B4 Enough Of Your Life (2:36)
B5 Slipping Away (2:50)

Personnel & Credits:
Engineer – Lawrence T. Horn
Executive Producer – Edward J. Holland, Jr.
Producer – Holland-Dozier
Written-By – B. Holland – L. Dozier – E. Holland
Notes: Produced for Holland-Dozier-Holland Productions, Inc.
All songs published by Gold Forever Music, Inc. (BMI)
Distributed by Columbia / CBS Inc.
Mfd. by Invictus Records, Inc.
1973, 1974 Invictus Records, Inc.

Review:
For some reason P-Vine Records subtitled this “The New Lamont Dozier Album,” a misleading title since these tracks were first released on Invictus Records as by Holland & Dozier. Dozier doesn’t even lead “Slipping Away” — Holland does, but the best tracks, “Why Can’t We Be Lovers” and “New Breed Kinda Woman,” are classic Dozier. Though he later had a few hits on ABC Records, Dozier recorded his most accessible music while at Invictus under the artistry of Holland & Dozier; Eddie Holland, strangely, never sung with the duo, despite having some acclaim as a solo artist before these ’70s recordings.
By Andrew Hamilton (AMG)

By Celo