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Rating: Let's take another leap into the '80s, this time talking about a great artist prematurely lost in 2005 but never forgotten: Luther Vandross. In the distant 1982, after the success of his debut album "Never Too Much", the New York artist returns with a new work titled "Forever, For Always, For Love".
In the album, we find joyous tracks like "Bad Boy/Having A Party", which reprises the classic by Sam Cooke, and "You're The Sweetest One", while the best comes from ballads like the cover of the Temptations' song "Since I Lost My Baby" and the evocative title track. These songs are appreciated for Vandross's intense interpretation and impeccable arrangements of strings and horns.
Unmissable also are the velvety "Promise Me" and the joyous "She Loves Me Back".
Thanks to the magical touch of bassist Marcus Miller and keyboardist Nat Adderley Jr., Luther gives us a classy album in which we also find exceptional backing vocalists like Cissy Houston, Fonzi Thornton, and Tawatha Agee.
Forever, For Always, For Love slots into the so-called "Quiet Storm" vein, which in the years to come would include other artists like Anita Baker and Will Downing among many. The unexpectedly romantic tone, Vandross's vocal genius, make the album enjoyable to listen to and allow us to rediscover the art of this unforgettable artist.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Since I Lost My Baby (05:32)
SINCE I LOST MY BABY
William Robinson, Jr and Warren Moore
(album: Forever, For Always, For Love - 1982)
The sun is shining, there's plenty of light
A new day is dawning, sunny and bright
But after I've been crying all night
The sun is cold and the new day seems old
Since I lost my baby
Oh since I lost my baby
The birds are singing and the children are playing
There's plenty of work and the bosses are paying
Not a sad word should a young heart be saying
But fun is a bore, and with money I'm poor
Since I lost my baby (Since I lost my baby)
Oh since I lost my baby
My baby, my baby, my baby
Next time I'll be kinder, to my baby
Won't you please help me find her (I've got to find that girl)
Someone just remind her (Someone just remind her x2)
Of this love she left behind her (Of Me)
Till I find her I'll be trying to (Till I find her, I'll be trying to)
Everyday I'm growing kinder
Tryin'
Inclined to
Find her
Inclined to find my baby (My baby)
Been looking everywhere (My baby)
Hey baby I really really care
My determination is fading fast
So fast, so fast so fast
Exploration is a thing of the past
I can't see how my hope's gonna last
Good things are bad and what's happy is sad
So sad, so sad, I'm sad, so sad, so sad
Since I lost my baby (since I lost my girl)
Oh Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)
I feel so bad, (Got to find that girl, I've got to find that girl)
I feel so sad, yeah-eh,
Since I lost my-, since I lost my-, my, my, my, my baby
Cause everything is gone, (Got to find that girl, I've got to find that girl)
And it's hard girl, to carry on,
Since I lost my-, since I lost my-, my, my, my, my baby
I know its up to me, (Got to find that girl, I've got to find that girl)
What's gonna happen to me
Since I lost my baby
What's gonna happen to me
Oh I don't, I don't know, what I'm gonna do no, no, no, no I don't know
Since I lost my baby,
I don't know, I don't know, What to do without, my girl, my girl, my girl, I don't know Since I lost my baby,
I can't find her no where, no where, no where, no where, no where oh no
(Don't know, I don't know, since I lost my baby, I don't know, since I lost my baby, yeah)
Yeah, I can't find them no where, no where, no where, no where no where, no where, no where, no where
(Don't know, I don't know, since I lost my baby, I don't know, since I lost my baby, yeah)
I can't find them no where, no where, no where, no where, no where
(Don't know, I don't know, since I lost my baby, I don't know, since I lost my baby, yeah)
I can't find them no where, no where, no where, no where, no where (fade)
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