Irresistible (Tammi Terrell album)

Infobox Album
Name = Irresistible


Type = Studio album
Artist = Tammi Terrell
Released = January 1969
Recorded = 1965 - 1968
Genre = Soul
Label = Tamla
TS 652
Producer = Johnny Bristol
Harvey Fuqua
Smokey Robinson
Jams Dean
William Weatherspoon
Last album = "You're All I Need" (with Marvin Gaye)
(1968)
This album = "Irresistible"
(1969)
Next album = "Easy" (with Marvin Gaye)
(1969)

"Irresistible" was the first and only solo album for Tammi Terrell, which was released in January 1969 by Tamla (Motown). Due to complications with a malignant brain tumor in 1968 which caused her untimely death in March 1970, Terrell did not record a subsequent solo album; this album compiles solo recordings Terrell made for Motown between 1965 and 1968. Two of the tracks included on this album were dubbed with vocals from Terrell's frequent singing partner Marvin Gaye to create album tracks for the duo's joint albums. These tracks were "Hold Me Oh My Darling" (on 1967's "United") and "I Can't Believe You Love Me" (on 1969's "Easy"). A re-recorded version of "Come On and See Me" appears on the 1968 Gaye/Terrell album "You're All I Need". "This Old Heart of Mine (is Weak for You)" is a remake of the 1966 Isley Brothers' hit by the same name.

Thirty years later, Terrell's singles from "Irresistible" and other unreleased songs were re-released on compact disc entitled "Tammi Terrell: The Essential Collection" by Motown in 2001.

Track listing

ide one

#"I Can't Believe You Love Me" (Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol)
#"That's What Boys Are Made For" (Fuqua, Gwen Gordy)
#"Come On and See Me" (Fuqua, Bristol)
#"What a Good Man He Is" (Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland)
#"Tears at the End of a Love Affair" (Fuqua, Bristol, Sylvia Moy)
#"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)

ide two

#"He's the One I Love" (Robinson)
#"Can't Stop Now (Love Is Calling)" (James Dean, Stanley McMullen, William Weatherspoon)
#"Just Too Much to Hope For" (Fuqua, Bristol, Clyde Wilson, Wilbur Jackson)
#"Hold Me Oh My Darling" (Fuqua)
#"I Can't Go on Without You" (Fuqua, Bristol, Moy)

Credits

*Lead (and additional background) vocals by Tammi Terrell
*Background vocals by The Andantes and The Spinners
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

ingles

*1966: "I Can't Believe You Love Me" (#72 US, #27 US R&B)
*1966: "Come On and See Me" (#80 US, #25 US R&B)
*1967: "What a Good Man He Is"
*1969: "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" #67 US

Further reading

* Montgomery, Ludie. "My Sister Tommie: the Real Tammi Terrell" (2005, ISBN 1-904408-16-8)

External links

* [http://www.soul-patrol.com/soul/tammi.htm Tammi Terrell Album Review "Irresistible"]