(I’m A) Roadrunner/How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)/Pucker Up Buttercup/Money (That’s What I Want)/ Last Call/Anyway You Wannta’/Baby You Know It Ain’t Right/Soul Darling/Twist Lackawamma/San-Ho-Zay/ Mutiny
Junior Walker & The All Stars featured driving sax tunes tailor made for dancing at house parties. The well known title track single reached No. 12 in the UK and No. 20 in the US. Also included is the US No. 18 hit How Sweet It Is. (US:64)
“This is another one of Junior’s rough but lovely albums, featuring his 'gritty but pretty' style of playing and singing. Here he also takes on the work of his fellow Motowners such as Marvin Gaye's How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You and Barrett Strong's Money. The former is fine but he really rocks out on the latter in two parts and, like good artists should, he turns it into something all his own.”
“It is clear what was the function of the record. Several of the tracks have party noises and the lyrics and vocal interjections are peppered with the dance crazes of the time. If the music lacked surface sophistication, it certainly made up for it in honkin' sax, atmosphere, energy and feeling, plus it was brilliantly played, with a gospel-like fervour. I would guess it enlivened many a soul party in the sixties.”
“Now this is music. I remember rocking out to this song in the 60s at house parties and everybody danced.”
“These guys were in the pocket so hard, magic in this track. You can single out every instrument and it's nailing it on its own. Put ‘em all together, now that's soul.”
“One of the best. When music was made with real instruments and real people singing.”
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