La La Means I Love You – THE DELFONICS***

I’m Sorry/Break Your Promise/The Shadow Of Your Smile/Hurt So Bad/Losing You/Alfie/La La Means I Love You/You’re Gone/The Look Of Love/Can You Remember/A Lover’s Concerto

Debut album from the groundbreaking Philly sound soul group The Delfonics. La La Means I Love You. The title track peaked at No. 4 in the US and No. 19 in the UK. (US:100)

“Thom Bell's production genius, the group's impeccable harmony, and William Hart's beautiful falsetto were all ingredients for a sweet, classic debut. Albums like this one helped Philly soul bloom in the 70s.”

“This album from 1968 marked the beginnings of the sweet Philly soul sound of the 70s, with lovely vocal harmonies set to lush orchestral backgrounds.”

“The immortal title track cannot mask the overwhelming amount of filler. The fact that this album has such perennial rock-schlock as Alfie and The Look Of Love shows how cheesy The Delfonics could be.”

“Philly soul is an elusive form of music. It combines enormous and lush scales of instrumentation with sleek, fragile vocals. I found this album to be one of the true treasures in the genre. Behind the production is one of the architects of Philly soul, Thom Bell. He combines his extraordinary arrangements to bring us an album filled with memorable and classy slow jams.”

“The lead singer William Hart cannot get enough credit for his graceful delivery, he really knocked each and every moment out of the park. The album is well written, contains beautiful harmonies, and has clean production. An early, and often overlooked, musical triumph for the genre.”

“This album is slightly flawed yet still a stone cold classic Philly soul record by one of the best and innovative soul groups in music history. The title track is one of my favourite songs ever, which has some of the most sophisticated, ethereal productions and gorgeous string arrangement I've ever heard.”

“Listening to a whole album at once, of sweet, sentimental, sophisticatedly produced material like this, might lose its appeal and beauty on you after awhile, but overall there's not a bad song on here.”