Three For Love

Performer: Shalamar
Artist: Kevin Spencer; Foster Sylvers
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: Shalamar: Jody Watley, Howard Hewett, Jeffrey Daniel (vocals). Additional personnel: Ernest "Pepper" Reed, Richard Randolph, Stephen Shockley, Ricky Sylvers (guitar); Kevin Spencer, William Shelby, Ricky Smith, James Sylvers, Joey Gallo, Michael Nash (keyboards); Leon Sylvers, III, Fred Alexander, Jr. (bass, percussion); Wardell Potts, Jr. (drums). Engineers: Steve Hodge, Barry Rudolph, Taavi Mote, Linda Corbin, Jerry Jay Stone. Recorded at Aura Sound, Orlando, Florida; Larrabee Sound and Studio Masters, Los Angeles, California. Originally released on Solar Records. The Howard Hewett/Jody Daniels/Jeffrey Daniels edition of Shalamar was in excellent form on Big Fun, Friends and The Look, but if one had to pinpoint the group's best release ever, the hands-down winner would have to be its fourth album, Three for Love. With Leon Sylvers III producing and members of Shalamar and Lakeside contributing to the writing, all of the pieces fell into place quite nicely. Shalamar enjoyed major hits with the irresistible "Make That Move" and the sentimental ballad "This Is for the Lover in You," and every bit as strong are the funky "Pop Along Kid" and the dreamy "Somewhere There's a Love." A non-musical point: when The Right Stuff reissued Three For Love on CD in 1997, the liner notes stated "copyright 1978," but in fact, the album wasn't released until late 1980; there's no way Three for Love could have even been recorded in 1978 because Hewett had yet to join Shalamar. But the main thing is the music, and the CD reissue certainly sounds great. Three for Love is soul-pop heaven. ~ Alex Henderson

Q (11/96, p.157) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "Challengers to Chic as chief creators of decent disco....`Some Things Never Change' and `Make That Move' sum up their glossy, faintly synthetic but still somehow subtle approach to disco..."

When R&B impresario Dick Griffey, owner of the S.O.L.A.R. label and booking agent of the classic TV dance-party SOUL TRAIN, wanted to put together a singing group to capitalize on the growing disco trend, he didn't need to look any further than show regulars and dance partners Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel. (The third member of Shalamar, Howard Hewett, was married to a SOUL TRAIN dancer.) The good-looking trio had strong, soulful voices and great dance moves--it's been said that Daniel created the "Moonwalk"--and had several high-charting hits between 1978 and 1984, after which both Watley and Daniel left for solo careers. Hewett defected for a successful solo run in '86. Although the latter-day group, with vocalists Delisa Davis and Micki Free, won a Grammy, Shalamar never quite recovered the popularity or hit-making power of their disco heyday, and the band folded in 1990.

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