Though having a success as part of the Motown stable with 45:s like "The One Who Really Loves You", "Two Lovers" and "My Guy", Wells left early 1965 due to frustration with the way she was treated by the label. Soon after she got a gainful contract with 20th Century Fox, for which she recorded a pair of LP:s 1965. This was the first of those two and her sixth in total. It only reached #145 on Billboard and became the last of hers to chart. At this time Motown started to seriously prosper so listening today I can't help doing comparisons. Here you might miss The Funk Brothers or the Holland-Dozier-Holland compositions, but even so it has some Motown-like ambience and is very well done. The production and arrangements are superb, her voice beautiful and the audio on this mono excellent. Even if the album didn't do very well back then it sure has a quality that still makes it very enjoyable, providing lovely listening all through and a good moodsetter for sure. Favorite tracks - the up-tempo "Use Your Head" and "How Can I Forget Him" plus the smooth jazzy "Time After Time". (Reason I'm not showing the sleeve track list below is some previous owner has been "arty" with a ball pen on rear and made it unreadable, but since the rest of the copy is fine I can live with that.) To my knowledge this 1965 vinyl was issued in US/Canada (20th Century Fox TFM 3171/TFS 4171) and UK only. 1966 reissue on Movieton Records as "Ooh!", then omitting "Time After Time" and with different sleeve design in US (71010/72010), Canada (MTM 1010) and Germany (MTS 4006). First UK had labels as shown here in a laminated flip/back cover. (FÄV*)(MÄWY*)
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