David Gates: Never Let Her Go
Gene Sculatti, Phonograph Record, March 1975
IF THERE'S A SINGLE behavioral pattern which has emerged over the last four years of pop music, it's the reinstatement of the song, not the singer, as the primary element of a successful record.
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