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Cowboys to Girls: The Best of the Intruders | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Intruders
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 7082
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 66688
UPC: 074646668825
EAN: 0074646668825
ASIN: B000002AV9
Release Date: October 31, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | A Love That's Real | | • | Coyboys To Girls | | • | Together | | • | (We'll Be) United | | • | (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game | | • | Slow Drag | | • | Sad Girl | | • | Me Tarzan, You Jane | | • | When We Get Married | | • | Friends No More | | • | (Win, Place Or Show) She's A Winner | | • | Mother And Child Reunion | | • | I'll Always Love My Mama | | • | I Wanna Know Your Name | | • | Teardrops | | • | Hang On In There | | • | A Nice Girl Like You | | • | Plain Ol Fashioned Girl | | • | To Be Happy Is The Real Thing | | • | Save The Children |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
I BET HE DONT LOVE YOU June 9, 2008
"I BET HE DON'T LOVE YOU" BY THE INTRUDERS IS NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
EXCELLENT QUALITY, THE INTRUDERS AT THEIR BEST
 Well done--sound, liner notes, photos--recommended May 12, 2008
I want to skip over the analysis and get to the fun part: I love the way the lead singer (apparently Sam "Little Sonny" Brown) sings "chaseded" girls in "Cowboys To Girls". The little-kid pronunciation is perfect in context. OK, that was analysis. Another special moment is during "I'll Always Love My Mama", when the guys temporarily leave the arrangement, and maybe their senses, to just start talking with each other. The chatting feels spontaneous, though knowing Gamble and Huff's meticulous production style, it can't have been (can it?). It's also a great Mom song, which I wish I'd discovered in time to play for my own mom.
The essay by Carol Cooper is excellent. It ends a bit sadly--noting that the group's breakup coincided with the emergence of the O'Jays as Gamble & Huff's new stars--a note only made sadder by Mr. Brown's suicide the very year this compilation came out (1995). The All Music Guide notes that a (increasingly-less) current touring edition of the Intruders includes no original members. Since founding members Phil Terry and Robert Edwards are still with us, this has hopefully changed.
Love - But Missing "This Is My Love Song" & "I Bet He Don't Love You" January 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this as a requested Xmas gift and love it. However, in looking at my old 45s from Junior High, I noticed that a couple of my favorite Gamble & Huff songs for the Intruders - "I Bet He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" and "This Is My Love Song" - are not on this CD (or anywhere else that I can find). This is a great CD, but my joy with having it receded a bit - such a shame! I can only rate this 4-stars because primarly, these two songs are not on the CD, and secondly, the sound quality could use a bit of improvement.
Unique otherworldly charming November 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are some of the best of the Intruders but definitely not all the best; personally I hold "Lollipop (I Like You)", vocals led by "Little" Sonny Brown, and "I Bet He Don't Love You", vocals by Bobby Starr, 1969 and 1971 respectively, to be almost as good. The overwhelming part of their recordings were arranged by Bobby Martin more often than not joined by Thom Bell, some of the earliest by Joe Renzetti and some of the later by MFSB-members so that it constitutes the basics of the later world famous Sound of Philadelphia. "Do You Remember Yesterday", B-side of "I Bet He Don't Love You" is simply the proto for New York City's "I'm Doin' Fine Now". But this is wonderful; just listen to "Slow Drag" and you'll immediately feel much better ... luckily, the records of the Intruders which are not on CD - and that's about two thirds or more - are not that hard or expensive to get, although it takes a 45' old-fashioned record player to hear them. Only trouble is, the sound doesn't really come through on 45's, so LP's - and, alas, more money - are preferable, which leaves about half a score of singles-only tracks. Distinguishing Bobby Starr from Little Sonny takes some experience at first. For an exercise, they have both recorded a version of "Tender (was the Love we knew)", it seems, the one led by Little Sonny, the single (I guess), is available on Japanese CD: "Super Hits" (with bonus tracks), the one led by Bobby Starr, the more relaxed and superior of the two as to arrangement, not to vocal effort, I should say, is on the "When we get married" LP.
Solid September 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An absolute must have for every collection. If you are a child of the 50's 60's or 70's you cannot pass up this album
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