★★★★★
The Whispers are one of the world's longest-running soul vocals groups, yet are known mainly in the UK for their two early 80s big hits, And the Beat Goes On and It's a Love Thing. The Los Angeles-based quintet was formed around Texan twin brothers Walter and Wallace 'Scotty' Scott and first appeared on a single in 1964 before releasing records on the Janus and Soul Train labels...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
It's tough to believe that it has been a quarter century since the Whispers topped the charts with "And the Beat Goes On." It's even tougher to believe that in 2006 they still sound this good. For Your Ears Only, the Whispers' first self-released disc, is also their first album in nearly a decade, and I must admit I didn't know what to expect. Well, what they deliver is an engaging performance that should be a delight to their sizeable fan base...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Their voices have been the cream of Black radio for over 40 years. Under the seductive moniker, The Whispers, Marcus Hutson, Nicholas Caldwell, Leaveil Degree and lead singing twins Walter and Wallace Scott, have entertained delighted audiences through 27 albums, 40 charted hits and innumerable rather acrobatic live performances...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
There is an old joke in music circles that every past-prime rock star eventually ends up singing country music and every R&B artist ultimately moves to Gospel. While there is fair cause for the cynicism around the rock/country connection (think Tom Jones Sings Country), with many R&B artists the idea of singing Gospel is a career-long itch that needs to be scratched, a return to their earliest days of public performance: singing in a church choir...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
They've been around forever because they're real pros, but that's all they are. Vocal-group fans will probably enjoy--check out these titles--"Lady" and "I Love You" and "Welcome Into My Dream," though I hope they stop at the sanctimonious "Song for Donny" and the pallid "My Girl." But what makes this a breakthrough is the three dance tracks. The great one, "Out the Box," was written and coproduced by Leon Sylvers...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
After Detroit, after Memphis, after Philadelphia, black music temporarily found its capital in California as the Seventies stumbled into the Eighties, for the first time since the vocal rock'n'rollers such as the Platters had made the Sunshine State a significant production line during the very early years of the new pop.
Solar Recordsthe Sound of Los Angeles Recordsbrought various talents to its roster, talents who would briefly flower and quite rapidly fade. Shalamar were perhaps most...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
★★★★★
The Whispers had scored a couple Top Ten hits prior to his album, but most of their songs, in spite of their quality, floundered in the latter half of the Top 100. However, Headlights houses two singles that graced the Billboard R&B; Top Ten and Top 20. "(Let's Go) All the Way" was the first release...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
By no means the group's finest hour, the Whispers' debut recording for Soul Train isn't exactly a memorable affair. The Los Angeles five piece (soon to become a quartet) made a concerted effort to push forth a record complementing the then fledgling sound of Philadelphia, right down to the chord changes and string arrangements found on the album's title track...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The adage of never judging a book by its cover once again rings true with Dr. Love. In this case, the cover could easily be eyed with suspicion; modern-looking graphics suggest that this could be a new offering from a timeless band, overly chorused and polished to the finest degree that studio technology could afford. Nothing could be further from the truth...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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