★★★★★
There's an interesting story behind the title track to Dinosaurs Are Coming Back Again. In her annotation for the song, Valerie Simpson recalls what happened when she and Nick Ashford met with a label executive on one particular occasion. "We actually got the 'dinosaur' feeling once in a major record company's office -- while waiting for an appointment with a top exec. We didn't get the deal but we got this song out of it...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-04-04
★★★★★
Look what Valerie has done--discovered that Motown is only plastic. I was so happy believing it was human, or something for people to dream on. The previous two sentences recycle one of Simpson's songs, called "Genius." Genius, isn't she? No.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Motown's 'sound of young America' owes much to Valerie Simpson. In the late 60s, she and husband Nickolas Ashford penned "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and other joyous classics that turned Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell into pop's most loved-up double act. Soon after, their songs launched Diana Ross into solo orbit. So this raft of Simpson's own recordings -combining her 1971 debut album, Exposed, with 1972's follow-up, Valerie Simpson - makes for fascinating, uplifting listening...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-05-18