Terrific southern soul from the guy who wrote a string of killers as staff at Goldwax, and for Candi Staton and Clarence Carter, at Fame. The Only Way Is Up is his song; and The Osmonds’ One Bad Apple.
A songwriting mainstay of FAME from 1968 to 1972 — monsters like Candi’s Evidence — George was also a very fine singer, unmannered, hurt, open. The first of several volumes.