“Got the All Overs For You (All Over Me)”
Freddie Hart and the Heartbeats
Written by Freddie Hart
Billboard
#1 (3 weeks)
December 9 – December 23, 1972
I’ve had just about enough of these jittery vocals from Freddie Hart.
His heart is in the right place, but his phrasing is all over the place. The less said about the wail in the chorus, the better.
This doesn’t meet the basic level of vocal performance and record production that I expect from a major label country release, which is a reminder of how far much of Nashville had fallen behind the rest of the music industry by the early seventies, including some of their own peers in town.
It’s hard to believe that the Charley Pride record that preceded this was released in the same year. Hart was a talented artist, but you’d think he wasn’t up to snuff judging by the final product here.
“Got the All Overs For You (All Over Me)” gets a C-.
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