Friday, January 6, 2012

What instruments are in Edwin Starr's song "WAR"?

With the help of producer Norman Whitfield, Edwin Starr took "War," previously an album cut by the Temptations, and ripped it a new one. Starr's rendition makes the Temptations' version with Dennis Edwards swapping lead lines with Paul Williams seem sedate. Whitfield used his bag of studio tricks lavishly: wah-wah guitars, deafening tambourines, and psychedelic elements. But Starr overpowered them all with one of music's most devastating vocals. The performance resulted in part because Edwin hadn't been in the studio for six months and was chomping at the bit. The summer/fall of 1970 recording aced the pop chart and went to number three R&B; Stevie Wonder's long running "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" prevented the anti-war anthem from topping the R&B chart.

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