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• Artist: David Axelrod
• Album: The Edge: At Columbia 1966-1970
• Label: EMI
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-02-17

Producer David Axelrod may not have had a heavy hand or rep as Phil Spector, but roughly during the same period he also toiled in that time when the producer’s stamp was huge, especially in pop, where the idea of the singer/artist was only just beginning to trickle over from rock. That said, “artist� is no word to describe actor David McCallum, who Axelrod worked with on a couple star-trip records. The representative tunes here, while not horrific as Shatner or Sebastian Cabot, still swing like a dead man on white white rope. More successful is the work at the controls of Lou Rawls and Cannoball Adderly; here their funk rubs off on the producer, and while the pre-disco, Isaac Hayes strings are too much out in front, the results hit a true groove. The bulk of the record, though, is taken up by Axelrod’s own bachelor-pad funk, which isn’t too shabby aside from the spoken, gawdawful Lenorard Nimoy-esque poetry. The world will never be woken up by that kind of precious shit, let alone saved.

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