When the Righteous Brothers made it in America, they actually made it. On April 30, 1966, as they got here off their second US No.1 single with “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration,” they entered Billboard’s High LPs checklist with their seventh chart album in simply 15 months. Soul & Inspiration grew to become the one one among their studio albums to realize gold certification within the US.
The one and near-title monitor from the album represented a breakthrough second for Invoice Medley and Bobby Hatfield, because it was their first hit since splitting from producer Phil Spector. Medley himself produced the stirring track, written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The monitor went gold within the US, which surprisingly, their anthemic “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” didn’t.
Invoice & Bobby’s breakneck schedule
The album debuted at No.65 as Herb Alpert & his Tijuana Brass continued at No.1 with Going Locations. It made a dizzying second-week climb to No.12, then improved once more to No.9 earlier than spending two weeks at its peak of No.7 in Could. By then, the LP had additionally been licensed gold by the RIAA. It was solely one other few months earlier than the duo returned to the album chart, in September, with Go Forward And Cry. Of their breakneck schedule, they’d had one other High 20 US single by that point as effectively, with “He.”
For all their singles success within the UK, although, the Righteous Brothers by no means made the charts there with this or some other unique LP. Unusual because it appears, they needed to wait till a Very Greatest Of compilation in 1990 for his or her album chart debut there.
“We don’t have any gimmicks,” Hatfield instructed KRLA Beat simply after the discharge of Soul & Inspiration. “Our approach is with one specific quality in mind – the heart of the song. We stick to our bag, one type of song. We don’t do surf or hot rod or skate board.”
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