![]() ![]() 5 in the US charts, was covered by everyone from the great soul-jazz saxman Lou Donaldson to funky bar bands, and helped usher in a new, slightly less moral tone into American pop and soul. Got a girl on the side? What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, Taylor was saying. Taylor’s earlier releases for Stax, “I’ve Got To Love Somebody’s Baby” and “Somebody’s Sleepin’ In My Bed,” cast him as someone who realized love was a cheatin’ thing, but the “Who’s Making Love” single practically defined the “can’t trust a lover” strain of soul. All the same, he was a fine singer, capable of a creamy smoothness you might expect from someone championed by Sam Cooke, and also possessed a sneaky funkiness, adjusting his approach according to the topic he was singing about. Stax had dubbed Taylor The Philosopher Of Soul, but his kind of philosophy was strictly down-home, barroom, over the back fence, and sometimes downright no good.
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