Arthur.Rubin's Full Review: Until We Get It Right by The Limeliters
(I'll explain the title later).
The album still has what the Limeliters are famous for; upbeat, often gospel-style songs in four-part harmony (though I still haven't figured out how they do it live with only three members), but it has other songs in keeping with the fact that the group was originally formed in 1959, and is now in its fourth incarnation (leading to the title song of the album, about reincarnation).
Comments about the specific songs
In no particular order:
Harmony shows off one of the group's strengths, a rich 4-part harmony. A Place In the Choir, Power And The Glory, The Strangest Dream, and Circle are classic Limeliters' gospel songs. Global Carnival and A Better World are (I believe) newer songs in approximately the same genre.
Generic Up Tempo Folk Song (the opening song), is a parody of the folk song genre, with lyrics like:
This is the middle of our up tempo folk song,
It's called the second verse,
You got to sing it warm and tender,
To make it sound different from the first.
Folk Rap is a rap song about folk songs, with references to classic folk songs such as If I Had a Hammer (written by the Limeliters (added May 17) according to their spiel in a recent live performance), and Puff, the Magic Dragon.
Columbus Stockade Blues shows off Bill Zorn's arranging and singing talent in the traditional blues song, although it sound a little more upbeat than other arrangements.
God's Gift To Women is another humorous song, describing the singer's problems of having too many women after him. "It's hell being God's gift to women."
Use It Up is a good ecological song, still in the Limeliters' upbeat style.
Zen Gospel Singing is essentially a Buddhist gospel song, with some humorous lines.
White Squall is the Stan Rogers song about sudden death on the Great Lakes. (Why do they have to make it sound so cheery?)
The 40 Year Old Waltz is a little too close to home for me to comment....I'm 44 (only 3 years older than the group).
Until We Get It Right is a cheery song about reincarnation with lines like "...but I proved innocent and drowned in 1693".
In summary, a wonderful Limeliters' album.
Oh yes, about that title. (I'm not good at titles -- I steal them from anywhere I can find them.) It's from Alex Hassilev's (the only one of the original Limeliters still with the group) note in the liner notes of the album: ...in continuing to give our audiences (as Lou Gottlieb* used to say) "a rational basis for optimism".They've succeeded.
* Dr. Lou Gottlieb was another of the original Limeliters, who died in 1996.
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