The New Birth - Love Potion (1976) [Japanese Remastered 2014]

Their stay at Buddah all too brief, New Birth reassembled and headed to the shores of Warner Bros. for an extended stay, the first release from which came mere months after their departure from Buddah. Love Potion starts off promisingly enough with a cover of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds' chart-topping hit "Fallin' in Love" and ends with "Sure Thing" (which was previously on Dionne Warwick's 1975 smash album, Then Came You) and the Beatles' classic "The Long and Winding Road." But these are sadly the strongest moments on Love Potion, as the originals penned here by James Baker and Melvin Wilson are nowhere near New Birth's finest moments and come across as filler. This gives Love Potion a hurried feeling, as if Warner Bros. needed something immediately on the market to keep the group's presence in the public eye. Definitely a low point in the group's career.