AMG Review of Love Is Here and Now You're Gone

Andrew Hamilton
All Music Guide

Lynn attempts to do what Margie Joseph did with "Stop in the Name of Love": tack a sassy monologue on the front of a Supremes hit and see if it flies. It didn't. Though it's a nice effort, it didn't cause any rumblings like Joseph's Fred Briggs production did. The album is consistently good, however, and one wonders why there isn't a CD compilation of Tamiya Lynn's recordings. Bert Berns' "I'm Gonna Run Away" is a tearjerker that's a big favorite in England with the Northern soul crowd; she gets funky on a Major Lance remake, "Ain't No Soul (Left In These Old Shoes)," and does a splendid "Mojo Hanna," originally done by Henry Lumpkin on Motown; Marvin Gaye also recorded the song about the New Orleans' roots woman, but the Ideals' rendition on Cortland Records is the best version for your money.