THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
752) The Intruders — “It Must Be Love”
This “upbeat, happy jam” (Funk My Soul, https://www.funkmysoul.gr/albums-no-review/the-intruders-1967-are-together/) is so good it was a ‘66 B-side and a track on two albums! Would there even be Philly soul without the Intruders?!
Steve Huey:
As the first group to score hits with the songwriting/production team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff the Intruders played a major role in the rise of Philadelphia soul, but are sometimes lost in the shuffle amid better-known acts . . . . [They] were originally formed as a doo wop group in 1960, and sang around Philadelphia for several years. . . . [and] signed with Gamble and Huff’s fledgling Gamble label in 1966. They scored a Top 20 R&B hit that year with “(We’ll Be) United,” and followed it up a year later with “Together,” as well as their first album, The Intruders Are Together [in which today’s song appeared]. 1968, though, was the Intruders’ breakthrough year: “Cowboys to Girls,” a template for what would become Philly soul’s trademark sound, topped the R&B charts and climbed to number six on the pop side, giving the group their biggest hit. Gamble and Huff’s success with the Intruders helped convince Columbia to grant them the money to launch Philadelphia International, which became the most successful soul label of the early ’70s. The Intruders, meanwhile, were undergoing some internal turmoil; when they resurfaced on [a] 1970 . . . lead singer “Little Sonny” Brown had been replaced by nightclub singer Bobby Starr . . . .
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-intruders-mn0000082955/biography
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