Black Magic (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas album) explained

Black Magic
Type:Studio album
Artist:Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
Cover:Marthablackmagicsleeve.jpg
Released:March 3, 1972
Recorded:1971
Genre:Soul
Length:35:53
Label:Gordy
Producer:Johnny Bristol
The Corporation
Hank Cosby
Jimmy Roach
Ashford & Simpson
Lawrence Brown & George Gordy
Prev Title:Natural Resources
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Anthology
Next Year:1974

Black Magic is a 1972 soul album released by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on the Gordy (Motown) label. It is the last studio album issued by the group after ten years with the label. The album is significant for featuring the group's biggest hit of the decade with the Jackson 5-esque "Bless You". The track returned the Vandellas to chart success briefly in the US reaching number fifty-three pop, number twenty-nine R&B and reaching number thirty-three on the UK pop singles chart. It was also a top twenty hit in Canada reaching number sixteen on the chart, and a top ten single in Puerto Rico, where it reached the number two position. Two other subsequent singles, "In and Out of My Life" and "Tear It on Down", were the trio's last Billboard charted hits reaching the top 40 on the R&B charts. "No One There" was released in the UK as a solo single for lead singer Martha Reeves.

After this album, the trio disbanded that December ending the group's ten-year tenure together. Reeves later recalled that many of the tracks on the album were originally assigned to Diana Ross before being reassigned to the group.

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