The musical genre that has no name.

But you know it when you hear it. Lush US soul ballads from the 1970s, sung by falsetto vocalists with frizzy afros, frilly shirts and extra-wide lapels. The Chi-Lites, The Delfonics, Eddie Holman were all splendid practitioners but the undisputed masters of the art were The Stylistics. Hugely successful in a genre we still can’t quite define. This is a perfect example from their first album. You’ll obviously know the big hit version by Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye but this is the original. So you may have thought it was Motown but it’s actually…….. oh you know…….don’t quite know how to describe it….um…….hasn’t really got a name……er……