WILLIE HUTCH Soul Portrait (2009 issue UK 11-track CD album [previously unissued on CD] - Willie Hutch enjoyed more than a dozen R&B chart hits throughout the 1970s during his time with Motown Records, where, as well as being the studio talent behind albums by Smokey Robinson [producing solo LPs 'Smokey' and 'Pure Smokey'] and Michael Jackson ['Got To Be There' LP] and tracks by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross he also gained acclaim with his music scores for the soundtracks of 'Blaxploitation' movies including 'The Mack' & 'Foxy Brown'; music which certainly inspired the hip-hop generation. Before Motown, Willie worked with the 5th Dimension, then launched his own solo career in 1969 with debut LP 'Soul Portrait' on RCA. Re-issued here, 40 years later, the album features 11 songs, all written by Willie, with a great mixture of beat ballads and soul dance tracks, and includes Northern Soul favourite 'Lucky To Be Loved By You'.).