1976-10-28
Any Way You Like It
Thelma Houston
By Maeve C.
Side one of Any Way You Like It is given to energetic disco songs, while side two turns to ballads. At its centre is “Don’t Leave Me This Way”, Thelma Houston’s remake of a Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song, produced by Hal Davis, which went to number one in the US.
Several producers and arrangers worked across the record for Motown’s Tamla label. Michael Lovesmith produced the title track and a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t Know Why I Love You”, while “If It’s The Last Thing I Do”, first recorded in 1972, became the second US single.
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Rights-holder metadata (A Motown Records release; ℗ 1976 UMG Recordings): October 28, 1976.MusicBrainz release events: earliest is US 1976-10-28 (Tamla T6-345S1); Germany 1977.
Infobox 28 October 1976 (lead: late October 1976, Tamla); side 1 disco, side 2 ballads; 'Don't Leave Me This Way' remake, US No. 1, produced by Hal Davis; Lovesmith productions; 'If It's the Last Thing I Do' recorded 1972, second US single.