1971 was also a great year for soul music. You had Shaft, What's Going On, Al Green Gets Next To You. Lots of cool orchestral soul. The Dramatics were from Detroit...such a great city for rock and soul of the early 70s. There are so many things to like about Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get. Let's go through it...
1) nice rhythm guitar punctuated with strings and horns during intro.
2) Great vocal variety, especially love high pitched voice 'some people are made of wood' and lower voice guy 'some people are up to no good'. Very Temptationsesque.
3) fuzz electric guitar comes in at 0:40
4) lots of excellent ahs, hahs, huhs, heys, other various grunts and stuff...see 0:37, 1:02, 1:33-1:35, etc.
5) 1:15-1:20 rough main vocals on 'I said what you see' especially on 'what'...then nice falsetto on 'baby'
6) 1:41-1:42 'people'...soul!!!
7) 3:01 piccolo? marching band music now...
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