296. Eddie Holland: “Brenda”
Perfectly inoffensive, quite pleasant as background music, but that’s about it. 3
Perfectly inoffensive, quite pleasant as background music, but that’s about it. 3
Thin and conventional, but highly engaging, extremely likeable Jackie Wilson-esque midtempo dance pop. (6)
This isn’t quite all it’s cracked up to be; it’s very pretty but quite meandering, effectively consisting of three great bits linked with a lot of unmemorable fluff. (4)
Probably the best of Eddie’s three Motown singles to date, and the writing credit means it’s a Historically Significant record to boot; it shows plenty of promise and development, and it’s a good little record, but there was still significantly better to come from Edward Holland Jr. as both a singer and as a writer. (6)