"Are you man enough?/Big and bad enough?/Are you gonna let 'em shoot you down?"
The song is definitely the best part of the movie- it works very well apart from it, and was deservedly a top 10 R&B and pop hit for The Tops. The arrangement is wonderful and you can actually hear how well the guys harmonized (which wasn't always apparent the way their Motown recordings were mixed...).
Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter do not get nearly enough credit for being one of the great songwriting teams of the 1970s, as they scored big ones across the decade for a wide variety of artists. The movie easily could have been helped if there had been more music for them to do and the Tops to perform which related to the action (as was the case with Isaac Hayes's score for the original film).
I’ve been low-key waiting for you to write about this movie. I bought the DVD to *Big Score* on a whim when I was 16 and it had the trailer for this at the start. That trailer would not exit my mind so I sought it out and watched it soon after and OH MY GOD DID IT EVER JUMP THE SHARK! I love it the same way a father loves his youngest son who has been in and out of rehab too many times.
"Are you man enough?/Big and bad enough?/Are you gonna let 'em shoot you down?"
The song is definitely the best part of the movie- it works very well apart from it, and was deservedly a top 10 R&B and pop hit for The Tops. The arrangement is wonderful and you can actually hear how well the guys harmonized (which wasn't always apparent the way their Motown recordings were mixed...).
Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter do not get nearly enough credit for being one of the great songwriting teams of the 1970s, as they scored big ones across the decade for a wide variety of artists. The movie easily could have been helped if there had been more music for them to do and the Tops to perform which related to the action (as was the case with Isaac Hayes's score for the original film).
I’ve been low-key waiting for you to write about this movie. I bought the DVD to *Big Score* on a whim when I was 16 and it had the trailer for this at the start. That trailer would not exit my mind so I sought it out and watched it soon after and OH MY GOD DID IT EVER JUMP THE SHARK! I love it the same way a father loves his youngest son who has been in and out of rehab too many times.
Excellent write up!