Never overly reliant on the machine, weathered their departure pretty well, turning to (for the epochal "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), as well as , , and, for two songs, his own pen. One of 's other R&B hits from , the impassioned "You," is in the style (it's patterned after "Reach Out"), while "Chained" is another brilliant performance and production of a sub-standard tune. The Brill Building standard "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "There Goes My Baby" were early-'60s throwbacks in sound and feel, quite a jarring effect in context. After "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became one of the biggest hits of 1968, re-released as . ~ John Bush