Had Jack It Up been recorded in the late '60s or early '70s instead of in 1990, it might have been a big hit. Combining soul and rock, this is a solid, unapologetically retro effort that recalls the days when blue-eyed soulsters like Rare Earth, the Spencer Davis Group, the Rascals, and Blood, Sweat Tears were burning up the charts. The CD stood no chance of being played on RB radio in 1990, which was only interested in urban contemporary -- and it might have had a hard time on soul radio in 1968 or 1970 because of the strong rock roll element. Jack Mack the Heart Attack owed a lot to Stax and Motown, but its sound owed just as much to 1960s rock roll. However, it isn't hard to imagine the pop/Top 40 stations of the 1960s or early '70s playing infectious blue-eyed soul tunes like Round Round and Somebody Somewhere -- although the RB stations of that era felt that a lot of blue-eyed soul was too rock-influenced for their formats, pop/Top 40 stations were more rock-friendly and gave blue-eyed soul a lot of exposure. Equally enjoyable is the band's cover of Procol Harum's 1967 hit A White Shade of Pale; hardly a carbon copy of the original, Jack Mack's interesting cover shows what the tune might have sounded like if Otis Redding had performed it with Blood, Sweat Tears backing him. Jack It Up wasn't a huge seller -- Voss Records didn't have a lot of hits -- but it's a pleasing effort that will appeal to die-hard fans of blue-eyed soul. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi

1		It Don't Bother Me
2		Snip-It #1
3		Bail Out
4		Snip-It #2
5		I Found a Love
6		Somewhere Somebody
7		A Girl Like You
8		One Way to Do It
9		Livin' It Up
10		Round and Round
11		It's a Beautiful Thing
12		A Whiter Shade of Pale

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