Soul Legend Eddie Kendricks blessed the Bboy World with this blissful, funky jam:
“Date With the Rain” shows a softer, yet soulful-as-ever side of Bboy Music, and is #dope for a cipher, a chill session, or a drive any time.
Kendricks’ tragic and relatively young death (age 52) is a reminder of the eternal power of music, especially in the era of recording.
From an obituary in The Independent, 1992:
WHEN Smokey Robinson chose the wispy falsetto of Eddie Kendricks to sing the lead vocals on ‘The Way You Do Things You Do’ in 1964, he gave the Temptations their first major hit. It was as though Robinson was coming as close as he could to performing on the record himself; Kendricks’s voice closely resembled his own creamy smooth high tone. Later, debate would rage amongst Motown aficionados about who could sing higher, Robinson or Kendricks.
