Dennis Englewood - I'm Not in Love (1987) - digital download from Bandcamp and CD Baby

American soul singer and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood said, "When I first heard my favorite popular 10cc song about broken relationships, called, 'I'm Not In Love' that I wanted to do soul ballad record of instead of an epic record, I noticed that there were too many Synclavier choir voices that sounded awful to me, so I said, 'I don't like those Synclavier voices that are so horrible! They don't seem right to me! I can't use that in my soul ballad remake! I'd rather be using real instruments in my sweet soul ballad cover of the song, originally done by British band 10cc.' When I also heard Kathy Warren, the studio secretary from Strawberry Recording Studios say the irrelevant line: 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry', I said 'No, I can't say 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry', because that part in the middle sounds very irrelevant and it doesn't fit the breakup song! Over the instrumental break I'd rather not say it! I like to make this breakup song more relevant and sing-songy, so on my soulful version of that song I want to sing in the range of sweet tenor, almost like in a low falsetto like David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia and Russell Thompkins, Jr. from the pop-soul group The Stylistics, plus me and my friends as backing singers wanted to sound like Ashford & Simpson on backing vocals on that tune in order to avoid the strange wall of sound."

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