Devil In Me / Ready To Roll / Ride To The Rainbow

SoulMusic Records is very proud to present its latest reissue of classic recordings from the globally ever-popular Motown catalogue, four stellar albums (with two additional bonus tracks) by the super-talented Thelma Houston, a mainstay artist at Motown from 1971-1979, worthy additions to previous SMR reissues of Thelmas Motown work, including expanded editions of The MoWest Album, Any Way You Like It and two albums with Jerry Butler, Thelma & Jerry/Two To One. THE DEVIL IN ME (1977), READY TO ROLL (1978) and RIDE TO THE RAINBOW (1979) focus on her work in the wake of the international success of her timeless cover of Dont Leave Me This Way, which catapulted Thelma to worldwide mainstream recognition.

Like READY TO ROLL, the album REACHIN ALL AROUND (a 1982 collection of material released after Thelma left Motown in 1979) is making its worldwide first release on CD. Included on the (37) musically-satisfying tracks featured here are the charted hits, Im Here Again and Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Reissue producers note: the original READY TO ROLL LP included an edited version of this track; time restrictions did not allow its inclusion on this reissue).

Also included, two bonus tracks, 1977s If You Wont Let Me Walk On The Water, a non-album B side and 1978s Love Masterpiece, from the soundtrack of the popular movie, Thank God Its Friday. Working with top producers including Hal Davis, Michael Masser, Van McCoy and Brian Holland, Thelma demonstrated her distinctive vocal style in full effect on a range of material from her covers of The Miracles Love Machine to an imaginative medley of Stormy Weather and Ann Peebles I Cant Stand The Rain to the Stevie Wonder-Syreeta-penned Just A Little Piece Of You and key tracks such as Memories, Rhythm Of Love, Your Eyes, Imaginary Paradise, Am I Expecting Too Much and Dont Wonder Why.