G. C. Cameron biography

G C Cameron - Love Songs & Other Tragedies (Motown 1974) / G C Cameron (Motown 1976) / You're What's Missing In My Life (Motown 1977) / Give Me Your Love (Malaco 1983)
George Curtis 'GC' Cameron's biggest hit came in 1970 as lead singer of the Spinners with their Motown hit "It's A Shame". When the Spinners moved over to Atlantic Records, GC remained with Motown to embark on a solo-career. He initially recorded several singles for their subsidiary label MoWest, with the most notable being the Smokey Robinson produced "Don't Wanna Play Pajama Games", before going on to record 3 solo LPs on Motown Records.
For his first album, GC worked with various producers including Stevie Wonder ("If You Don't Love Me") and four tracks with Willie Hutch (including a great version of "I'm Gonna Give You Respect" featuring Marvin Gaye on backing), helping make Love Songs & Other Tragedies a very solid, yet commercially unsuccessful, debut album.
GC's second self-titled offering was not as strong and whilst he again worked with an array of producers and songwriters it is his own song "Strong Love" which is the real soul highlight.
GC's third LP was the most consistent of his trio of albums for Motown, probably because it was produced by returning Motown legend Brian Holland. The highlight is indeed the awesome title-track "You're What's Missing In My Life", a classy modern soul / rare groove masterpiece. Solid throughout, there are other magical mid-tempo moments on the LP such as "Don't Tear Down What Took So Long To Build" and "I'll Be Your Servant". An essential real soul LP.
GC also recorded a duet-LP Rich Love, Poor Love (Motown 1977) with Syreeta and later released the noteworthy single "Live For Love" (Flamingo 1980), but it would be six years before he released another solo-album, the critically-acclaimed Give Me Your Love on Malaco Records, for which the stand-out cuts are the title-track and "Hearts And Flowers". To my knowledge very little of GC's material has been reissued, which is a shame. A great soul artist, with a great soul voice!