Consumer Guide Album

The Dells: New Beginnings [ABC, 1978]
Hard to get too interested in virtuoso harmonies expended on mediocre material, and like most vocal-group LPs, this is slow going at times. But it ends up quite impressive. Instead of resigning themselves to the oldies circuit--four of the five Dells have been together for twenty-five years, so they sure qualify--they've sought out new songs from a variety of sources, including two George Clinton-produced Parliaments classics. Wish they didn't figure it was modern to put only four on a side, though. B