Background. Melba Moore would give credit to her husband/manager Charles Huggins, whom she married in September , with getting her signed to Buddah Records in - ending a four-year recording studio absence -, and with arranging for veteran soul music songwriter/producer Van McCoy to helm Moore's second Buddah album release, which she began recording in January

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The album's disco-oriented title track was released in March and became a discothèque favorite: while the "This Is It" single did afford Moore her first major R&B hit, reaching #18 on the Billboard ranking of R&B singles the track failed to provide her with the desired Pop music breakout, rising no higher than #91 on the Billboard Hot ("This Is It" did become a Top Ten hit on the singles chart .

May 12,  · *** noteworthy. Melba Moore hooks up with producer/songwriter Van McCoy for this long player, the slick sound very much what you'd expect from a McCoy production during the disco era, McCoy and Moore and a team of stellar studio musicians rising above much of the competition, certainly not essential but pretty enjoyable, focusing on pop-soul mid-tempo numbers, throwing in some variety /5(37).

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This Is It: The Best of Melba Moore is an excellent overview of Moore's peak years, containing all of the hits she had in the '80s on EMI America and Capitol Records. Over the course of 18 tracks, all of her Top Ten R&B hits from the decade -- "Love's Comin' at Ya," "Livin' for Your Love," "Love the One I'm With (A Lot of Love)," "A Little Bit More," "Falling," "It's Been So Long" -- are.

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