The Quiet Girl

"Open Up Your Love" is an album by The Whispers. Released in 1977, this album reached #23 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart. This was their last album on Don Cornelius's Soul Train Records before transitioning over to manager Dick Griffey's Solar Records. The single "I'm Gonna Make You My Wife" was featured in the motion picture "Waiting to Exhale", but did not appear on the soundtrack.

Sophia is the perfect 17-year-old girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is a promising pianist. The only problem is that she’s always been quiet and keeps to herself, so when she strikes up a friendship with Grace, …

(1995/Brill Tone) Original Brill Building recordings - 57 tracks (31 unreleased) with 12 page booklet.
Gerry Goffin and Carole King are always and rightfully described as the most popular and prolific songwriters of their era, the early Sixties. It was a golden age for minority sounds: the music of soulful, urban or black vocal groups, the best of whom Were perhaps the Shirelles and the Drifters, given material by writers and producers who were young, gifted and Jewish. Gerry Goffin was born in Queens, New York, on 11 February 1930. Although he started writing lyrics over his own one-dimensional melodies when he was eight, he became a qualified chemist before making a career of songwriting many years later.