Legends The Mighty O’Jays Bow Out with Soulful Sense of Purpose
The O’Jays
The Last Word
(S-Curve)
A Record Reflection by A. Scott Galloway
Rare is the occasion in Black music when we see a group schedule The End of its recording and performing days. It takes copious vision, fortitude, good fortune and common sense to arrive at such a point. Eddie Levert and Walter Williams, star lead singers of The O’Jays since they debuted as The Mascots in 1958, have set that marker with a farewell tour in progress and a final 9-song album, definitively titled…The Last Word.