Natural Resources
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{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Natural Resources
| type = Studio album
| artist = Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
| cover = NaturalResources.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 8, 1970
| recorded = 1969 – 1970
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soul
| length = 33:10
| label = Gordy
| producer = Henry Cosby
Clarence Paul
| prev_title = Sugar 'n' Spice
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = Black Magic
| next_year = 1972
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Natural Resources
| type = studio
| single1 = I Should Be Proud
| single1date = February 12, 1970}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000870446}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Natural Resources is a 1970 soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on the Gordy (Motown) label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who". The album marked a return from lead singer Martha Reeves, recovering from a time in a mental institution after an addiction to painkillers nearly wrecked her (though it still took her until 1977 to beat her addiction).{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} This was the next-to-last album for the Vandellas, whose success had peaked in the mid-1960s.
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Something
| writer1 = George Harrison
| length1 = 2:47
| title2 = Easily Persuaded
| writer2 = {{hlist|Dick Cooper|Clarence Paul|Ernie Shelby|Morris Broadnax}}
| length2 = 2:44
| title3 = Didn't We
| writer3 = Jimmy Webb
| length3 = 2:41
| title4 = I'm in Love
| writer4 = Ernie Shelby
| length4 = 2:58
| title5 = Love, Guess Who
| writer5 = {{hlist|Clarence Paul|Ernie Shelby}}
| length5 = 2:54
| title6 = Everybody's Talking
| writer6 = Fred Neil
| length6 = 2:50
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Put a Little Love in Your Heart
| writer1 = {{hlist|Jackie DeShannon|Jimmy Holiday|Randy Myers}}
| length1 = 2:57
| title2 = The Hurt Is Over (Since I've Found You)
| writer2 = Duke Browner
| length2 = 2:57
| title3 = Take a Look
| writer3 = Clyde Otis
| length3 = 2:16
| title4 = Won't It Be So Wonderful
| writer4 = {{hlist|Nickolas Ashford|Valerie Simpson}}
| length4 = 2:30
| title5 = I Should Be Proud
| writer5 = {{hlist|Henry Cosby|Joe Hinton|Pam Sawyer}}
| length5 = 2:56
| title6 = People Got to Be Free
| writer6 = {{hlist|Felix Cavaliere|Ed Brigati}}
| length6 = 2:40
}}
Personnel
- Martha Reeves - lead vocals; background vocals on "Everybody's Talking"
- The Andantes - background vocals (side 1, tracks 2, 4, 5; side 2, tracks 2, 5 and 6)
- Lois Reeves - backing vocals (side 1, track 1; side 2, track 5)
- Sandra Tilley - background vocals (side 1, track 1; side 2, track 5)
- Valerie Simpson - background vocals (side 2, track 4)
- Nickolas Ashford - background vocals (side 2, track 4)
- The Funk Brothers - instrumentation
References
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{{The Vandellas}}
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Category:Martha and the Vandellas albums