With productions and songs fromFreddie PerrenandFonce Mizel, Hell Up inHarlem is the scathing and soulful soundtrack of the motion picture starringFred Williamson. Thiswas Edwin Starr's last album for Motown which probably accounts for the woeful lack ofpromotion.Two singles were released, Hell Up in Harlem, the first, should have remained an albumcut,as its appeal was limited, despite a dogmatic vocal by Edwin. However, the follow up, "BigPapa,"should have been a monster. Written byFreddie Perren, it has the same power,forcefulnessanddrive of numbers thatNorman Whitfieldhad produced onRareEarthandtheTemptations. The flips of both singles, "Don't It Feel Good to Be Free" and "Like WeUsedto Do," are mellower than the push sides. The bone picker, however, is "Easin' In," a greatmidtempo number with cool backing vocals, and a great reading from Starr, it has chart busterwrittenall over it, yet Motown never released it as a single. Mind boggling, sinceStarr'sfinal singleforBerry'sempire, "Who's Right Or Wrong," backed with "Lonely Rainy Days in San Diego," droppedsix months after "Papa," but doesn't rate with "Easin'." Even more puzzling is why Phillips, which ownsthe Motown masters, hasn't reissued this winner on CD.