Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) resembles George McCrae's Rock Your Baby album in that it finds a persistent groove and stays with it unflaggingly from beginning to end. The discotune-turned-pop-hit that establishes that groove works by laying odd pieces of musical fabric (from riffing scales to melodramatic strings), soul platitudes ("... Just take some time and relax your mind ..."),^* and heavy breathing over a rudimentary but mesmerizing rhythm track. The single is the most fully realized variation on the album's basic theme, introduced in the mainly instrumental opener "Express," but several tracks—especially "If It Don't Turn You On" and the string-driven "Once You Get It" — approach it in effectiveness. From the evidence of this album, B.T. Express is a clever but not particularly sophisticated New York soul band badly in need of a strong lead vocalist. The primitive metronomic funk of Do It makes insinuating dance music, but B.T. Express hasn't yet shown the ability to engage the spirit while moving the body, as classy units like the Isley Brothers and the Average White Band have done.

^*©1974, Triple O/Jeff-Mar/Bil-Lee. (RS 183)

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