It'll All Be Over

Digitally remastered edition of this 1980 album from the California-based gospel-soul group. A band of brothers and cousins, the group was founded from two familes: brothers Joe and Dave Kingsby plus Dave's son David Kingsby Jr., and keyboardist Leonard Sanders plus his brothers Phillips (drummer), Tim (bassist), and Melvin (tenor). Released in 1980 on the group's own S&K (Sanders & Kingsby) label, IT'LL ALL BE OVER pinpoints a fatalistic mood exemplified by the title. Its lyrics drawn from the Old Testament, its sound from the church by way of the disco, and it's a feel captured by the album cover-a low, orange sun setting over the Pacific ocean. It is, as Jessica Hundley observes in the brand new liner notes, "both apocalyptic and seductive." A copy of the album sold to a fan on a Texan tour made its way to a San Antonio record store, where it was discovered nearly three decades later by collector David Haffner. He managed to introduced the group to Light In The Attic Records, which now presents the album, restored, remastered, and available to the public for the first time.