New Kent Cd - William Bell - The Man In The Street - Out Now

A busy release weekend for Ace Records, along with the vinyl releases, their latest cdtop cd catches the ear...

William Bell  - The Man In The Street - The Complete 'Yellow' Stax Singles  CDTOP 515

'Ace is delighted to follow up with the second volume of Bell’s solo singles for the label.'

As the tag says this is the follow up release to the May 2022 release 'William Bell - Never Like This Before' which featured the 'blue' singles (link at bottom of this article)

Release Notes

A clip of the release notes by Tony Rounce follows below

Its predecessor featured the A and B sides of every one of Bell’s 45s as originally issued on the blue Stax label between 1960 and early 1968. “The Man In The Street” does the same for every solo 45 that this well respected southern soul man released between late 1968 and early 1974, after the company had changed its label colour to yellow and rebuilt its catalogue from scratch.

Bell stayed with Stax almost until the label’s final demise in 1975. In the period covered by this collection he released some of his best known and best loved recordings, including his biggest Stax hit ‘I Forgot To Be Your Lover’ and long-time fan favourites ‘My Whole World Is Falling Down’, ‘Happy’ and his own version of his classic composition ‘Born Under A Bad Sign’.
 
All of those are featured here, along with 20 more tracks of comparable calibre.

Tony Rounce

Full release notes and more can be had via

https://acerecords.co.uk/the-man-in-the-street-the-complete-yellow-stax-singles

Track Listing

Side 1
01   I Forgot To Be Your Lover
02   Bring The Curtain Down
03   My Whole World Is Falling Down
04   All God's Children Got Soul
05   Happy
06   My Kind Of Girl
07   Born Under A Bad Sign
08   A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart)
09   Lonely Soldier
10   Let Me Ride
11   A Penny For Your Thoughts
12   Till My Back Ain't Got No Bone
13   All For The Love Of A Woman
14   I'll Be Home
15   Save Us
16   If You Really Love Him
17   Lovin' On Borrowed Time
18   The Man In The Street
19   I've Got To Go On Without You
20   You've Got The Kind Of Love I Need
21   Gettin' What You Got (Losin' What You Had)
22   All I Need Is Your Love
23   Get It While It's Hot
24   Nobody Walks Away From Love Unhurt

Booklet Scans

As always the cd comes with an informative booklet, this time 16 pages deep, the scans below demo teh quality.

Availbility 

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Listen: Sample #1

Listen: Sample #2