Unlike a lot of people on here my access to soul music has - apart from a brief period in the 60s - been via soul compilation albums.
I wonder which other members get their soul fix this way? And which albums do the rate the most highly?
For me an album which has to one of the best and seems to me to actually merit the title of 'work' of art' is Kent LP 061 Big City Soul Sounds: NYC Soul from around 1986.
Consisting of ballads, some big and brash and others more tentative this album showcased a type of recording that in the main I had not heard too often prior its purchase. For a long time after buying it it was rarely off my record player. The other day Io came across it again and realized just how superb it is. Just great song after great song
Big City Soul Sounds - Kent 061
SIDE ONE: Castinets - Chuck Jackson / New Neighbourhood - Tommy Hunt / Welcome To Dreamsville - Sammy Ambrose / In My Tenement - Roosevelt Grier / The Man Who Had Everything - Junior Lewis / This Empty Place - The Tangiers / Remind My Baby Of Me - Billy Byers / No Pity (In The Naked City) - Jacky Wilson
SIDE TWO: Do It Now - Bessie Banks / If I Had You - Big Maybelle / I'm Yours - The Shirelles / Turn Back Time - Judy Clay / This Is My Prayer - Theodore Kilgore / The Time - Baby Washington / Love That Man - Maxine Brown / Say It Again - Marie Knight
Unlike a lot of people on here my access to soul music has - apart from a brief period in the 60s - been via soul compilation albums.
I wonder which other members get their soul fix this way? And which albums do the rate the most highly?
For me an album which has to one of the best and seems to me to actually merit the title of 'work' of art' is Kent LP 061 Big City Soul Sounds: NYC Soul from around 1986.
Consisting of ballads, some big and brash and others more tentative this album showcased a type of recording that in the main I had not heard too often prior its purchase. For a long time after buying it it was rarely off my record player. The other day Io came across it again and realized just how superb it is. Just great song after great song
Big City Soul Sounds - Kent 061
SIDE ONE: Castinets - Chuck Jackson / New Neighbourhood - Tommy Hunt / Welcome To Dreamsville - Sammy Ambrose / In My Tenement - Roosevelt Grier / The Man Who Had Everything - Junior Lewis / This Empty Place - The Tangiers / Remind My Baby Of Me - Billy Byers / No Pity (In The Naked City) - Jacky Wilson
SIDE TWO: Do It Now - Bessie Banks / If I Had You - Big Maybelle / I'm Yours - The Shirelles / Turn Back Time - Judy Clay / This Is My Prayer - Theodore Kilgore / The Time - Baby Washington / Love That Man - Maxine Brown / Say It Again - Marie Knight
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Edited by Billy Freemantle