Currently wearing out the carpet in the spare bedroom to this and wondered what others rate as dancers from Stax?

 

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...Too many to count really.

Mel & Tim - Forever and a Day

Edited November 21, 20168 yr by daved

 

 

1 hour ago, DaveNPete said:

 

 

muck fee, elvis was lucky getting a photo with ruthus

This isn't too shabby either, maybe LP only though.

 

1 hour ago, DaveNPete said:

...Too many to count really.

Was this not on Atlantic and recorded in Muscle Shoals? 

 

Lovely record this - William Bell - The Man in the Street

 

 

1 hour ago, DaveNPete said:

 

 

Again on Atco/Atlantic and recorded at American Studios in Memphis

The Stinger's- I refuse to be lonely. 

The Astors- Twilight Zone

Eddie Floyd-People Get it Together

William Bell-Don't Stop Now

Didn't Linda Elliott. Fell in love with you baby get a blue Stax release or am I thinking of something else ? 

Steve

27 minutes ago, SWIFTY said:

Lovely record this - William Bell - The Man in the Street

 

 

Probably my all-time favourite record (I have two copies 'just in case'), along with The Whole Worlds A Picture Show by the Newcomers. Dx

Edited November 21, 20168 yr by DaveNPete

17 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Didn't Linda Elliott. Fell in love with you baby get a blue Stax release or am I thinking of something else ? 

Steve

Are you thinking of Linda Lyndell-Bring your love back to me?

I didn't discover this until a few years ago. I just love all the strings and the way Mavis comes in for her first verse. One of my all time favourite Stax tracks

Kev

 

Bucket loads of Margie Joseph, headed up by What You Gonna Do and Medicine Bend (which I believe was played at Wigan - ?)

Dx

8 minutes ago, stateside said:

I didn't discover this until a few years ago. I just love all the strings and the way Mavis comes in for her first verse. One of my all time favourite Stax tracks

Kev

 

Fantastic track - played it out in Memphis this year!!  From the Boy Meets Girl album - lots like it on the album.... 

Johnnie Taylor "Love Bones". (Apart from "Friday" And "Blue In",on Wanted One Lp he has loads of Stax midtempo dancers worth a look) ,do Ace /kent still own the rights?

Probably worth picking this album up for Jimmy Hughes alone.  I was also going to mention Mel & Tim - Free for All, Major Lance - "Story of my life" and "I wanna make up", William Bell - "Why is the wine Sweeter", Luther Ingram - Home don't seem like a home", Emotions - Stealing love. Would be great to go to a Stax only night out

Kev

 

 

Four Shells - Reputation

 

Edited November 21, 20168 yr by The Zodiac Club

Lest we forget, the adorable  Ian  Geoffrey Levine ,compiled aCD in June 2015 for Ace/Kent " Solid Stax Sensations" ,cdkend435, which includes the Roz Ryan's,   Rance. 'S etc,etc and loads of dancers of inimatable. Quality and taste , Check it out ,Johnny ,Malaga, Espana,LOL.

I'm havin this

 

Johnny Taylor - Friday Night

 

 

William Bell - Happy

 

 

This one for me

 

wore some shoe leather out to this back in the day

A couple of my favourites.

 

Two great unreleased tracks-

1) Carla Thomas-  "I'll Never Stop Loving You"

2) Otis Redding- "Loving By The Pound"

and Darrell Banks- "I'm The One Who Loves You"
 

Can't leave this out

 

4 hours ago, Kegsy said:

This isn't too shabby either, maybe LP only though.

    It is LP only Kegsy…….Great track indeed

 

 

Some good 'uns already up here and why wouldn't there be? Stax made so many great recordings and boasted a brilliant roster of talent.

I'd add just a few,  Soul Children - Hearsay, Sam & Dave - You dont know like I know, Barkays - Soul finger, Staple Singers - City in the sky, Eddie Floyd - Big bird, Otis - Shake

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, The Zodiac Club said:

 

Four Shells - Reputation

 

Brilliant record by any stretch.

However sadly not a genuine Stax/Volt production, licensed from Jerry Butler's production company.

Carla Thomas Love among people - more of a crossover tune than a dancer, worth a listen though I guess:

 

try this mix

4 hours ago, britishbarry said:

Are you thinking of Linda Lyndell-Bring your love back to me?

Yeah. That's right. I thought I had it wrong somewhere. Thanks

Steve

1 hour ago, westender said:

Barkays - Soul finger: Knucklehead on the other siode is infirntely better

 

 

Always really liked Her Am I by Linda Lyndell paid about for pence hapenny for it.

 

 

This might get you stomping Rob 

3 hours ago, Rick Smith said:

Johnny Taylor - Friday Night

 

 

This is such a great oldie ! Steve Clancy played it at the last 100 club - best record of the nite !!

Eddie Purrell " The Spoiler" super dancer!

Never heard this played outside my stax comp LP............back in the day.

 

Ed

16 hours ago, Kegsy said:

This isn't too shabby either, maybe LP only though.

 

Always loved this, cheers for the reminder

The two Kent CD compilations of Stax/Volt dancers 'Do The Crossover' and 'Let's Crossover Again' were great a decade or two ago now and essential listening along with the Ian Levine compiled set last year.  I've been working through those three sets of all the Stax singles that were put out years ago and still find songs anew in there that seem never to have become the big plays they would if on other more obscure labels.  It won't happen of course, but I'd be equally happy with all the b-sides being issued too.  Especially in the '72-closure era a lot of that was ignored it feels but has great songs behind the obvious chart hits.

Checking back to the Kent Records page for Stax the other releases there have good selections too.  I forgot how many releases they have featured on Stax such as the 'Gospel Truth' and 'Nobody Wins' sets.  Many have been and gone and aren't listened at the site anymore.

Edited November 23, 20168 yr by ThinkSmart

2 hours ago, ThinkSmart said:

The two Kent CD compilations of Stax/Volt dancers 'Do The Crossover' and 'Let's Crossover Again' were great a decade or two ago now and essential listening along with the Ian Levine compiled set last year.  I've been working through those three sets of all the Stax singles that were put out years ago and still find songs anew in there that seem never to have become the big plays they would if on other more obscure labels.  It won't happen of course, but I'd be equally happy with all the b-sides being issued too.  Especially in the '72-closure era a lot of that was ignored it feels but has great songs behind the obvious chart hits.

Checking back to the Kent Records page for Stax the other releases there have good selections too.  I forgot how many releases they have featured on Stax such as the 'Gospel Truth' and 'Nobody Wins' sets.  Many have been and gone and aren't listened at the site anymore.

Well put.

The two "crossover" CD's became an  inspiration for me to seek out as many of the 45's on them that I could afford

and are still highly treasured and listened to many times by me.

Sadly IMOP the Levine compilation, was a missed opportunity to expand the initial CD release discography to include many more obscure "Crossover/Northern" tracks , as it duplicated many many of those in original compilations.

Credit though for the inclusion of " (Let Hurt Put You In The) Loser's Seat", "can you win"  the Proud as Punch and the Dramatics tracks.

Months before it's release I'd contacted Adey to suggest that it would be nice to see a third Volume in the series and at his request

submitted a number of tracks that might be considered for it. In the end they decided to run with inviting Ian Levine to compile  further volume .

Either way it's great that we get the opportunity to listen to the crackle free masters of these wonderful tracks.

For the un-initiated the details of these compilations can be found by following the links below:

Ian Levine's Solid Stax Sensations

Do The Crossover Baby

Let's Crossover Again

 

The Limitations "All because of you" Volt

Found in a Record Corner soul pack, circa 1971.

 

Edited November 23, 20168 yr by Mick Sway

Circle o fire-Glo love. LP Only modern soul .Their was a later versoin by Mighty Clouds of Joy on Myrrh but not as good.

 

 

Most Stax stuff was too uneventful for me. The fact that they chose to shelve possibly the greatest soul record of all time is testament to their 'ear'. 

However I have two copies of this, just in case.