Manhattan Soul Volume 3 - Kent Records CD

Manhattan Soul Volume 3

Various Artists

CDKEND 459

Kent Records 

Format: Audio CD

Release Date: 27th January 2017

These New York labels were at the inception of soul music and continued to release excellent tracks until the disco era.

Release notes clip by Ady Croasdell follows

Scepter/Wand and Musicor/Dynamo were quintessential New York soul labels. Their common link was Luther Dixon, who set Scepter on the right path with the Shirelles and followed up with success for Tommy Hunt, Chuck Jackson, Dionne Warwick and Maxine Brown. He split for Musicor in 1966 where he got the Platters, Tommy Hunt and Inez and Charlie Foxx back into the charts.

Over the years, our privileged position of accessing the labels’ tapes has enabled us to make many previously unissued recordings available. This CD alone features an unheard Chips Moman song from Helen Henry, the Shirelles’ take on Luther Dixon’s superb ‘Two Stupid Feet’, songwriter Van McCoy’s own interpretation of the Shirelles’ ‘What’s The Matter Baby’ and an R&B group sound from the Tabs. Earlier vault discoveries from Junior Lewis and Big Maybelle are given their first CD outing.

Tracks

Side 1

01   Open Up Your Heart (And Let Me In) - Dan and The Cleancuts
02   Now That You're Gone - Sonny Turner and Sound Limited
03   Haven't I Been Good To You - Johnny Moore
04   Fun City Woman - Ann Bailey
05   Nobody Made You Love Me - The Charts
06   Billy Boy - Billy Adams
07   That Same Old Song - The Fabulous Dinos
08   Every Little Bit Helps - Helen Henry
09   Two Stupid Feet - The Shirelles
10   Lover - Tommy Hunt
11   Giving Up - Junior Lewis
12   A Part Of Me - Earl King
13   Never In My Life - Lee Moses
14   Nobody Knows - Maurice Williams
15   Doesn't It Ring A Bell - The Platters
16   How Could It Be - The Esquires
17   Mr Schemer - Brenton Wood
18   Ooh Baby - Harold Hopkins
19   What's The Matter Baby - Van McCoy
20   The Landlord - The Tabs
21   You Picked Me - The Soldier Boys
22   Remind My Baby Of Me - Billy Byers
23   Does Love Believe In Me - Melba Moore
24   If I Had You - Big Maybelle

Listen to two tracks above