Track Listing

1. Walk Around Heaven All Day - Caravans (1)
2. Heart Full Of Love - Invincibles (1)
3. Man's Temptation - Chandler, Gene
4. Here's A Heart - Diplomats (1)
5. There Goes My Baby - Drifters (1)
6. Two Lovers Make One Fool - Serenaders
7. I Never Dreamed - Cookies
8. Come Tomorrow - Knight, Marie
9. I'll Give My Life - Holloway, Brenda
10. Sad Girl - Wiggins, Jay
11. I'm Counting On You - Freeman Brothers
12. I Found A Love - Falcons (1)
13. What'd I Say - Charles, Ray (1)
14. Wrong Girl - Showmen
15. Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) - Showmen
16. Down In The Alley - Burke, Solomon
17. Always Accused - Tee, Willie
18. Call Somebody Please - Manhattans
19. Lover's Prayer - Wallace Brothers
20. This Is My Prayer - Kilgore, Theola
21. Time Waits For No One - Eddie & Ernie
22. Cry To Me - Harris, Betty
23. Long Haired Daddy - Hill, Vernell
24. Spring - Birdlegs & Pauline/Their Versatility Birds
25. Standing In The Shadows - Birdlegs & Pauline/Their Versatility Birds
26. Um Um Um Um Um Um - Major Lance
27. It's No Good For Me - Nash, Johnny
28. All In My Mind - Brown, Maxine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57695 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Not a revolution
Soul did not come to us by a revolution, but it was an evolutionary process that took place somewhere between the end of the 1950s and the early years of the 1960s. In being evolution, therefor we might consider the Ace/Kent series Birth of Soul as the RnB equivalent of Charles Darwin's Origin of species.
New artists take over the place of the established ones. A good example of this you find on this record. Soul as the major genre in popular Afro-american music took the place that Doo-wop previously hold. Therefor you will find on this record songs by Doo-wop artists as the Drifters who are (unsuccesfully) trying to adopt their own style to the new circumstances, and you will also hear Solomon Burke who steps out of the traditional gospel mode to become a Soul superstar.
The Birth of the Soul series covers this evolutionary process very good. And as in all evolutions it is some kind of "learning by doing" process and it is therefor very interesting listening to those early attempts of what would become a fully devoleped musical genre in a couple of years time.