Track Listing

1. Band Of Gold - Payne, Freda
2. Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen Of The Board
3. Why Can't We Be Lovers - Holland-Dozier
4. Want Ads - Honey Cone
5. You've Got Me Dangling On A String - Chairmen Of The Board
6. Westbound No 9 - Flaming Ember
7. Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed - 100 Proof (Aged In Soul)
8. Deeper And Deeper - Payne, Freda
9. Working On A Building Of Love - Chairmen Of The Board
10. Woman's Love Rights - Lee, Laura
11. She's Not Just Another Woman - Eighth Day
12. Stick Up - Honey Cone
13. I'm Not My Brother's Keeper - Flaming Ember
14. Everything's Tuesday - Chairmen Of The Board
15. Crumbs Off The Table - Glass House (1)
16. Don't Leave Me Starving For Your Love - Holland-Dozier
17. Elmo James - Chairmen Of The Board
18. One Monkey Don't Stop The Show - Honey Cone
19. Mind Body And Soul - Flaming Ember
20. You've To Crawl (Before You Walk) - Eighth Day
21. Finders Keepers - Chairmen Of The Board
22. Rip Off - Lee, Laura
23. Day I Found Myself - Honey Cone
24. Bring The Boys Home - Payne, Freda
25. Pay To The Piper - Chairmen Of The Board

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183311 in Music
• Released on: 1999-01-25
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

SOUL CLASSICS ON FIRE
This compilation collects the cream of the output on the labels that Holland/Dozier/Holland formed after they left Motown, i.e. Invictus, Hot Wax and Music Merchant.

The output on these labels have sadly been overlooked for years, but this compilation proves that many of the singles released on these labels were just as strong as those Holland/Dozier/Holland wrote for Motown.

The album begins with a two amazing soul classics, "Band of Gold" and "Give Me Just A Little More Time", and even if the rest of the tracks aren't that familiar to you, this is high quality soul throughout.

Other standout tracks are Laura Lee's blazing divorce anthem "Rip Off", the funk of Chairmen of the Board's "Finders Keepers" and Glass House's "Crumbs off the Table" and Freda Payne's protest against the Vietnam war, "Bring the Boys Home".

If you like 60's soul, this is a must. It is superior to Sequel's other compilations of tracks from these labels; "Invictus Unconquered/best of Invictus" and "Cherish What Is Dear To You/Best of Invictus 2" are rather patchy in comparison, and the sleeve design is more attractive on this compilation as well.

If you want to dig deeper, try "Invictus Club Classics" which compiles more obscure tracks, even if "Sliced Tomatoes" by the Just Brothers is more than surely familiar to you.