Track Listing

1. Top Of The Stairs - Collins And Collins
2. (A Case Of) Too Much Lovemakin' - Barry White, Gloria Scott, Tom Brock, Vance Wilson, Gene Page, Frank Kejmar
3. Let Me Make Love To You - Gene Chandler
4. Get Into Your Life - Beloyd
5. Come Get To This - Art Stewart, Cal Harris, Marvin Gaye, Steve Smith
6. It's Love Baby - Timothy Wilson
7. Tell Me You Love Me - Lawrence Payton
8. Loving You, Needing You, Loving You, Wanting You - Bobby Hutton
9. Booking Up Baby - The Topics
10. I Was Blessed The Day I Found You - Randy Brown
11. Gonna Find A True Love - Bottom & Company
12. I Know - Mojoba
13. If You Want A Love Affair - Jesse James
14. When I'm With You - Brenda Lee Eager
15. Keepin' Love New - Howard Johnson
16. No Limit - Jean Terrell
17. The Best Of You - Booker T. Jones
18. Pity A Fool - Barbara Brown
19. Dead - Carolyn Sullivan
20. I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do - Al Capps, Dee Dee Warwick, Paul Vance

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18814 in Music
• Released on: 2002-06-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 70 minutes

Customer Reviews

This is what real soul music is all about.
First the downside about this collection. If this compilation CD is at the top of your shopping list, the chances are that you already have some of the songs on the original vinyl and/or other compilation CDs. Indeed the Collins & Collins and Gloria Scott tracks appear on at least three other collections together, usually following each other as on this CD.
The beauty of this set for me is the sheer diversity of the music, mostly made from the early seventies up to 1980. The songs range from the uptempo dance groove of Beloyd "Get into your life", the mid tempo magic of Bobby Hutton's "Wanting you, needing you" and the Topics "Booking up Baby" to the slower "Pity a fool" by Barbara Brown.
Richard Searling of Jazz FM fame compiled this CD and as with his previous "modern soul" compilations, it has brought previously unheard music to these ears. Every track is a winner, but for me the final track, Dee Dee Warwick's soulful slowie "I haven't got anything better to do" is the pick.
If you want to know what real soul music sounds like then this CD is a good start. Roll on Volume 2!!

Awesome tracks, more more more
The majority of tracks on this CD were around when I was hitting the clubs in the seventies, there are some great mid to uptempo numbers here that just make you want to get up and dance. Worth the mid price for the first five tracks alone but add to that the Howard Johnson cut "Keepin Love New" and you'll keep almost any soul fan happy. Richard Searling has made some excellent selections for the first of the series, I just cant wait to get my hands on the second one.

what a surprise
What a pleasant surprise. Very good quality for a compilation and no fillers here. Some lost gems come to the surface. Excellent
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