Track Listing

1. Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers - Sock It To 'Em Jb (Pt.1)
2. Joe Tex - Show Me
3. Arthur Conley - Funky Street
4. Don Covay - See-Saw
5. Aretha Franklin - Save Me
6. The Drifters - Baby What I Mean
7. Eddie Floyd - Things Get Better
8. The Capitols - Cool Jerk
9. The Bar-Kays - Knucklehead
10. Herbie Mann - Philly Dog
11. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
12. Archie Bell & The Drells - I Can't Stop Dancing
13. Googie Rene Combo - Smokey Joe's La La
14. The Marketts - Bella Delena
15. Soul Brothers Six - Some Kind Of Wonderful
16. Solomon Burke - Stupidity
17. Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
18. William Bell - Never Like This Before
19. Clarence Carter - Funky Fever
20. Sam & Dave - Don't Turn Your Heater On
21. Wilson Pickett - Don't Fight It
22. J. J. Jackson - Sho' Nuff
23. Ben E. King - Cry No More
24. Mary Wells - Dear Lover
25. The Astors - Candy
26. Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger
27. Booker T. & The Mg's - My Sweet Potato
28. Willie Tee - Walkin' Up A One Way Street
29. Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart
30. Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers - Sock It To 'Em Jb (Pt.2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27116 in Music
• Released on: 2004-01-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Sock It To Em Soul- A Lifes Work.
Sock It To 'Em Soul - A life’s work.
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There are people in this world, seemingly sane ,well educated, successful, men and women. Who think nothing of dedicating a lifetime to building a collection of records that they love .This time consuming activity is not just about the desire to listen to old and rare soul records . Its more often about the thrill of the chase. The all consuming passion in routing through boxes of dusty vinyl in forgotten shop basements. The ability to get up at the crack of dawn in they're spare time. To drive for miles on a frozen winters morning. To reach the car-boot sale early enough to stand a chance in discovering an old soul gem. The desire in owning, touching, holding, counting and cataloging precious vinyl.
And then theres the cost. They may occasionally be lucky enough to find a long sought after seven inch single, released through an obscure Detroit record label in a reasonable condition for a few pence, bargain. But more often than not, the real soul treasures can reach anywhere between a three to four figure sum .Very ,very ,very expensive. Great big , large, huge great amounts of real money on tunes.
So then, its about the music. Brilliant singers like Aretha Franklin, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd and Mary Wells. Fantastic dance floor fillers like" Don’t Turn Your Heater On " by Sam and Dave, or " I Can't Stop Dancing " by Archie Bell & the Drells. Much covered classics like " Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis, "Cool Jerk" by The Capitols or Don Covays "See- Saw". Timeless emotive music by the great soul artists like Booker T, The Bar-Kays, Wilson Pickett and The Drifters. So many brilliant recordings by so many fantastic soul artists . Skill.
Time and money well spent then.
Or.. if you've got a life you could just buy one great record with all the best soul tracks on like "Sock It To Em Soul".

You won't sit down
Subtitled "60's club soul classics from the vaults of Atlantic, Atco, Loma, Reprise, Stax and Warner Bros Records 1963-1968", this 30-track collection gathers a sure-fire selection of tried and tested floor fillers, annotated by Richard Searling, who had a hand in the compilation. Well-known standards are mingled with harder to find obscurities that have found favour in the clubs, dance halls, discos and youth clubs long after their original shelf-life might have been supposed to be over. If you are over-familiar with tracks by Aretha Franklin or Booker T., you are still likely to be delighted by the post-Motown Mary Wells ballad or the Ramsey Lewis-like Googie Rene Combo instrumental.
The album is topped and tailed with the 1966 James Bond-inspired Sock It To 'Em JB, closing with Part 2, which formed the original flipside and was an instrumental version of the song treated electronically with reverb and echo and so forth; possibly the forerunner of the reggae dub versions and dance remixes of a decade later.
Much of the music inbetween was recorded at the Stax Studios in Memphis or the Atlantic Studios in New York, but some of it was made in Nashville, New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago, often using the top studio house bands. 18 of the 30 tracks are in mono. 78.50 minutes of top quality soul of all genres. You won't sit down.

Sock It To Me One More Time
Nearly 40 years ago I said I'd never get tired of this music and I still love every minute of it. Although I had a great deal of these tracks on vinyl already I didn't think twice about buying when I saw this CD was available.

A fine selection of some of the all time great soul tracks from the Sixties and evocative of club life at the time.

Excellent.