 | Atlantic Gold by Various Artists
Buy used from: £4.69 A comprehensive selection including many all-time faves at a modest price.
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 | At the Club by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.98 Some lesser known Atlantic gems, including (Able) Mable John, Willie Tee and Doris Troy
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 | Tamla Motown Gold: The Sound Of Young America by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.68 / Used from: £2.84 Can't forget the motor city. All the 60s Uk hits at a bargain price.
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 | Big Motown Hits & Hard To Find Classics - Volume 1 by Various Artists
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.90 2 of my Desert Island Discs, David Ruffin's 'Walk Away From Love' and The Originals' 'Baby, I'm for Real'. The other volumes are great too.
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 | Tamla Motown Connoisseurs 2 by Various Artists
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.99 Is there no limit to the masterpieces hidden away in the Motown archives?
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 | Ultimate Motown Collection by Barbara McNair
Why it took so longer for her sublime versions of Smokey Robinson tunes to surface baffles me.
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 | Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest by Various Artists
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £9.76 As well as blues there was some great soul produced in Chicago, including...
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 | The Very Best Of Etta James: The Chess Singles by Etta James
Buy new: £4.98 Unbelievably low price for the best of, IMHO, the greatest of all female soul singers even considering...
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 | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £3.91 Probably the greatest single soul album ever made...
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 | Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £5.00 Because Stevie's 'magnum opus' is a double. One of the most influential soul musicians alongside...
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 | The Godfather: The Very Best of James Brown by James Brown
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £3.49 Soul Brother Number One. The only justification for having an ego the size of Jupiter is making music this good.
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 | Definitive Ray Charles by Ray Charles
Buy new: £10.38 / Used from: £7.66 The best compilation of the man who did more than anyone to create soul music
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 | The In Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul by Various Artists
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.14 The best Northern Soul compilation I've ever bought... And I've bought a few
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 | Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol.1: Taken from the Vaults by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £18.06 Superb sound quality, exhaustive and informative sleeve notes. This series is soul music at its peak.
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 | When a Man Cries: the Deep Soul of Sceptor/Wand & Musicor/Dynamo by Various Artists
Buy new: £13.98 / Used from: £8.04 More deep soul. Almost 'Dave Godin...Vol.5'
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 | The Complete O.V. Wright on Hi Records, Vol. 1: In the Studio by O.V. Wright
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £6.99 One of the great voices along with...
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 | The Complete Goldwax Records Singles by James Carr
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £7.50 Enjoying a long overdue rediscovery at the moment.
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 | The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1 by Otis Redding
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.52 I can't believe this is so low on the list, but everyone's heard of Otis, unlike...
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 | I Don't Want to Cry/Any Day Now by Chuck Jackson
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £8.20 One of the pioneers who helped to define soul music, a magnificent voice
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 | It's Okeh Up North by Various Artists
Buy used from: £6.95 Wonderful stuff: Even among some superb tracks the duets between (Larry) Williams and (Johnny 'Guitar') Watson stand out.
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 | Out of different Bags/Spice of Life by Marlena Shaw
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £5.13 The first two albums from the one time support act to Williams and Watson, one of the first singers to mix jazz with soul.
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 | 21 of the Best: 1971-1983 by Millie Jackson
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £36.01 None of the chat, just her showing she really could sing.
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 | Looking Good: Mod Club Classics by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.98 A selection of uptempo foot-tappers recreating the sounds of an early 60s mod club.
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 | Soul of Sue Records: New York City by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.40 Superb early 60s soul, including Ike and Tina, Inez and Charlie Foxx and some New Orleans cuts from...
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 | Gumbo Stew Vol.2 by Various Artists
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.15 The black-run AFO (All For One) musicians' collective was sadly short-lived but produced some marvellous tracks from the likes of Barbara George, Willie Tee and a pre-Dr. John Mac Rebennack
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