 | Tamla Motown Gold: The Sound Of Young America by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £2.98 The starting point for any soul collection plus there are no 70's tracks. Great motown hits and a number of less well known classics
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 | Atlantic Gold by Various Artists
Buy used from: £4.68 The sound of blues and soul being blended to perfection. More raw and edgy than above but this is essential for ANY music fan
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 | The In Crowd - The Ultimate Mod Collection 1958 - 1967 by Various Artists
Buy used from: £55.99 Not exclusively soul music, but this brings together so many rare songs without being confined to any particular label that it is probably the best all round compilation of 60' soul.
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 | Out Of Sight: More Sounds From The In Crowd by Various Artists
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £6.99 More of the above, with a bit more focus on blues records.
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 | This is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound Volume 1 by Various Artists
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £8.99 These records are as good (if not better) than the more well known motown hits.
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 | Sock It to Em Soul by Various Artists
Buy new: £7.98 The title says it all. This overlaps a bit with some of the above. But it is pretty essential stuff for those 60's club nights.
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 | The In Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul by Various Artists
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.70 Cd 2 is pretty middling, but cd1 is where its at. Probably isn't a bad track on this cd at all. You won't find this stuff on any KFC adverts neither
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 | Chess Soul Sisters by Various Artists
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £4.50 Sassy, classy and full of soul. The greatest all-female cd collection available
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 | Definitive Impressions Vol.1: Defining Moments in 60's Soul from Chicago's Greatest Group by The Impressions
Buy new: £11.98 The all time greatest soul vocal group, fronted by a certain Curtis Mayfield. You really have to hear one of their records to realise just how truly special this group was.
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 | Soul Master/25 Miles by Edwin Starr
Buy used from: £131.43 Ever wondered what Otis Redding would have sounded like if he had signed to Motown? Buy this album and see how his heir apparent melded the motown sound with a bit of southern soul. The King.
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 | Legends of Soul: Very Best of Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.31 There are better compilations for both artists but this is cheap on amazon marketplace and covers the essential songs that are not on the atlantic gold cds
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 | Foundations of Funk - A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969 by Del Aug 98
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £13.01 I'm not too fond of funk music, but James Brown's 60's work is severly underrated.
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 | Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest by Various Artists
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £10.16 They didn't just make blues records at Chess, they had a fine output of soul records- some most will be familiar than others but the quality is unquestionable. Hold on is one of the 60s greatest songs
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 | Keep Movin' On by Sam Cooke
Buy used from: £10.95 One of the pioneers in this genre, master song-writer and one of the most gifted vocalists of all time. You'll know at least a quarter of these songs already, including the original sweet soul music
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 | The Goldwax Story Vol.1 by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £4.75 Goldwax stands for great soul records. If you like Stax you will like this; some are slower souhern soul records but for the most part this is prime 60's soul.
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 | The Very Best Of Etta James: The Chess Singles by Etta James
Buy new: £6.98 The real Queen of Soul- and some classic songs, and her voice is more than capable of carrying the weaker ones. This is a budget priced cd with her chess singles but the sound quality is still good.
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 | The Kent Years by Ike & Tina Turner
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £9.09 She never used to be an embarrasing Grandma- she was the sixties most bold, exciting and energetic performer. Along with the best of Loma records, this has most of the non-Phil Spector mid-60s songs.
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 | The Best of Loma Records: Rise and Fall of a 1960s Soul Label by Various Artists
Buy used from: £13.00 But It's Alright is a soul classic, and you get some early Ike/Tina, the Marvellos. Not as distinct sounding as Motown or Stax, but some prime slices of sixties soul.
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 | Chess Northern Soul by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 Some more choice cuts from the back-catalogue of Chess. A bit of an overlap with some of the above, but Lets Wade in the Water by Marlena Shaw and More and More by Little Milton make this worthwhile
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 | Eight Gigs A Week by Spencer Davis Group
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £8.50 Keep on Running, Gimme Some Loving and I'm a Man. Yep great soul can be made by a bunch of white lads from sunny Birmingham
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 | Talcum Soul: 26 Stonking Northern Soul Greats by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.79 This applies to all 5 volumes (but unfortunately not the 6th one) ONLY sixties soul and very eclectic.
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 | Vee Jay Records - Chicago Hit Factory by Various Artists
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £11.90 Charly have been doing a great job with box sets, despite the low prices these are excellent boxsets; Vee Jay output stands besides the bigger labels and is often criminally overlooked
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 | The Instant & Minit Story by Various Artists
Another top notch boxset by Charly; a collection of some smaller US soul labels from the 60's, some real surprise gems here. Mini Skirts and Soul by Chris Kenner is the perfect mod song.
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 | Moods of Marvin Gaye/In the Groove by Marvin Gaye
Buy used from: £35.00 Marvin's peak in the sixties- there are a few "swing" songs which are really out of place. But everything else is flipping brilliant.
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 | Soul of Sue Records: New York City by Various Artists
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.70 This is some of the better known tracks from Sue- the 1995 boxset is superior but much rarer and expensive and usually only available on import which will probably incur import tax.
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