Various Artists - Sweet Soul Music: 1967 / Various (CD)

Here comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to our first five volumes of 'Sweet Soul Music,' as well as the highly acclaimed, award-winning R&B series 'Blowin' The Fuse.' This is ehe sound that influences musicians who weren't even born when it came out, like Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone! All the greatest and most influential soul hits of the 1960s, including some surprisingly hard-to-find selections! Every song is the original version. The ultimate soul collection spread across ten individual CDs! The soul-searing soundtrack to the 1960s! Massive, beautifully illustrated booklets with detailed notes, incredible vintage photos, and ephemera. Over the course of ten spectacular years, R&B morphed into soul music with a side order of funk, and became the soundtrack to a social revolution. The riveting story of that incredible decade is told in full for the first time on Bear Family's 'Sweet Soul Music' series. Some record companies have compiled anthologies from their own vaults, but Bear Family has gone the extra mile... and then some, licensing classic recordings from virtually every record label at the epicenter of '60s soul to compile the greatest hits with the finest sound quality. The second five volumes, available now, cover the years 1966-1970. Though gospel remained the bedrock of soul music, the sound was transforming fast, thanks to Motown, Stax, the regional innovations of Chicago, New Orleans, and Muscle Shoals, and the funk revolution, led by James Brown and Sly & The Family Stone. The civil rights and antiwar movements were now rolling full speed ahead, and the messages at the heart of the music were often as powerful and invigorating as the grooves themselves. The second half of this incredible story is just as fascinating as the first. Bill Dahl's track-by-track commentary provides extensive biographical info on every artist on every disc

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The, Supremes, - Are You Lonely for Me Baby
2. Freddie, Scott, - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
3. Cannonball', Adderley, - Funky Broadway Part 1
4. Dyke ; the Blazers - Girls Are Out to Get You
5. The, Fascinations, - Sweet Soul Music
6. Arthur, Conley, - Nothing Takes the Place of You
7. Toussaint, McCall, - Jimmy Mack
8. Martha ; the Vandellas - She's Looking Good
9. Rodger, Collins, - Eight Men, Four Women
10. V., O. Wright, - Tramp
11. Redding, Otis ; Carla Thomas - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
12. Gaye, Marvin ; Tammi Terrell - Respect
13. Aretha, Franklin, - Make Me Yours
14. Bettye, Swann, - Baby Please Come Back Home
15. J., J. Barnes, - Soul Finger
16. The, Bar-Kays, - I Was Made to Love Her
17. Stevie, Wonder, - Some Kind of Wonderful
18. Six, Brothers Soul - Hypnotized
19. Linda, Jones, - Come on Sock It to Me
20. Syl, Johnson, - (I Wanna) Testify
21. The, Parliaments, - Cold Sweat Part 1
22. Brown, James ; the Famous Flam - Get on Up
23. The, Esquires, - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Highe
24. Jackie, Wilson, - Dirty Man
25. Laura, Lee, - Expressway to Your Heart
26. The, Survivors, Soul - Soul Man
27. Dave, ; Sam - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
28. Knight, Gladys ; the Pips - Piece of My Heart
29. Erma, Franklin, - Skinny Legs and All
30. Joe, Tex, - Tell Mama