Presented here are the Motown soul-shouter's first two studio albums, Soul Master (1968) & 25 Miles (1969), both of which are out-of-print. Highlights include early singles, 'Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)', 'Headline News' & 'Way Over There' & three bonus non-LP singles, 'Harlem', 'Girls Are Gettin' Prettier' & 'It's My Turn Now'. Slipcase. Motown. 2002.
Soul Master/25 Miles,Edwin Starr,Universal Int'l,Motown,Oldies,Pop,R&B,R&B/Soul,Soul
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Soul Master/25 Miles
Edwin Starr Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B00006L9R5 Release Date: 2002-12-24 |
Tracks:
- Agent Double-O-Soul
- I Am The Man For You Baby
- Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)
- Oh How Happy
- Way Over There
- My Weakness Is You
- Headline News
- Soul Master
- I Want My Baby Back
- Love Is My Destination
- I Am Your Man
- Time Is Passin' By
- Twenty-Five Miles
- I'm Still A Struggling Man
- Backyard Lovin' Man
- He Who Picks A Rose
- Soul City (Open Your Arms To Me)
- You Beat Me To The Punch
- Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love
- Pretty Little Angel
- If My Heart Could Tell The Story
- Who Cares If You're Happy Or Not (I Do)
- 24 Hours (To Find My Baby)
- Mighty Good Lovin'
- Harlem
- Girles Are Gettin' Prettier
- It's My Turn Now
Album Description
Presented here are the Motown soul-shouter's first two studio albums, Soul Master (1968) & 25 Miles (1969), both of which are out-of-print. Highlights include early singles, 'Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)', 'Headline News' & 'Way Over There' & three bonus non-LP singles, 'Harlem', 'Girls Are Gettin' Prettier' & 'It's My Turn Now'. Slipcase. Motown. 2002.Album Details
Two Classic Edwin Starr Albums, from 1968 and 1969, Released on One CD. All Tracks have Been Remastered and Packaging Includes a Full Color Slipcase, Rare Photos, Track Annotations, Release Info and Original LP Artwork.Customer Reviews:
Splendid!.......2005-05-18
Essential Soul From One Of Its Greatest Voices.......2004-04-18
The 25 Miles album is a bit more of a varied affair, and perhaps a bit weaker overall--but by no means a pushover. The follow-up single to the killer title track, "I'm Still A Struggling Man," should have been a much bigger hit than it was. Edwin adds a muscular, testosterone-charged vocal to the Smokey Robinson-Ronnie White classic "You Beat Me To The Punch," which is also given a pretty funky, percussive backbeat by Norman Whitfield reminiscent of some of his work with the Temps around that time (1969.) On the other end of the spectrum, the album's closer, Smokey's "Mighty Good Lovin'," sounds a bit anticlamatic--like not a lot of spirit was put into it (in other words, filler!) If that's the only complaint one can find on a cd of 27 tracks, however, there's nothing to get hung up about, especially when you consider the amount of filler that quite frequently marred original Motown albums in the 1960's.
What collectors would consider the real prize of this package, however, lies yet ahead, in the form of three bonus tracks retrieved from the vaults of Rip Tip Records. These final three tracks are as good as anything that preceded them, and what most appeals to me is that two of them, "Girls Are Gettin' Prettier" (Written by Starr) and "It's My Turn Now," show off Edwin's ovbious affection for the more fiery Southern soul sounds of Stax/Volt. "Girls Are Gettin' Prettier" in particular sounds very much like something Otis Redding would have done--a husky, shouting pile-driver in the vein of "I Can't Turn You Loose" or "Love Man." There are flashes of the Southern-soul-shouter influence scattered throughout the two complete albums on this disc as is, but on these bonus tracks they really jump out at you. You ain't gonna find these tracks elsewhere, which is as good a reason as any to buy this cd instead of, say, Early Classics, or any other collection of Edwin's '60's work. I should point out at this time that the three bonus tracks are in mono, as is "Agent Double-O Soul," while all the other tracks (tracks 2-24) are in true stereo--and the mastering on this cd is pretty much topnotch.
Edwin Starr was one of _the truly great voices in Sixties-Seventies soul, and it's a shame the guy never attained the superstar status he richly deserved. (Perhaps Berry Gordy would have promoted him a little more if he'd had breasts and a shrill voice--but that's another story for another day.) Nonetheless, I'm grateful that Universal Inc. has had the good sense to release this outstanding twofer, along with Edwin's two early Seventies longplayer, War & Peac/Involved, as part of their Motown two-on-one series. Forget about all the cheap compilations out there, friends, and buy these twofers instead (starting with this one): You'll get a much better feel of what this underrated powerhouse performer was all about. Five stars all the way!
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