Sock It to Em Soul [Import]

Product Description
A 30-track 60s Club Soul compilation drawn from the Atlantic & WB (& related) archives between 1963 & 1968. Artists include Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers, Joe Tex, Arthur Conley, Don Covay, Aretha Franklin, The Drifters, Eddie Floyd, The Capitols, The Bar-Kays, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, & many more. Includes track-by-track commentary & credits. WSM. 2004.

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Average customer rating: You won't sit down A lotta lotta fun...

Sock It to Em Soul Various Artists Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Southern Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Memphis Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000CNVJV Release Date: 2004-02-09

Tracks:

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

Album Description

A 30-track 60s Club Soul compilation drawn from the Atlantic & WB (& related) archives between 1963 & 1968. Artists include Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers, Joe Tex, Arthur Conley, Don Covay, Aretha Franklin, The Drifters, Eddie Floyd, The Capitols, The Bar-Kays, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, & many more. Includes track-by-track commentary & credits. WSM. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

You won't sit down.......2006-01-17

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.

A lotta lotta fun..........2005-12-29

Okay, before we get to the music check out the album cover - those are mods. And the thirty songs on Sock It to Em Soul do a wonderful job of placing 60s Soul into the context of what the Brits loved about American music - it was muscular, organic and, obviously soulful.

There are plenty of household names on this comp and they do not disappoint from Aretha's "Save Me" to Sam and Dave's "Don't Turn Your Heater On." And we all know the Drifters from oldies radio, but "Baby What I Mean" is such a sweet, soulful pop tune it's a revelation. But those are just the primers.

The artists I was not familiar with prior to picking up Sock It to Em Soul are the ones who really make this set. Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata" and William Bell's "Never Like This Before" have such playful, soul swing, you can't help but shake your hips even if you're playing you headphones at your cube at work. The best songs, though, Ben E. King's "Cry No More," Willie Tee's "Walkin' Up A One Way Street" and Mary Well's "Dear Lover" are so sad and uplifting at the same time that they make the perfect getting ready to go out - or inviting friends back for a night cap, you can't go wrong.

I mean, when JJ Jackson belts "we're gonna party for free for days" on "Sho 'Nuff" who wouldn't want to join him?

Average customer rating:

Sock It to 'Em J.J.: The Soul Years Jimmy James & the Vagabonds Manufacturer: Castle Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000BV1YR Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

1. I Feel Alright
2. I Wanna Be (Your Everything)
3. Come to Me Softly
4. Hi Diddley Dee Dum Dum (It's a Good Good Feeling)
5. This Heart of Mine
6. I Don't Wanna Cry
7. Ain't Love Good, Ain't Love Proud
8. Don't Know What I'm Gonna Do
9. Do It Right
10. I Gotta Dance to Keep from Cryin'
11. (I'm Just A) Fool for You
12. Honest I Do
13. People Get Ready
14. Entertainer
15. Little Boy Blue
16. It's Growing
17. Amen
18. Ain't No Big Thing
19. Ain't Too Proud to Beg [Live]
20. I Can't Turn You Loose [Live]
21. Amen/If I Had a Hammer [Live Medley]
22. You Don't Know Like I Know [Live]
23. That Driving Beat [Live]
24. Don't Know What I'm Gonna Do [Live]
25. Sock It to 'Em JB [Live]

Tracks:

1. Come to Me Softly [US Version]
2. I Can't Get Back Home to My Baby
3. Hungry for Love
4. No Good to Cry
5. You Showed Me the Way
6. Red Red Wine
7. Who Could Be Loving You
8. Wear It on Our Face
9. Four Walls Three Windows Two Doors
10. Courage Ain't Strength
11. Cry Like a Baby
12. Good Day Sunshine
13. Open up Your Soul
14. I Believe
15. Everybody Loves a Winner
16. If You're Gonna Love Me, Love Me
17. Never Like This Before
18. Close the Door
19. Why
20. Better by Far
21. Give Us a Light
22. Hope
23. Help Yourself
24. Hey Girl

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