Where Your Music Takes Me

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Two of the '70s soul/ disco star's LPs for the Pye label together on one CD, 1975's 'You Don't Stand A Chance' & 1976's 'Now!', plus the rare single 'Better By Far'. 22 tracks total. 1998 Sequel Records release.

Where Your Music Takes Me,Jimmy James,Sequel Records,Dance Music,Disco,Pop,R&B,Soul

Tracks:

I'll Go Where The Music Takes Me
Chains Of Love
You Don't Stand A Chance (If You Can't Dance)
Now Is The Time
Do The Funky Conga
Never Had This Dream Before
Hey Girl
I Am Somebody
Dancin' To The Music Of Love
If You Think That Funk Is Junk Your Drunk
Till I Can't Take It Anymore
I Can't Stop My Feet (From Dancing)
Let's Go Disco
Disco Fever
Whatever Happened With The Love We Knew
Life

Customer Reviews:

What the...?.......2000-10-20

In the fall of 1967 JJ and the Vagabonds released "Come to Me Softly", an AM hit that was rarely played in Charleston, SC. I have searched for this title since then without success. I occasionally hear it on local beach music stations and I am glad the two previous reviewers have mentioned it, but where is it? Is it on some other JJ and the V's disc? I still can't find it and I don't like the songs on this particular disc.

Not the best of JJ.......2000-10-11

JJ and the Vagabonds BEST song is "Come to me Softly"...unfortun ately it appears on the album "Vagabond King: The Sixty Sides" and seems to be an allusive item! I would love to purchase this album if anyone knows where to buy it!

Missing Song.......1999-01-13

How this CD is so called "The Best Of Jimmy James" when is missing his best song ever "Come to me Softly" this song was recorded in 1967 on The ATCO seal

Average customer rating:

Northern Soul/Disco Artifact

Where Your Music Takes Me
Jimmy James
Manufacturer: Sequel Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Disco | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Jamaica | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000I44A
Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

You Don't Stand A Chance (If You Can't Dance) Pt.1
Let's Have Fun
Hey Girl
Suspicious Love
Dancin' To The Music Of Love
Chains Of Love
I Am Somebody
I Know You Don't Love Me(But You Got Me Anyway)
You Don't Stand A Chance(If You Can't Dance) Pt.2
I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me
Whatever Happend To The Love We Knew?
Now Is The Time
I Want You So Much
Disco Fever
Never Had This Dream Before
Stay With Me
Your Love Keeps Haunting Me
Better By Far
Hope
Life
Tell The World
If You Think That Funk Is Junk, You're Drunk

Album Description

Two of the '70s soul/ disco star's LPs for the Pye label together on one CD, 1975's 'You Don't Stand A Chance' & 1976's 'Now!', plus the rare single 'Better By Far'. 22 tracks total. 1998 Sequel Records release.

Customer Reviews:

Northern Soul/Disco Artifact.......2001-08-13

This is Sequel Records' excellent companion release to "Vagabond King," picking up where the other set leaves off. It includes the best of James' 1970s era work with Pye Records. There was a hiatus between James' first and second contracts with Pye and this set will not include the tracks released on other labels such as "Marble and Iron" and "Help Yourself."

The material on here is sourced from three LPs and a handful of singles. There is some classic 1970s smooth soul such as "Hey Girl" and "I Know You Don't Love Me," as well as great bubblegum soul such as "Chains of Love" and "Dancin' to the Music of Love." Of course, there is also disco--not my personal favorite musical style--but James' version of this form occasionally wandered into suprising social commentary such as the lengthy "Now is the Time," an anti-nuclear message. More entertaining are the funk numbers such as "You Don't Stand a Chance" and another great 1970s social commentary "I Am Somebody." These tracks won't make you forget George Clinton and his friends but they are good period pieces.

One of the cool things about Jimmy James' work during this period is that a large amount of it was written by the talented Anglo Indian writer/producer Biddu. Besides the merits of Biddu's songwriting and arranging skills this also means virtually no cover versions.

I recommend this disc for anyone who enjoys the nearly forgotten pre-disco/post-60s soul sound and also for any fans of the British soul scene. It was really getting into gear here.

Where Your Music Takes ME
Average customer rating:
Where Your Music Takes ME
James & Vagabo James
Manufacturer: Sequel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002B6FCO
Release Date: 1999-02-09