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Spanning the years 1960-64, the third instalment of Ady Croasdell's illustrious series once again charts the evolution of soul from its gospel, R&B and vocal-group roots. As with the previous volumes, Croasdell cannily assembles a cast that features familiar stalwarts such as the Tams and Ike and Tina Turner, alongside the less celebrated likes of the Blenders and Chuck Wright. the Miracles are, of course, firmly in the former category, although "If Your Mother Only Knew", a dramatic string-swirled devotional with a Latin lilt and Smokey's customary supple delivery, unfathomably failed to click chartwise. Fellow Motown label mate Carolyn Crawford also appears with the gorgeous, Berry Gordy-penned mid-tempo floater, "When Somebody's Good to You". Less known but equally sumptuous are the Superbs' seraphic ballad "Baby, Baby All the Time" and the DC Playboys' giddily joyous Van McCoy composition "You Were All I Needed". Yet again, Ady Croasdell has concocted an exquisite collection of timeless soul alchemy. --Chris King
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This review is from: The Birth of Soul Vol.3 (Audio CD)
This third and final CD in the series Birth of Soul is my personal favorite. Quality is as good as the other two volumes, but this CD just has some of the best tracks out of the early days of the Soul era. This goes from Garnet Mimms, Sam Cooke influenced, "Quiet place" to the more uptempo Ike & Tina song "It's gonna work out fine" made in 1961. And how fine it all worked out between those two in the years that had to come artistically. But the ultimate song on this CD that captures all of the birth of Soul is Chuck Jackson's "I will never turn my back on you" made in 1963. The singing goes somewhere between the traditional gospel and traditional big-band/crooner but is still searching for a balance between those two ways. A balance found a couple of years later found by Otis Redding and others. The backing vocals sometimes in a question and answering mode on other times the backing vocals arenot backing at all, but are up front. In the Motown output of the you will hear the ultimate balance in soul backing vocals by artists like the Four Tops and Temptations. The violin arrangement in this song sounds more like an arrangement for Jazz big band with violins as heard on Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks then the soul violin arrangements of the late sixties/early seventies. It is this searching for a new style that makes Chuck Jackson's "I will never turn my back on you" the ultimate Birth of Soul song.
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In the 50s the New Music,
By Richard "Alice Collector" (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Birth of Soul Vol.3 (Audio CD)
Today everyone's an expert:
"Soul began with Sam Cooke in 1957" "Soul began with the Isley Brothers when they recorded Shout" Or "Soul began with Ray Charles when he fused Gospel music into R & B" Whatever the fact is that in the U K all this was simply pop music most of which had the power of causing people to switch off the radio! It wasn't all Elvis and Buddy Holly and Pat Boone-who adults were just about coming to terms with. Suddenly a disc is played on the radio of the Falcons singing I found a love oh what a love.And it was only played by the deejay to demonstrate just how terrible this so called R & B was! As for Ray Charles-how tuneless could you get-just a load of screeching!! "He sings as he feels" ran the old joke "Then he must be feeling pretty bad!" Clearly the U K needed the Beatles to put people right before they got round to writing their own songs As Soul began its slow journey from what was still rhythm and blues And so soul crawled out of its cave so the people began to learn.About how this music had evolved from the Devil's Music. Yes it must have done all these people had started their singing careers in the church. And yet its a fact that once the books were being written and Soul was the Word virtually all the artists said they sang rhythm and blues
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More early formative soul sides,
By Zub "Zubenelgenubi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Birth of Soul Vol.3 (Audio CD)
Third volume in Kent's series of compilations gathering up seminal soul tunes, this group primarily comes from the years 1960-1964. As with the others in the series, this CD presents recordings illustrating the evolution of the r'n'b of the 50s into the soul of the 60s. Included here are several major hits - both r'n'b and pop, some minor hits and rarities as well as alternate versions and unreleased recordings. Many of these sides - both hits and rarities - are seldom found on other CDs and if so, not in the quality found here. A few tracks (1,10,12,24) are presented in stereo with the remainder in mono, and as noted, sound quality is about as good as you'll find for these recordings, if found elsewhere at all. A 16-page liner notes booklet offers copious backround on the included tracks along with photos and promo pieces. Another high-quality, niche collection from the Kent family at Ace Records, U.K. Since as of the date of this review, no track listings are given in the product description, they are: 1) A Quiet Place - Garnet Mimms & Enchanters; 2) I Wanna Thank You - Enchanters; 3) If Your Mother Only Knew - Miracles; 4) Don't Feel Sorry For Me - Jimmy Ruffin; 5) Big Lover - Blenders; 6) The Teacher - Falcons; 7) Have Love Will Travel - Richard Berry; 8) Don't Stop The Wedding - Ann Cole; 9) There's Something On Your Mind - Bobby Marchan; 10) People In Love - Taylor Bros.; 11) Help Me - Diplomats; 12) If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody - James Ray; 13) Untie Me - Tams; 14) You Were All I Needed - D C Playboys; 15) When Someone's Good To You - Carolyn Crawford; 16) Play It Again - Pat Lundy; 17) You Can't Run Away From Me - Wanderers; 18) The Palm Of Your Hand - Chuck Wright; 19) Just For You - Billy Watkins; 20) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner; 21) I Will Never Turn My Back On You - Chuck Jackson; 22) Watch Your Step - Brooks O'Dell; 23) Baby Baby All The Time - Superbs; 24) I Need Your Loving (extended version) - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford; 25) She Put The Hurt On Me - Prince La La; 26) Shorty's Got To Go - Impressions; 27) Talk To Me - Sunny & Sunglows; 28) The Rains Came - Big Sambo
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