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Wake Up Everybody [CD]

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  • Audio CD (12 April 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Edsel
  • ASIN: B00395CEFM
  • Other Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,270 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Wake Up Everybody
2. Keep On Loving You
3. You Know How To Make
4. Me Feel So Good
5. Don't Leave Me This Way
6. Tell The World
7. To Be Free
8. I'm Searching For A Love
9. Don't Leave Me This Way [Tom Moulton Mix] - Bonus Track

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
"Wake Up Everybody...Plus" is part of a mid-price series of Philadelphia International LP reissues by Demon's EDSEL label in the UK (see PS below). Most of the albums seem to be focusing on the year 1975.

Released April 2010, Edsel EDSM0002 breaks down as follows (50:21 minutes):

Tracks 1 to 7 are the album "Wake Up Everybody" released November 1975 on Philadelphia International Records PZ 33808 in the USA and early 1976 on Philadelphia International Records S PIR 69193 in the UK. It was their 4th and final studio LP for the famous soul label - and easily their most successful and fondly remembered - reaching the coveted Number 1 spot on the US R'n'B charts that Christmas.

Track 8 is "Don't Leave Me This Way (The Tom Moulton Mix)", an 11:02 minutes extended version remixed in 1977

The 20-page booklet provides you with band snaps, lyrics, pictures of the LP label and 7" singles taken off of it as well as superb liner notes by noted soul expert TONY ROUNCE. The CD has been mastered by TALL ORDER of the UK and the sound quality is fantastic - clear and hiss free - it really allows the lush Gamble/Huff MFSB production values to shine.

Philly's ace song-writing team - John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstarphen provided tracks 1, 2, 5 and 6 - while label founders Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff stumped up writing credits for tracks 3, 4 and 7 and produced the record with their usual lush MFSB arrangements.

The lovely SHARON PAIGE provided duet vocals on "You Know How To Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching For Love", but it was (Theodore) TEDDY PENDERGRASS who shone with lead vocals on all tracks - especially the huge title track "Wake Up Everybody" (which effectively launched Pendergrass as a solo star).

But for me one of the unheard gems on this album is Track 2 on Side 1, "Keep On Lovin' You" - as brill a Seventies soul tune as you can get (lyrics above). It's so good to hear it with such top sound quality.

Niggles - both "Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby" and "Wake Up Everybody" were released as 7" singles with rare edit versions which AREN'T included as bonus tracks here - and I would have preferred those than the rather tiresome extension of the overly familiar "Don't Leave Me This Way".

Other than that - this is a superb Philly album - and pitched at a marketplace price that's less than a fiver - it's an absolute steal.

Recommended.

PS: other titles in the series are/will be...
1. Dance Your Troubles Away - ARCHIE BELL and THE DRELLS (1975) [due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0006]
2. Philadelphia Freedom - M.F.S.B. (1975) [due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0005]
3. When Love Is New - BILLY PAUL (1975) [April 2010, Edsel EDSM0003] - see REVIEW
4. Family Reunion...Plus - THE O'JAYS (1975) [April 2010, Edsel EDSM0001] - see REVIEW
5. The Three Degrees Live [aka Live In London] (1975) - THE THREE DEGREES (due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0004)
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"...The Way You Walk And The Way You Smile..." 25 April 2010
By Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
"Wake Up Everybody...Plus" is part of a mid-price series of Philadelphia International LP reissues by Demon's EDSEL label in the UK (see PS below). Most of the albums seem to be focusing on the year 1975.

Released April 2010, Edsel EDSM0002 (an import) breaks down as follows (50:21 minutes):

Tracks 1 to 7 are the album "Wake Up Everybody" released November 1975 on Philadelphia International Records PZ 33808 in the USA and early 1976 on Philadelphia International Records S PIR 69193 in the UK. It was their 4th and final studio LP for the famous soul label - and easily their most successful and fondly remembered - reaching the coveted Number 1 spot on the US R'n'B charts that Christmas.

Track 8 is "Don't Leave Me This Way (The Tom Moulton Mix)", an 11:02 minutes extended version remixed in 1977

The 20-page booklet provides you with band snaps, lyrics, pictures of the LP label and 7" singles taken off of it as well as superb liner notes by noted soul expert TONY ROUNCE. The CD has been mastered by TALL ORDER of the UK and the sound quality is fantastic - clear and hiss free - it really allows the lush Gamble/Huff MFSB production values to shine.

Philly's ace song-writing team - John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstarphen provided tracks 1, 2, 5 and 6 - while label founders Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff stumped up writing credits for tracks 3, 4 and 7 and produced the record with their usual lush MFSB arrangements.

The lovely SHARON PAIGE provided duet vocals on "You Know How To Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching For Love", but it was (Theodore) TEDDY PENDERGRASS who shone with lead vocals on all tracks - especially the huge title track "Wake Up Everybody" (which effectively launched Pendergrass as a solo star).

But for me one of the unheard gems on this album is Track 2 on Side 1, "Keep On Lovin' You" - as brill a Seventies soul tune as you can get (lyrics above). It's so good to hear it with such top sound quality.

Niggles - both "Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby" and "Wake Up Everybody" were released as 7" singles with rare edit versions which AREN'T included as bonus tracks here - and I would have preferred those than the rather tiresome extension of the overly familiar "Don't Leave Me This Way".

Other than that - this is a superb Philly album - and pitched at a marketplace price that's cheap even as an import - it's an absolute steal.

Recommended.

PS: other titles in the series are/will be...
1. Dance Your Troubles Away - ARCHIE BELL and THE DRELLS (1975) [due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0006]
2. Philadelphia Freedom - M.F.S.B. (1975) [due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0005]
3. When Love Is New - BILLY PAUL (1975) [April 2010, Edsel EDSM0003] - see REVIEW
4. Family Reunion...Plus - THE O'JAYS (1975) [April 2010, Edsel EDSM0001] - see REVIEW
5. The Three Degrees Live [aka Live In London] (1975) - THE THREE DEGREES (due Summer 2010, Edsel EDSM0004)
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