Soul Hits Of 80s (2002)

Product Summary Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records UPC: 00079897031022 Release Date: 2/17/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61009585 Item#: M6SKV4 Buy.com Sales Rank: 25654 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Juicy Fruit - Mtume ~ Various Artists 2. Sanctified Lady - Marvin Gaye ~ Various Artists 3. Baby Come To Me - Regina Belle ~ Various Artists 4. Stop To Love - Luther Vandross ~ Various Artists 5. Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams ~ Various Artists 6. Caravan Of Love ~ Various Artists 7. All Cried Out - Full Force/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam ~ Various Artists 8. Lovegirl - Teena Marie ~ Various Artists 9. Shining Star - The Manhattans ~ Various Artists 10. Fall In Love With Me - Earth, Wind & Fire ~ Various Artists 11. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott ~ Various Artists 12. Lovey Dovey - Tony Terry ~ Various Artists 13. Easy Lover - Philip Bailey/Phil Collins ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Encore - Cheryl Lynn ~ Various Artists 2. Ooo La La La - Teena Marie ~ Various Artists 3. Shower Me With Your Love - Surface ~ Various Artists 4. Lost In Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam ~ Various Artists 5. Magnetic - Earth, Wind & Fire ~ Various Artists 6. All In My Mind - Full Force ~ Various Artists 7. How 'Bout Us - Champaign ~ Various Artists 8. Heaven Sent You - Stanley Clarke ~ Various Artists 9. Here And Now - Stanley Clarke ~ Various Artists 10. You, Me And He - Mtume ~ Various Artists 11. Dancing In The Sheets - Shalamar ~ Various Artists 12. Thigh Ride - Tawatha Agee ~ Various Artists 13. All I Want Is Forever - Regina Belle/James "J.T." Taylor ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Rockit - Herbie Hancock ~ Various Artists 2. Summer Nights - Grover Washington Jr. ~ Various Artists 3. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby ~ Various Artists 4. Oh Yeah! - Bill Withers ~ Various Artists 5. Save The Overtime (For Me) - Gladys Knight & The Pips ~ Various Artists 6. Sweat (Till You Get Wet) - Brick ~ Various Artists 7. Hydraulic Pump - The P-Funk All-Stars ~ Various Artists 8. Love Attack - Isaac Hayes ~ Various Artists 9. It's Gonna Take A Miracle - Deniece Williams ~ Various Artists 10. Show Me The Way - Regina Belle ~ Various Artists 11. Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) - Billy Ocean ~ Various Artists 12. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp ~ Various Artists 13. I Know Your Hot Spot - Enchantment ~ Various Artists 14. It's No Crime - Babyface ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info A budget three-CD set, Soul Hits of the 80's collects some of that awkward decade's soul moments from the Columbia/Sony catalog. Note the author's use of "moments" and the title's use of "hits," because they are, in fact, talking about the same songs. Not everything here was a hit, with some of the songs just squeaking into the Billboard Top 100; however, regardless of chart position, they do represent the era very well. There's a broad range of work here, from jazz crossovers like Stanley Jordan with "Heaven Sent You" and Grover Washington with "Summer Nights" to straight pop crossovers like Deniece Williams with "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and the classic and true hit "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins. Other actual chart-toppers here include "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume, Herbie Hancock with the seismic hit "Rockit," and one-hit wonder Johnny Kemp with "Just Got Paid." Luther Vandross, Teena Marie, Bill Withers, Babyface, and Regina Belle are a few of the others whose tracks pepper this 40-song (!) collection. It's not definitive, but does a fine job of representing just how broad soul music's reach had become in the '80s. ~ Wade Kergan   Technical Info Release Date : 02/17/2004 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 70310 Label : Sony Music Distribution (USA) Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00079897031022