Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits (2002)

Product Summary Label: Rhin/mesa/bluemoon Records UPC: 00081227830021 Release Date: 2/19/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60514144 Item#: MQXM5Y Buy.com Sales Rank: 25140 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. What'd I Say Parts 1 & 2 - Ray Charles ~ Various Artists 2. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong ~ Various Artists 3. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes ~ Various Artists 4. I Count The Tears - The Drifters/Ben E. King ~ Various Artists 5. Last Night - The Mar-Keys ~ Various Artists 6. Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers ~ Various Artists 7. Stand By Me - Ben E. King ~ Various Artists 8. Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) - Chuck Jackson ~ Various Artists 9. It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner ~ Various Artists 10. You'll Lose A Good Thing - Barbara Lynn ~ Various Artists 11. Do You Love Me - The Contours ~ Various Artists 12. Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's ~ Various Artists 13. You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles ~ Various Artists 14. Hello Stranger - Barbra Lewis ~ Various Artists 15. Just One Look - Doris Troy ~ Various Artists 16. Monkey Time, The - Major Lance ~ Various Artists 17. Heat Wave, (Love Is Like A) - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ~ Various Artists 18. Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters ~ Various Artists 19. It's All Right - The Impressions ~ Various Artists 20. Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas ~ Various Artists 21. My Guy - Mary Wells ~ Various Artists 22. My Girl - The Temptations ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes ~ Various Artists 2. Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars ~ Various Artists 3. "In" Crowd, The - Dobie Gray ~ Various Artists 4. Hurt So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials ~ Various Artists 5. Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke ~ Various Artists 6. Yes, I'm Ready - Barbara Mason ~ Various Artists 7. Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart ~ Various Artists 8. I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops ~ Various Artists 9. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett ~ Various Artists 10. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass ~ Various Artists 11. I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown ~ Various Artists 12. See Saw - Don Covay & The Goodtimers ~ Various Artists 13. Cool Jerk - The Capitols ~ Various Artists 14. Barefootin' - Robert Parker ~ Various Artists 15. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge ~ Various Artists 16. Sunny - Bobby Hebb ~ Various Artists 17. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas ~ Various Artists 18. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd ~ Various Artists 19. But It's Alright - J.J. Jackson ~ Various Artists 20. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing - Lou Rawls ~ Various Artists 21. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville ~ Various Artists 22. Dark End Of The Street, The - James Carr ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley ~ Various Artists 2. Respect - Aretha Franklin ~ Various Artists 3. Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas ~ Various Artists 4. Show Me - Joe Tex ~ Various Artists 5. Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays ~ Various Artists 6. Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood ~ Various Artists 7. I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify ~ Various Artists 8. Higher And Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) - Jackie Wilson ~ Various Artists 9. Soul Man - Sam & Dave ~ Various Artists 10. Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis ~ Various Artists 11. Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells ~ Various Artists 12. Expressway To Your Heart - The Soul Survivors ~ Various Artists 13. Boogaloo Down Broadway - The Fantastic Johnny C. ~ Various Artists 14. Dock Of The Bay, (Sittin' On) The - Otis Redding ~ Various Artists 15. La-La Means I Love You - The Delfonics ~ Various Artists 16. Cowboys To Girls - The Intruders ~ Various Artists 17. Slip Away - Clarence Carter ~ Various Artists 18. You're All I Need To Get By - Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell ~ Various Artists 19. Love Makes A Woman - Barbara Acklin ~ Various Artists 20. Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor ~ Various Artists 21. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye ~ Various Artists 22. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimited ~ Various Artists 23. Rainy Night In Georgia - Brook Benton ~ Various Artists 24. We Got More Soul - Dyke & The Blazers ~ Various Artists Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 ~ Various Artists 2. Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Tyrone Davis ~ Various Artists 3. Backfield In Motion - Mel & Tim ~ Various Artists 4. Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen Of The Board ~ Various Artists 5. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne ~ Various Artists 6. O-O-H Child - The Five Stairsteps ~ Various Artists 7. Want Ads - The Honey Cone ~ Various Artists 8. Groove Me - King Floyd ~ Various Artists 9. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers ~ Various Artists 10. Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose ~ Various Artists 11. In The Rain - The Dramatics ~ Various Artists 12. Let's Stay Together - Al Green ~ Various Artists 13. Betcha By Golly, Wow - The Stylistics ~ Various Artists 14. Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites ~ Various Artists 15. Back Stabbers - The O'Jays ~ Various Artists 16. One Of A Kind (Love Affair) - The Spinners ~ Various Artists 17. If You Don't Know Me by Now - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes ~ Various Artists 18. Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul ~ Various Artists 19. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips ~ Various Artists 20. Lookin' For A Love - Bobby Womack ~ Various Artists 21. Sideshow - Blue Magic ~ Various Artists 22. Kiss And Say Goodbye - The Manhattans ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation producers: Richard Foos, Garson Foos, Patrick Milligan, T.J. Lubinsky. Recorded between 1959 & 1976. Includes liner notes by Rob Bowman. Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot (DigiPrep). Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: Leigh Hall. Unknown Contributor Roles: Sheryl Farber; John Austin. If you've been collecting records for any length of time -- from two months to two decades -- chances are you already own a good chunk of the 88 songs on Rhino's 2002 four-disc box set, Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time. If you're just assembling your collection, you may only have a handful of the songs here, so this cornucopia of classic singles, ranging from Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" to the Manhattans' "Kiss and Say Goodbye," may be a good foundation for your soul collection, since most songs here are stone-cold classics (although it must be said that it loses steam toward the end of the set, as it gives way to second-tier songs and artists). That said, if you have a record collection that's fairly large (at least 100 CDs) and an interest in soul, you WILL have almost everything you're interested in; if not, you know them well enough and you might not need them in your collection. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the entire collection is so predictable it's hard not to wonder what the point of this collection is. After all, this collection is so predictable that even the great songs seem sorta blah, because this plays as the most predictable oldies station ever. Again, if you're just looking for these hits, it's not a bad choice -- these are good, clean masters and great songs -- but otherwise there's not much use to this collection for seasoned collectors, since the liner notes aren't particularly detailed and you know pretty much every song by heart. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine   Technical Info Release Date : 02/19/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 78300 Label : Rhino Records (USA) Number of Discs : 4 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mixed SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227830021