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Jimmy Hughes
The Best Of Jimmy Hughes
Genres: Country, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. HIGH HEEL SNEAKERS
2. I WANT JUSTICE
3. I WORSHIP THE GROUND YOU WALK ON
4. A SHOT OF RHYTHM & BLUES
5. STEAL AWAY
6. I'M THE LOVING PHYSICIAN
7. I'M QUALIFIED
8. NEIGHBOR, NEIGHBOR
9. STORMY MONDAY BLUES
10. WHY NOT TONIGHT
11. MIDNIGHT AFFAIR
12. IT AIN'T WHAT YOU GOT
13. TRY ME
14. EVERYBODY LET'S DANCE
15. DON'T LOSE YOUR GOOD THING
16. TOO MUCH
17. MY LOVING TIME

CD Details

All Artists: Jimmy Hughes
Title: The Best Of Jimmy Hughes
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fame Records Inc
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 10/28/2008
Genres: Country, Pop, R&B
Style: Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 899800001030, 899800001085

Synopsis

Album Description

"The Best of Jimmy Hughes" includes 18 of the Best Jimmy Hughes tracks recorded during his groundbreaking years at FAME. On the disc are 16 songs that have never before made available on CD. The disc also includes a two hour plus roundtable discussion recorded at world renowned FAME Studios with Hughes, the engineers, producers and musicians who helped record these classic records and create the Muscle Shoals Sound. Soul singer Jimmy Hughes was the first multi-hit artist to be associated with the "Muscle Shoals Sound". Hughes recorded a string of R&B hits in the 1960s at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, putting the small Alabama town on the world's musical map. A unique blend of R&B and rock and roll with a taste of country, Hughes' records helped lay the foundations of classic Southern Soul Music.

CD Reviews

Long time coming to CD

Zub | Forks Twp., PA | 12/23/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Though his recordings were among the earliest to come out of the legendary FAME recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Jimmy Hughes' music only now sees the light of day on legitimate domestic CD. Hughes had varying success on the charts in the mid-60's but is mostly remembered for his initial hit, "Steal Away", a recording with an impact greater than its at-the-time unimpressive showing in the lower reaches of the pop top-20.

This collection of 18 tracks includes the aforementioned "Steal Away" along with other b-sides, album cuts and his three other singles that made their way into the top-100 of the pop charts, if only briefly. Competently done with decent sound quality, albeit all mono, this piece includes an eight-page fold-out liner notes booklet and, as a "bonus" feature, an MP3 with a recording of a gathering of Hughes and other early Muscle Shoals personnel from 2008.

This new package is a welcome addition to the collector's 60's music library, and plugs a long-standing hole in the realm of digital music available from the era.

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WORSHIP THE GROUND

Lester L. Carter | PHILA , PA | 04/20/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"At last, it is here. Jimmy Hughes. WOW! This music got me through some rough times when I was going the pangs of early adulthood. Why Not Tonight, Neighbor Neighbor and of course, I Worship The Ground You Walk On. This man could do it. Everybody knows Steal Away. Though Johnnie Taylor might have gone a little further with it, I feel this is the definitive version. I think he changed labels to do, I Like Everything About You. But, that was easier to get. JIMMY HUGHES. WOW!"