Track Listings (22) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time Members Wishing: 7 Total Copies: 0 Label: Rhino / Wea Original Release Date: 1/1/1959 Re-Release Date: 2/19/2002 Album Type: Box set Genres: Dance & Electronic, Country, Pop, R&B, Rock Styles: Disco, Oldies, By Decade, 1970s, Funk, Motown, Soul Number of Discs: 4 SwapaCD Credits: 4 Other Editions: Soul Spectacular: The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time UPC: 081227830021 |
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Subtitled - The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time featuring 90 classic soul hits on 4 CD's (cross-licensed from many labels). Over half of them number 1's. Artists include Ray Charles, Marvelettes, Dobie Gray, Solomon Burke... more » |
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Album Description Subtitled - The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time featuring 90 classic soul hits on 4 CD's (cross-licensed from many labels). Over half of them number 1's. Artists include Ray Charles, Marvelettes, Dobie Gray, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Bar-Kays, Four Tops, Martha & the Vandellas, The Impressions & more. Rhino Records. Four standard jewel cases housed in a box (12 x 6 x 1 1/4). 2002. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsAn Indispensable Soul Music Collection Steve Vrana | Aurora, NE | 03/06/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Let's admit up front that no soul music box set is going to be definitive, but Rhino comes awfully close with this 4-CD, 90-song set (amazon.com left off Dyke and the Blazers 1969 hit "We Got More Soul" as the last song on disc-3). Beginning with Ray Charles' 1959 classic "What'd I Say" through 1976's chart-topping "Kiss and Say Goodbye" by the Manhattans, this is a thoroughly enjoyable collection of some of the best soul music in pop history. As the amazon.com reviewer noted, these were not merely R&B hits, but huge pop hits as well. A whopping 67 of these songs went top ten on the pop charts, and 17 went all the way to No. 1. The only two tracks that didn't crack the Top 40 were Don Covay's "Seesaw" (No. 44) from 1965 and James Carr's classic cheating song "The Dark End of the Street" (No. 77) from 1967.While this box set cherry picks through the vaults of Motown, Atlantic and Stax-Volt for many of these tracks, what makes this collection so spectacular is that Rhino also has access to smaller labels like Sue, Wand, Charger, Karen, Nola and Crimson. So even if you own Motown's Hitsville USA box, you will not find much repetition here. What this means is that you not only get the superstars like The Supremes, The Temptations, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin (although Stevie Wonder is conspicuous by his absence), you also get get lesser known artists like Chuck Jackson, Billy Stewart and Arthur Conley, along with one-hit wonders like Doris Troy, J.J. Jackson and Barbara Acklin.For those of you who remember the Soul Shots and the Didn't It Blow Your Mind series that Rhino did in the Eighties, this is an excellent distillation of those. [At one time, both series had nearly 20 volumes each. I have about thirty of them on cassette, but Rhino has let almost the entire series go out of print.] If you love Sixties pop music in general or soul music in particular, this is a must-own set. ESSENTIAL" Brilliant, Cooke or no Cooke QTeacher | Oakland, CA USA | 05/17/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Often when a particular artist is not included in a collection it is because rights were not available for use of his/her recordings. That aside, this box set could not have a more accurate title -- it is spectacular in every sense. The PBS tie-in concert is a fund-raising staple for good reason -- 40 years of brilliant music performed by some of the greatest entertainers of the century. See it, hear it, buy it, love it!" Excellent. Cannot be overpraised Eric V. Moye | New York, by way of Dallas | 04/09/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Rhino has done it again! A phenom of a compilation. I guess any of us reviewers could rave about this song, or that song, lauding Barrett Strong's "Money" or Clarence Carter's "Slip Away". But if you can read this, you can read the playlist. read it and weep - for joy.This was the music a lot of us grew up on. Many of these songs are rather hard to find elsewhere, and for that, Rhino ought to be congratulated.Happily, Rhino has gone to the vaults, and brought out the originals, because as Dobie Gray croons in "The In Crowd": other guys immitate us, but the original is STILL the greatest!Worth every penny of the cost. The greatest, indeed, is found in this compilation."
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