All Strung Out over You - The Chambers Brothers, Clark, R.
People Get Ready - The Chambers Brothers, Mayfield, C.
I Can't Stand It - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, L.
Romeo and Juliet - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, L.
In the Midnight Hour - The Chambers Brothers, Cropper, S.
So Tired - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers Brothers
Uptown - The Chambers Brothers, Mabry, B.
Please Don't Leave Me - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, G.
What the World Needs Now Is Love - The Chambers Brothers, Bacharach, Burt
Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, Joseph
Dinah - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, George [C
Falling in Love - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, W.
Love Me Like the Rain - The Chambers Brothers, Keenan, B.
Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers, Chambers, Joseph
2003 reissue of 1967 album packaged in a digipak. 14 tracks including four bonus tracks, 'Dinah', 'Falling In Love', 'Love Me Like The Rain', & 'Time Has Come Today' (Single Version One). Columbia.
2003 reissue of 1967 album packaged in a digipak. 14 tracks including four bonus tracks, 'Dinah', 'Falling In Love', 'Love Me Like The Rain', & 'Time Has Come Today' (Single Version One). Columbia.
"I bought the CD specifically for the track "Time Has Come Today." Several of the songs sound like a time capsule, transporting you straight to the 60's. I've never considered myself a huge fan of gospel-inspired blues, but there's enough rock infused to make this collection really enjoyable - and paradoxically their blues and soul stand up to any that get airtime today. Made me dance. And there's cowbell.
Back to the reason for purchase: you get 2 versions if "Time." The liner notes call the bonus track a "less spooky" version of the 11-minute trip. I thought, "Wimp!" until I heard the whole thing. Somehow I didn't remember the section with the Vincent Price-like laugh amidst echoey Tower of London screams - that part is a little spooky I admit. And neither of the two versions seems quite like exactly the recording that was imprinted on my young brain so long ago...might just be me. All in all, this is an album I'm happy to have in my collection and will invite to come out and play again."
Ahead of its time
Isaac Lee II | Chapel Hill, NC USA | 05/31/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this cd because someone I knew said that my guitar playing was like the Chambers Brothers. I didn't know who they were until I heard the song Time Has Come and then the pieces fell into place. I loved every song on the album and felt that they were ahead of their time. Makes me wonder why other groups didn't take their lead on music. But anyway, this is a great album and you should get this album."
Great
Dennis D. Hanger | dallas texas. | 01/27/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This brought back great memories and i'm sure glad its still out . A must for your collection"
Relive this Soulful Classic: ****1/2
B. Niedt | Cherry Hill, NJ United States | 08/05/2010
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I never listened to this album all the way through until I spotted it in a used record store recently. I've always been a fan of "Time Has Come Today", one of the first really long tracks to get heavy airplay on the burgeoning FM-rock stations of the late 60's, and this band's version of "In the Midnight Hour" just about out-performs Wilson Pickett's. But listening to the whole package really gives you a feel for how soulful and vocally accomplished this group really was. A five-man ensemble consisting of four brothers (you'll be able to pick out the one who's not), they cut their teeth on gospel and never lost that heritage. Just listen to their version of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" (again, a version that almost outdoes the original) and you'll agree. The rest of the album consists mostly original songs by the brothers, except for "Uptown" and Bachrach/David's "What the World Needs Now is Love". Because of the timelessness of gospel music, this 1967 album is not nearly as dated as you might think, though the title track is, of course, definitely a product of the times, with hippy-trippy engineering (has anyone ever used so much echo and cowbell in a song?) that's still kind of fun to hear. (Accept no substitute for the original - any "greatest hits" package of this band that contains the inferior radio-single of the song is grossly mislabeled.) The 2000 Sony Records release also contains four bonus songs including an early version of the title track and a radio promo for the album. If you remember these guys, visit this album again and remind yourself how great they were. If you don't, give it a listen - to paraphrase the brothers, maybe your soul will get psychdelicized."