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Deep, Deep Soul

Glenn Nippert | Alpharetta, Georgia United States | 07/12/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album features great but obscure R&B artists from the late sixties and early seventies mostly culled from the Scepter, Wand and Dynamo labels. Excellent vocal groups like The Masqueraders(the five cats in the cover photo), who have two great cuts on here,"Let's Face Facts" and "Sweet Lovin' Woman". Charlie Whitehead, who was a talented singer and protege of Jerry "Swamp

Dogg" Williams is also spotlighted twice with the super catchy "How Can I Forget" and "The Story of Mr. Pitiful", which is a sequel song of sorts to Otis Redding's classic and features some of the original's melody and lyrics as well and was produced by Swamp Dogg with Gary U.S Bonds. R&B veteran Lloyd Price has a great version of the country soul tune "Mr. and Mrs. Untrue", with a big, dramatic horn section. Sam Cooke's little known brother LC Cooke is here with a very strong "Let's Do It Over". " It Hurt's So Good", later a big hit for Millie Jackson is done here by Katie Love and The Four Shades Of Black in an earlier, equally good version. If you like Deep Soul style music, this album needs to be in your CD collection."

Essential compilation

Glenn Nippert | 03/30/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of the best compilations to come out in the last few years. track number 25 "falling in love again" by Johnny Moore ended up being played over and over again on my stereo. Great duet singing hauntingly beautiful in the same way as listening to the Everly Brothers harmonize. It's great to have alot of these hard (or even impossible) to find singles on CD. Many of these tracks are not overly reliant on hooks, so they definitely need continued listening to realize just how incredible most of these songs are. But well worth the effort."