Sweet Soul Music: 25 Scorching Classics From 1972
This CD is one of the final five volumes in the eagerly anticipated finale to Bear Family’s Sweet Soul Music series, which followed their award-winning Blowin’ The Fuse R&B series. Taken together, these classic series tell the story of R&B-Soul-Funk from 1945-1975, year-by-year, song-by-song. These are the records that made a difference. A HUGE difference!This is the sound that still influences today’s R&B and Soul and Rap, plus musicians like Amy Winehouse and Janelle Monae and revivalists like
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Soul Music
The Diskworld series continues in the story of the adventures of Death’s granddaughter, who enjoys her inherited family job until she falls in love, and Imp the Bard, who finds bad luck in a dream come true. Reprint.
Title: Soul Music
Author: Pratchett, Terry
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1995/10/01
Number of Pages: 373
Binding Type: PAPERBACK
Library of Congress: bl2011000263
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“…If You’ve Been There Once…You Can Go Back Again…” – Sweet Soul Music 1972,
I reviewed the preceding 10 volumes in this incredible series from 1961 to 1970 (probably the best Bear has ever done) and loved them to distraction. Jurgen Crasser was the remaster engineer for those. This time around (1971 to 1975) the sound hero on all five volumes bears the unlikely moniker of WOLFGANG MANNS. And I swear I may have to get “Wolfgang Is My Main Mann” tattooed on my frumpy Irish buttocks – because these expertly crafted CD compilations are sonically sensational in every way. They’re going to blow the minds of Seventies Soul fans everywhere. Here’s the necessary for “1972”…
Released 14 February 2014 on Bear Family BCD 16882 AS (Barcode 5397102168826) – the CD compilation “Sweet Soul Music – 25 Scorching Classics From 1972” breaks down as follows (87:14 minutes):
1. I Gotcha – JOE TEX (Dial D-1010)
2. Hearsay – THE SOUL CHILDREN (Stax STA-0119)
3. Betcha By Golly, Wow – THE STYLISTICS (Avco AV-4591)
4. Gimme Some More – THE JB’s (People PE 602)
5. Now Run And Tell That – DENISE LaSALLE (Westbound W 201)
6. In The Rain (7″ Single Edit) – THE DRAMATICS (Volt VOA-4075)
7. Woman’s Gotta Have It – (The Preacher) BOBBY WOMACK (United Artists 50902)
8. I’ll Take You There (Single Edit, 3:16 minutes) – THE STAPLES SINGERS (Stax STA-0125)
9. Rip Off – LAURA LEE (Hot Wax HS 7204)
10. Outa-Space – BILLY PRESTON (A&M 1320)
11. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right – LUTHER INGRAM (Koko KOA-2111)
12. Everybody Plays The Fool – THE MAIN INGREDIENT (RCA Victor 74-0731)
13. Too Late To Turn Back Now – CORNELIUS BROTHERS & SISTER ROSE (United Artists 50910)
14. Oh Girl – THE CHI-LITES (Brunswick B 55471)
15. Back Stabbers – THE O’JAYS (Philadelphia International ZS7 3517)
16. Think (About It) – LYN COLLINS (The Female Preacher) (People PE 608)
17. Power Of Love – JOE SIMON (Spring SPR 128)
18. Starting All Over Again – MEL & TIM (Stax STA-0127)
19. I’m Still In Love With You – AL GREEN (Hi 45-2216)
20. Baby Sitter – BETTY WRIGHT (Alston A-4614)
21. If You Don’t Know Me By Now – HAROLD MELVIN and THE BLUE NOTES (Philadelphia International ZS7 3520)
22. Get On The Good Foot – Part 1 – JAMES BROWN (Polydor PD 14139)
23. Me And Mrs. Jones (Single Edit) – BILLY PAUL (Philadelphia International ZS7 3521)
24. Trying To Live My Life Without You – OTIS CLAY (Hi 45-2226)
25. Use Me – BILL WITHERS (Sussex SUX 241)
The three-way fold-out card digipak of the preceding 10 volumes has been kept as has the live-on-stage Jackie Wilson photo on the spine that is now extended (when you line all 15 spines they make one photograph). This “1972” set features THE CHI-LITES on the front cover while the stock 7” of “Hearsay” by THE SOUL CHILDREN graces the inside flap with a further photo of a smiling DENISE LaSALLE on the phone on the center lip. The detachable booklet is properly beautiful – a 76 oversized-pages wad of deep liner notes by world-renowned R&B and Soul expert BILL DALH and Discography info by DAVE “Daddy Cool” BOOTH. There’s black & white/colour publicity pictures of the artists, the single labels/album covers and adverts from the US press. Quality all the way…
As you can see from the catalogue numbers provided above all tracks are US 7” singles and like “1971” it opens with a cleverly chosen double-whammy of crystal clear sound quality – Joe Tex and The Soul Children – brass and vocals sounding fabulous. Prince may love The Stylistics and it’s sound quality here is extraordinary but I find the track syrupy even now. Things pick up considerably with another two funky nuggets – The JB’s “Gimme Some More” and a total winner from Denise LaSalle “Now Run And Tell That” (lyrics from it title this review). Sonic wows follow with the brilliantly funky Billy Preston instrumental “Outa-Site” and the raindrops/echoed guitar of The Dramatics “In The Rain”. But I’m properly blown away by the sound quality on 7” edit of “I’ll Take You There” by The Staple Singers – just fantastic and one of all time fave raves. Even perennials as common as “Oh Girl”, “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, “Me And Mrs. Jones” and “Back Stabbers” sound utterly brilliant – while “Use Me”, “Think (About It)” and “Get On The Good Foot” are lifted to a plain of Funky Nirvana.
But if you want real convincing on the sound quality front – you’re hit with an irresistible threesome come the middle of the compilation – the torch-song Luther Ingram builder “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right”, Main Ingredient’s chipper…
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|How do you define Soul?,
Superb sound , quality liner notes and a track selection that will put a smile on your face and cause your shoes to dance.
These do cost a bit more than other compilations but I feel they are worth it.
This is Soul at its very best.
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|I Know, It’s Only Rock N Roll,
Soul Music has three narrative threads: Death takes a holiday (which Pratchett fans will remember from _Mort_), Mort’s orphan daughter, Susan Sto Helit, and her attempts to cope with the family legacy, and the discovery of rock and roll on the disc. The three stories intertwine and the result, for me, ranged from snickers to guffaws.
The big news is that rock and roll comes to the disk, through the agency of a pawnshop guitar and a skilled harpist, whose name translates as “Bud of Holly” and who looks kind of Elvis[h]. With a dwarvish horn player named Glod and a trollish drummer named Cliff, the band Music with Rocks In takes the Discworld by storm. The Librarian, the monk… orangutan who runs the Wizard’s library, sits in on keyboards, and exceeds even the excesses of Jerry Lee Lewis. You cannot imagine a rock music issue that Pterry doesn’t reach. Women fans pitch articles of clothing; espresso shops appear; rock promoters – C.M.O.T. Dibbler, of course – arrive; even the sedate wizards wear leather, do their best James Dean and show they, too, are “Born to Rune.”
Parts of the book are a pastiche of “Blues Brothers” (“We’re on a mission from Glod”), “Spinal Tap,” and “Woodstock.” Other parts are simply Pratchett’s own mad invention. And this book also features Pterry’s best pun – “some felonious monk;” possibly the best pun in literature since Niven’s and Gerrold’s _The Flying Sorcerors_. You can spend a lot of time just working out the puns. And let me note that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” gets the treatment it righteously deserves.
But while Buddy and his band tour with their roadie Asphalt and inescapably head towards Dead Man’s Curve, and while Death does his best to learn how to forget with the help of the Klatchian Foreign Legion and alcohol, Susan makes increasingly frantic efforts to keep what passes for reality on the Discworld from coming completely unstuck. With the help of the Death of Rats, Albert and other favorites, the Disc is saved, but not without some uncommon poignancy.
There are scholarly articles on whether Pratchett writes parody or satire. However labelled, this was the high water mark for his experiments with the pure form. Anglo-American literature has never had as brilliant a satirist/parodist as Terry Pratchett. He may have written better Discworld books, but I’m not sure he has written a funnier book. Especially if you know and like rock music.
“Bee There Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng”
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|Death has job trouble, doesn’t he?,
That’s an in-joke about how NOBODY in the Klatchian Foreign Legion can remember anything.
…so, his granddaughter Susan inherits the job accidentally.
Meanwhile, the young bard Imp y Celyn starts to make it big when he finds a magical guitar and music takes over his soul. He changes his name to Buddy…
…and, in positively classic Pratchett style, the two plotlines come together in a rush of magic, energy, and Music With Rocks In!
I very highly recommend this book to anyone with… well, anyone with a willpower rating of above 10, which is what you need to move.
As Death would likely say, DON’T FORGET. I CAN’T ANYWAY, SO IT’S NOT A PROBLEM. BUT YOU HUMANS…
And you don’t want to miss the Death of Rats who goes around saying SQUEAK.
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|“We’re on a mission from Glod”,
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