VA - Can You Dig It The '70s Soul Experience (Box Set, 6CD) - 2001, MP3

TheCornor · 6 Październik 2016

Artist: VA

Title: Can You Dig It? The '70s Soul Experience (Box Set, 6CD)

Year Of Release: 2001

Label: Rhino Records

Genre: Soul/Funk, R&B

Quality: MP3 320 kbps

Total Time: 07:50:30

Total Size: 1.06 Gb

Like other super-ambitious genre overviews on Rhino, this six-CD box set is documenting a style so large and diverse that the track selection is not going to completely satisfy everybody, even with 136 songs. There are many good things to say about this release, though. To start with the positive, most of the major soul stars of the '70s are represented with at least one track, and sometimes with a couple cuts. In addition, there are lots of fine hits by dozens of artists who only had a few (or only one) big records, from the Winstons' "Color Him Father" and Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff" to Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose's "Too Late to Turn Back Now" and Sylvia's "Pillow Talk." Rather than be strict about the chronological boundaries of the project, there are a half-dozen 1969 singles in the '70s soul vein to lead off disc one, as well as a solitary cut from the early '80s (Rose Royce's "Golden Touch," which could have been left off without any tears shed). Room is made for some non-African-American soul by whites and Latinos, and plenty of big-but-not-huge hits. Sensibly, the first half of the '70s is heavily represented, all but one of the post-1975 cuts getting shunted onto disc six. On the other hand, there is no way to boil down, say, the output of Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & the Family Stone, and other superstars to just one or two representative songs, and some might quibble with the ones selected, though generally the compilers wisely played it safe by targeting big hits. In addition, some superstars are not present at all -- the Jackson 5, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder, for instance. There's nothing that might be considered rare, with nearly every one of the tracks having been a substantial hit single, even if some of those -- the Fuzz's "I Love You for All Seasons," the 8th Day's "She's Not Just Another Woman," and Brighter Side of Darkness' "Love Jones," for instance -- aren't exactly over-represented on compilations. The final disc might round out the chronology of the decade, but also is far inferior to the rest of the set, often illustrating soul's decline into pop slickness. But you know what? It's still a very good, intelligent overview of '70s soul, guaranteed to please someone who doesn't collect this stuff obsessively, but wants a lot of it around, sequenced in a manner that ensures variety and quality. The packaging is, as is always the case with major Rhino box sets, quite imaginative, with a 78-page information booklet and an outer cover that simulates a rack of eight-track tapes.

Disc 01

01 Friends Of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass

02 Winstons - Color Him Father

03 Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl

04 Glass House - Crumbs Off The Table

05 Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia

06 Sly and the Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star

07 Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

08 Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

09 Originals - The Bells

10 Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time

11 Moments - Love On A Two-Way Street

12 Freda Payne - Band Of Gold

13 5 Stairsteps - O-o-h Child

14 Flaming Ember - Westbound #9

15 Three Degrees - Maybe

16. Lost Generation - The Sly, Slick, And The Wicked

17. Edwin Starr - War

18. 100 Proof Aged In Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping

19. B.T. Express - Express

20. Jackie Moore - Precious, Precious

21. Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau--Part I

22. King Floyd - Groove Me

23. Fuzz - I Love You For All Seasons

24. Honey Cone - Want Ads

25. Paul Humphrey - Cool Aid

Disc 02

1. Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love--Pt. I

10. Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love & Hate

11. Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her

12. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

13. Staple Singers - Respect Yourself

14. Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair

15. Al Green - Let's Stay Together

17. Honey Cone - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show--Part I

18. Joe Simon - Drowning In The Sea Of Love

2. Friends Of Distinction - Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

20. Frederick Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long

21. Malo - Suavecito

22. Soul Children - Hearsay

3. Freda Payne - Deeper & Deeper

4. Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper

5. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff

6. Laura Lee - Women's Love Rights

7. Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

8. King Floyd - Baby Let Me Kiss You

9. Brenda - Right On the Tip Of My Tongue

Disc 03

01 Staple Singers - I'll Take You There

02 Dramatics - In The Rain

03 Stylistics - Betcha By Golly, Wow

04 Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

05 Bill Withers - Lean On Me

06 Joe Tex - I Gotcha

07 Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing

08 Spinners - I'll Be Around

09 Cornelius Brothers - Too Late To Turn Back Now

10 Luther Ingram - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right

11 Mel - Starting All Over Again

12 O'Jays - Back Stabbers

13 Tower Of Power - You're Still A Young Man

14 Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool

15 Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly')

16 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

17 Harold Melvin - If You Don't Know Me By Now

18 Brighter Side Of Darkness - Love Jones

19 Billy Paul - Me And Mrs. Jones

20 Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

Disc 04

01 Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love

03 O'Jays - Love Train

04 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

05 Four Tops - Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)

06 New York City - I'm Doin' Fine Now

07 Sylvia - Pillow Talk

08 Tower Of Power - So Very Hard To Go

10 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On

11 Isley Brothers - That Lady--Part I

12 Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin'--Part I

13 Millie Jackson - Hurts So Good

14 Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia

15 Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain

16 War - The World Is A Ghetto

17 El Chicano - Tell Her She's Lovely

18 Harold Melvin - The Love I Lost--Part I

19 Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper To Keep Her

20 Al Wilson - Show And Tell

22 William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got

23 Main Ingredient - Just Don't Want To Be Lonely

Disc 05

01 James Brown - The Payback--Part I

02 Kool and The Gang - Hollywood Swinging

04 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat

05 Impressions - Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man)

06 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

07 Rufus - Tell Me Something Good

08 Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can

09 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby

11 Tymes - You Little Trustmaker

12 Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You

13 Shirley Brown - Woman To Woman

14 Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love

15 Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

17 LaBelle - Lady Marmalade

18 Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm

20 Earth, Wind and Fire - Reasons

21 Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair

22 Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You

23 Major Harris - Love Won't Let Me Wait

Disc 06

1. Earth, Wind and Fire - Shining Star

10. Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

12. Emotions - Best Of My Love

14. Floaters - Float On

15. Heatwave - Always And Forever

16. L.T.D. - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again

17. Rick James - You And I

19. Peaches - Reunited

2. ExpressCharles Wright - Express Yourself

20. Smokey Robinson - Cruisin'

21. Rose Royce - Golden Touch

4. War - Why Can't We Be FriendsÂ?

5. Curtis Mayfield - So In Love

6. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

7. Tavares - It Only Takes A Minute

9. Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye

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