Lossless Album - CD Box Set

Tracklist:

CD1
01. Ottis Redding - I've Been Lovin' You Too Long
02. Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
03. Aretha Franklin - Something He Can Feel
04. Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)
05. Chaka Khan - Through the Fire
06. Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy
07. Staple Singer - Let's Do It Again
08. Atlantic Starr - Always
09. Bobby Caldwel - What You Won't Do for Love
10. Anita Baker - Giving You the Best That I Got
11. Peabo Bryson - If Ever You're in My Arms Again
12. The Spinners - I'll Be Around
13. Blue Magic - Sideshow
14. Al B. Sure - Nite and Day
15. Major Harris - Love Won't Let Me Wait

Total Time: 01:03:08 min

CD2
01. Teddy Pendergrass - Close the Door
02. G. Washington Jr. & B. Withers - Just the Two of Us
03. Brook Benton - Rainy Night in Georgia
04. Anita Baker - Sweet Love
05. Larry Graham - One in a Million You
06. Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back to Me
07. The Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love and Hate
08. Barbara Lewis - Baby, I'm Yours
09. Luther Ingram - I Don't Want to be Right
10. The Moments - Love on a Two-Way Street
11. Sylvia - Pillow Talk
12. Linda Jones - Hypnotized
13. Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby, Come to Me
14. Bloodstone - Natural High
15. Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman

Total Time: 00:59:33 min

The classic balladeers of soul were the '60s originals who combined gospel fervor with secular sexuality to create the idiom-their remarkable voices adding the crowning touch. And there's little disagreement as to who among these pioneers held the titles of queen and king: Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding ruled. The 70s are generally perceived as the disco years, when soul music was put to rest. But classic soul styles adapting to disco. The Staple Singers, a popular gospel group through the '50s and '60s, went secular in 1970, applying moral (but not overtly religious) themes to Southern soul and funk. They enjoyed one of their biggest hits mid-decade with the theme song Let's Do It Again, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield for Sidney Poitier's film comedy. Luther Ingram hit in 1972 with (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right, a radically rearranged version of a song the Emotions recorded two years earlier, and one of the last great Stax hits. - John Morthland