Saturday, May 23, 2020
VA Shaolin Soul Episodes 1+2+3+4 [2014-2018] + Plays Motown [2019] (5 x CD's)
SHAOLIN SOUL
VA Shaolin Soul Episodes 1+2+3+4 [2014-2018] + Plays Motown [2019] (5 x CD's)
The catchphrase of this compilation "Everybody's Talkin About The Good Ol 'Days". Soul lovers can go there with eyes closed. All the titles on this cake are pearls, no exceptions. Let’s start with Syl Johnson's “Could I Be Fallin' in Love”, violin, guitar, hearts, hammond, throbbing bass and an incredible voice a nugget. The "Ain't No Sunshine" version of Lyn Collins is superb. Bob James and his "Nautilus" takes you on an extraordinary magical 5-minute journey, this instrumental is haunting on the border of jazz and soul, impossible to come out unscathed as the atmosphere is heavy. The version of "The Way We Were" by Gladys Knight & the Pips which is simply at the top emotion level, the lyrics can be addressed to everyone and Gladys' voice speaks for itself. Every song gives you a comforting warm feeling. A snare, a drum, a sequence ... everything is known and new at the same time. You literally wait for the beat from great soul songs. (Amazon)
The purpose of the compiler was to collect the original tracks which had been sampled by the Wu Tang Clan. As it turned out this brilliant idea offers so much. This is an exceptional compilation series, one of the most beautiful that there is, quite simply.
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VA - Shaolin Soul Episode 1 [2014]
https://www14.zippyshare.com/v/olDE5Iph/file.html
VA - Shaolin Soul Episode 2 [2014]
https://www14.zippyshare.com/v/A5KUu6nY/file.html
VA - Shaolin Soul Episode 3 [2014]
https://www14.zippyshare.com/v/z4UCzQzD/file.html
VA - Shaolin Soul Episode 04 [2018]
https://www14.zippyshare.com/v/0PwnL5if/file.html
VA - Shaolin Soul Plays Motown [2019]
https://www3.zippyshare.com/v/BBtTUHmS/file.html
or
VA - Shaolin Soul ALL
https://pixeldrain.com/u/NQqaafdQ
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Track lists
Shaolin Soul Episode 1
01 Ann Peebles Trouble, Heartaches & Sadness 2:36
02 O.V. Wright Let's Straighten It Out 3:47
03 Charmels I'll Never Grow Old 2:38
04 David Porter The Masquerade Is Over 4:42
05 Willie Mitchell Groovin' 2:57
06 Al Green You Ought To Be With Me 3:15
07 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell You're All I Need To Get By 2:47
08 Emotions If You Think It... 3:01
09 Bob James Nautilus 5:00
10 Al Green Gotta Find A New World 2:22
11 Syl Johnson Don't Do It 2:42
12 Donny Hathaway Little Ghetto Boy (Live) 4:26
13 Syl Johnson Could I Be Falling In Love 3:06
14 Wendy Rene After Laughter (Comes Tears) 2:59
15 Lyn Collins Ain't No Sunshine 2:47
16 Syl Johnson Is It Because I'm Black? 7:23
17 Dramatics In The Rain 5:07
18 Gladys Knight & The Pips The Way We Were 4:34
19 O.V. Wright Motherless Child 2:31
20 Judy Clay & Booker T & The MG's Children Don't Get Weary 3:33
21 Barry White Mellow Mood (Part 1) 1:55
Shaolin Soul Episode 2
01 Syl Johnson I Hear The Love Chimes 2:40
02 Ann Peebles I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down 2:37
03 Baby Huey Hard Times 3:19
04 Emotions I Like It 2:27
05 Black Ivory I Keep Asking You Questions 3:08
06 Jackson 5 Maybe Tomorrow 4:44
07 Syl Johnson I Hate I Walked Away 3:22
08 Al Green Something 4:24
09 Eddie Holdman It's Over 4:17
10 Montana Warp Factor II 2:08
11 Detroit Emeralds You're Getting Too Smart 3:38
12 Labi Siffre I Got The... 6:30
13 Southside Movement I've Been Watching You 3:03
14 Sweet Inspirations Why Marry 6:27
15 Mad Lads Gone, The Promises Of Yesterday 3:41
16 George Jackson Aretha, Sing One For Me 2:55
17 Teddy Pendergrass Come Go With Me 5:47
18 Syl Johnson That's Just My Luck 3:10
19 Al Green Simply Beautiful 4:14
Shaolin Soul Episode 3
01 Jimmy Castor Bunch Creation (Epilogue) 1:04
02 Ann Peebles The Handwriting Is On The Wall 3:18
03 Dramatics Tune Up 4:27
04 Sidney Joe Qualls How Can You Say Goodbye 2:36
05 Jackie Moore If 3:29
06 Supremes It's Time To Break Down 5:13
07 Judy Clay It Ain't Long Enough 3:21
08 Barbara & The Browns In My Heart 2:49
09 Willie Mitchell Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 2:20
10 Joe Tex I'll Never Do You Wrong 3:05
11 Sweet Inspirations You Roam When You Don't Get It At Home 5:30
12 Bobby Bland Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City 3:46
13 B.B. King Chains And Things 4:54
14 Rufus Thomas The Breakdown (Part 2) 3:11
15 Freddie Waters Groovin' On My Baby's Love 2:44
16 David Porter Hang On Sloopy 4:00
17 Dionne Warwick You're Gonna Need Me 4:27
18 Ann Sexton I'm His Wife (You're Just A Friend) 2:54
19 Rimshots Takin' It 3:28
20 Persuasions Gypsy Woman 3:44
Shaolin Soul Episode 4
01 Esther Phillips That's All Right With Me 3:19
02 Al Green I Wish You Were Here 3:22
03 Eddie Kendricks Intimate Friends 5:56
04 Sylvia Sweet Stuff 4:25
05 Betty Wright Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do 2:07
06 Ambassadors Ain't Got the Love (Of One Girl on My Mind) 2:28
07 Dynamics Get Myself High 3:47
08 Carolyn Sullivan Dead ! 2:52
09 Brenton Wood Trouble 2:42
10 Floaters Float On 4:09
11 Faze-O Riding High 5:21
12 Ernie Hines Our Generation 3:10
13 Jerry Butler I'm Your Mechanical Man 5:05
14 J.J. Johnson (Vocals By Martha Reeves & the Sweet Things) Keep on Movin' 3:39
15 Monk Higgins & Alex Brown (Vocals By Barbara Mason) A Good Man is Gone 3:25
16 East St.Louis Gospelettes Have Mercy on Me 2:41
17 Jean Plum Here I Go Again 2:29
18 Staple Singers Let's Do it Again 4:53
19 Sylvers Only One Can Win 3:02
20 Della Humphrey Don't Make the Good Girls Go Bad 2:41
21 Freda Payne Get High (On Your Memory) 3:11
22 Carla Thomas What the World Needs Now 2:46
Shaolin Soul Plays Motown
01 Switch A Brighter Tomorrow (Interlude) 1:53
02 Dynamic Superiors If I Could Meet You 3:36
03 Eddie Kendricks My People...Hold On 5:38
04 Smokey Robinson Baby Come Close 4:57
05 Willie Hutch Sunshine Lady 3:56
06 Undisputed Truth Walk on By 3:49
07 Temptations Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love 3:52
08 Diana Ross Friend to Friend 3:19
09 Michael Masser My Hero is a Gun 3:16
10 Michael Jackson People Make the World Go 'round 3:14
11 Yvonne Fair It Should Have Been Me 3:33
12 Sisters Love Give Me Your Love 4:19
13 High Inergy You Can't Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On) 3:31
14 Syreeta I Love Every Little Thing About You 4:56
15 Marvin Gaye God is Love 1:41
16 Four Tops Still Water (Love) 3:06
17 Valerie Simpson Silly Wasn't I 2:12
18 Gladys Knight & the Pips And This is Love 3:22
19 Rose Banks Darling Baby 3:39
20 Marvelettes After All 3:21
21 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Who's Gonna Take the Blame 3:39
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Thank you for this Soul collection, Butter. I'm going to pass it along to a colleague's mother, who was impressed and delighted with an earlier Soul compilation you recently shared here. It looks like there's virtually no overlap between them... and I'd say the collection's got to be worth the full listen just for Gladys's live, sweet, touching take on "The Way We Were", which I've loved since first catching it in airplay in mid-1970s.
ReplyDeleteHi Agining Child,
DeleteGreat to share the love.
I still have the original albums (90's) but these were easier to upload. I listened through them all yesterday and I didn't hear a dud track, A simply wonderful collection. I hope you colleague's mother will find them enriching.
Enjoy your week end. I hope we all get back, to the way we were.
Cheers.
"Can it be that it was all so simple then?" Well, we'll all of us have "the chance to do it all again"... hopefully long before ANY kind of September!
DeleteMany thanks Butterboy for volume 5 which I did not have. Keep up your excellent hobby!
ReplyDeleteHi Little Bill.
DeleteGlad to fill the gaps where possible.
Cheers.
Non-stop bangers, my dude. Like Little Bill, I'd never heard Vol. 5, so I'm stoked to hear it. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteHi Ape Mummy.
DeleteEnjoy the new sounds.
Cheers.
thank you KING i love soul Aussie
ReplyDeleteMe too, Aussie.
DeleteEnjoy this set of compilations.
Cheers.
My 'BeeWees' and me....exult with Joy. Thanks BB.
ReplyDeleteAhhh... the joy!
DeleteCheers.
THanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome JTF.
DeleteCheers
Good stuff BB - thanks :)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you so much for the opportunity of this music.
ReplyDeleteI used the pixeldrain link to DL all.
It included Shaolin Soul Episode o4 (Original) in addition to the sets Episode 04.
Its all in the same vein but I just cannot correlate it to any known album.
What is it actually?
Thanks
Good question (lol) - look here for how & why things are so mixed up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Tang_Clan
DeleteI've stuff entitled "The RZA Presents Shaolin Soul"
This original is I believe from 2007
Shaolin Soul Episode 4 (Original)
01. Gap Mangione - Free Again
02. Les McCann - Benjamin
03. Tommy Youngblood - Tobacco Road
04. Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie
05. Camille Yardbrough - Take Yo' Praise
06. O.V. Wright - A Fool Can't See The Light
07. Jerry Butler - Mechanical Man
08. Betty Lavette - Let Me Down Easy
09. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Giving Up
10. Al Green - Light My Fire
11. Curtis Mayfield - Underground (Demo)
12. B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
13. Chic - Le Freak
14. Love Unlimited - Midnight Groove
15. The Whatnauts - A Message From A Black Man
16. Johnnie Taylor - Steal Away
17. Donny Hathaway - I Believe To My Soul
18. Tom Scott - Today
19. Gladys Knight & The Pips - And This Is Love
20. Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
21. The Mohawks - The Champ
22. Ben E. King - I Who Have Nothing
The original Episodes 1 & 2 from I believe 2005 follow the same tracklist as the reissues.
But Episode 3 (original) from I believe 2007 is like Episode 4 (original), a completely different set of tracks.
So basically, a bunch of Hip-Hop samplers from New York who became famous, produced a number of albums together and as solo producers/artists, with various albums out on vinyl originally, which were re-released in the mid 2010's, but since the originals (mid-2k's) may not have been very good quality, they changed the tracks just to people wouldn't know what's going on (ROFL).
I hope that's helped answer your question and left you even more confused :)
Hi zamnocob,
DeleteI had Episode 4 since 2018.
Here is discogs information.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Shaolin-Soul-Episode-4/release/12580132
Cheers.
Thanks BB & puw I understand better now. Sort of. The episode 4 (original) track listing above is what was with the pixeldrain DL for all CD's, including the later episode 4.
DeleteHi Butterboy, many thanks for the Shaolin Soul episodes. I have most of the tracks but it's great to have them in these fantastic collections. Thanks for providing the alternative download code as we can't use zippy here in the UK. Thanks again and have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteHi Lee Viathan,
DeleteThis post has been ticking over almost daily, Its that good a set of albums.
Enjoy you weekend reacquainting with these tracks.
Cheers.
Thanks for these albums butterboy.Can you get Iron Fists Chronicles Episode 1: Deep Soul ?
ReplyDeleteHi aiken,
DeleteSorry don't have Iron Fists Chronicles Episode 1: Deep Soul.
Cheers.
If you can email me BB, I may have ......
DeleteHi puw,
DeleteI cannot find your email address. Please contact me at butter2020ap@protonmail.com
Thanks