Wednesday, August 12, 2020

VA - Birth Of Soul Vol. 01 - Vol. 04 [1996-2007] (4 x CD's)

  BIRTH OF SOUL

VA - Birth Of Soul Vol. 01 - Vol. 04 [1996-2007] (4 x CD's)

This fantastic 'Birth Of Soul' series from 'Kent/Ace' records combines the unheard and astounding with the familiar yet evocative. There are so many top songs on these CD's it's hard to pick out favorites.  An alluring assortment of late 50's and early 60's black music that heralded the 60's soul explosion of this very successful series, collates many tracks that fall between other musical niches. Change and innovation are often tricky subjects to take in one's stride, and nowhere was this more apparent than in the hyper-activity of musical creativity unleashed in the black American music circles of the early 60's. The move from R&B into the richer pastures of soul took time, effort and sometimes courage in the face of critics who saw it as 'selling out'. Outstanding. (Amazon)

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Track lists

Vol. 01

01    Ernestine Anderson    You’re Not the Guy for Me    2:18
02    Theola Kilgore    The Sound of My Man    2:35
03    Tams    Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me    2:25
04    Bobby “blue” Bland    Ain’t Nothing You Can Do    2:41
05    Otis Redding    Pain in My Heart    2:24
06    Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters    Cry Baby    3:26
07    Jimmy Holiday    How Can I Forget    2:38
08    Gloria Lynne    You Don’t Have to Be a Tower of Strength    2:15
09    Jerry Butler    He Will Break Your Heart    2:49
10    Ann Cole    Have Fun    2:55
11    Bertha Tillman    Oh My Angel    2:22
12    Etta James    Something’s Got a Hold on Me    2:50
13    Derek Martin    Daddy Rollin’ Stone    2:27
14    Inez & Charlie Foxx    Mockingbird    2:40
15    Joe Henderson    Snap Your Fingers    2:58
16    Sam Cooke    I’ll Come Running Back to You    2:15
17    Marv Johnson    Merry Go Round    2:38
18    Little Anthony & the Imperials    Goin’ Out of My Head    2:29
19    Freddie Scott    Hey Girl    3:11
20    Barbara Lynn    You’ll Lose a Good Thing    2:50
21    Little Johnny Taylor    Part Time Love    3:50
22    Jimmy Hughes    I’m Qualified    3:03
23    William Bell    Any Other Way    2:17
24    J.J. Barnes    She Ain’t Ready    2:38
25    Marvelows    I Do    2:29
26    Claudine Clark    The Telephone Game    2:50
27    Jan Bradley    Mama Didn’t Lie    2:06
28    Impressions    Gypsy Woman    2:20

Vol. 02

01    Caravans    Walk Around Heaven All Day    3:47
02    Invincibles    Heart Full of Love    2:06
03    Gene Chandler    Man's Temptation    2:45
04    Diplomats    Here's a Heart    2:35
05    Drifters    There Goes My Baby    2:13
06    Serenaders    Two Lovers Make One Fool    2:45
07    Cookies    I Never Dreamed    2:36
08    Marie Knight    Come Tomorrow    2:28
09    Brenda Holloway    I'll Give My Life    2:31
10    Jay Wiggins    Sad Girl    2:19
11    Freeman Brothers    I'm Counting on You    2:54
12    Falcons    I Found a Love    2:58
13    Ray Charles    What'd I Say    5:06
14    Showmen    The Wrong Girl    2:17
15    Benny Spellman    Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)    2:26
16    Solomon Burke    Down in the Valley    2:26
17    Willie Tee    Always Accused    2:32
18    Manhattans    Call Somebody Please    2:36
19    Wallace Brothers    Lover's Prayer    2:42
20    Theola Kilgore    This is My Prayer    2:58
21    Eddie & Ernie    Time Waits for No-One    2:22
22    Betty Harris    Cry to Me    3:17
23    Vernell Hill    Long Haired Daddy    3:26
24    Birdlegs & Pauline & Their Versatility Birds    Spring    2:51
25    Kenneth Gamble    Standing in the Shadows    2:23
26    Major Lance    Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um    2:21
27    Johnny Nash    It's No Good for Me    2:42
28    Maxine Brown    All in My Mind    2:31

Vol. 03

01    Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters    A Quiet Place    2:23
02    Enchanters    I Wanna Thank You    2:54
03    Miracles    If Your Mother Only Knew    2:41
04    Jimmy Ruffin    Don't Feel Sorry for Me    2:24
05    Blenders    Big Lover    2:31
06    Falcons    The Teacher    2:50
07    Richard Berry & the Pharaohs    Have Love Will Travel    2:56
08    Ann Cole    Don't Stop the Wedding    2:11
09    Bobby Marchan    There's Something on Your Mind, Part 2    2:51
10    Brothers    People in Love    2:37
11    Diplomats    Help Me    2:32
12    James Ray    If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody    1:58
13    Tams    Untie Me    2:28
14    Dc Playboys    You Were All I Needed    2:17
15    Carolyn Crawford    When Someone's Good to You    2:30
16    Pat Lundy    Play it Again    2:21
17    Wanderers    You Can't Run Away From Me    2:36
18    Chuck Wright    The Palm of Your Hand    2:02
19    Bill Watkins    Just for You (Stone Fox)    2:50
20    Ike & Tina Turner    It's Gonna Work Out Fine    3:03
21    Chuck Jackson    I Will Never Turn My Back on You    2:53
22    Brooks O’dell    Watch Your Step    2:33
23    Superbs    Baby Baby All the Time    2:36
24    Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford    I Need Your Loving    5:45
25    Prince La La    She Put the Hurt on Me    2:22
26    Impressions    Shorty's Got to Go    2:33
27    Sunny & the Sunliners    Talk to Me    2:45
28    Big Sambo & the House Wreckers    The Rains Came    2:16

Vol. 04

01    Marv Johnson    Come on and Stop    2:12
02    5 Royales    Catch That Teardrop    2:31
03    M&M's and the Peanuts    Lil' Valley    2:56
04    Clovers    Bossa Nova Baby    2:03
05    Bobby Peterson    Irresistible You    2:46
06    Lena Calhoun & the Emotions    I Can Tell (I'm Losing Your Love)    2:01
08    Kenny Lynch    Puff (Up in Smoke)    2:35
07    Betty Willis    Take Your Heart    2:37
09    Hal Miller    On My Own Two Feet    2:45
10    Della Reese    A Clock That's Got No Hands    2:02
11    Intruders    Jack Be Numble    2:45
12    Jimmy Norman    I Don't Love You No More (I Don't Care About You)    2:30
13    Harold Burrage    Crying for My Baby    2:13
14    James Conwell    Troubles With Girls (Of Today)    2:08
15    Matadors    You'd Be Crying Too    2:55
16    Fiestas    The Gypsy Said    2:00
17    Wade Flemons    I Came Running (Back From the Party)    2:20
18    Charmaines    Where is the Boy Tonight    2:39
19    Ketty Lester    Please Don't Cry Anymore    2:32
20    Bobby Day    Pretty Little Girl Next Door    2:35
21    Billy Bland    My Heart is on Fire    2:15
22    Persians    Gee, What a Girl    2:18
23    Mr. Tears Paris    Don't Lead Me On    1:57
24    Clarence Ashe    Trouble I've Had    3:37

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25 comments:

  1. Little BillAugust 12, 2020 at 12:45 PM

    Fantastic collection Butterboy, many thanks for sharing it.

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    1. ButterboyAugust 12, 2020 at 2:19 PM

      Hi Little Bill,
      Yes t is. I've been reacquainting myself with this set for the last few days. Just wonderful.

      Cheers

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  2. SuzanneAugust 12, 2020 at 3:51 PM

    many thanks for the sweet soul music

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  3. AussieAugust 12, 2020 at 5:36 PM

    thank you KING love the soul Aussie

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    1. ButterboyAugust 12, 2020 at 7:13 PM

      Hi Aussie,
      This is a great set. Enjoy listening to it.

      Cheers.

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  4. pedro BAugust 12, 2020 at 9:05 PM

    Thank you Butterball for this setting the mold as the start of some wonderful soul
    music quite superb

    Cheers

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  5. RacatiAugust 13, 2020 at 12:34 AM

    Very great collection, indeed! But a lot of the artists selected by KENT/ACE are not representing "The Birth Of Soul" that evolved of Rhythm & Blues and Gospel at the end of the fifties.
    Artists as Otis Redding, Garnet Mimms, Jimmy Hugues, Betty Harris or William Bell represent the great and mature soul music of the sixties.
    Greetings from France.

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    1. puwAugust 13, 2020 at 5:13 AM

      Otis Redding - In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins's band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer.

      Garnet Mimms first recorded as a member of the Norfolk Four, for Savoy Records in 1953.

      Jimmy Hughes - born in 1938 - began singing in a gospel quartet, The Singing Clouds, while at high school.

      Betty Harris (born in 1939 and recording in her 'teens') was a member of "The Hearts" (which included Theresa Chatman, Mandy Hopper, Lezli Green, Mary Green, Betty Crews And Ann King), releasing I Want Your Love Tonight / Like, Later Baby in 1958.

      William Bell, born 1939, considered himself a student of The Soul Stirrers (who originally formed in 1926, with the popular gospel group led by Sam Cooke from 1950). At aged ten, he began songwriting the original composition, “Alone On A Rainy Night”. At the age of 14, Bell won a talent contest and began making a name for himself singing in Memphis area clubs.

      He made his first leap into the music scene backing Rufus Thomas. In 1957, Bell recorded his first sides as a member of the Del Rios, the Memphis group which started in the '50s, with their first recording of the song Bell had written called "Alone on a Rainy Nite" released in late 1956.

      These artists grew up in, with and around Gospel and 'original' RnB, performing for many years before ever having any commercial success.

      So, I have to assume you mean that the artists on these 4 CD's only had commercial success in the 60's.

      However, these CD's were put together by Kent/ACE records, whose history is deeply tied to Northern Soul in the UK, and relate directly to "The Birth of Soul", but I can appreciate that you might not be aware of this.

      And yet, just showing the artists you named, it's easy to see that they were part of "The Birth of Soul" in the US too.

      I do hope I have managed to explain why Kent with these artists were able to entitle them then as "The Birth of Soul" :)

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    2. RacatiAugust 13, 2020 at 10:53 PM

      Hi puw,

      I well know that these five artists began their career in the fifties.

      But the songs selected are from the sixties and therefore are not part of "The Birth of Soul" that began ten years before :

      - Otis Redding - Pain In My heart (1964)
      - Garnet Mimms - Cry Baby (1963)
      - Jimmy Hugues - I'm Qualified (1962)
      - William Bell - Any Other Way (1962)
      - Betty Harris - Cry To Me (1963).

      In harmony with the title, KENT/ACE would have chosen songs of the time you mention for more congruity.

      I'm aware of the link of KENT with Northern Soul, but I don't see the relation with "The Birth of Soul". Unless that word had an other sense for you.

      Cordially.

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    3. puwAugust 14, 2020 at 4:24 PM

      Yes, this is like the whole issue of genre's Racati, since genre's have become so overlapping and splintered, and people's perception of what music lies in which (I have to laugh when I see things like 'Brutal Death Metal' as opposed to gentle, humane alive metal lol), that an album's title can often be linked to 'click bait' type headlines.

      However, Kent's close and long association with Northern Soul (the longest running underground music scene in the world) which is a maze of splintered genre's in itself, means it built itself a reputation of discovering unissued and very rare and collectible soul music for the Northern Soul scene, which means the U.K. That's where it's roots lie and it's core clients. So getting your hands on a 'Kent Soul' release is directly UK related, nothing to do with any 'British Soul', because Northern Soul derives from the initial import of late 50's & early 60's African-American music, hence why Mod's and Northern soul are so often associated with each other, because the origins of the music being listened to were from the same source ............ and then diverged, Northern Soul digging the crates for sounds that never got 'their' chance to be commercially successful, no matter how incredible they were. But that's a different chapter lol.

      So if they'd instead used a title of 'The Birth of British Soul", you'd assume something it isn't, and yet you've assumed the title means something different to what it is, because you're taking The Birth of SOUL to be a specif place, time & artists, but the context is Kent = UK = Northern Soul.

      Now if this was released by ACE Records, they formed this label so as to be able to do exactly what you were thinking these albums with this title would be.

      Now you may ask .......... 'Why didn't they call it 'The Birth of Northern Soul' then? Because these songs aren't, though many form its origins (which I must say reads like a contradiction, but shows you can't judge an album by it's title LOL).

      So the tracks on these four volumes may be 'too late' in time to be at the 'original birth', but they're full of both the artists who were and the many sounds that are 'true' Soul. It's kind of like getting one of those Atlantic Soul compilation CD's. They're full of commercial soul to appeal to the masses, while Kent goes in the opposite direction, because of its roots. Tell me, if you saw an ACE CD title called "The King of Rock and Roll", which (single) artist would you assume it contained? While Kent released "The King of Soul", would you assume it was just about one artist or would it be an album about a record label associated with early soul music? To understand Kent, is not to understand Northern Soul, it's to have been a part of Northern Soul. Good chat :)

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  6. ProfessorCalculusAugust 13, 2020 at 1:36 AM

    Many Thanks BB. Mucho Gracias.

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  7. M. FoxAugust 13, 2020 at 2:59 AM

    Always appreciate the treats! Thank you.
    With appreciation......lil'ol'lady

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    1. ButterboyAugust 13, 2020 at 9:08 AM

      You are welcome lil'ol'lady.
      A special treat are always important now and then.

      Cheers.

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  8. puwAugust 13, 2020 at 5:16 AM

    As always, with anything "KENT", many thanks BB :)

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    1. ButterboyAugust 13, 2020 at 9:10 AM

      You are welcome, puw.
      Any music that moves is important.

      Cheers.

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  9. Bob MacAugust 13, 2020 at 7:31 AM

    Thanks for this BB.

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  10. RhinoOctober 19, 2020 at 1:32 PM

    Re-up please.

    Thanks!

    ~Rhino~

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    1. ButterboyOctober 19, 2020 at 7:14 PM

      Hi Rhino,
      Here is a new link as requested. Tested and Working. Also Main page has new links.

      VA - Birth Of Soul Volume 01+02
      https://www12.zippyshare.com/v/bKmf38Hd/file.html

      VA - Birth Of Soul Volume 03+04
      https://www12.zippyshare.com/v/ozlAyOjb/file.html

      Cheers

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  11. SunnymanchesterJune 21, 2023 at 5:55 AM

    Hello! I was looking through my lists to find out which Kent Soul CDs are still missing from my collection (still a lot!) but I notice that I've lost volume 1 of this collection - even though I'm sure I downloaded them all from here.
    When you have time, could you post a link?
    Many thanks.
    Stuart

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    1. ButterboyJune 21, 2023 at 7:50 AM

      Hi Sunnymanchester.
      New links established, tested and working.
      Cheers.

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    2. SunnymanchesterJune 21, 2023 at 5:17 PM

      Fantastic! Thank you.

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