VA - Chicago Cool Breezin', A Windy City Rhythm 'n' Soul Compendium 1966-1983 [1999] (3 x CDs)

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VA - Chicago Cool Breezin', A Windy City Rhythm 'n' Soul Compendium 1966-1983 [1999] (3 x CDs)

If you are looking for an introduction to Chicago soul? This is it! The set's a totally cool 3xCD package, bound up in book-like format with great notes on the artists and songs, and a list of 64 tracks that give you a really great overview of the excellent soul that came out of Chicago during the 60s and 70s. 

A collector's dream, but casual fans will look at the artists and tracks and say, "Huh?". This box set of Brunswick/Dakar/Chisound sides features obscure, non-charting, B-sides and album cuts by familiar and unfamiliar artists. The Chi-lites do four songs including "The Price of Love" as Marshall & the Chi-lites, their first record to play outside the greater Chicago area. Jackie Wilson does four unknown but pleasing tracks. Other notables include Lost Generation, Walter Jackson, Chuck Jackson, Major Lance, Erma Franklin, Lavern Baker, Barbara Acklin, and the Dells. Especially pleasing is Marvin Smith's solo side "Have More Time"; Smith sang lead with the Artistics who are on board for two songs. Also, the listing of tracks and artists involved is enormous, another feather in Westside Records' cap. (AMG review by Andrew Hamilton)

"Chicago" is spelt "Chigago" throughout this comp including the cover.???

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Track lists

CD1

01 Jackie Wilson - I've Lost You 2:40

02 Jackie Ross - Keep Your Chin Up 2:27

03 Marvin Smith - Have More Time 2:16

04 Artistics - Glad I Met You 2:54

05 Erma Franklin - Whispers (Gettin' Louder) 2:18

06 Lee Charles - Wrong Number 2:18

07 Johnny Howard - The Chase Is On 2:48

08 Billy Butler - Love Grows Bitter 2:17

09 Artistics - Hope We Have 2:17

10 Lavern Baker - I'm The One To Do It 2:22

11 Gene Chandler - Those Were The Good Old Days 2:38

12 Visitors - I'm In Danger 2:19

13 Lee Charles - It's All Over Between Us 2:34

14 Jackie Wilson - You Brought About A Change In Me 2:46

15 Marshall & The Chi-Lites - Price Of Love 2:30

16 Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin - Anywhere But Nowhere 2:44

17 Billy Butler - I'll Bet You 2:54

18 Chi-Lites - 24 Hours Of Sadness 2:07

19 Johnny Sayles - Somebody's Changing My Sweet Baby's Mind 3:03

20 Floyd Smith - Getting Nowhere Fast 3:06

21 Barbara Acklin - After You 2:29

22 Young-Holt Unlimited - California Montage 2:59

CD2

01 Tyrone Davis - Is It Something You've Got? 2:37

02 Dana Valery - Have You Seen Him? 5:33

03 Chi-Lites - Troubles A' Comin' 3:17

04 Otis Clay - Baby Jane 2:20

05 Lost Generation - You're So Young, But You're So Fine 2:32

06 Jackie Wilson - Let This Be A Letter (To My Baby) 3:03

07 Dana Valery - You Babe 2:32

08 Chuck Jackson - I Forgot To Tell You 3:58

09 Otis Leavill - You Brought Out The Good In Me 2:30

10 Jean Shy - I'll Belong To You 3:00

11 Walter Jackson - Let Me Come Back 2:50

12 Mister T - Love Uprising 2:41

13 Tyrone Davis - All The Waiting Was Not In Vain 2:27

14 Major Lance - Sweeter As The Days Go By 2:59

15 Otis Clay - You Hurt Me For The Last Time 3:38

16 Chuck Jackson - The Man And The Woman (The Boy And The Girl) 3:26

17 Mighty Doug Haynes - I'll Be Right Here 2:47

18 Lost Generation - The Young, Tough And The Terrible 3:04

19 Lyn Roman - Stop! I Don't Need No Sympathy 3:09

20 Jackie Wilson - Pretty Little Angel Eyes 2:56

21 Sidney Joe Qualls - Run To Me 3:13

22 Lionel Hampton - Turn Back The Hands Of Time 2:51

CD3

01 Cicero Blake - You Got Me Walking 2:42

02 Chi-Lites - Too Late To Turn Back Now 4:28

03 Wales Wallace - Somebody I Know 2:31

04 Lionel Hampton - There It Is 3:57

05 Channel 3 - Somebody Else's Arms 3:47

06 Barbara Acklin - I'll Bake Me A Man 3:23

07 Tyrone Davis - What Goes Up (Must Come Down) 3:35

08 Promises - Living In The Footsteps Of Another Girl 2:58

09 Jackie Wilson - It Only Happens (When I Look At You) 3:01

10 Ben Monroe - Broken Home 3:09

11 Margie Alexander - It's Worth A Whippin' 3:41

12 Sidney Joe Qualls - I Don't Do This ( To Every Girl I Meet) 3:13

13 Manchild - Especially For You 6:08

14 Gene Chandler - Let Me Make Love To You 4:10

15 Windy City - I Still Love You 4:22

16 Paris - I Choose You 4:34

17 Dells - All About The Paper 5:30

18 Impressions - All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You 4:38

19 Gene Chandler - I'll Make The Living If You Make The Loving Worthwhile 4:52

20 Walter Jackson - Touching In The Dark 4:06

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