Connisseurs Cd Releases 90s

Conniseurs CDS - Review

mid price cds release from connoisseur collection

In these days of overload of soul, with official releases of new soul cd releases every week, etc, many things may just pass you by as the vast torrent of soul flows past you a recent new set of reissued stuff from the company connoisseur collection may have just done that, this release is the start of a new set of mid price soul releases starting off with a set of 5, some if not all may look familiar as it seems that all the tracks have been re-licensed from goldmine normally you would start thinking oh yeah here we go, more re-cycled stuff, so what's the difference with the majority of these well first thing is it all depends on what type of cd buyer you are, if youre one who has the complete collection of goldmine/kent well think you better skip this page due to all the tracks have been out before on various cds, ok so youre still here, so chance you may be the more selective buyer (aka cheapskate), well these releases could be of interest all termed as mid-price, which to me is around the fiver mark, may be more in main street places less in mail order outlets, so that's a good point, as hard to say no to a cheapie.

Content? Well the titles tells you all about it, four of the five being greatest hits, in these days of various artist comps it made a welcome change listening to a cd of one artist plus the sleeve notes are lengthy and informative overall apart from the compilation one I would say these cds do a good job of bringing cheap artist specific collections to the buying public, whilst all tracks have been out before, the price and packaging makes them worth thinking about if you like myself are a bit choosy when buying cds, and will score highly on the impulse buys especially when compared with some cheesy same price comps.

CATALOGUE NUMBER: VSOP CD 288 JJ BARNES The Best Of 1. Baby Please Come Back Home 2. Chains Of Love 3. Forgive Me 4. Now That I Got You Back 5. Hold On To It 6. Now Shes Gone 7. Sad Day A Coming 8. Ill Keep Coming Back 9. Our Love Is In The Pocket 10. So Called Friends 11. Now Shes Gone 12. Got To Get Rid Of You 13. Snowflakes 14. Sweet Sherry 15. Help Me Help Me 16. I Need A Change 17. Welcome To The Club

the best of jj barnes as you can see by the track listing on back cover, this cd covers some of his work after his spell at motown, covering his time at groovesville, revilot, volt, and some of his contempo stuff , as with all the cds the insert has a lengthy double insert of information, in this case written by david cole editor of in the basement, covering the going ons through out his career. As often remarked jj barnes has a bit of a tag as the man who motown thought was so like marvin gaye, that motown brought his contract to protect marvin, but as david c points out, it seems this is part of a soul urban legend as jj states "any suppression, he felt came from Gaye ...rather than Gordy", anyway 17 tracks covering a wide span of time from one of the legends, and at mid-price I would say a worthy listen, and addition to a collection, though as in all these cds if you have a lot of goldmine detroit releases there's a fair chance you may have a fair few already

STEVE MANCHA The Best Of 1. Did My Baby Call 2. Whirlpool 3. Hate Yourself In The Morning 4. A Love Like Yours 5. Shes So Good 6. Youre Still In My Heart 7. I Dont Want To Lose You 8. Need To Be Be Needed 9. Friday Night 10. Monday Through Thursday 11. Dont Make Me A Story Teller 12. I Wont Love And Leave You 13. Just Keep On Loving Me 14. Sweet Baby Dont Ever Be Untrue 15. Easy Living 16. Lets Party 17. Deeper In Love 18. Your Love Got Sweeter 19. Souvenirs 20. Think Before You Walk Away CATALOGUE NUMBER: VSOP CD 287 detroit soul man- best of steve mancha well track listing says it all, steve mancha or clyde wilson using his real has been around just a while, from his early days as a duet with Wilbert Jackson on hpc in the late 50s to his recent work on the gospel side in Detroit, and in between also found fame as part of a ever changing 100% proof (aged in soul) line up not to mention his prolific song writing. But as you can guess the side chosen ere to represent is his are from his groove city, wheelsville and groovesville times, including 5 unreleased tracks, ranging from deep ballards to the arch-typical Detroit stompfests, a wide range of styles that again work well on a single artist release so if you fancy a listen to one of the constant Detroit soul singers this is for you and again a double page of notes charting his career

THE PARLIAMENTS Testify! - The Best Of The Early Years 1.(I wanna) Testify 2. I can Feel The Ice Melting 3. All Your Goodies Are Gone 4. Dont Be Sore At Me 5. Little Man 6. The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg 7. Look At What I Almost Missed 8. What You Been Growing 9. Good Old Music 10. Time 11. A New Day Begins 12. Ill Wait 13. Ill Wait (Inst.) 14. All Your Goodies Are Gone 15. Baby I Owe You Something (Inst.) 16. Lets Make It Last - The Fellows 17. Shes Always There - The Fellows 18. Heart Trouble 19. That Was My Girl

parliaments-testify-the best of as you may know, the parliaments later evolved into one of the most colourful acts the soul world ever saw, but for now this is all in the future, again this cd takes us to Detroit and back to the 1960s, and upto this point the parliaments path was very similar to other groups, keep it quiet but barber shops are mentioned and other non-funkadelic type stuff. Tracks range from the stand out monster heart trouble, through similar detroit types such as time and dont be sore at me, then onto a few tracks which give brief warnings of what the parliament or should I say george clinton were going to unleash on the world in the mid 70s, a interesting collection again with copious notes, and even though it is claimed that most of the tracks where recorded in one mamoth session, you can hear still make out the gradual changing sound from mainstream soul to the funkier side. One that will also appeal to the fan of their later stuff as well as some of the tracks here where later reincarnated in mid 70s parliament/funkadelic tracks

Darrell Banks The Best Of 1. Open The Door To Your Heart 2. Our Love Is In The Pocket 3. Baby Watcha Got 4. Somebody Somewhere Needs You 5. Here Comes The Tears 6. Ive Got That Feelin 7. Angel Baby (Dont You Ever Leave Me) 8. Look Into The Eyes Of A Fool 9. Im Gonna Hang My Head And Cry 10. Youd Better Go 11. I Wanna Go Home 12. The Love Of My Woman 13. Im Knocking At Your Heart, Please Let Me In 14. The Harder You Love 15. Im The One Who Love You 16. I Will Fear No Evil CATALOGUE NUMBER: VSOP CD 286

open the door to your heart-the best of darrel banks darrel banks- a name forever identified with the song "open the door to your heart" which is a constant mention when people are asked for their all top ten northern sides, and as seems to follow most soul singers his life was a tragic story, even the story behind his biggest hit has a bit of controversy, again this release features double pages of sleeve notes detailing his career, as the track list shows, featured on this cd are his two releases on revilot before atco picked him up and then his atco and his cottlition sides. Main well knowns on this are the storming angel baby and the roaring our love is in the pocket. Again a great chance for a session with one of the most gifted soul singers and again makes a pleasant change to hear one artist rather than 29 various artist tracks and to me the best of the four. At mid price could be a winner

CATALOGUE NUMBER: VSOP CD 289 GOING TO THE GOGO 20 Classic Northern Soul Stompers 1. The Duck - Jackie Lee 2. That Beatin Rhythm - Richard Temple 3. Baby Do The Philly Dog - The Olympics 4. Blowin My Mind To Pieces - Bob Relf 5. Do The Temptation Walk - Jackie Lee 6. Groovin At The GoGo - The 4 Larks 7. Our Love Is In The Pocket - J.J. Barnes 8. Open The Door To Your Heart - Darrell Banks 9. What Is It - Bobby Womack 10. Baby Please Come Home - J.J. Barnes 11. Somebody Somewhere (Needs You) - Darrell Banks 12. I Wanna Testify - The Parliaments 13. Papa Ooh Mow Mow - The Sharonettes 14. Mine Exclusively - The Olympics 15. Your My Mellow - Edwin Starr 16. Cracked Up Over You - Lee Rogers 17. Hit And Run - Rose Battiste 18. Hurt - Eddie Holman 19. Hole In The Wall - J.J. Barnes 20. I Cant Get Away - Bobby Garrett onto the fifth release and all i say on this one is look at the cover and look at the track listing, if youve got a few northern cds odds on you will have some of these tracks, if you havent well its a cheap place to start