Roberta Flack - The Best Of

Roberta Flack (Asheville, February 10, 1937) is an American singer.Active in the genres jazz, soul and folk, the Flack is primarily known for the single Killing Me Softly With His Song, with whom he won the Grammy Award for best album of 1974, and Where Is the Love, one of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.In the seventies he collaborated with singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue, whose concerts were filmed for the autumn of 1975 before being included in the 1978 film, written and directed by Dylan's Renaldo and Clara. In the film, plays host to a singer Dylan concerts.

1 Killing Me Softly With His Song
2 Where Is The Love
3 Feel Like Makin' Love
4 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
5 And So It Goes
6 Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
7 The Closer I Get To You
8 'Till The Morning Comes
9 Back Together Again
10 Making Love
11 Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)
12 Set The Night To Music
13 You Are My Heaven
14 Oasis
15 Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
16 And So It Goes (Reprise)
17 Trade Winds

James Brown_ Recorded Live At Home in Augusta,Georgia with his bad self _1970

James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing.

1 Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine
2 Bewildered
3 There Was a Time
4 I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
5 If I Ruled the World
6 Give It Up Turnit A Loose
7 Licking Stick
8 Brother Rapp (part I and part II)
9 Spinning Wheel
10 Low Down Popcorn
11 I Got The Feeling
12 Mother Popcorn
Please, Please, Please
13 It's A Man's Man's World
14 I Don't want Nobody To Give Nothing

Temptations In A Mellow Mood 1967

The Temptations in a Mellow Mood is a 1967 album by The Temptations for the Motown label. Composed primarily of pop standards such as "Ol' Man River" and "For Once in My Life", and similar songs written by Holland-Dozier-Holland and other Motown staff songwriters, the Mellow Mood album was part of Motown chief Berry Gordy's crossover plans for the group. Gordy wanted the Temptations, already the most popular male group among black audiences, to attract a large white fanbase and be able to secure playdates at supper clubs like the Copacabana, where the group had first performed in the summer of 1967.


1 Hello Young Lovers
2 A Taste Of Honey
3 For Once In My Life
4 Somewhere
5 Ol' Man River
6 I'm Ready For Love
7 Try To Remember
8 Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
9 What Now My Love
10 That's Life
11 With These Hands
12 The Impossible Dream

Teddy Pendergrass_Teddy Pendergrass_1977 _1st LP

Teddy Pendergrass is the title of the first solo album of R & B-soul singer Teddy Pendergrass U.S. (1950 - 2010), from which was published in 1977 on Philadelphia International Records label. The album, produced by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Sherman Marshall and Carstarphen and arranged by Bob Martin and Jack Faith, contains a total of 8 tracks including in single I Do not Love You Anymore and The Whole Town's Laughing at Me.The disc was recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia.


Side A
You can't hide from yourself
Somebody told me
Be sure
And if i had
Side B
I don't love you anymore
The whole town's laughing at me
Easy,easy got to take it easy
The more i get the more i want

The Floaters_Float On_1977

The Floaters were an African American, R&B vocal group, from the Sojourner Truth housing projects in Detroit, Michigan, that formed in 1976.
James Mitchell apparently came up with the idea and tune for their one major hit, "Float On", in a dream. The lyrics spotlighted each member of the band, who introduced themselves with their name, astrological sign, and ideal type of romantic partner. "Float On" was tracked in a garage recording studio called Pac 3.The song was written by Arnold Ingram, Marvin Willis and James Mitchell Jr., and produced by Woody Wilson. It became a world wide hit in 1977 on ABC Records, reaching #1 on the US R&B chart, #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and #1 in the UK Singles Chart (for a single week in August that year). Follow-ups such as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" could not duplicate the idiosyncratic charm of "Float On", but, with some changes in the line-up, the group remained active for several years, unable to shake off their one-hit wonder tag.The Floaters returned to Pac 3 to record a new version of "Float On" with Full Force for the Brooklyn, New York based group's summer 2001 TVT debut album, Still Standing.

1 Everything Happens For A Reason
2 Float On (Long Version)
3 Got To Find A Way
4 I Am So Glad I Took My Time
5 I Bet You Get The One You Love
6 No Stronger Love
7 Take One Step At A Time
8 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Barry White - I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing - 1979

I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing is the self-produced ninth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1979 on the 20th Century label.

1 I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing
2 Girl, What's Your Name
3 Once upon a Time
4 Oh Me, Oh My
5 I Can't Leave You Alone
6 Call Me Baby
7 How Did You Know It Was Me?

Ashford & Simpson - The best

Nickolas Ashford (born May 4, 1942, in Fairfield County, South Carolina) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946 in The Bronx, New York) are a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists.They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1963. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Josie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step At A Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs "Let's Go Get Stoned" gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year Ashford & Simpson joined Motown where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "You're All I Need To Get By", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". As performers, Ashford and Simpson's best-known song is "Solid" (1984 US and 1985 UK). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

1 You're All That I Need To Get By/Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing/Ain't No Mountain High Enough
2 (I'd Know You) Anywhere
3 Somebody Told A Lie
4 Send It
5 Don't Cost You Nothing
6 By Way Of Love's Express
7 Stuff Like That
8 It Seems To Hang On
9 Is It Still Good To Ya
10 Found A Cure
11 Nobody Knows
12 Love Don't Make It Right
13 Happy Endings
14 Street Corner
15 Solid

Barry White - The Man - 1978

The Man is the self-produced eighth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1978 on the 20th Century label. The album became White's sixth R&B chart topper and peaked at #36 on the pop chart. Lead single "Your Sweetness Is My Weakness" reached #2 on the R&B chart, while White's cover of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" made #12 in the UK. The first three tracks (originally Side One) are uptempo with a noticeable Latin influence, while the remainder (Side Two) are ballads. A cover version of "It's Only Love Doing Its Thing" (with the shortened title "It's Only Love") would be a hit for British band Simply Red in 1989.

1. Look At Her
2. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
3. Sha La La Means I Love You
4. September When I First Met You
5. It's Only Love Doing Its Thing
6. Just The Way You Are
7. Early Years

Saturday Night Fever_1977_O.S.T

Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track was the album that contains the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. The album was released December 10, 1977, to launch the film, which was released a week later. Immediately climbed to the top of U.S. chart.
Although the album is often credited to the Bee Gees, who are in fact the authors of the most significant songs of the album, in fact it is a compilation of various artists. The album won a Grammy Award and the U.S. reached an incredible recognition of fifteen times platinum. The success was achieved in the world, where the disc is still the 4th best selling of all time, with more than 41 million copies sold. The songs and Calypso Breakdown Jive Talkin, the album, were not included in the film.


TRACKLIST:
1 Stayin' Alive _The Bee Gees
2 How Deep Is Your Love _ The Bee Gees
3 Night Fever _ The Bee Gees
4 More Than a Woman _ The Bee Gees
5. If I Can't Have You _Yvonne Elliman
6 A Fifth of Beethoven _Walter Murphy
7 More Than a Woman _ Tavares
8 Manhattan Skyline _ David Shire
9 Calypso Breakdown _ Ralph MacDonald
10 Night on Disco Mountain _ David Shire
11 Open Sesame' _ Kool & the Gang
12 Jive Talkin _ The Bee Gees
13. You Should Be Dancing _ The Bee Gees
14 Boogie Shoes _ KC & the Sunshine Band
15 Salsation _ David Shire
16 K-Jee _ MFSB

Isaac Hayes And Dionne Warwick_A Man And A Woman(Live)_1977

In this double-LP live tracks were cut but not split into 4 parts as two sides of vinyl.



LP 1/2
Unity
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
My Love
Medley
By The Time I Get To Phoenix / I Say A Little Prayer

LP 2/2
Then Came You
Feelings / My Eyes Adored You
Body Language
Can't Hide Love
Come Live With Me
Once You Hit The Road
Chocolate Chip

The Greatest Hits Of Dionne Warwick Vol. 1_1972

1 Walk On By
2 Don't Make Me Over
3 Make The Music Play
4 One Hand, One Heart / With These Hands
5 You Can Have Him
6 Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7 Trains & Boats & Planes
8 Gettin' Ready For The Heartbreak
9 A House Is Not A Home
10 Unchained Melody
11 Here Where There Is Love
12 Close To You

Stylistics - Greatest Hits

1. Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)
2. You Make Me Feel Brand New
3. Let's Put It All Together
4. You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
5. Rockin' Roll Baby
6. Sing Baby Sing
7. Na Na Is The Saddest Word
8. 7000 Dollars And You
9. Star On A TV Show
10. I'm Stone In Love With You
11. Betcha By Golly Wow
12. Funky Weekend
13. Peek-A-Boo
14. Can't Help Falling In Love
15. Stop Look Listen (To your Heart)
16. Sixteen Bars
17. Break Up To Make Up
18. You Are Everything

James Brown - Black Caesar - 1973

Black Caesar is a soundtrack album recorded by James Brown for the film of the same name and released in 1973. The album also features The J.B.'s and Lyn Collins.

1. Down And Out In New York City
2. Blind Man Can See It
3. Sportin' Life
4. Dirty Harri
5. The Boss
6. Make It Good To Yourself
7. Mama Feelgood
8. Mama's Dead
9. White Lightning
10. Chase
11. Like It Is, Like It Was

War - The World Is A Ghetto 1972

The World Is a Ghetto is an album released by the band War in late 1972 on United Artists Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 449 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Singles from the album include "The World Is a Ghetto" backed with "Four Cornered Room", and "The Cisco Kid" backed with "Beetles in the Bog".


1 The Cisco Kid

2 Where Was You At
3 City, Country, City
4 Four Cornered Room
5 The World Is A Ghetto
6 Beetles In The Bog

Motown _ The Last Dance_ V.A._1980

Motown_The Last Dance (1980 UK Motown label 20-track vinyl compilation LP featuring a selection of 'great smoochers' including tracks by Commodores, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Ruffin and Smokey Robinson,

1. Commodores - Three Times A Lady
2. Diana Ross - All Of My Life
3. Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
4. Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
5. Marvin Gaye - Abraham, Martin And John
6. Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
7. Diana Ross -Theme From 'Mahogany'- Do You Know Where You're Going To
8. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By
9. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
10. Michael Jackson - Ben
11. Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
12. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
13. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears
14. Four Tops - It's All In The Game
15. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Help Me Make It Through The Night
16. Jimmy Ruffin - Farewell Is A Lonely Sound
17. Michael Jackson - Got To Be There
18. Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know-It-All
19. Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything
20. Commodores - Still

Curtis Mayfield _ Curtis/Live!_1971

Curtis/Live! is Curtis Mayfield’s first live album, after leaving The Impressions. Originally released in May 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label (distributed through Neil Bogart's Buddah Records), the album's twelve tracks (track listing below is from the 2000 Rhino reissue, which includes two bonus tracks) — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's Bitter End nightclub in New York City. According to John Abbey, who at the beginning of the 1970s was editor of the UK magazine Blues & Soul, Mayfield and his band's first set at a Bitter End date in January 1971 comprised the bulk of the music presented here. Mixed primarily with Eddie Kramer at Electric Lady Studios, the album features Master Henry Gibson playing percussion, Craig McMullen on rhythm guitar, Joseph "Lucky" Scott on bass, and Tyrone McCullen on drums.


1 Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)
2 Rap
3 I Plan to Stay a Believer
4 We're a Winner
5 Rap
6 We've Only Just Begun
7 People Get Ready
8 Rap
9 Stare and Stare
10 Check Out Your Mind
11 Gypsy Woman
12 The Makings of You
13 Rap
14 We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
15 (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go
16 Stone Junkie
17 Superfly Mayfield
18 Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) [Single Version]

War _ Galaxy 1977

War (originally called Eric Burdon and War) is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae.The band also transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up. The band has sold over 50 million records to date.
Although War's lyrics are often socio-political in nature, their music usually had a laid-back, California funk vibe. A particular feature of War's sound is the use of harmonica and saxophone playing melody lines in unison, sounding like a single instrument, for example in the melody of "Low Rider". The music has been sampled and recorded by many singers and groups, ranging from R&B / pop singers such as Janet Jackson to nu metal band Korn and hip hop groups like TLC.

1 galaxy
2 baby face (she said do do do do)
3 sweet fighting lady
4 hey senorita
5 the seven tin soldier

Isaac Hayes_Hot Buttered Soul_1969

Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' second studio album. Released in 1969, it is recognized as a landmark in soul music.
The album almost never came to be. Hayes' solo debut, Presenting Isaac Hayes, had been a poor seller for Stax Records, and Hayes was about to return to his behind-the-scenes role as a producer and songwriter at the venerable soul label when it suddenly lost its complete back catalog after splitting with Atlantic Records in May 1968. Stax executive Al Bell decided to release a new, almost instant, back catalog of 27 albums and 30 singles at once, ordered all of Stax's artists to record new material, and encouraged some of Stax's prominent creative staff, including Hayes and Steve Cropper, to record solo albums.Burned by the retail flop of Presenting Isaac Hayes, Hayes told Bell that he would not cut a follow-up unless he was granted complete creative control. Since Bell had encouraged Hayes to record Presenting... in the first place, he readily agreed. The album begins with a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, "Walk On By."

Second was Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic", an uptempo funk song with wah-wah guitar and rolling pianos. "One Woman", at just over five minutes the shortest track on the album, focuses on the pangs of infidelity. An extended reinterpretation of Jimmy Webb's country music composition "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" closes the album.

1 Walk On By
2 Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3 One Woman
4 By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Bootsy's Rubber Band - Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby ! - 1977

Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! is a funk album by Bootsy's Rubber Band, released on January 14, 1977. It reached number one on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Soul albums chart, the first P-Funk release to achieve this goal. The album was produced by George Clinton and William "Bootsy" Collins and arranged by Bootsy and Casper (names William Collins uses to refer to his various roles.

1 Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby
2 The Pinocchio Theory
3 Rubber Duckie
4 Preview Side Too
5 What's a Telephone Bill?
6 Munchies for Your Love
7 Can't Stay Away
8 Reprise - We Want Bootsy

Barry White_Rhapsody In White_1974

Rhapsody in White was a huge success for The Love Unlimited Orchestra that rode along in the charts with Barry White's single at the time of "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More". Also on the album is "Love´s Theme", the #1 signature song of the Love Unlimited Orchestra.

The Love Unlimited Orchestra, formed by American R&B/soul musician, Barry White, was a 40-piece string-laden orchestra that served as a backing unit for White and female vocal trio Love Unlimited. From the mid 1970s on, they also recorded several albums under their own name.
Their biggest hit single was 1973's instrumental disc, "Love's Theme". The track, written by White, went to No. 1 for one week in the U.S. and No. 10 in the UK Singles Chart. The R.I.A.A. awarded a gold disc on 7 February 1974.
1 Barry's Theme
2 Rhapsody in White
3 Midnight and You
4 I Feel Love Coming On
5 Baby Blues
6 Don't Take It Away From Me
7 What A Groove
8 Love's Theme