47 Soul

The popularity of classic soul and 70s disco endures, and no wonder! There's little better to lift the spirit and get your feet moving. GREATEST EVER SOUL & DISCO is a fantastic collection of 80 tracks that hit the sweet spot. Classic late-70s disco by KC & The Sunshine Band, Sister Sledge, Chaka Khan, and The Trammps? All here. Soulful sounds from Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Randy Crawford and Candy Staton? Present and correct. Funky grooves by The Meters, Bootsy Collins and Earth Wind & Fire? Ah yeah! As Chic said, "these are the good times"!

Jackie Lomax, who began his career as the lead singer and bass player for Liverpool’s the Undertakers in the mid-'60s, has always had a soulful voice, a bit like his contemporary Steve Winwood (the two actually also look strikingly similar), but his considerable talent never translated as well as Winwood’s into international commercial success. But the quality was always there, as this interesting two-disc set clearly shows. The first disc collects singles and demos from the Lomax Alliance (the Undertakers essentially morphed into the Lost Souls and then into the Lomax Alliance) as well as some Lomax solo releases tracked in 1966 and 1967, including seldom-heard gems like “Peaches ‘N Cream,” “Try as You May,” “Don’t You Think It’s Time,” and “Sweeter Than Honey,” all of which combine blue-eyed soul with a kind of British Invasion template.

James Brown - Sings Raw Soul (1967) {Universal Music Japan Mini LP UICY-9288 rel 2003}
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© 1967, 2003 Polydor / Universal Music Japan | UICY-9288 | Cardboard Sleeve | 24bit remastering
Funk / R'n'B / Soul / Funky Jam

Limited to 5000 copies. Paper sleeve. RAW SOUL, originally released as KING-1610 was James Brown's second of five album releases in 1967. The iconic "rainbow" cover was traded for a more "hip" line drawing when the album was reissued in 1970. The original 1967 UK release on Pye International had it's own unique jacket as well. All subsequent CD issues reverted to the original art. The album was the usual mix of recent single releases with two cuts (3 & 8) from the unreleased (at the time) OUT OF SIGHT and one rare (for Brown at the time) LP only track (10).