Soul Ship

Ship Ahoy is a rhythm and blues album by Philadelphia soul group The O'Jays, released on November 10, 1973 on Philadelphia International Records. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching #1 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart and #11 on the "Pop Albums" chart and launching two hit singles, "For the Love of Money" and "Put Your Hands Together." Conceived as a theme album built around the title track, Ship Ahoy includes socially relevant tracks and love songs under a cover that is itself notable for its serious subject matter. The album, which achieved platinum certification in 1992 for over 1 million copies sold, has been reissued multiple times, including in a 2003 edition with a bonus track. Ship Ahoy was the highest selling R&B album on the Billboard Year-End chart for 1974.

There's underground, and then there's the small-scale independent releases compiled on Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984. If rhythm box and/or synthesizer-armed cult artists such as Timmy Thomas, Shuggie Otis, and Mandré were just under the surface, much of this was dislodged from beneath the earth's crust. Disco freaks will recognize the name of Boris Midney, who wrote and released Makers' breathy and squelchy "Don't Challenge Me." Radio DJ Lynn Tolliver, member of the Broadcasters Hall of Fame, was behind Sexual Harassment's early-'80s electro-sleaze; he's present with the New Year's "My Bleeding Wound," a howling, lewd, reverb-soaked blues number. Deborah Washington, who performed with Cincinnati bluesman husband Albert Washington, appears with "Shortest Lady" – synth funk so distant and lo-fi that it probably wasn't intentional to have her sound like she'd need to grow four feet taller to be near the microphone.

What happens when you take the greatest artists from the Motown catalogue and the Philadelphia International label - along with more than 30 other soul anthems and put them on the same album?…
You get quite literally - The BEST SOUL ALBUM… ever ! Absolute classics from Diana Ross & The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations and Martha Reeves & The Vandellas share the track listing with the smoothest seventies soul grooves from Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, The Three Degrees, Isaac Hayes, Gladys Knight & The Pips and Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes.

The Hits Album: The Classic Soul Album brings together era-defining soul classics that have become enduring favourites years after their chart peak. This collection contains the smoothest grooves from soul royalty including Marvin Gaye’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)”, Stevie Wonder’s “Yester-me, Yester-you, Yesterday”, Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” and Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep – Mountain High”. This essential collection is filled with passionate love songs featuring Barry White’s “Just The Way You Are” and “Free” from Deniece Williams. Sing along and slow-dance at home to over 60 timeless anthems from Diana Ross, Earth, Wind & Fire, Commodores, The Supremes, James Brown, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Drifters, The Isley Brothers, Nina Simone and many more.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' final studio album, Soul of a Woman is a lush, orchestral masterpiece. A true testament to the life and career of Daptone's fearless leader and one of the world's greatest performers. In the year prior to her death from pancreatic cancer in 2016, Sharon Jones toured and performed tirelessly, and was also the subject of Miss Sharon Jones!, an acclaimed documentary by Oscar-Winning director Barbara Kopple.

It's jewels have only been revealed to Northern Soul collectors over time and several are ridiculously scarce; Little Johnny Hamilton's 'Keep On Movin' and the Swans' 'Nitty Gritty City' remain one-off disc discoveries. Guaranteed dancefloor classics abound, including Rita & the Tiaras' 'Gone With The Wind Is My Love', Little Johnny Hamilton's 'Oh How I Love You' and the Puffs' 'I Only Cry Once A Day Now'. The Superbs' 'Wind In My Sails' and Milton James' mesmeric 'My Lonely Feeling' represent the funkier end of the Northern Soul sound, while tracks by Ray Marchand and the Shades Of Jade are subtle mid-tempo soul of the highest quality. Nearly all are rare, expensive and beautiful, while Kenard's 'What Did You Gain By That' is highly imaginative, and the Fidels' 'I'm Givin' You Notice Baby' is just a classic '60s soul stomper.

Absolute classics from Diana Ross & The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations and Martha Reeves & The Vandellas share the track listing with the smoothest seventies soul grooves from Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, The Three Degrees, Isaac Hayes, Gladys Knight & The Pips and Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes.

Spanning two historic decades for the genre, the very best of 60s and 70s soul is brought together on one unique album and features classics from Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Barry White and many more.

60s Soul Classics is designed and signed as a reference on your choice of several exchangers file. Convenience, reliability and availability, is the property of our portal, efficiency and commitment to new heights, as well as the immensity of the creative transformation! Listen, familiarize and download the publication on this website. Continuing from the release of Northern Soul Classics, this excellent value 2LP compilation brings together 40 essential tracks from a generation of artists inspired by gospel and rhythm and blues. Immerse yourself in the sweet soulful voices of Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, The Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner and many more! To your attention is presented a publication for review, as well as an overview of the overall picture, content and listening!

Perpetual US Presents I Love Northern Soul Hook Line And Sinker album 48 original hits and the original artists. Includes tracks by George Kerr, The Pace Setters, Jimmy Chandler, Tamala Lewis, Roy Handy, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Leon Haywood, Al "Mr Soul" Scott and more.