Soul

Founded in 1926 by Roy Crain, The Soul Stirrers were one of the preeminent gospel vocal acts in the U.S. over the next several decades. After many line up changes, a then-unknown Sam Cooke joined the group in 1951, a stint that lasted until his entry into the secular pop world as a solo artist in 1957. Cooke was replaced by Johnnie Taylor (later of “Who’s Making Love” fame), and by 1959 the Soul Stirrers found themselves without a label. Cooke and Crain, along with manager/songwriting partner J.W. Alexander reacted by founding SAR Records, whose first order of business was releasing Taylor-fronted Soul Stirrers recordings as well as selections on which Jimmie Outler took the lead.

Newpower Soul is the 1998 album by Prince & The New Power Generation but simply credited to New Power Generation. Back then, Prince was still The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. This was released on his own NPG label.

Atlantic Unearthed is a two-volume CD series released by Rhino Records on eleased on 20 June, 2006 focusing on male and female artists respectively, thus the sub-titles Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters. The songs are a mixture of known and forgotten songs and artists, with a few previously unreleased at the time of its release. Both discs are combined in one folder for the download.

Bill Haney's Atlanta Soul Brotherhood is a 1998 compilation released by the Kent Soul label. It focuses on records produced by Bill Haney, who covered a lot of ground and was able to release a number of singles on both indie (some owned by Haney himself) and major labels throughout the 1960's and 1970's. A few songs were unreleased at the time this CD was put forth.

Soul Classics features 4 Sides of vinyl containing 30 tracks of the biggest soul legends including; Al Green, Nina Simone, Bill Withers, The O’Jays, Labi Siffre, Deniece Williams, Freda Payne and more.

A former U.S. Marine turned Mercury Records staff producer responsible for everything from Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby" to Ray Stevens' "Ahab the Arab," Shelby Singleton formed his Nashville-based SSS International Group in 1966. Although best known for fare like Jeannie C. Riley's country-pop juggernaut "Harper Valley P.T.A.," SSS and its spinoffs, Silver Fox and Minaret, also generated a vast sampling of deep-fried soul, of which Kent's "Southern Soul Showcase: Cryin' in the Streets" represents the first official digital survey to date. In comparison to the backwoods soul wrought in places like Memphis and Muscle Shoals, SSS productions are clearly the product of Nashville the songs blur the lines between soul and country to the point where such distinctions become irrelevant.

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.