ReviewNow this is the type of compilation I really like ... it doesn't aim to be a "Hits/Best Of" package for jaded people to fill their shopping trollies with when stuck in their local supermarket but neither does it aim to be a collection full of rarities for The Anoraks out there .. and it features a broad selection of Atlantic "Soul" material from the 1960s.
Some tracks were big international hits and should be familiar to most people .. ("Sweet Soul Music", "When A Man Loves A Woman" and Wilson Pickett's versions of "Midnight Hour" and "Land Of 1000 Dances") .. some were huge in The U.S. but didn't quite make it elsewhere ... ("Release Me", "Gee Whiz", "Slip Away") ... and a few are quite obscure ... ("Your Old Lady", Charlie Palmieri's version of "Uptight" as examples).
Most tracks, however, fall somewhere in between, such as The Bar-Kays now largely forgotten "Soulfinger", which was a Top 20 U.S. hit in 1967 and even made it to #33 in The U.K. or Herbie Mann's version of "Philly Dog", which was a minor U.S. hit and became a hugely popular tune on British dance-floors in the late '60s ....