Review"Please do not copy this record or upload it onto the internet as this will impact what future releases we are able to produce." is the rather dire request at the end of the booklet notes for this release. I can only hope that the guys at Soul Brother Records mean the recordings contained on it, rather than details of the release itself, or I might have to watch my back the next time I'm passing through the Putney area!!
Anyway, having got that off my chest this is the fourth release in Soul Brother Records "Wants List" series and it follows the same exacting standards as the previous three, consisting mainly of lush, highly orchestrated, ballad to mid-tempo '70s Soul (the tracks span the 1970-1981 period), with plenty of impassioned vocals and intricate harmonisation scattered throughout.
The whole point of the series has been to make available the rarities and obscurities that are in perennial demand amongst the customers at the Soul Brother record shop in Putney, South-West London and this fits the bill perfectly, with a mixture of less well-known tracks by familiar names, down-right obscurities and a couple of songs that were quite successful back in the day (notably Aretha Franklin's "Day Dreaming" which topped Billboard's R&B chart in 1972 and even made #5 on their Pop Hot-100).
I'm almost reluctant to post any links to YouTube, but I shall make an exception for the final track which (I think) is making its CD Debut here. To me this one track is worth the entire cost of the CD.