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Definitive Sweet Soul LP Guide

indiana45sindiana45s 266 Posts
edited May 2011 in Strut Central
I've been listening more and more and more and more to sweet soul over the last 2-3 years. I blame Jinx for this trend.

You know what I'm looking for:

Moments
Whatnauts
Four Mints
Optimistics
Anything George Kerr produced
Smoke
Continental IV
Whispers
West Wing

The stuff that makes a grown man cry.

I'd like to get turned on to some lps I don't already have. They don't have to be *raer* just good.

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  • haze25haze25 759 Posts
    Family Circle
    Freddie Hughes
    Tom Brock
    Sylvers
    The Lovelites
    The Montclairs
    The Ultimates
    The Delfonics (personal favorite)
    5 Stairsteps
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    You're leaving out quite a few classic 45s with this LP-only focus
  • haze25haze25 759 Posts
    I think his name leads you to believe he's up on alot of sweet soul 45's, if not i have recomendations.
  • haze25haze25 759 Posts
    The Intruders
    The Eight Minutes
    The Impressions
    Black Ivory
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    The 45s would be endless, whereas you could feasibly create a "Definitive Sweet Soul LP Guide."
  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    i guess i just assumed this was common knowledge but there is a 12 volume set called "east side story" that will cover the bases.
  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    The Smith Connection

  • strataspherestratasphere Blastin' the Nasty 1,035 Posts
    The Glass House. The Thanks I Needed That lp in particular.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Barbara Mason's first two, I especially like Oh, How It Hurts
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    doubles
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Best Of The Fantastic Four - even though the album was released on the Soul label, this is a compilation of the Fantastic Four's earlier singles on Ric Tic
  • haze25haze25 759 Posts
    The Ambassadors
    Joe Bataan
    Sweet charles
    J.r Bailey
    The Temprees
    Eddie Holman (far from good all the way but theres some killer sweet soul on here)
    The Dells
  • GuzzoGuzzo 8,611 Posts

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Presidents
    Independents
    Detroit Emeralds (particularly these three: You Want It, You Got It; Do Me Right; I'm In Love With You)
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    The LPs out there are comps of his singles. He and his falsetto are lovely.



    I believe the same goes for The Masqueraders? That their LPs are comps of their singles? I am sure someone here can confirm. But anyway, they are one of the best soul groups EVAR imo:





  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Bassie, the Masqueraders did release actual albums, but they were from the post-disco era and well out of the scope of this thread - there were two albums on Hot Buttered Soul (Isaac Hayes' label) and then there was a 1980 LP on Bang.

    I personally don't know if there was a compilation of their prime-era singles that you speak of, although there should be,
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