Burke Solomon - King Of Rock N Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1968) (Digi) [CD]

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This 3-CD SoulMusic Records’ set celebrates the recordings that Solomon Burke made for the legendary Atlantic Records label between 1960 and 1968. Solomon is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest soul singers to emerge during the genre’s golden days. He signed to Atlantic before ‘soul music’ became a bona fide sub-genre of African-American music and it was Solomon who helped define this new movement and he was, in fact, one of the first artists to use ‘soul’ to describe his music. He would eventually be known the world over as ‘The King of Rock and Soul’.

His Atlantic recordings are presented in chronological order of recording across the three discs and each session is identified by date, location and all the musicians present are identified (where known). This celebratory definitive collection includes the content of all six of the LPs released during Solomon’s tenure with Atlantic plus all non-album tracks for a total of 78 soulful cuts.

• Disc One presents Solomon’s earliest recordings beginning with three titles recorded for the Singular record label which were purchased by Atlantic along with his contract in 1959. Moving on to his first Atlantic sessions between 1960 and 1962 it contains his first hits, ‘Just Out of Reach’, ‘Cry to Me’, ‘Down in The Valley’, ‘I Really Don’t Want to Know’ and ‘If You Need Me’ (written by Wilson Pickett). Also featured for the first time on CD anywhere, the original 45 mix of ‘I’m Hanging Up My Heart for You’. It is significant that Solomon enjoyed hits with revivals of country-and-western songs before other artists – such as Ray Charles and Esther Phillips – followed suit. These sessions were all produced by Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler and the emerging talent that was songwriter & hitmaker Bert Berns.

• Disc Two continues with nine sessions over 26 tracks recorded between 1963 and 1966. This was Solomon’s prime hitmaking era featuring as it does his only No 1 R&B chart hit, ‘Got to Get You Off My Mind’, ‘You’re Good To Me’, ‘The Price’ and probably his most famous song ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’, now perhaps more associated with The Blues Brothers. This disc also features two more tracks making their worldwide CD debut; the original 45 mix of ‘Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)’ and the original 45 mix of ‘Beautiful Brown Eyes’. The era covered by this disc also sees the arrival of some very important backing vocalists like Cissy Houston and Dee Dee Warwick.

• Disc Three takes us from 1966 to 1968 after which he would leave Atlantic Records. For the first time Atlantic had Solomon record outside of New Yo

  This Little Ring

  Wonu2019t You Give Him (One More Chance)

  When She Touches Me (Nothing Else Matters)

  Be Bop Grandma

  Beautiful Brown Eyes

  Keep Looking

  Itu2019s All Right

  Beautiful Brown Eyes (Stereo Alternate Take)

  Woman How Do You Make Me Love You Like I Do

  Keep The Magic Working

  Youu2019re Good To Me

  Time Is A Thief

  Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)

  Heu2019ll Have To Go

  Presents For Christmas

  How Many Times

  Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)

  Keep A Light In The Window (Till I Come Home)

  A Tear Fell

  Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (Stereo Alternate Take)

  Take Me (Just As I Am)

  Cry To Me

  Someone To Love Me

  I Stayed Away Too Long

  I Almost Lost My Mind

  Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

  Need Your Love So Bad

  Down In The Valley

  Yes, I Do

  Itu2019s Just A Matter Of Time

  Looking For My Baby

  The Price

  Detroit City

  Iu2019m Hanging Up My Heart For You (Stereo Alternate Take)

  Tonightu2019s The Night

  Party People

  Iu2019m Hanging Up My Heart For You

  Got To Get You Off My Mind

  Itu2019s Been A Change

  Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)

  Peepinu2019

  Soul Meeting u2013 The Soul Clan

  Gotta Travel On

  Little Girl That Loves Me

  Thatu2019s How It Feels u2013 The Soul Clan

  I Really Donu2019t Want To Know

  Dance, Dance, Dance

  By The Time I Get To Phoenix

  Tonight, My Heart She Is Crying

  Maggieu2019s Farm

  I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)

  Home In Your Heart

  Only Love (Can Save Me Now)

  Shame On Me

  You Can Make It If You Try

  Someone Is Watching

  Save It

  Stupidity

  I Donu2019t Want You No More

  Meet Me In Church

  Send Me Some Loving

  (No, No, No) I Canu2019t Stop Loving You Now

  Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

  Words

  Baby Come On Home

  Why, Why, Why

  I Said I Was Sorry

  I Feel A Sin Coming On

  Get Out Of My Life Woman

  Canu2019t Nobody Love You

  Lawdy Miss Clawdy

  Whatu2019d I Say

  If You Need Me

  Mountain Of Pride

  Since I Met You Baby

  Hard Ainu2019t It Hard

  Suddenly

  You Canu2019t Love u2018em All

• Genre: Funk & Soul
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5013929089334

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