Definitive Sweet Soul LP Guide

[indiana45s]

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.

 

[haze25]

Family Circle


Freddie Hughes


Tom Brock


Sylvers


The Lovelites


The Montclairs


The Ultimates


The Delfonics (personal favorite)


5 Stairsteps

 

[pickwick33]

You're leaving out quite a few classic 45s with this LP-only focus

 

[haze25]

I think his name leads you to believe he's up on alot of sweet soul 45's, if not i have recomendations.

 

[haze25]

The Intruders


The Eight Minutes


The Impressions


Black Ivory

 

[bull_ox]

The 45s would be endless, whereas you could feasibly create a "Definitive Sweet Soul LP Guide."

 

[grandpa_shig]

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.

 

[RAJ]

The Smith Connection

 

[stratasphere]

The Glass House. The Thanks I Needed That lp in particular.

 

[bassie]

 

[bassie]

Barbara Mason's first two, I especially like Oh, How It Hurts

 

[bassie]

doubles

 

[pickwick33]

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

 

[haze25]

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

 

[Guzzo]

 

[pickwick33]

Presidents


Independents


Detroit Emeralds (particularly these three: You Want It, You Got It; Do Me Right; I'm In Love With You)

 

[bassie]

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:

 

[pickwick33]

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,