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Heard Freda Payne's "Bring The Boys Home" for the first time on XM Radio and found this compilation! All the songs are great but i had to have BTBH! Love it!
I ordered this CD for the songs "Bring the Boys Home" by Freda Payne and "Stick Up" by The Honey Cone as it is hard to find the originals of these songs. This is a great CD.
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2003
God bless Rhino for making all these obscure vinyl rarities available on disc. Honey Cone was a girl group that scored some successes in the early 1970s - "Want Ads", later in the decade covered by disco group Ullanda, was their biggest hit. The Chi-Lites' biggest hit was "Have You Seen Her?" from 1971, but this track "Are You My Woman" has the same smooth blend of sweet harmonies and spoken sections. "Treat Her Like A Lady" by the Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose was a huge hit in 1971, after which I never heard of them again. Great to have this on disc now! Other wonderful memories from 1971 include "Funky Nassau" by Beginning Of The End, the bouncy reggae of Dave & Ansel Collins' "Double Barrel" (Their other UK hit in 1971 was "Monkey Spanner"), Jean Knight's "Mr Big Stuff" (She hit the charts again many years later with "My Toot Toot") and The Undisputed Truth's only top ten ten hit, in a style similar to The Temptations. I had never heard the songs by 8th Day, Paul Humphrey or King Floyd before, but they're true blue classics from the golden age of soul music. This is an excellent collection of brilliant early 70's soul, highly recommended for the connoiseur.
She loves this CD (as well as Volumes #1, #2, #3, #7 and #11). She grew up listening to Soul in the 1970s. She was happy that I helped her replace her Vinyl records and 45s with these six CDs (plus a handful of other 70s classics/greatest hits CDs). A must have for the hard-core 70s soul music fan!