Best Of: Bobby Byrd Got Soul

Bobby Byrd | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1995)
• Original Release Date: August 22, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EFC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,176 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Know You Got Soul

2. Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'

3. I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone), Parts 1 & 2

4. If You Got A Love You Better (Hold On To It)

5. I'm Not To Blame

6. Hot Pants-I'm Coming, Coming, I'm Coming

7. Sayin' It And Doin' It Are Two Different Theings

8. You've Got To Change Your Mind

9. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby

10. I'm Lonely

11. We're In Love

12. Funky Soul, Parts 1 & 2

13. No One Like My Baby

14. Baby Baby Baby

15. I Love You So

16. Hang Ups We Don't Need (The Hungry We Got To Feed)

17. Signed, Sealed & Delivered

18. If You Don't Work You Can't Eat

19. 'Fight Against Drug Abuse'

20. I'm Just A Nobody, Parts 1 & 2

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL!(If you didn't- you wouldn't be in here), October 1, 2000

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TheBandit (SEA-TAC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of: Bobby Byrd Got Soul (Audio CD)

Overlooked and underrated, Bobby Byrd was James Brown's right-hand man for many years. He features prominently on many of JB's most famous hits, singing and playing organ. This collection features tracks from the mid-sixties to the early seventies. The best of what's here features some of the most legendary musicians in James Brown's bands: Fred Wesley (trombone), Maceo Parker (sax), Fred Thomas (bass), St. Clair Pinckney (sax), Pee Wee Ellis (sax), Jabo Starks (drums), Cheese Martin (guitar), among many others. JAMES BROWN himself is featured prominently throughout, singing back-up and/or dueting with Byrd. Two STAND-OUT tracks come from a 1971 concert recorded in Paris with the original JB's group, which included BOOTSY COLLINS on bass.

Seven of these songs were R&B hits, the biggest being "I Need Help," "I know You Got Soul," and "We're in Love." Four tracks were even minor hits on the pop charts. This funky CD should be regarded as more than a footnote in the discography of James Brown. While not on the same level as the Godfather himself, Bobby Byrd was a very important part of the James Brown Sound. I was at the JBs/Maceo/James Brown show at the EMP opening in Seattle earlier this year. Byrd was there, and it was a thrill to see him lead the various re-united JBs through super-charged renditions of "I know You Got Soul" and "I Need Help." If you're a JB fan, I don't see how you couldn't get into this CD in a very big way. The grooves are tight, the singing is powerful-- help give Bobby Byrd the recognition he deserves after all these years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars James who... Kick it out bobby!!!, September 7, 2005

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M. Rinehart "MilesmileS" (Gettysburg, Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of: Bobby Byrd Got Soul (Audio CD)

The classic example of standing in the shadow of JB's Giant. Great collection ofLive and classic hits I know it's pricey but give up something for a month (like eating). Don't worry obby will take care of you. Just check out his cover of Stevie Wonders "Signed Sealed Delivered" featuring Bootsy Collins on Bass.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars say yeah yeah, say yeah, August 22, 2001

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Sherance M. Brothers (Jasper, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of: Bobby Byrd Got Soul (Audio CD)

bobby byrd was good solo, james brown sidekick for many years, best known for his collaborations with james though, even though james does cameo's on this, this is not a bad cd,james could have did these songs himself well at least half of them, includes i know you got soul which was heard in a million rap songs between 1988-1992. man james whole catalog was sampled to death.