Best Of David Soul [Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

David Soul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Music Club Records
• ASIN: B0000082BT
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't Give Up on Us

2. Tattler

3. Silver Lady

4. I Wish I Was

5. It Sure Brings Out the Love in Your Eyes

6. Seem to Miss So Much (Coalminer's Song)

7. Let's Have a Quiet Night In

8. Going in With My Eyes Open

9. One More Mountain to Climb

10. Topanga

11. 1927 Kansas City

12. Landlord

13. Nobody But a Fool or a Preacher

14. Bird on a Wire

Editorial Reviews

UK compilation for the 70s TV star. 14 tracks. Music Club.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Talented singer more famous as an actor, January 3, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of David Soul (Audio CD)

David Soul is better known as one half of the TV series Starsky and Hutch, but he was a folk singer back in the sixties. He sometimes performed his songs as the opening act for such groups as the Byrds and the Doors but switched to an acting career and abandoned his singing for a while.

Eventually, he managed to find a record label that gave him the opportunity to record the kind of music that he wanted. Although it might generally be classed as easy listening pop, evidence of David's roots is still there, particularly via covers of Bird on a wire (Leonard Cohen) and Tattler (Ry Cooder).

David's hits were mostly written by Tony Macauley, a British producer-songwriter who scored notable successes in the late sixties and early seventies via big international hits for the Foundations (Baby now that I've found you, Build me up buttercup), Edison lighthouse (Love grows where my Rosemary goes), Long John Baldry (Let the heartaches begin) and others.

Don't give up on us reached the very top of the charts in both Britain and America early in 1977. It was his only significant American hit, but he had four more hits in Britain. Going in with my eyes open reached number two. Silver lady became David's second number one. Let's have a quiet night in was a top ten hit. David's final UK hit, It sure brings out the love in your eyes, peaked at twelve. All those songs are (of course) included on this compilation. As the titles of the songs might suggest, David was primarily a balladeer, but Silver lady was more up-tempo than the others.

If you enjoy the music of Bread, you will surely enjoy David Soul's music.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First half "sweet," second half folky, December 19, 2004

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Tahl (Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best Of David Soul (Audio CD)

Back in the day of vinyl LPs, performers often used the necessary break of flipping over the record to change the tone of an album. This CD "flips" before Track #9 (One More Mountain To Climb). Maybe you'll be lucky and like both "sides," like many reviewers here. I don't like the first side, but would buy the album for the second side alone.

With an exception or two, the first eight tracks are all similar: sensitive-guy ballads, first-person lyrics (can't recall having heard the word "I" so much in so short a space before), arrangements heavy on the strings. It's a sweet old-fashioned sound, without much edge. The sound of the band Bread is a good comparison.

The last six tracks (plus track 2, a bit out of place) are quite different. Somebody's shot the string section, the piano player's loosened his tie and gotten more creative, and a guy on electric guitar sits in on a few. The songs are more what you'd find on a James Taylor or Gordon Lightfoot album, with a blues/gospel/folk vibe. It's a smart selection of covers that shows off Soul's voice well. I particularly like "One More Mountain To Climb" and Soul's own "Topanga," but really I'm happy with all of these numbers.

The mixing isn't great; I kept noticing the high-hat, and the background sings sometimes drown Soul's light tenor. I do like that throughout the album he has the nerve to undersing ("Let's Have a Quiet Night In"), or to push the edge of his range ("1927 Kansas City"), to make a song more interesting.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of David Soul CD is my new favorite!, December 28, 2002

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Sandra McKenzie (Braham, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
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I must confess I've got a HUGE crush on David Soul from watching Starsky & Hutch reruns... so I purchased this CD mainly out of curiosity, knowing that 70's style music is not typically what I go for. Am I glad I took the chance... David's voice is every bit as beautiful as his baby blue eyes! I cannot stop listening to this CD, nor count how many times I've played the songs that have become my instant favorites. There's a little bit of gospel, some blues, some rock, in a wonderful combination that sometimes includes all three. It makes me wish I'd been old enough to see his talent in person. To be honest, I could do without the female background vocals on at least one of the tracks, but most of the songs are perfect the way they are. I have played this CD for people of various ages, and they have all liked it. Now I'm on a mission to possess everything else David Soul has ever recorded. His music is just incredible. Highly recommended.