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Bubble Gum Classics 4

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Bubblegum Classics, Volume 4: Soulful Pop is fifty-one minutes and sixteen seconds and was released on February, 10, 1998. Bubblegum Classics, Volume 4: Soulful Pop has the fewest songs on the CD; with only seventeen songs. Volume five CD does one better. Eleven on the seventeen songs charted and none of the charted songs hit #1. Granted I enjoyed the CD, but it did not sound like bubblegum music, soul or no soul. Only one or two songs barely come close to a bubblegum. Volume 4 could have been left out on this set. Bubblegum Classics, Volume 4: Soulful Pop gets a B-.

Build Me Up Buttercup-The Foundations
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Part 1)-The Honey Cone
#15 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#5 U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles
Let Love Come Between Us-James & Bobby Purify
#23 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Blame it on the Pony Express-Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon
Everlasting Love-The Love Affair
Keep the Ball Rollin'-Jay and the Techniques
#14 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
Something Old, Something New-The Fantastics
#102 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
I Know I'm In Love-Chee-Chee & Peppy
#49 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#12 U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles
Melting Pot-Blue Mink featuring Madeline Bell
(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String-Chairmen of the Board
#38 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#19 U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles
L.O.D. (Love on Delivery)-Billy Ocean
#55 U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles
Love It's Getting Better-The Grove
Baby, Now That I Found You- The Foundations
#11 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Don't Do It Baby-Mac and Katie Kissoon
O-o-h Child-The Five Stairsteps
#8 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#14 U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles
Lost & Found-The Peoples Choice
Right Back Where We Started From-Maxine Nightingale
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#46 U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles
#5 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening

This volume of the Bubblegum Classics series focuses on "Soulful Pop". That is to say, soul-influenced pop music, or pop-influenced soul music. Most of the songs on the CD are quite enjoyable. About half the songs here were hits in the US, with slightly more than that being hits in the UK (probably because many of these songs are performed by British singers). But even the songs here that are unfamiliar to Americans are very enjoyable. This isn't really "bubblegum music", but it's still fun to listen to.

Not bubblegum enough for bubblegum fans, hardly soul enough for soul fans, this is the weakest volume in the 5 volume series. Still, good tracks -- a mix of hits and also-rans -- and informative liner notes make this a worthwhile purchase if there's something on here you especially want, but dabblers should pass.