Capitol Gold: Best of

Ashford & Simpson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Indent Series
• ASIN: B000005JK0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Seems to Hang On

2. Found a Cure

3. Street Corner

4. Love It Away

5. I'll Take the Whole World On

6. High-Rise

7. Experience (Love Had No Face)

8. My Kinda Pick Me Up

9. Solid

10. Outta the World

11. Babies

12. Count Your Blessings

13. Nobody Walks in L.A.

14. Love or Physical

15. Cookies and Cake

16. I'll Be There for You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If only the original 70's albums were issued!, March 30, 2004

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Marcel Wild (Matieland 7602 South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capitol Gold: Best of (Audio CD)

There are those music groups whose "best of" is neatly collected
on one or two cds, and those whose best of isn't (either by the sheer multitude of gems or because the collector's taste differs too much from your own). Groups of the first kind e.g. include
ABBA, CCR, Foreigner, Journey; groups of the second kind include
Beatles, Moody Blues, Rare Earth, and Ashford+Simpson. In the latter case there is just no alternative to buying some original albums! In case of Ashford+Simpson that would be some of their
70's albums. For instance,
only one song from "Is it still good to ya" is included in the present compilation, but I can name 10 tracks from
"Is it still.." and "Send it" that are as good as the 5 best songs on the present compilation. These 5 are: It seems to hang on, Experience, Count your blessings, Love it away, I'll take the whole world on. They are slow going R&B with complex, vocal harmonies at its best. Compared with them, the rest is trivial kind of Disco music (with a few highlights now and then). There are other great R&B bands from the early 70's whose
original albums are sorely missed (or astronomically prized),
e.g. Tavares, Mother's Finest, Jerry Butler (with and without Thelma Houston).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Stuff R&B,Soul dreams & songs are made of..., March 29, 2001

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Armando M. Mesa (Chandler, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of (Audio CD)

During the 70's and 80's in the R&B duo groups were names like Rene & Angela, Peaches & Herb, etc. Then there was Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson a married couple who had been in the music writing business since the early 60's penning songs for Motown's Diana Ross and other various artists. Val Simpson had done a few solo projects in the 60's that went shamefully unnoticed by the music industry. Not until the 70's did they write material that would catch the world's attention like Chaka Khan's/Whitney Houston's I'm Every Woman...

It was in the late 70's and 80's the duo started performing their own written tunes. Beautiful tracks like It Seems to Hang On is the stuff sweet soul music is made of;just filled with catchy lyrics and a silky almost jazz-like rhythm.Even their other Warner Bros. disco tune I Found A Cure demonstrated they could keep up with what was popular yet never sell out to trends;they kept their musical innovativeness and originality intact without compromising their outstanding quality to satisfy a flashy trend. The pop-soul driven feel of Solid (while overplayed and killed on the airwaves in '85) is one of their most popular among "non" r&b music listeners.One of my all time favorites from their out of print album Street Opera is Street Corner with it's piano, bass and early synth work still makes it timeless and enjoyable. It's also dancefloor accessible !

It would be remarkable if Ashford and Simpson would release their early solo material from the 60's or to hear them sing the songs that made other artists famous...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Velvety Valerie Simpson and Sublime Nick Ashford...., July 31, 2001

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of (Audio CD)

....the best R and Bee vocal duo ever.

If I had a criticism of this fabuloso product it would be that it has mostly all their Capitol Records hits...Hey, they put "It Seems to Hang On" from the great "Is it Still Good To Ya" album, on this but I always half expect to hear the single "Is It..." afterwards. Fear not, fans and lovers. This has "Solid" and the great jam "Count Your Blessings" (which always gets a heart tug from me when they go "I almost lost the one I love, searching out for something new") and (Ya Momma Shouldna Told Ya) "Babies" and "I'll Take the Whole World On"....

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