Definitive Whatnauts [Import]

Whatnauts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 17, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Deep Beats
• ASIN: B00000114F
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,468 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I Just Can't Lose Your Love

2. Tweedly Dum-Dum

3. She's Gone to Another

4. What's Life to Give (After Giving It All)

5. Fall in Love All Over

6. Just Can't Leave My Baby

7. I'll Erase Away Your Pain

8. Please Make the Love Go Away

9. Souling With the Whatnauts

10. Dance to the Music

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Try Me (And I'll Show You)

2. Friends by Day (Lovers by Night)

3. Alibis and Lies

4. I Dig Your Act

5. You Gave Me True Loving

6. World

7. We Will Always Be Together

8. My Thing

9. Let Me Be That Special One

10. Girls

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Collection Of Work, July 3, 1998

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Carl Holman (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Definitive Whatnauts (Audio CD)

The Definitive Whatnauts CD include the entire three albums recorded by the group on Stang Records in the seventies plus a handful of unrelease tracks. In a nutshell the Whatnauts sound consisted of a skyscraping falsetto and a David Ruffin like tenor. They excelled on slowies; but message songs were their forte too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitively The Definitive Collection!, January 6, 2005

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Juicefree 20 "Juicefree" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Definitive Whatnauts (Audio CD)

This is the most complete compilation of the Baltimore Natives output. Their first LP on Stang, "Introducing The Whatnauts" is a 70s Soul classic.This compilation contains all of their classic ballads:

I'll Erase Away The Pain, Message To A Black Man, Try Me, Friends By Day, She's Gone To Another, What's Left To Give, Please Make The Love Go Away, We Will Always Be Together, You Forgot Too Easy, the wonderful & terribly underrated Let Me Be That Special One.

As you have noticed, I prefer their ballads. However, they could also swing a little, as evidenced by their dance cuts, I'm So Glad I Found You (unfortunately their duet version with Linda Jones is not included here) & their great duet with The Moments, Girls. Both the English & French versions of Girls are included here. They even dabbled in funk, with the funky Souling With The Whatnauts, which is as funky as anything recorded in the Soulful 70s & Why Can't People Be Colors Too.

The Whatnauts seemed to have disappeared after 1974, but resurfaced in 1981 on Harlem World Records, with the often sampled funk classic, Help Is On The Way. Of course, Fat Larry Band molded their Dance classic, Act Like You Know from this song.

My only complaint about this CD is that they included the song Give A Damn & credited it to The Whatnauts. Give A Damn was actually made by The Internationals, who morphed into The Persuaders, of Thin Line Between Love & Hate fame. Well, actually, it's nice to see Give A Damn on any compilation.

With that one minor complaint noted, I wholeheartedly recommed this CD to all lovers of 70s Soul music, particularily ballads. If you enjoy the East Coast ballad sounds of groups like The Moments, Black Ivory, Terry Huff & Special Delivery, or, Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals, this CD is for you!

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF BALTIMORE'S BEST, May 11, 2010

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Adell Bell (baltimore,md) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Definitive Whatnauts (Audio CD)

I remmber the Whatnauts back in the 70's in Baltimore, they use to come and perfome on OPERATION CHAMP I think I have seen them about twich they were a great group I still listen to thier songs no group these day could replace the old groups in the 70's, I just wish I could change the hands of time.