A Double Blast of Super Soul [CD, Original recording, Import, Compilation]

Various (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Format: CD, Original recording, Import, Compilation
• Label: Pacific
• ASIN: B002BRRTS6
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,159,165 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

A 27 cut CD on Pacific. 1. INTRO WITH KING COLEMAN 2. I FOUND A LOVE - FALCONS 3. ALABAMA BOUND - FALCONS 4. PAIN IN MY HEART - OTIS REDDING 5. THESE ARMS OF MINE - OTIS REDDING 6. MISTY - DORIS TROY 7. SAY YEAH - DORIS TROY 8. ROCKIN CHAIR - RUFUS THOMAS 9. WALKING THE DOG - RUFUS THOMAS 10. TAINT NOTHIN TO ME - COASTERS 11. SPEEDOS BACK IN TOWN - COASTERS 12. GROOVIN - BEN E. KING 13. DONT PLAY THAT SONG - BEN E. KING 14. STAND BY ME - BEN E. KING 15. WHATD I SAY - FINALE 16. UNDER THE BOARDWALK - DRIFTERS 17. ON BROADWAY - DRIFTERS 18. THERE GOES MY BABY - DRIFTERS 19. MIXED UP, SHOOK UP GIRL - PATTI & THE EMBLEMS 20. MY GIRL SLOOPY - VIBRATIONS 21. WATUSI - VIBRATIONS 22. JIMMY BISHOP THEME 23. IF YOU NEED ME - WILSON PICKETT 24. IM GONNA CRY - WILSON PICKETT 25. DOWN THE AISLE - PATTI LaBELLE & THE BLUEBELLES 26. CANT YOU FEEL THE BEAT - CARLTONS 27. OH BABY (WE GOT A GOOD THING GOING) - BARBARA LYNN

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Double Blast Of Phonograph Surface Noise., August 29, 2009

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This review is from: A Double Blast of Super Soul (Audio CD)

I remember Stereo Revue magazine, a popular monthly publication that I used to read during the 70's & 80's. It would revue and give an evaluation of the latest stereo equipment as well as phonograph record releases for stereo audio and general sonic musical quality. If they had evaluated these two 1960's Atlantic Records (remastered for cd) recordings of various r&b artists live at the Apollo & Uptown theaters, they would have given the cd a thumbs down due to sonic imperfections, 1 star at the most. People who buy and listen to mp3's probably won't notice any imperfections at all but we old folks from the Hi Fi era hear it all. I applaud the effort of Pacific Records to make "Saturday Night At The Uptown" available again and on cd. The "Apollo Saturday Night" has been available on cd for years. Hearing the Drifters, Coasters, Falcons, Vibrations, Wilson Pickett, etc in their element is a timeless experience. Having both albums on 1 cd was a marvelous idea too, but the surface noise of the phonograph needle tracking, clicking and popping inside the groove of the record marred this remastering effort. The phono scratching in the high end and rumble in the low end are hard to bear. Maybe if the producers of this cd had used a high quality computerized program to clean up some of the tracking errors, this cd could have been more acceptable. The packaging itself has all the trappings of a bootleg. No liner notes, thin paper inserts. I own these two records in phonograph form and I know for a fact that they are recorded exceptionally well for live recordings and captured the real soul of this r&b history in the making. Here's hoping the Uptown recordings will be re-issued again someday in a more sonically suitable package. It is doubtful we will get another re-issue since the cd itself is slowly becoming extinct. 5 stars for the music, 3 stars for the remastered product effort on cd.