Planets of Life [Import]

Whispers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle Music UK
• ASIN: B00005UBIQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Must Be Doing All Right

2. Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong

3. Planets of Life

4. They're Gonna Hear from Me

5. A Singer of Songs

6. I Can Remember

7. Needle in a Haystack

8. Creation of Love

9. I'm the One

10. You Made Me So Very Happy

11. Great Day [*]

12. I Can't See Myself Leaving You [*]

13. The Time Will Come [*]

14. Flying High [*]

15. What Will I Do [*]

16. Remember Me [*]

17. Where Have You Been [*]

18. People in a Hurry [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential and rare recordings, but with one BIG error..., March 29, 2003

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David W. Coleman "Sportside Books" (Buckeye, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planets of Life (Audio CD)

All of these years, I thought the Janus release of 1973, Planets Of Life, was an original album that gathered together the group's
Soul Clock recordings of 1969-70. Thanks to this CD, I learned that the original album containing tracks 1-10 on this issue, was titled "The Whispers" and appeared on Soul Clock in 1970. So the Janus release in 1973 was a re-issue! The highlight of The Whispers' Soul Clock output was the haunting, "Seems Like I Gotta
Do Wrong." It's a very moving song about Black people not being able to move up the social ladder, and offers an early analysis of why corrections systems in the U.S. are filled with people of color. The song is a very courageous indictment of American society at the dawn of the seventies (and, sadly, still applies today). Besides the original album content, there are eight bonus cuts (B-sides or non-lp singles), which are seeing the light of day for the first time in 30+ years. But there is a HUGE error. My copy lists "Planets Of Life" as the third cut on the disc, but the song that plays is "If You," a well-remembered song from the Janus years. I'm sure it is just an inadvertant switch of the master tapes, but when you are dealing with the title cut of a CD, you just can't let that title cut not appear. Castle Records has done the fans of The Whispers a great service by making this compilation happen (as well as the follow-up: a two-disc retrospective of the Janus years), but this kind of sloppiness won't help them build a trustworthy reputation. If you pick this one up and the error has not been corrected, the song "Planets Of Life" is available on "Vintage Whispers" and a couple of other choice compilations. It also appears in a live version on the all-time classic album, "Headlights."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, May 21, 2004

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John Almeida (New haven, Ct) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planets of Life (Audio CD)

great day is a great song that i have been trying to find. i will be glad to add to my collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album if you get the right one!, July 1, 2009

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Terrence D. Hillman "skeeme_" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planets Of Life (Audio CD)

Planets Of Life is one of the best collections of The Whispers you could buy. With 3 releases on CD on the market, who's going to get it right? Well, I ordered this one since I already had the "Soul Clock Recordings" issue from England (mind you, this is the first review actually written for this Canadian version,) and it didn't have the title track as listed. My luck has it that I was sent the wrong one. Instead, I recieved the German version. If anybody is trying to sell you that one, don't buy it because it's complete crap! I'll tell you why, because it's recorded from vinyl, the recordings are then normalized with digital clip and noise reduction (I use a german CD burner program, and the clip and noise reduction options make the recording muffled and ***tty.) Anyway, I'm waiting to hear back from the seller that sent me the wrong CD, then I will do an update of this review for this version from Unidisc (the last of the Planets Of Life albums on CD which is from the Janus/ GRT reissue of the original recordings.) Hang 10...