Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind! - Vol. 4

Soul Hits Of The '70s - Didn't It Blow Your Mind (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: January 29, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032NV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,246 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pay to the Piper

2. Groove Me

3. Somebody's Watching You

4. The Sly, Slick, and the Wicked [*]

5. Chairman of the Board

6. Deeper & Deeper [*]

7. Precious, Precious

8. Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)

9. Proud Mary

10. I Love You for All Seasons

11. (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People

12. Right on the Tip of My Tongue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great One-Hit Wonders From The Last Golden Years of Soul, February 21, 2000

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Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind! - Vol. 4 (Audio CD)

Rhino Records released "Didn't It Blow Your Mind" series of one-shot R&B hits as a companion to its "Have A Nice Day" 70s pop song series. Wisely, "Didn't It" comes without the smirking irony many of "Have"'s musical cheese puffs deserved.

This is because of the greater music quality here. Those who've heard King Floyd's "Groove Me" on the body soap commercials will marvel as its stop-start groove spreads over a too-short three minutes. Two gorgeous ballads, the Fuzz' "I Love You For All Seasons" and the shimmering Philly soul of Brenda & The Tabulations "Right on The Tip of My Tongue," matched up to more socially-concious fare from two Brunswick-label soul groups, the Chi-Lites and the Lost Generation (with the gimmicky "Sly, Slick, & Wicked") Outstanding (non-Aretha) female voices come to the fore here as they wouldn't for another five years: Tina Turner (on "Proud Mary"), Jackie Moore (the disco fave "Precious Precious"), Mavis Staples (with Pops and family on Bobby Bloom's "Heavy Makes You Happy") even Sly Stone's sister on "Somebody's Watching You." Things are a little un-PC on the two Chairman of the Board songs, but hey, guys were like that then. This is a fine collection of transitional soul that, as with many Rhino collections, beats collecting out-of-print singles yourself.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Music at it's finest, February 4, 2007

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Arnel "Evans-Deavers" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind! - Vol. 4 (Audio CD)

What a great cd!!!!! Every song is a timeless classic, especially Proud Mary!!!! My favorite songs on this album are Right on the Tip of My Tongue, Deeper and Deeper, and I love You(for all seasons). I recommend this cd to anyone who would like to hear good songs from the 1970s!!!!!!!!!!

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Music!, November 15, 2011

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Luminator (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind! - Vol. 4 (Audio CD)

This is another very solid album as part of this great collection of soul music from the 70's. It took me a while to get this album but it was worth the time and effort. I highly recommend this entire collection to all fans of soul music.