T.K. Soul Singles: Best of

Va-Tk Soul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hot Productions
• ASIN: B000001QJQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,106 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas

2. Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright

3. Baptize Me in Your Love - Clarence Reid

4. Funky Nassau - Begining Of The End

5. The Best Part of a Man - Wilson Pickett

6. Friends and Buddies - Milton Wright

7. Rockin' Chair - Gwen McCrae

8. Jazz Freak - Paulette Reaves

9. Party Down - Little Beaver

10. What You Won't Do for Love - Bobby Caldwell

11. Party Freaks - Miami

12. Hey Sexy Dancer - Rocky Mizell & The Sugar Rock Band

13. Let's Straighten It Out - Latimore

14. Honey, Honey - David Hudson

15. Dreams - Tropea

16. Shotgun Shuffle - The Sunshine Band

17. Oh, That's My Man - Fire

18. Ain't Nothin' Wrong - Paul Revere & The Raiders

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars odd compilation but the hits sound good, April 29, 2005

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Music Fan Jeff (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: T.K. Soul Singles: Best of (Audio CD)

I must admit that I was puzzled when I first came upon this disc 10 years ago. Nearly all of the biggest hits found here were not even issued on the T.K. label itself but rather other imprints of T.K. founder Henry Stone, such as Alston and Glades. But what seemed stranger to me is that most of the tracks on this disc were far from hits. One listen to many of them reveals why they didn't become better known. Still, there are some prime tracks here, including Timmy Thomas' "Why Can't We Live Together" (in its full length version), Gwen McCrae's "Rockin' Chair", Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman", Beginning of the End's "Funky Nassau" (either the album version or a special edit of both sides of the 45 put together; I never owned the lp, so I'm not sure), Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love", and Latimore's "Let's Straighten It Out".

The reason for my 4-star rating is that these hits sound better here than they do elsewhere on cd. Whoever mastered this collection (the cd lists the "producer" of the compilation, Paul Klein, but not the remastering engineer) got the midrange of these recordings right, giving them a nice sense of realism; there might be a tad bit of excess in the upper frequencies, but not as much as on Rhino Record's reissues of this same material.