Underground Oldies 1

Various Artists - Alternative - New Wave | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: February 10, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Itp Records
• ASIN: B0000021WX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #93 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave

Track Listings

1. Please Say It Isn't So - Lee Williams And The Cymbals

2. Hey Lady - Entertainers IV

3. If There's A Tomorrow - Natural Resources

4. A Woman Will Do Wrong - The Magic Touch

5. No Time - The Gliders

6. Foxy Lady - Natural Resources

7. Oh My Love, Sweet Love - The Hill Sisters

8. One Bad Habit - The Superbs

9. One Minute Baby - The Brothers Of Soul

10. Why Did I Go - The Four Mints

11. For The Rest Of My Days - The Pretenders

12. Singer Of Songs - The Whispers

13. Your Eyes - The Superbs

14. My Garden Of Eden - Entertainers IV

15. You're My Desire - The Four Mints

16. When You're Young And In Love - Entertainers IV

17. Every Once In A While - The Debonaires

18. Temptation Walk (People Don't Look No More) - Entertainers IV

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The amount of research and work...........!, March 29, 2006

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William Blackshear "Record Vault" (West Orange, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Underground Oldies 1 (Audio CD)

To get the music on the "Underground Oldies, Vol. 1-10" series onto cd, legally, was a job in itself!!! Long term soul/sweet soul record collectors surely understand! Some of the rarest, hardest to locate (especially in pristine condition), and most expensive music to obtain are long, out of print 45s. A "demarcation line" is crossed when entering the venue of 45 record collecting. True heavies of record collecting are members of that elite club! For the most part, doors to accumulate a large collection of rare 45s, closed so long ago collectors went from being "Dad" to "Grandpappa" status! I.T.P Records is the only company that has legally reissued this amount in volume of rare and ultra-rare soul/sweet soul music compilation cds. The 10 cds in this series contain many very rare and very expensive records on them. Heck, the writer has only seen the ultra rare Four Mints album for sale perhaps twice in the past 5 years, and each time it sold for over $1,000.00! In this series are some of the best ballads off that lp, WOW! Unlike some of the other non-authorized sweet soul compilations "floating" around, Alan Beck and crew went through all the pain-staking work of obtaining legal rights to put the songs from numerous, numerous small, long gone, obscure, "what label?", where, when, how..... onto cd to present availibility worldwide, what a task and what a success!. Failure to obtain legal rights is the reason the other non-authorized series are not obtainable through normal retail channels. Very, very few long term, hard core, soul/sweet soul record collectors can lay claim to possessing in their record collections all the songs on the 10 cds! Even for them, far from being that easy! These cds are LOADED, with rare soul/sweet recordings, and thanks to the efforts of the folks at I.T.P. they are obtainable to enjoy at what amounts to a fraction of the total value of the original records themselves! If one is an old-school soul/swet soul collector, and does not currently possess this great series, get the credit card out now. As a legitimate release, for the type of music it contains, this series is #1!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting rare oldies CD., June 15, 2003

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Underground Oldies 1 (Audio CD)

This CD features 18 soul ballads recorded during the late 1960s and early-'70s by artists who did not amount to much but whose work merits a closer look and reappraisal by "sweet soul" afficionados. It's worth noting that most of these songs were released on small, short-lived labels and are making their CD debut here. The songs by The Pretenders, The Magic Touch, The Entertainers IV, The Four Mints and The Superbs are my favorites but the others are also quite enjoyable. Many thanks to Alan Beck at ITP Records for compiling and issuing this CD.

4.0 out of 5 stars What A Surprise!, July 17, 2001

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R. D. Wiley "butterflyrdw" (Jamaica, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Underground Oldies 1 (Audio CD)

I purchased this CD for Billy Stewart's "I'm No Romeo" which I heard him sing at a concert in the early '70's. I have been searching for this song for years. It was the only song I knew on this CD and what a surpirse - I liked every other song. I have sinced played it several times. The ballads flow beautifully. I can certainly say I got my money's worth on this one.