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All Fly Home
(1978)
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Al Jarreau
With a restrained yet potent funk band and a few cameos from luminaries in the jazz world, Al Jarreau gets plenty of opportunities to wrap his rubbery, ever-changing timbre around an agreeable collection of tunes, the majority of which he wrote or co-wrote. Of the cover tunes, Jarreau completely transforms Kenny Loggins' "Wait a Little While," the ...
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Platoon (And Songs from the Era)
(1986)
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Original Soundtrack
In compiling the soundtrack for Oliver Stone's Academy Award winning 1986 Vietnam War epic Platoon, producer Bud Carr opted to eschew original composition in favor of a collection of songs from the '60s in an attempt to capture the period. Many of the songs he selected were not even used in the film. The only excerpt from Georges Delerue's score ...
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The Very Best of the Staple Singers [Stax]
(2007)
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The Staple Singers
Back in 1990, when the Fantasy Records conglomerate owned the Stax imprint, they issued a 16-cut Best of the Staple Singers. Fast forward to 2007 and the label, Fantasy and all its associated labels -- Riverside, Milestone, Prestige, etc -- are owned by Concord. This later issue of Very Best of the Staple Singers contains four more songs than the ...
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The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1
(1992)
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Otis Redding
The Very Best of Otis Redding wasn't the first Otis Redding compilation but it is the best of the single-disc collections, distilling the high points across his career (up thru the posthumous hits "(Sitting' On) The Dock of the Bay" and the heartbreaking "I've Got Dreams to Remember") in 16 tracks, every one a musical milestone and a soul music ...
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Top Gun [Expanded]
(1999)
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
One of the best-selling soundtrack albums of all time, Top Gun remains a quintessential artifact of the mid-'80s. The collection's smash hits (including Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone") still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the era. The 1999 expanded edition on Columbia ...
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Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1968
(1988)
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Various Artists
Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1968 features some of the year's definitive singles, including Archie Bell & the Drells' "Tighten Up," Otis Redding's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" and the Box Tops' "Cry Like a Baby." The collection offers plenty of bubblegum pop, as well, including two of the style's definitive songs, John Fred & His Playboy ...
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Bring It on Home... The Soul Classics
(2006)
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Aaron Neville
For Aaron Neville, the impact of Hurricane Katrina could only be expressed through music, specifically on songs that are uplifting, meaningful, and close to the heart. Bring It on Home...The Soul Classics is about recovery: a positive response not only to the natural disaster of the hurricane, but undoubtedly to the blasé attitude about it from ...
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The Dock of the Bay
(1968)
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Otis Redding
It was never supposed to be like this: "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" was supposed to mark a beginning of a new phase in Otis Redding's career, not an ending. Producer/guitarist Steve Cropper had a difficult task to perform in pulling together this album, the first of several posthumous releases issued by Stax/Volt in the wake of Otis Redding ...
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Sailing
(1992)
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Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops
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WWII
(1982)
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Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson
The first time Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson released a duet record, it was at the height of outlaw country -- it was 1978, and the two were the biggest stars in country music, not only selling millions of copies, which was unheard of prior to outlaw, but they were critically respected. They dominated the scene, which allowed them to get away ...
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The Incredible Soul Collection
(2003)
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Various Artists
It's possible that there's a pop record collection of 50 to 100 CDs or more that doesn't have at least half the songs on Rhino's double-disc 32-track compilation The Incredible Soul Collection, but it's unlikely. These are not only the songs that everybody knows, they're the songs everybody buys again and again, recycled on any number of soul ...
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The Definitive Soul Collection
(2006)
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Otis Redding
Rhino released a comprehensive double-disc Otis Redding collection in 1998 called Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology. It was a generous 50 tracks and contained not only his hits, but lots of great lesser-known singles and album tracks, plus some live recordings. Eight years later, Rhino released a second Otis Redding collection, 2006's ...
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20 Greatest Hits
(2000)
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Glen Campbell
This isn't Campbell's greatest hits by any means, a definitive collection of which on one CD has so far eluded Capitol Records. On the other hand, it is a good selection of some of Campbell's most impressive cuts, singles, and album tracks alike, in a multitude of settings and genres: his own most durable hits ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix," ...
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Til the End of Forever
(2005)
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Michael Bolton
Til the End of Forever is a treat for die-hard Boltheads. The first half of the album is comprised of freshly minted material that follows the tried and true Bolton formula: well-polished, accessible ballads tempered with upbeat numbers that are wholly inoffensive to the ears. Duets with Liz Sharpe and Jim Brickman help pick the first half up when ...
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16 Biggest Hits [2006]
(2006)
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Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
RLG/Legacy's 2006 release 16 Biggest Hits is a compilation of the biggest hits from the biggest duo in outlaw country, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Not surprisingly, this disc draws heavily on their blockbuster 1978 record Waylon & Willie, containing seven of its 11 tracks, adding two cuts from their 1982 sequel WWII along with scattered ...
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The Hunger
(1987)
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Michael Bolton
Given a third chance to resurrect his third career, Bolton made drastic changes. He decided to stop trying to be Lou Gramm of Foreigner and decided that he really wanted to be -- Otis Redding? Well, that's what you'd think from his note-for-note copy of Redding's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," awhich brought him close to the Top Ten. Even ...
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The Ultimate Otis Redding
(1986)
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Otis Redding
Yet another anthology package, this one from Warner Special Products. The Ultimate Otis Redding is a single-disc economy item designed for those who only want a small sample of Otis Redding's greatness. If you're only going to get a nibble, you'd be better off getting one of his reissued albums rather than this sampler; it would be much more ...
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Retrograss
(1999)
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David Grisman/John Hartford/Mike Seeger
On the album cover, Retrograss is defined as "music shifted back in time," a direction that -- while not impossible to conceive -- is mildly shocking considering David Grisman's relentlessly progressive approach toward traditional styles. Alas, democracy still rules at Dawg Studios, and with John Hartford and Mike Seeger signing on, it comes as no ...
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Four Sider
(1988)
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Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Covering the extent of Brasil '66's output from 1966-1972, Four Sider is the best available retrospective for those new to Mendes' successful Brazilian pop outfit (the 45-song Very Best of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 offers a more comprehensive, yet potentially daunting overview). Typical of the band's original albums, Four Sider includes a mix of ...
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Casey Kasem: America's Top 10 Through Years - The 60's
(2001)
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Various Artists
Casey Kasem's America's Top 10 series often has a step or two on its competing retrospectives, and this 1960s volume is no different. It digs no deeper than the play list of your local oldies station, but packs in the hits and varies the styles with little filler. There are fuzzy rock classics from the Troggs, the Yardbirds, and Shadows of Knight, ...
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Portrait of Kevin Mahogany
(2000)
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Kevin Mahogany
Given that Kevin Mahogany released his debut in 1996, some may say the year 2000 is a bit early for a retrospective. Nevertheless, there are some fine moments on this collection. Mahogany's voice is deep, lustrous, and technically flawless. But his motley supporting cast speaks volumes about the way he straddles the straight-ahead and crossover ...
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Stax: Top of the Stax, Vol. 1: Twenty Greatest Hits
(1988)
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Various Artists
The opening gun in this series collects 20 of the label's biggest hits -- a veritable treasure trove of soul classics. Nice transfers of "Green Onions," "Knock on Wood," "Theme From 'Shaft'," "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," "B-A-B-Y," and "Hold On, I'm Comin'" make this a set that's well worth adding to the collection. Tracks from William Bell, ...
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This Is Tom Jones
(1969)
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones revels in MOR pop for this mostly fine 1969 long-player. Big-band swank makes a rare appearance on opener "Fly Me to the Moon," while the remainder ranges through the likes of "Little Green Apples," "Wichita Lineman," and "Hey Jude." The layered string and choral backdrop gets a soul update on "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and Betty ...
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Best of Sammy Hagar [EMI-Capitol Special Markets]
(1999)
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Sammy Hagar
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Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
(1998)
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Otis Redding
Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology presents an interesting dilemma. Certainly, the music on the double-disc set is superb -- all of his hits are here, along with a wealth of great album tracks and five live cuts from the Monterey International Pop Festival. The question is, was the collection necessary ? Casual listeners who just want ...
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