5013929089334

The King Of Rock 'n' Soul ~ The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1968) (3cd)

Solomon Burke

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Cat No: QSMCR5193T

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Release Date:  28 August 2020

Label:  Soulmusic Records / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929089334

Genres:  R&B  

  • Description

    This 3-CD SoulMusic Records’ set celebrates the recordings that Solomon Burke made for the legendary Atlantic Records label between 1960 and 1968. Solomon is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest soul singers to emerge during the genre’s golden days. He signed to Atlantic before ‘soul music’ became a bona fide sub-genre of African-American music and it was Solomon who helped define this new movement and he was, in fact, one of the first artists to use ‘soul’ to describe his music. He would eventually be known the world over as ‘The King of Rock and Soul’.


    His Atlantic recordings are presented in chronological order of recording across the three discs and each session is identified by date, location and all the musicians present are identified (where known). This celebratory definitive collection includes the content of all six of the LPs released during Solomon’s tenure with Atlantic plus all non-album tracks for a total of 78 soulful cuts.



    • Disc One presents Solomon’s earliest recordings beginning with three titles recorded for the Singular record label which were purchased by Atlantic along with his contract in 1959. Moving on to his first Atlantic sessions between 1960 and 1962 it contains his first hits, ‘Just Out of Reach’, ‘Cry to Me’, ‘Down in The Valley’, ‘I Really Don’t Want to Know’ and ‘If You Need Me’ (written by Wilson Pickett). Also featured for the first time on CD anywhere, the original 45 mix of ‘I’m Hanging Up My Heart for You’. It is significant that Solomon enjoyed hits with revivals of country-and-western songs before other artists – such as Ray Charles and Esther Phillips – followed suit. These sessions were all produced by Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler and the emerging talent that was songwriter & hitmaker Bert Berns.



    • Disc Two continues with nine sessions over 26 tracks recorded between 1963 and 1966. This was Solomon’s prime hitmaking era featuring as it does his only No 1 R&B chart hit, ‘Got to Get You Off My Mind’, ‘You’re Good To Me’, ‘The Price’ and probably his most famous song ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’, now perhaps more associated with The Blues Brothers. This disc also features two more tracks making their worldwide CD debut; the original 45 mix of ‘Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)’ and the original 45 mix of ‘Beautiful Brown Eyes’. The era covered by this disc also sees the arrival of some very important backing vocalists like Cissy Houston and Dee Dee Warwick.



    • Disc Three takes us from 1966 to 1968 after which he would leave Atlantic Records. For the first time Atlantic had Solomon record outside of New Yo

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. This Little Ring
      • 2. Be Bop Grandma
      • 3. It’s All Right
      • 4. Keep The Magic Working
      • 5. Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)
      • 6. How Many Times
      • 7. A Tear Fell
      • 8. Cry To Me
      • 9. I Almost Lost My Mind
      • 10. Down In The Valley
      • 11. Looking For My Baby
      • 12. I’m Hanging Up My Heart For You (Stereo Alternate Take)
      • 13. I’m Hanging Up My Heart For You
      • 14. Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)
      • 15. Gotta Travel On
      • 16. I Really Don’t Want To Know
      • 17. Tonight, My Heart She Is Crying
      • 18. Home In Your Heart
      • 19. You Can Make It If You Try
      • 20. Stupidity
      • 21. Send Me Some Loving
      • 22. Words
      • 23. I Said I Was Sorry
      • 24. Can’t Nobody Love You
      • 25. If You Need Me
      • 26. Hard Ain’t It Hard
      • 27. You Can’t Love ‘em All

      Disc 2

      • 1. Won’t You Give Him (One More Chance)
      • 2. Beautiful Brown Eyes
      • 3. Beautiful Brown Eyes (Stereo Alternate Take)
      • 4. You’re Good To Me
      • 5. He’ll Have To Go
      • 6. Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
      • 7. Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (Stereo Alternate Take)
      • 8. Someone To Love Me
      • 9. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
      • 10. Yes, I Do
      • 11. The Price
      • 12. Tonight’s The Night
      • 13. Got To Get You Off My Mind
      • 14. Peepin’
      • 15. Little Girl That Loves Me
      • 16. Dance, Dance, Dance
      • 17. Maggie’s Farm
      • 18. Only Love (Can Save Me Now)
      • 19. Someone Is Watching
      • 20. I Don’t Want You No More
      • 21. (No, No, No) I Can’t Stop Loving You Now
      • 22. Baby Come On Home
      • 23. I Feel A Sin Coming On
      • 24. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
      • 25. Mountain Of Pride
      • 26. Suddenly

      Disc 3

      • 1. When She Touches Me (Nothing Else Matters)
      • 2. Keep Looking
      • 3. Woman How Do You Make Me Love You Like I Do
      • 4. Time Is A Thief
      • 5. Presents For Christmas
      • 6. Keep A Light In The Window (Till I Come Home)
      • 7. Take Me (Just As I Am)
      • 8. I Stayed Away Too Long
      • 9. Need Your Love So Bad
      • 10. It’s Just A Matter Of Time
      • 11. Detroit City
      • 12. Party People
      • 13. It’s Been A Change
      • 14. Soul Meeting – The Soul Clan
      • 15. That’s How It Feels – The Soul Clan
      • 16. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
      • 17. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)
      • 18. Shame On Me
      • 19. Save It
      • 20. Meet Me In Church
      • 21. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
      • 22. Why, Why, Why
      • 23. Get Out Of My Life Woman
      • 24. What’d I Say
      • 25. Since I Met You Baby