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(2006/UNIVERSAL) 20 tracks (79:41) 1975/76. Digipac with 8p.booklet. misprint on label - bargain... more

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Solomon Burke: The Chess Collection (CD)

(2006/UNIVERSAL) 20 tracks (79:41) 1975/76. Digipac with 8p.booklet. misprint on label - bargain offer!/Sonderposten mit Druckfehler auf dem Label - Schnäppchen!

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Interpret: Solomon Burke
Album titlle: The Chess Collection (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Year of publication 2006
Label CHESS
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0602498322956
weight in Kg 0.1

Burke, Solomon - The Chess Collection (CD) CD 1
01	Music To Make Love By (Part 1)
02	Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You
03	Come Rain Or Come Shine
04	You And Your Baby Blues
05	All The Way
06	Thanks I Needed That
07	Everlasting Love
08	Midnight And You
09	Music To Make Love By (Part 2)
10	Burning For You Love
11	Night And Day
12	Everybody's Got To Cry Sometime
13	I'm Going Back To My Roots
14	Precious Flower
15	The Do Right Song
16	Life Has It's Ups And Downs
17	Over And Over (Hugging And Loving)
18	I'll Never Stop Loving You
19	I'm Leaving On That Late, Late Train
20	Love's Paradise

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"Solomon Burke"

Solomon Burke

The Price

Solomon Burke

The Price

The regal bearing of Philly-born soul singer Solomon Burke was so compelling that in 1964 he was coronated the 'King of Rock 'n' Soul' by Baltimore deejay Rockin' Robin. "He had a show at the Royal Theater and one at the Howard Theater. One week at the Royal, one week at the Howard," says Solomon. "He says, 'Listen, I want to crown you king!' I said, 'Okay,king of what?' He says, 'King of rock.' I said, 'Oh no, we gotta have soul in there, because I'm not a rocker.' He says, 'Okay, King of

Rock 'n' Soul! That'd be fine.'" Burke still wears a crown and sits on a throne onstage.

One of the gents responsible for Burke's early '60s hit streak on Atlantic was Bert Berns, whose writing imprimatur graced Twist And Shout, Hang On Sloopy, and Piece Of My Heart. "Bert Berns was a great friend of Jerry Wexler," says Burke. "Bert Berns was a young writer who came to New York, and nobody would do any of his songs. So Jerry Wexler like adopted him. He became like Jerry's adopted son. And he was just there in the studio. And Jerry says, 'Listen, you gotta do some of these songs!'" Berns authored Burke's 1962 hit Cry To Me, co-wrote his top '64 seller Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye), and shared credit with Wexler and Burke on the stomping Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, another of Solomon's 1964 highlights.

"I had to give them a piece of the writers' before they would accept it to even release the record," claims Burke. "They said, 'This song will never happen. It's too fast. It's redundant. It keeps saying the same thing. Nobody's going to buy this!'"

Not only did Solomon's fans buy that one, they went for his resplendent self-penned ballad The Price, a #57 pop seller. In full Wonder Boy Preacher mode during a sermon intro that finds him name-checking three recent hits, Burke passionately recounts how much his broken love affair has cost him in front of a knife-edged Ray Ellis arrangement (Berns himself was one of three guitarists on the date).

" It was written in the Apollo Theatre," says Solomon. "A lady almost fell out of the balcony there, just screamin' and hollerin' when I wrote that song on stage. I was going through some personal problems in my life with my wife at that time, and I just came on stage and had my band play certain chords. I played the guitar, and they followed me, and I wrote the song. It was very dynamic."

- Bill Dahl -

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