Various - Sweet Soul Music CD: 28 Scorching Classics From 1962 (CD - Deluxe Edition)

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Various - Sweet Soul Music: 28 Scorching Classics From 1962 (CD - Deluxe Edition)

1-CD-Album Digipak (6-plated) with 71-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 minutes.

1962 is where R&B stops asking for permission—and soul starts writing its own rules. Sweet Soul Music: 28 Scorching Classics From 1962 isn’t a “best of.” It’s a year captured in real time: raw, hungry, polished when it wants to be, ruthless when it needs to be.

You can hear New Orleans trying to own its future: Barbara George with I Know—innocent on the surface, but cutting deep. Right next to it: that sharp New York indie hustle, where the arrangements shine and the business bites. Gladys Knight & The Pips deliver Letter Full Of Tears like someone twice her age, and you feel the pressure behind every note. Philly adds its own spell with The Sensations – Let Me In, a hook so persistent it becomes physical.

1962 is also the year of true giants. Gene Chandler turns a chant into a million-seller (Duke Of Earl). Solomon Burke makes Cry To Me a bridge between late-’50s R&B and the soul era—big sound, bigger spirit. Etta James drags gospel heat straight onto the dancefloor with Something’s Got A Hold On Me. Booker T. & The M.G.’s reinvent the groove with Green Onions—minimal, deadly, timeless. And if you want Motown before it became legend, you get the blueprint: Mary Wells, The Contours, Marvin Gaye—Hitsville under construction, not under glass.

Then comes the crossover fire and street-level swagger: The Isley Brothers – Twist And Shout, Little Eva – The Loco-Motion, John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom. These are records the world later borrowed, covered, and recycled—but here they hit with first-press urgency.

If you understand 1962, you understand everything that explodes afterward. This isn’t background music. It’s a time capsule—and time capsules don’t stay easy to find. If soul is your language, grab this while it’s still within reach.

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Interpret: Various - Sweet Soul Music
Album titlle: 28 Scorching Classics From 1962 (CD - Deluxe Edition)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Bear Family Records
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Preiscode AS
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127168689
weight in Kg 0.21

Various - Sweet Soul Music - 28 Scorching Classics From 1962 (CD - Deluxe Edition) CD 1
01	I Know (You Don't Love Me No..	GEORGE, BARBARA with THE A.F.O
02	Letter Full Of Tears	KNIGHT, GLADYS & THE PIPS
03	Let Me In	SENSATIONS, THE
04	Duke Of Earl	CHANDLER, GENE
05	Cry To Me	BURKE, SOLOMON
06	Something's Got A Hold On Me	JAMES, ETTA with THE RILEY HAM
07	I Found A Love	FALCONS, THE & BAND (OHIO UNTO
08	You Better Move On	ALEXANDER, ARTHUR
09	Soul Twist	CURTIS, KING & THE NOBLE KNIGH
10	Lover Please	McPHATTER, CLYDE
11	Soldier Boy	SHIRELLES, THE
12	Any Day Now (My Wild Beautif..	JACKSON, CHUCK
13	Night Train	BROWN, JAMES & THE FAMOUS FLAM
14	Snap Your Fingers	HENDERSON, JOE
15	Playboy	MARVELETTES, THE
16	I Need Your Loving	GARDNER, DON & DEE DEE FORD
17	Twist And Shout	ISLEY BROTHERS, THE
18	Boom Boom	HOOKER, JOHN LEE
19	The Loco-Motion	EVA, LITTLE
20	Green Onions	T., BOOKER & THE M.G.'s
21	You Beat Me To The Punch	WELLS, MARY
22	Do You Love Me	CONTOURS, THE
23	Stormy Monday Blues	BLAND, BOBBY
24	Up On The Roof	DRIFTERS, THE
25	Stubborn Kind Of Fellow	GAYE, MARVIN
26	Release Me	PHILLIPS, ESTHER
27	Chains	COOKIES, THE
28	I've Got A Woman	Part 1, McGRIFF, JIMMY