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Item:Al Green ~ Greatest Hits ~ 70's Classic R & B
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Al Green ~ Greatest Hits ~ 70's Classic R & B

Brand new, discontinued version, feat. 15 classic songs

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Ended:Nov 07, 200908:50:48 PST
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Item number:200400520443
Item location:San Diego, CA, United States
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Artist: Al GreenRelease Date: Jul 18, 1995
Format: CDRecord Label: The Right Stuff
UPC: 724383080021Genre: R&B & Soul
Duration: Album or EPSub-Genre: Classic R&B
Condition: Brand newSpecial Attributes: --
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Track listing
1. Tired of Being Alone
2. Call Me (Come Back Home)
3. I'm Still in Love With You
4. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
5. Love and Happiness
6. Let's Stay Together
7. I Can't Get Next to You
8. You Ought to Be With Me
9. Look What You Done For Me
10. Let's Get Married
11. Livin' For You
12. Sha la la (Make Me Happy)
13. L-O-V-E (Love)
14. Full of Fire
15. Belle

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Playing time:38 min.
Producer:Al Green, Willie Mitchell
Distributor:EMI Music Distribution
Recording type:Studio
Recording mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

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Personnel: Al Green (vocals); Teenie Hodges (guitar); The Memphis Strings (strings); Andrew Love, Ed Logan (tenor saxophone); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Jack Hale (trombone); Charles Hodges (organ, piano); Archie Turner, Michael Allen (piano); Leroy Hodges (bass); Howard Grimes, Al Jackson (drums, congo, bongo); Rhodes, Chalmers, Rhodes (background vocals).
Recorded at Royal Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.
The expanded version of GREATEST HITS includes 5 bonus tracks and is newly remastered.
Sam Cooke's death in 1964 left a huge void in the world of soul music not filled until Al Green's breakthrough in the early '70s. Although many great male soul singers came and went in the years following Cooke's death, none came close to the smooth and creamy style that translated to consistent cross-over success. While Otis Redding was gritty and James Brown relentless, in Green's hands, R&B was sophisticated and suave. GREATEST HITS basks in a style of sultry soul that Green inherited from Cooke.
Yet, Green's style owed as much to producer Willie Mitchell's delicate production as it did to the singer's pure falsetto. While not inclined to use the vast numbers of musicians that Phil Spector did, Mitchell's use of James Mitchell (no relation) and Charles Chalmer's string arrangements, the Memphis Horns and the background vocals of Rhodes, Chalmers and Rhodes gave Green's songs a full sound that wrapped itself around Green's aching emotivity. "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" features all these elements at play, along with the crack cadence of former MG drummer Al Jackson and brothers Teenie and Charles Hodges, whose respective guitar and organ juice up the rhythm.
Thematically, listening to GREATEST HITS is like thumbing through a primer on the evolution of a relationship, and the ups and downs that come with it. The despair of "Tired Of Being Alone" gives way to a fleeting affair in "Call Me (Come Back Home)." The joy Green finds in "Love And Happiness" is temporary before the pleading begins anew with "Let's Stay Together," then gets tied up with a declaration ("L-O-V-E (Love)") and a proposal ("Let's Get Married").

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...These 15 body-soothing jams are pure butter....'Let's Stay Together'...is the foundation of the edifice that became his church of love. Green's voice testifies, prophesies, moans, grunts, and downright screams for love, the way some...shout for Jesus...
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...These 15 body-soothing jams are pure butter....'Let's Stay Together'...is the foundation of the edifice that became his church of love. Green's voice testifies, prophesies, moans, grunts, and downright screams for love, the way some...shout for Jesus...
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Ranked #52 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - The honey-voiced Green made some of the most visionary soul music of the Seventies...
Rolling Stone  (12/11/2003)

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When it comes to the purveyors and pioneers of soul, most forget Al Green. This Greatest Hits compilation is for those who have forgotten. It's not for the Al Green enthusiast, it's for the Al Green window shopper. As a single disc compilation, it's excellent. It has all of Green's most memorable hits and non-hits. There's 15 tracks and no excess. Great songs like "I'm Tired of Being Alone", "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" which UB40 had a late 80's hit with. It has "Let's Stay Together", "Love and Happiness" and a cover of The Temptations' "I Can't Get Next To You." This Greatest Hits compilation is a must have for any collector.

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