This CD is hard to find at any price. Unfortunately, our license to manufacture it expired several years ago and we currently have almost no copies left. When they’re gone, this CD will be permanently out-of-print! Do you like good music? Yeah! Yeah! Get on board the soul train for Eric Records’ first-ever collection of foot stompin’ sweet and soulful classics. Sweet Soul Sounds 1963-1971 surveys the years when soul music came together, combining the rural and urbane, the sacred and profane into a truly modern groove that spoke of struggle, freedom, love, loss, and lust. Sweet Soul Sounds includes such classics as Clarence Carter’s cheating epic, “Slip Away,” and Archie Bell’s dance ultimatum, “There’s Gonna Be A Showdown.” But the great joys of this anthology are the hard-to-find gems previously unavailable to most collectors — songs like “(I Wanna) Testify,” featuring a pre-P-Funk George Clinton, or Johnny Adams’ “Reconsider Me,” a swooping supplication cut by the “Tan Canary” for tiny SSS International Records in 1969. Of special note are two soul classics making their CD debut. Denise LaSalle’s “Trapped By A Thing Called Love” is one of the last great soul songs, recorded in 1971 as soul music was morphing into funk and disco; it appears on a U.S. CD for the first time ever. And, Little Sister, a female trio featuring Sly Stone’s younger sibling, is represented by two cuts, one of which — “You’re the One (Parts 1 & 2)” — has never been available on any CD anywhere! Here’s the COMPLETE version — in stereo, no less! Sweet Soul Sounds includes 20 pop hits (16 of them Top Thirty), and all tracks have been digitally mastered to the exacting standards of Eric Records — in true stereo wherever possible. CD includes a 12-page booklet with detailed liner notes on each song written by renowned soul authority, Randy Poe.

Track	Title	Artist	Pop Chart	R&B Chart Peak	Date	Stereo/Mono

1	SWEET SOUL MUSIC	Arthur Conley	#2	#2	03/67	Mono
2	FUNKY STREET RARE	Arthur Conley	#14	#5	03/68	Stereo
3	THERE'S GONNA BE A SHOWDOWN	Archie Bell & The Drells	#21	#6	11/68	Stereo
4	JUST ONE LOOK	Doris Troy	#10	#3	06/63	Mono
5	CRY TO ME	Betty Harris	#23	#10	09/63	Mono
6	THE SWEETEST THING THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN	Chris Bartley	#32	#10	07/67	Stereo
7	OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR HEART RARE	Darrell Banks	#27	#2	07/66	Mono
8	SHE'S LOOKING GOOD STEREO DEBUT	Rodger Collins	#101	#44	02/67	Stereo
9	I'M THE LOVER MAN	Little Jerry Williams	#102	—	11/64	Mono
10	DRY YOUR EYES	Brenda & The Tabulations	#20	#8	02/67	Stereo
11	PART TIME LOVE	Little Johnny Taylor	#19	#1	08/63	Stereo
12	SLIP AWAY	Clarence Carter	#6	#2	07/68	Stereo
13	STAND BY YOUR MAN RARE	Candi Staton	#24	#4	08/70	Stereo
14	RECONSIDER ME	Johnny Adams	#28	#8	06/69	Stereo
15	EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART NEW STEREO MIX	Soul Survivors	#4	#3	09/67	Stereo
16	(I Wanna) TESTIFY RARE	The Parliaments	#20	#3	07/67	Mono
17	YOU'RE THE ONE (Parts 1 & 2) CD DEBUT	Little Sister	#22	#4	02/70	Stereo
18	TRAPPED BY A THING CALLED LOVE U.S. CD DEBUT	Denise LaSalle	#13	#1	08/71	Stereo
19	SOMEBODY'S WATCHING YOU RARE	Little Sister	#32	#8	11/70	Stereo
20	LOVE LAND	Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band	#16	#23	03/70	Stereo

Track Listing — Disc #1 · 20 Songs · Various Artists · Eric Records