If I Were Your Woman/Standing Ovation [Remastered] - Gladys Knight & The Pips

Advantages: All the greatest songs ever
Disadvantages: none

...I had this bought for me for Mother's Day after a gentle nudge in the right direction and various hint dropping. With over 19 songs ranging from the late 1960's, this CD has every favourite record on it from her singing career. The earliest song on here is The Look of Love which has to be an all time favourite with most people, if anyone denies singing along to it I think they would be telling porkies. A full list of the songs are as follows:- Baby Don't Change Your Mind (1977) The Way we Were (1974) License to Kill (1989) (James Bond Theme) Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me (1973) Midnight Train to Georgia (1973) Help Me Make It Through The Night (1972) Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me (1967) Come Back and Finish What You Started (1978) The One & Only (1978) So Sad The Song (1976) The Look Of Love (1968) Part Time Love (1975... Read review

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Advantages: Soulful, genuine, funky, rare
Disadvantages: None

...Knight). But don’t let this hitherto anonymity of the artists put you off. With no reputation to cement or live up to, there are fourteen women here who are singing for their supper. 1968-1974 was, for soul music, a golden age when ideas were in abundance and the merest groan or howl of a black female on vinyl had the artist tagged as a diva. Everything here is impossibly funky. With some of the beats and the rhythms, you can see how the sampling culture of late 80s hip-hop artists caught on so rapidly: there is much booty here for those crate diggers. So what of the individual tracks? Well with so much attitude going on here, I’ve marked the tracks out of five and, due to the constant message of these tracks, I have given a YKSMIWSS (You Know She Means It When She Sings) reference too. Hold onto your afros, we're going... Read review

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Advantages: Class Acts
Disadvantages: None

...'t You Please Come Home 12. Erma Franklyn - Light My Fire 13. Dusty Springfield - You don't Have To say you love me 14. P.P. Arnold - First cut is the deepest 15. Ann Peebles - I Cant Stand The Rain 16. Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side 17. Esther Philips - How Blue Can You Get? 18. Ernestine Anderson - What A Difference A Day Makes 19. Lou Rawls and Diane Reeves - At Last 20. Julie London - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 21. Cassandra Wilson - Time After Time 22. Eva Cassidy (Duet with Chuck Brown) - Need Your Love So Bad 23. Keely Smith - Night & Day Disc: 2 1. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me 2. Gladys Knight - Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me 3. Bobby Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again 4. Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy 5. Aretha Franklin - Unforgettable 6. Sarah Vaughan - All or Nothing At All 7. Maxine Brown - Oh... Read review

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