- Audio CD (Jan 1 1994)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import, Best of
- Label: Original Sound
- ASIN: B0000034K6
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Gimme Little Sign |
| 2. Oogum Boogum |
| 3. Baby You Got It |
| 4. I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up |
| 5. Great Big Bundle Of Love |
| 6. I'm The One Who Knows |
| 7. Lovey Dovey Kind Of Love |
| 8. Can You Dig It |
| 9. Whoop It On Me |
| 10. Take A Chance |
| 11. Catch You On The Rebound |
| 12. Me And You |
| 13. I Like The Way You Love Me |
| 14. Darlin' |
| 15. Where Were You |
| 16. Two Time Loser |
| 17. Sad Little Songs |
| 18. Good Night Baby |
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The bad news is good news,
By Mark J. Schirripa (Niles, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brenton Wood's 18 Best (Audio CD)
The bad news is that many of the songs seem to have the same melody. The good news is that it's a great melody.
3.0 out of 5 stars
How Can You Claim "18 Best" And Leave Off Two Hits?,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brenton Wood's 18 Best (Audio CD)
Here's yet another "best of" that fails to deliver, a promise that somehow couldn't accommodate six lousy hits. Because, between 1967 and 1977, that's all Brenton Wood would manage to put on either the R&B or pop charts Top 100.Born Alfred Smith in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1941, he began his recording career in 1958 with a group called Little Freddy & The Rockets - with no chart success. It wasn't until the summer of 1967 that he made the big time for Double Shot Records with the novelty hit The Oogum Boogum Song. B/w I Like The Way You Love Me, it reached # 19 R&B/# 34 pop. A few months later his Gimme Little Sign, b/w I Think You've Got The Fools Mixed Up, became his top seller when it peaked at # 9 pop/# 19 R&B in September. Then, late in the year, he released Baby You Got It b/w Catch You On The Rebound, with the A-side topping out at # 30 R&B/# 34 pop early in 1968. A very minor hit then followed in March when Lovey Dovey Kinda Love just barely made the Top 100 pop, settling it at # 99 b/w Two-Time Loser. So far, so good, as all eight sides are in this compilation. However, whereas they left off Some Got It, Some Don't - which made it to # 42 R&B in August 1968 - they include the uncharted B-side, Me And You!! Nine years would pass before he had another charter, this time for the Cream label, when Come Softly To Me, b/w You're Everything I Need, struggled to reach # 92 R&B in September 1977. Neither is in this set. If you're going to claim to give us his "18 best" then do so.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gimme lil' fun,
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This review is from: Brenton Wood's 18 Best (Audio CD)
When the zany "Oogum Boogum" and "Gimme L'il Sign" first appeared on the top 40 charts in the late sixties they defied description. It was soul music but it was'nt Motown, and it dang sure was'nt southern soul music. They embraced it on the Carolina coast as 'beach music, but Brentom Wood worked out of L.A. . For lack of a better term I'll call it soul-pop, and boy howdy is it fun . This is a great collection that includes the two hits and a whole bunch of songs that should have been hits.You won't find the gospel drenched anguish that is the hallmark of so many other of Brenton Wood's contemporaries, but they on the other hand would never have thought to stick a roller rink organ solo in the middle of one of their songs as Brenton does on "Gimme L'il Sign". I call it soul-pop. I call it genius too.
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