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Stax: Top of the Stax, Vol. 1: Twenty Greatest Hits
 
 
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Stax: Top of the Stax, Vol. 1: Twenty Greatest Hits [Import, Compilation]

Top of the Stax (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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1. Hold On, I'm Comin' - Sam And Dave
2. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
3. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
4. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
5. Woman To Woman - Shirley Brown
6. I'll Be The Other Woman - The Soul Children
7. Cheaper To Keep Her - Johnnie Taylor
8. That's What Love Will Make You Do - Little Milton
9. I Forgot To Be YOur Lover - William Bell
10. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
11. (Do The) Push And Pull, Part I - Rufus Thomas
12. Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs
13. Starting All Over Again - Mel And Tim
14. In The Rain - The Dramatics
15. So I Can Love You - The Emotions
16. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
17. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
18. Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
19. I've Been Lonely For So Long - Frederick Knight
20. Theme From 'Shaft' - Isaac Hayes

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Funky R&B @ it's best Dec 19 2003
Format:Audio CD
I love R&B music of the 60s and 70s. Although I live in Memphis, I have always enjoyed Motown music the most and never bothered to study the Stax music made right here in Memphis. Wow! The body of Stax records is incredible and it's interesting to listen to this music and compare to Motown's music. The sounds are both great but very different. I strongly recommend this album and encourage you to listen and compare to the writers and musicians from Motown. It competes very favorably.
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GOLDEN YEARS OF SOUL April 22 2003
By Pieter HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Immerse yourself in the gorgeous Stax sound from the golden years of soul! Every one of these 20 tracks is a gem, from Sam And Dave's opening number to Isaac Hayes' shimmering Theme from Shaft (1971). Eddie Floyd's Knock On Wood has been much covered, for example by Amii Stewart in the late 1970s, while Mr Big Stuff, also from 1971, is the only track of Jean Knight's besides her later 1980s hit My Toot Toot that I'm familiar with. And what a voice and attitude she has! The instrumental hit Green Onions is well known to all, as is Otis Redding's classic Dock Of The Bay. Little known classics include Mel & Tim's Starting All Over Again and In The Rain by The Dramatics, the latter with thunder and rain sound effects. My favourites on this essential album include The Staple Singers' addictive Respect Yourself and I'll Take You There, a delicious marriage of gospel and soul. The Stax sound was a bit more rootsy than Motown, but the melodies were just as beautiful. This precious music just improves with age.
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Love (of Soul) Keeps Them Together Feb 23 2000
Format:Audio CD
The Stax/Volt story has two acts: the first, when the label was run by Atlantic Records and featured the royalty of Southern soul (Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, Booker T. & The MGs) and act two, when Atlantic took its share of the label's masters and, after a short period of continued success, the label faded away.

The reunion of one of popular music's richest libraries occurred some years later. "Top Of The Stax" becomes a one-disc, 20-year joyride of classic R&B from the label's first #1 (Booker T & The MG's groovin' "Green Onions") to its last (Issac Hayes' sweeping signature song, "Theme From Shaft.") Along the way, you hear from father Rufus Thomas (the salacious "Push and Pull") and daughter Carla (the sweet "B-A-B-Y"). Johnny Taylor shows up with two ceritified gold hits, the hard-hitting "Who's Making Love" and the bouncy "Cheaper To Keep Her." The Dramatics and the Soul Children chime in with two Quiet Storm ballads, and Little Milton slaps the blues with the R&B Top 10 "That's What Love Will Make You Do." You'll know these songs; they've been covered by every rock n' roll bad boy from Mick Jagger to Billy Idol to the Blues Brothers. But nothing beats the originals heard here. Highly recommended.

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