Stax Gold

Import LP Pressing. Know to record collectors as the "Yellow" Stax period because of the colour of the record labels, the second main phase of Stax / Volt recordings spanned the period from mid-1968 until the beginning of 1975. It was even more successful than the earlier "Blue" period, and resulted in chart entries on both sides of the Atlantic for a number of artists and in distinctive, constrasting styles. This compilation covers the best from that period, the time when Stax / Volt had terminated it's relationship with Atlantic Records, it's discs were being distributed through the Paramount film company and the famous finger-clicking logo adorned the Stax output of the Memphis-based label. Several of the tracks here topped the US R & B chart including Johnnie Taylor's million-seller 'Who's Making Love', Rufus Thomas's 'Do The Push And Pull', Jean Knight's 'Mr Big Stuff', The Staple Singers' 'If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)' (also a million-seller) and Shirley Brown's 'Woman To Woman'. Among numbers that have been very popular in the UK are the deeply soulful duet from Judy Clay & William Bell - 'Private Number' and a couple of tracks from Booker T & The MGs, 'Soul Limbo', familiar to all criket fans, and 'Time Is Tight' which featured in the movie "Uptight". Artists from the Stax stable featured on the sound-tracks of a number of the black movies of the late 60s/early 70s, and Isaac Hayes' half-spoken, half-sung title track from 'Shaft' was probably the most notable of all. Also featured in this collection are some of the top hits from Stax / Volt's major artists such as Eddie Floyd, William Bell, Carla Thomas and the Bar-Kays as well as tracks from acts which tasted success for the first time during the finger-clicking period - the Dramatics, Frederick Knight and the Soul Children. Ace Records. 1991.

Track Listings
1 Soul Limbo - Booker T & the MG's
2 Time Is Tight - Booker T & the MG's
3 Private Number - Clay, Judy & William Bell
4 Who's Making Love - Taylor, Johnnie (1)
5 Bring It on Home to Me - Floyd, Eddie
6 I Forgot to Be Your Lover - Bell, William
7 I Like What You're Doing (To Me) - Thomas, Carla
8 Do the Push and Pull - Thomas, Rufus
9 Mr Big Stuff - Knight, Jean
10 What'cha See Is What'cha Get - Dramatics (1)
11 Respect Yourself - Staple Singers
12 I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
13 Shaft - Hayes, Isaac
14 Son of Shaft - Bar-Kays
15 I've Been Lonely for So Long - Knight, Frederick
16 Starting All Over Again - Mel & Tim
17 Woman to Woman - Brown, Shirley
18 I'll Be the Other Woman - Soul Children
19 So I Can Love You - Emotions (2)
20 I Have Learned to Do Without You - Staples, Mavis
21 In the Rain - Dramatics (1)
22 Dedicated to the One I Love - Temprees
23 Short Stopping - Brown, Veda
24 Cheaper to Keep Her - Taylor, Johnnie (1)