tracks

Soul Limbo
Private Number
Who's Making Love
Bring It On Home To Me
I Forgot To Be Your Lover
I Like What You're Doing (To Me)
Time Is Tight
(Do The) Push And Pull Part 1
Mr. Big Stuff
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Respect Yourself
Theme From Shaft
Son Of Shaft
I'll Take You There
I' Ve Been Lonely For So Long
Starting All Over Again
Woman To Woman
I'll Be The Other Woman

notes

(P) Fantasy, Inc. Stax Records marketed & distributed by Ace Records Ltd.
Digitally transfered from original analogue master tapes.
Post-production at The Digital Editing Suite.
Photographs courtesy of Fantasy, Inc.
The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Fantasy, Inc. and is licensed to Ace Records Ltd.
Not licensed for sale in the USA or Canada.
Made in Germany

℗ Fantasy, Inc.
This compilation
℗ 1991 Ace Records Ltd.
© 1991 Ace Records Ltd.

Textes from back cover:

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 its relationship with Atlantic Records, its 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.

PETER GIBBON
August 1991

credits

Compiled By – Roger Armstrong
Design [Package Designed] – Philip Barker Design
Producer [Post Production] – Duncan Cowell
Compiled By – Roger Armstrong
Design [Package Designed] – Philip Barker Design
Producer [Post Production] – Duncan Cowell
Sleeve Notes – Peter Gibbon

companies

Produced At – The Digital Editing Suite
Licensed To – Ace Records Ltd.
Marketed By – Ace Records Ltd.
Distributed By – Ace Records Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Fantasy, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Ace Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Ace Records Ltd.

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