Solomon Burke - The Very Best of Solomon Burke
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Artist: Solomon BurkeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-02-03
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Open Arms)
- Cry To Me
- Down In The Valley
- I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You
- If You Need Me
- Can't Nobody Love You
- You're Good For Me
- Goodbye Baby ( Baby Goodbye)
- Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
- The Price
- Got To Get You Off My Mind
- Tonight's The Night
- Someone Is Watching
- Take Me ( Just As I Am)
- I Wish I Knew ( How It Would Feel To Be Free)
- Soul Meeting- The Soul Clan - Burke,Conley,Covay,King,Tex
Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Solomon Burke
Free Music Review: The Wonder Boy Preacher
Hit: 5 Stars
The above title was hung on Solomon when he began preaching and broadcasting from his "Solomon's Temple", founded for him by his grandmother in Philadelphia in 1945. He was all of nine years old and would continue with the program until 1955.
After a brief recording career with Apollo in 1954, he quit to become a mortician. But when he returned to music in the early 1960s with Atlantic he did so with a bang, taking Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms) to # 7 R&B, # 6 Adult Contemporary (AC), and # 24 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in October 1961 b/w Be Bop Grandma (not here). If, as they say, R&R is a melding of pop, country & R&B, then Soul was Rock's favourite offspring, and if Solomon Burke isn't the father of Soul then I'd sure like to know who is. I mean, who else could have taken a pure Country song and turned into a Soul standard?
And just to show that that was no fluke, he would find the pop/R&B charts 25 more times between then and 1975, adding another six solely on the R&B charts. Here you get 15 of those two-barreled hits plus Soul Meeting [track 16] which made it to # 34 R&B/# 91 Hot 100 in the summer of 1966 under the billing Soul Clan [Solomon, with Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, Joe Tex, and Don Covay].
My, oh, my can this man sing, expressing longing [Just Out Of Reach], pain [Cry To Me], or sorrow [Down In The Valley] with equal aplomb and in a manner which is clearly understood. Solomon Burke war rightfully (and belatedly) inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 2001.
Recommended most strongly.
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