Loma: A Soul Music Love Affair - Vinyl Box Set(2016)Future Days

Having Bought This Great Box Set as a New release in 2016 does not deter me from Letting you guys send in Albums you want to share as in this case.So Tennesseeboy was good enough to send these in so i,ll hand the review over to him.Ive added the artwork,etc...

The four volumes of Loma A Soul Music Love Affair are the result of several years of in-depth research into the Loma vault by Future Days Records. This first installment concerns itself with the category that has made Loma such a celebrated imprint to fans: Northern soul aimed strictly at the dancefloor. Acknowledged floor-fillers like Ben Aiken’s “Satisfied” and Ike & Tina Turner’s “Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You” nestle with sought-after rarities by The Soul Shakers, Marvellos, and Voice Box. There are classics from The Olympics and Apollas, overlooked gems by The Jammers and Paul Days, an unissued stomper from Bobby Freeman, and the legendarily withdrawn single by Bob & Earl.With full historical notes on artist and label history and rare pieces of ephemera, Loma: A Soul Music Love Affair is a fresh and invigorating celebration of one of 60s soul’s most storied imprints. 

This first installment Volume 1 Somethings Burning 1964-1968 concerns itself with the category that has made Loma such a celebrated imprint to fans,Northern soul aimed strictly at the dancefloor.Acknowledged floor-fillers like Ben Aiken’s “Satisfied” and Ike & Tina Turner’s “Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You” nestle with sought-after rarities by The Soul Shakers, Marvellos,and Voice Box. There are classics from The Olympics and Apollas, overlooked gems by The Jammers and Paul Days, an unissued stomper from Bobby Freeman, and the legendarily withdrawn single by Bob & Earl.

Volume Two of Loma Get In The Groove 1965-1968 A Soul Music Love Affair focuses on the funkier, earthier side of the Loma catalog and is once again the result of several years of in-depth research into the vault. JJ Jackson and The Mighty Hannibal bring the boogaloo, Baby Lloyd and Lukas Lollipop offer up some deep soul, and the stratospheric pipes of Carl Hall make us wanna holler. There’s the grooving original of “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)” by diva Lorraine Ellison, little-heard rarities from Larry Laster and Roy Redmond, obscure productions by James Brown and Solomon Burke, and a heartbreaking unissued cut by one-time Hendrix sideman Lonnie Youngblood

Volume Three of Loma Sad Sad Feeling 1964-1968 Several years of in-depth research into the Loma vaults provide the content of The third volume. It celebrates the many sophisticated uptown productions on the label, mostly cut in New York under the auspices of Jerry Ragovoy, Van McCoy, George Kerr, Richard Tee, and other soul notables. Loma goddess and Aretha’s favorite singer Linda Jones gets us “Hypnotized” while Bobby Freeman spooks with “Shadow Of Your Love.” Rarities include soulful items from The Realistics, Bobby Reed, Mary Lee Whitney, and Tommy Starr, along with several unreleased titles, including heart wrenching nuggets by The Enchanters and Carl Hall, and the never before heard Bob & Earl gem “Just One Look In Your Eyes”. 

Volume Four of Loma Sweeter Than Sweet 1964-1968 Last but not least,The unprecedented dig into the Loma Record vaults has thrown up a surfeit of soulful goodies for the final volume,many of which are previously unreleased.Northern soul fans will marvel at the dancefloor potential of The Marvellos’ “I Need You” or The Invincibles’ “Heartstrings.” Aficionados of the Jerry Ragovoy supervised uptown sound will groove on Carl Hall’s “Like I Told You” and Ben Aiken’s “That’s All You Gotta Do.” The tracklist also shines light on many unfairly overlooked entries in the Loma listings by the likes of Linda Jones,Billy Storm,The Implements,and The Realistics,and yet more compelling cuts from The Apollas,Teen Turbans, and The Mighty Hannibal remind us just why we love Loma. 

Soul music devotees have long wondered why Los Angeles didn’t field a great 1960s soul record label like Motown or Stax. Hollywood was fast becoming the recording capital of the country and Motown would indeed relocate here by the end of the decade. Couldn’t the town produce a first-class soul label?
The question is not entirely fair to L.A. Motown and Stax filled vacuums in Detroit and Memphis, respectively. Both cities had much more black musical talent than they did recording outlets. In L.A., on the other hand, all of the major labels were represented, and a constellation of smaller indies such as Original Sound and Del-Fi operated around them. The two long-established rhythm and blues companies, Modern and Specialty, had catalogs dating back to the 1940s but more or less sat out the ’60s soul boom that exploded all around them. 

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                                                   ALBUM REVIEW COURTESY OF TENNESSEEBOY                                   
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Tracks

01.Ben Aiken - Satisfied
02.Bob & Earl - Everybody Jerk
03.Charles Thomas - The Man With The Golden Touch
04.The Apollas - Pretty Red Balloons
05.Bobby Freeman - I'm A Lover
06.The Soul Shakers - I'm Getting Weaker
07.Delilah Kennebreuw - Bright Lights
08.The Jammers - Where Can She Run To
09.Ike & Tina Turner - Somebody(Somewhere)Needs You
10.The Voice Box - Baby, Baby Don't You Know(That I Love You)
11.The Marvellos - Something's Burning
12.Tony Amaro & The Charitos - Runnin' Around
13.The Apollas -"You're Absolutely Right
14.Paul Days - Wake Me Up Baby
15.The Olympics - Good Lovin"
16.Linda Jones - My Heart Needs A Break   

Tracks

01.The Mighty Hannibal - Get In The Groove
02.Carl Hall - You Don't Know Nothing About Love
03.J.J. Jackson - Come See Me (I'm Your Man)
04.Baby Lloyd - There's Something On Your Mind (Part One)
05.Roy Redmond - Ain't That Terrible
06.Walter Foster - Your Search Is Over
07.The Olympics - Rainin' In My Heart
08.Lorraine Ellison - Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
09.Carl Hall - The Dam Busted
10.Kell Osborne - You Can't Outsmart A Woman
11.Lukas Lollipop - Don't Hold On To Someone (Who Don't Love You)
12.Larry Laster - Help Yourself
13.The Mighty Hannibal - Good Time
14.J.J. Jackson - Too Late
15.Little Joe Cook - Don't You Have Feelings
16.Lonnie Youngblood - Callin' 

Tracks

01.Linda Jones - Hypnotized
02.The Autographs - Sad, Sad Feeling (Part One)
03.The Enchanters - I Paid For The Party
04.The Invincibles - Can't Win
05.Carl Hall - He'll Never Love You
06.Bobby Reed - I Wanna Love You So Bad
07.Ben Aiken - If I Told You Once (I Told You A Million Times)
08.Bobby Freeman - Shadow Of Your Love
09.Little Jerry Williams - I'm The Lover Man
10.Bob & Earl - Just One Look In Your Eyes
11.Mary Lee Whitney - Don't Come A' Knockin'
12.Tommy Starr - Better Think Of What You're Losing
13.The Enchanters - To Get Your Love Back
14.The Realistics - If This Ain't Love

Tracks

01.The Marvellos – I Need You
02.Vicki Baines – Sweeter Than Sweet Things
03.Artie Lewis – Ain't No Good
04.Carl Hall – Like I Told You
05.The Implements – Ole Man Soul (Part One)
06.Linda Jones – You Can't Take It
07.The Olympics – No More Will I Cry
08.The Teen Turbans – We Need To Be Loved
09.The Mighty Hannibal – I'm Coming Home
10.Billy Storm – I Never Want To Dream Again (There In A Garden)
11.The Invincibles – Heartstrings  
12.Ben Aiken – That's All You Gotta Do
13.Dick Jensen And The Imports – Back In Circulation
14.The Realistics – How Did I Live Without You
15.The Romeos –    Mon Petite Chow
16.The Apollas – Just Can't Get Enough Of You