Various Artists - Soul City Los Angeles - West Coast Gems from the Dawn of Soul Music 2 x CD(2014) Fantastic Voyage (FLAC)455MB - Soul

Soul City Los Angeles presents recordings which served to establish the musical direction of LA and neighbouring West Coast areas in the late 1950s and early 1960s when R&B was evolving into the style that became known as soul. Compiled and annotated by soul music authority Clive Richardson, Soul City Los Angeles is the latest in a series that has previously explored the soul scenes in Other major UC cities. This instalment presents a selection from key independent labels of the area, including Sam Cooke s SAR and Richard Vaughn s Arvee, as well as choice items from Aladdin, Liberty, Imperial and Ebb, and collectable releases from more obscure labels. Famous names on CD1 of this 60-track 2CD set include the Olympics, the Valentinos (aka the Womack Brothers) with Lookin For A Love , the Rivingtons and Johnnie Morisette. While CD2 features hitmakers Gene & Eunice, Don & Dewey, early recordings by future stars Johnnie Taylor and Johnny Guitar Watson, and a young Sly Stone as a member of the Viscaynes not to mention a very young Jackie lee under his real name of Earl Nelson with two stormers! Soul fans of the early 1960s could often figure out the geographic origins of new singles as much by the sound as by any knowledge of sometimes obscure artists and labels, with the output of West Coast studios tending to have a harder sound in comparison with some more sophisticated (for the era) productions from the opposite coast or the regions of the Great Lakes. Here we have music from the formative period of the soul era in Los Angeles.All essential stuff for the discerning lover of Soul.

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