Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see
it, and when the millennium came around, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection wasn't too far behind. Supposedly, the millennium is a momentous ...
A major turning point for the O'Jays, Back Stabbers took the group to the top
of the charts and made them household names in the R&B world. The O'Jays had been paying serious dues since the late '50s, and their ...
Rotary Connection released a handful of albums. The one that had the most mainstream success
was Christmas-themed. Only one song, Want You to Know, dipped into the Hot 100 -- rocketed all the way up to number 96. How necessary, ...
Spinning off from Talking Heads in the early '80s, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth gave
their parent band a run for its money as far as killer party bands went with Tom Tom Club. Their rock-solid rhythms and skeletal grooves ...
It may not contain many big hits, but that's the reason why East Side Story,
Vol. 5 is a wonderful collection of '60s R&B and soul. Brenton Wood is the most familiar name here, but he's represented by lesser-known singles ...
B.B. King hasn't made many better pop-flavored albums than this. Besides making Leon Russell's Hummingbird
sound like his own composition, King showed that you can put the blues into any situation and make it work. Joining King here were Leon ...
The only live album of Wilson's career was recorded in the early '60s at New
York's famous Copacabana nightclub. It was an almost obligatory rite of passage for early soul stars breaking into the mainstream, one also enacted by Sam ...
This low-end compilation from Motown focuses on the many covers the Jackson brothers worked up
in their earlier years, presumably as a counterbalance to the Jackson 5's Corporation-dominated greatest hits issuings. The emphasis is on the band's first few albums, ...
