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Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Stax
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $14.16
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 1135
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: 230203
UPC: 888072302037
EAN: 0888072302037
ASIN: B000KP62UM
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | GEE WHIZ (LOOK AT HIS EYES) - Carla Thomas | | • | LAST NIGHT - The Mar-Keys | | • | YOU DON'T MISS YOUR WATER - William Bell | | • | GREEN ONIONS - Booker T. & The MGs | | • | WALKING THE DOG - Rufus Thomas | | • | I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG (TO STOP NOW) - Otis Redding | | • | CANDY - The Astors | | • | RESPECT - Otis Redding | | • | YOU DON'T KNOW LIKE I KNOW - Sam & Dave | | • | I WANT SOMEONE - The Mad Lads | | • | HOLD ON I'M COMIN' - Sam & Dave | | • | LET ME BE GOOD TO YOU - Carla Thomas | | • | YOUR GOOD THING (IS ABOUT TO END) - Mable John | | • | KNOCK ON WOOD - Eddie Floyd | | • | B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas | | • | TRAMP - Otis & Carla | | • | SOUL FINGER - The Bar-Keys | | • | BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN - Albert King | | • | SOUL MAN - Sam & Dave | | • | (SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY - Otis Redding | | • | I GOT A SURE THING - Ollie & The Nightingales | | • | SOUL LIMBO - Booker T. & The MGs | | • | I'VE NEVER FOUND A GIRL (TO LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO) - Eddie Floyd | | • | WHAT A MAN - Linda Lyndell | | • | PRIVATE NUMBER - William Bell & Judy Clay | | • | WHO'S MAKING LOVE - Johnnie Taylor | | • | I FORGOT TO BE YOUR LOVER - William Bell | | • | I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING (TO ME) - Carla Thomas |
Disc 2
| • | TIME IS TIGHT - Booker T. & The MGs | | • | SO I CAN LOVE YOU - The Emotions | | • | WALK ON BY - Isaac Hayes | | • | DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN - Rufus Thomas | | • | JODY'S GOT YOUR GIRL AND GONE - Johnnie Taylor | | • | MR. BIG STUFF - Jean Knight | | • | NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Isaac Hayes | | • | WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET - The Dramatics | | • | RESPECT YOURSELF - The Staple Singers | | • | THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes | | • | SON OF SHAFT - The Bar-Kays | | • | THAT'S WHAT LOVE WILL MAKE YOU DO - Little Milton | | • | I'VE BEEN LONELY FOR SO LONG - Frederick Knight | | • | HEARSAY - Soul Children | | • | IN THE RAIN - The Dramatics | | • | I'LL TAKE YOU THERE - The Staple Singers | | • | STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN - Mel & Tim | | • | DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE - The Temprees | | • | IF YOU'RE READY (COME GO WITH ME) - The Staple Singers | | • | CHEAPER TO KEEP HER - Johnnie Taylor | | • | I'LL BE THE OTHER WOMAN - Soul Children | | • | WOMAN TO WOMAN - Shirley Brown |
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Amazon.com
When Concord Music purchased Fantasy Records in 2006, the bulging Stax catalog came along for the ride. Not a bad deal, especially since Stax remains one of the richest and most vital sources of '60s and '70s soul, blues, and R&B. The newly reactivated label's debut release is a lavishly boxed double-disc set of 50 highlights--as opposed to hits--from the Memphis label's voluminous vaults to celebrate its 50th anniversary. All the usual suspects appear, including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, Albert King, and the Staple Singers. But the compilers deliver a well-rounded, even eclectic collection by including tracks from such relatively obscure acts as the Astors, Ollie & the Nightingales, the Mad Lads, Linda Lyndell, and Mable John, whose "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" is one of the great lost soul treasures. Propelled in large part by house band Booker T. & the MGs, the majority of these songs have become integral threads in the fabric of American soul. Even at two and a half hours, there's not a dull moment here. That is a testament not just to the Stax musicians, but to a label whose artists defined a classic sound that remains as timeless, relevant, influential, and electrifying as when it was recorded. --Hal Horowitz
Album Description
FIRST TIME EVER! 50 GREATEST STAX HITS IN A SPECIAL 2CD BOXED SET. Set includes chart toppers by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T & the MGs, Isaac Hayes, The Staples Singers, Johnnie Taylor, and more *Packaged in a UNIQUE HARD COVER BOX with LENTICULAR COVER ART *EVERY MAJOR STAX AND STAX-ATLANTIC HIT from the label's 1960s and 70s heyday. *THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE STAX HITS COLLECTION EVER! *Release coincides with the 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STAX *DIGITALLY REMASTERED *Features a MULTI-PAGE BOOKLET with notes from "Soulsville USA: The Story of Stax" by noted soul music historian Rob Bowman
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
The best of classic Memphis soul October 12, 2008
I bought this package after visiting the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. I've always enjoyed the old soul sound from the 60's, as performed by people like Sam and Dave, Otis Redding and many others. What I hadn't realized until touring the museum was that all this great music was truly produced out of love by a relatively small group of musicians and producers in an old abandoned theater they'd converted into a studio from scratch. For those not in a position to tour the museum, this album tells the story not only in printed word but with fifty of the best known hits they recorded. Read through the track listing and you'll see what I mean. And one thing about Stax, since the musicians and the artists worked together almost as a family, chances are if you like a song by one artist, you'll like them all. Among the best tracks here are Otis Redding's I've Been Loving You Too Long, Johnnie Taylor's Who's Making Love and the late Isaac Hayes' mind blowing Theme From Shaft. There are also some long forgotten gems like William Bell's You Don't Miss Your Water and Mel and Tim's Starting All Over Again. The Stax 50th Anniversary Collection is great music that needs to be heard not only for its historical place in popular culture, but also because it's as much fun to listen to now as it was thirty, forty and fifty years ago. And if you're not familiar with the story behind the music, the booklet provided will shed some light into the blood, sweat and tears that was Stax records. Plus, the cover has a really neat hologram of the famous Stax logo. You can actually make the fingers snap by moving the box! And finally, after listening I highly recommend you find time to tour the museum in Soulsville, Memphis, Tennessee. It's outstanding!
Great Summary of the Output of the Best Soul Label Ever! October 4, 2008
If the hologram snapping fingers on the cover don't give any indication of the lively, funky, toe-tappin' Southern soul that Stax put out, you should put on this box set for an introduction. For a very affordable price, it covers most of the major hits from the biggest artists of the label, including Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Booker T. and the MG's, Sam and Dave, Johnnie Taylor, and Isaac Hayes, and includes songs by less famous acts that you'd be hard-pressed to find represented by an easily available compilation. Stax was the best soul label ever, grittier than Atlantic and Motown, and with an exuberant, passionate spirit that made it all its own.
Great "brings back memories" music! August 31, 2008
I used this CD at a happy hour and got many compliments on it. It is such easy listening, smooooooooooth and smoky! Highly recommend it. gz
Great collection. April 29, 2008
This is a very good selection, and it all sounds good- it's a good remastering job all the way through.
Stax is masterful... April 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After seeing a 2-hour program on Stax records on PBS, I think, I simply had to get this 2 CD set. It was a bargain and well worth it.
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