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Soul Hits of the 80's [Sony] [Box]

Various Artists
3 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Juicy Fruit - Mtume
2. Sanctified Lady - Marvin Gaye
3. Baby Come to Me - Regina Belle
4. Stop to Love - Luther Vandross
5. Let's Hear It For the Boy - Deniece Williams
6. Caravan of Love
7. All Cried Out - Full Force/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
8. Lovegirl - Teena Marie
9. Shining Star - The Manhattans
10. Fall in Love With Me - Earth, Wind & Fire
11. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
12. Lovey Dovey - Tony Terry
13. Easy Lover - Philip Bailey/Phil Collins
0. DISC 2:
1. Encore - Cheryl Lynn
2. OOO la la La - Teena Marie
3. Shower Me With Your Love - Surface
4. Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
5. Magnetic - Earth, Wind & Fire
6. All in My Mind - Full Force
7. How 'Bout Us - Champaign
8. Heaven Sent You - Stanley Clarke
9. Here and Now - Stanley Clarke
10. You, Me and He - Mtume
11. Dancing in the Sheets - Shalamar
12. Thigh Ride - Tawatha Agee
13. All I Want Is Forever - Regina Belle/James "J.T." Taylor
0. DISC 3:
1. Rockit - Herbie Hancock
2. Summer Nights - Grover Washington, Jr.
3. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
4. Oh Yeah! - Bill Withers
5. Save the Overtime (For Me) - Gladys Knight & the Pips
6. Sweat (Till You Get Wet) - Brick
7. Hydraulic Pump - P-Funk All Stars
8. Love Attack - Isaac Hayes
9. It's Gonna Take a Miracle - Deniece Williams
10. Show Me the Way - Regina Belle
11. Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) - Billy Ocean
12. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp
13. I Know Your Hot Spot - Enchantment
14. It's No Crime - Babyface
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 70310
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A budget three-CD set, Soul Hits of the 80's collects some of that awkward decade's soul moments from the Columbia/Sony catalog. Note the author's use of "moments" and the title's use of "hits," because they are, in fact, talking about the same songs. Not everything here was a hit, with some of the songs just squeaking into the Billboard Top 100; however, regardless of chart position, they do represent the era very well. There's a broad range of work here, from jazz crossovers like Stanley Jordan with "Heaven Sent You" and Grover Washington with "Summer Nights" to straight pop crossovers like Deniece Williams with "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and the classic and true hit "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins. Other actual chart-toppers here include "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume, Herbie Hancock with the seismic hit "Rockit," and one-hit wonder Johnny Kemp with "Just Got Paid." Luther Vandross, Teena Marie, Bill Withers, Babyface, and Regina Belle are a few of the others whose tracks pepper this 40-song (!) collection. It's not definitive, but does a fine job of representing just how broad soul music's reach had become in the '80s. ~ Wade Kergan