Artist: Various
Album: The Spring Story
Genre: Soul
Released: 1995
One of the major soul labels of the 1970s, Spring Records was formed in the late 1960s by Bill Spitalsky and Roy and Julie Rifkind. A hothouse label for some of the most essential soul music of the era, Millie Jackson, Joe Simon and The Fatback Band made their best-known songs and
greatest chart hits for Spring. Included in this volume are Fatback's (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop, Joe Simon's powerful, Gamble & Huff-penned Drowning In The Sea Of Love and Millie Jackson's scorchingly confessional If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Wanna Be Right). An early offering from Jocelyn Brown - Too Through - proves the singer a top-notch performer from the very beginning and there is disco and deep soul sides from Garland
Green, a classic Northern Soul song I Can See Him Making Love To You (here by The Mayberry Movement) and the UK disco smash Tom The Peeper by Act 1.As album compiler Adie Croasdell asserts in his sleevenotes, Spring (with its subsidiaries Posse and Event) not only produced the big 1970s soul hits, they also "gave us the minor hits and little gems that make soul music so interesting and rewarding.
Tracklist
01 Tom The Peeper - Act I
02 My Man, A Sweet Man - Millie Jackson
03 Step By Step - Joe Simon
04 I Can See Him Loving You - The Mayberry Movement
05 Too Through - Jocelyn Brown
06 I Found Lovin' - Fatback
07 I Gotta Get Away From My Own Self - Ray Godfrey
08 He Didn't Know (He Kept On Talking) - Garland Green
09 You've Come A Long Way Baby - Flower Shoppe
10 Baby, You Got It All - Street People
11 Just A Little Misunderstanding - Busta Jones
12 SOS (Stop Her On Sight) - Winfield Parker
13 Get Ready / Uptight - Little Eva Harris
14 (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop - The Fatback Band
15 It's My Life - Mainstreeters
16 Jody, Come Back And Get Your Shoes - Bobby Newsome
17 If We Get Caught, I Don't Know You - Phillip Mitchell
18 Drowning In The Sea Of Love - Joe Simon
19 If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want To Be Right (Reprise) - Millie Jackson
20 Friends Or Lovers - Act I
21 Magic's In The Air - Ronnie Walker
22 Love Contest - The Joneses
23 How About A Little Hand (For The Boys In The Band) - The Boys In The Band
24 Bumpin' And Stompin' - Garland Green
25 Come And Get These Memories - Ray Godfrey And The Determinations
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