Budget-priced collection featuring 20 tracks from 1968-1974 by this great soul group from Philadelphia, including all 15 of their chart hits for the Philly Groove label. Contains 'La-La Means I Love You', 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)', 'Break Your Promise', 'Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)' and more! 1999 release.

The 'Godfather of Soul' is captured live at Monterey, California in January 1979, performing some of his best known tracks such as 'Get Up Offa That Thing', 'Sex Machine' and 'Please, Please, Please'.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
Side: 1
1 : See Through Me (feat. Pedrito Martinez)
2 : Don't Get Me Started
3 : Lazy (And I Know It)
Side: 2
1 : Sooner Or Later (feat. Anthony Hamilton, Ray Parker Jr. & Rev. Charles Hodges)
2 : Plan B
3 : Concrete Mind

Disc: 2
Side: 1
1 : In the Meantime (feat. John Mayer)
2 : Mess About It (feat. Ray Parker Jr. & Jon Batiste)
3 : Hard To Be A Human
Side: 2
1 : What You Didn't Say
2 : I'm Not Gonna Waste My Love
3 : It's Alright

LaVette! hits all the marks. Together with Jay-Vee Records, Bettye has the freedom to explore new territory. Produced by Steve Jordan, LaVette! features 11 songs written by Georgia-born musician Randall Bramblett, who has been releasing solo albums since 1975. "Randall is the best writer that I have heard in the last 30 years," says Bettye. "He writes songs that are little soliloquies, they're like little stories about a moment, or a thing."
Featuring Anthony Hamilton, John Mayer, Jon Batiste, Steve Winwood, Pedrito Martinez and Ray Parker Jr.
The vinyl features an extra track, "What You Didn't Say".

After writing most of Depeche Mode's debut album, SPEAK AND SPELL, Vince Clarke left that band and hooked up with singer/pianist Alison Moyet, whose booming, soulful, R&B-inflected voice could not have been more different from that of Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan. The combination of Moyet's incredible voice and Clarke's electronic pop songs gave Yaz (known as Yazoo outside the US) a unique sound that lasted far beyond its brief lifespan. In fact, this 1999 compilation was actually spurred by the success of a popular television commercial featuring its lovely ballad "Only You." Combining the best parts of the duo's two albums, 1982's UPSTAIRS AT ERIC'S and 1983's YOU AND ME BOTH, with a couple of new remixes, this collection is most notable for including the superior single mix of the dance club classic "Situation." A fine introduction to an influential act.