Eric -

You're right, There's Something on My Baby's Mind is a terrific deepy
and by far the group's finest moment on wax. Daft that it's not in
that compilation...

Karl


On 3 Jul 2009, at 07:25 am, Eric Karten wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've just come across a digital compilation of tracks by the
> great Soul Ambassadors, available for download from the
> usual sources. See:
> http://www.rhapsody.com/soul-ambassadors/soul-masters or
> http://amzn.com/B000S58AN6.
>
> Nine tracks, seven of which are drawn from the four Sound
> Stage 7 singles credited variously to The Ambassadors, The
> Soul Ambassadors, and Bobby Ledford & the Soul Ambassadors.
>
> (Why in the world would the compilers omit one side of one
> single, "There's Something On My Baby's Mind", probably
> their best track? [Fortunately, it's one of the two that
> are already on CD...])
>
> But two of the tracks, "I Don't Have No One To Give My Love
> To" and "You Got Me Runnin' Got Me Hidin'" don't seem to
> have been originally released on SS7. Does anyone know what
> the original source of these two sides is?
>
> They do seem to have appeared on a Vivid Sound LP
> compilation of SS7 sides called "Soul Bag vol. 1".
> (http://www.ticro.com/search/S00005839/no_sub/detail/)
>
> Are these two tracks SS7 outtakes or did they originally
> appear on another label?
>
> By the way, if you don't know The Soul Ambassadors, several
> of these sides are really first rate. Unfortunately, the
> mastering on this release is indifferent at best and, of
> course, there are no notes and no images. Wouldn't it be
> great to see a proper CD release of this material?
>
> Best regards to all,
> Eric
>
>
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