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More compelling salvage from his 1970s period with Clinton Moon’s Showtime Productions, debuting the ballads We’ve Got To Get It Together and Child’s Play, the social protest of Today Is A New Day and Singing In Poverty, and dancefloor action like Total Love, A Case Of The Boogie and the sensual Gimme A Little Action — besides top-notch alternate mixes, like So Tied Up and What’s It Gonna Be from The Show Must Go On, and new versions of Alpaca Phase Three’s Someone To Run To, featuring a previously unheard SD rap, and Touch Me With Your Love, adding more than a minute…

All their fab late 60s recordings for Bert Berns and his Bang and Shout labels, and then RCA — classic girl group and soul both, with some dancers and northern anthems, lit upfront by the great belter Brenda Reid.

Fab, zinging Aretha, pre-Atlantic, with the dodgy jazz and showtunes sifted out, and two recordings previously unreleased — the self-penned I Still Can’t Forget, and When They Ask, recorded when she was just 19.

Kicking off with his magnificent 1963 hit Cry Baby — both sides of all fourteen sevens. Superb sixties soul music, shaded out of doo wop, brimming with gospel.