HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY.... THE F.S.V.B SPECIAL MIXES...Featuring... AL GREEN

Hello and Welcome to F.S.V.B, I have now been running this Blog for 3 Years, Amazing...... I love Posting all about these Great Artists/Bands and their Music and I suppose as Long as I Enjoy doing this, I will carry on Posting!


To think when I started out, I was Lucky to get about 2 or 3 Visitors Per Day, now its Leveled off to about 120 to 150 Visitors per day.


Here are a Few Facts and Figures concerning this Blog Over the Past 4 months:  
I have had 3,750 Visitor's with over 6,250 Page Views!


The Most Viewed Page is : Sweet Soul Music from the 70's with 4000 Hits.


The Most Viewed Post is: Spiderman and Sadao Watanabe with 2000 Hits.


The Best Day for Visitor's was August 23rd 2011 with 289 Visitors.


The Most Number of Visitor's that has come from a Country is: USA 15,000, UK 6,500 and France with 5,000 Visitors. 


In the Last year I have had 54,000 Visitor's.


My Top 2 Site Referrer's are: Google with 10,512 Hits and AllSoulandFunk Blogspot with 8,532 Hits (Thanks Gilbert). 


Since Google started keeping Stats concerning this Blog (March 09), I have had Just Under 1/2 Million Page Views!


Thanks to Everybody who had Visited this Blog, in the Past, Now and (Hopefully) in the Future!
Please Keep Visiting! 
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Now for the Music, There is only One Man's Music needed for a Celebration....................I have 2 Different Mixes this Week, by (In My opinion) the Best Soul Singer Ever, The Great Al Green..........


I have Featured One of these Mixes before, but not the First One!


The Mixes Feature some of Al Green's Greatest Tracks ever Recorded, Checkout the 1st mix, between all the Track's there are Clip's of Al Green and other's talking, about the Man and the Music.


The First Mix is from JJ's Smoking Session on the Website 6 Million Steps submitted by Alan Champ, Checkout the Website for more Great Mixes and to Download!

Tracklist:

Free At Last

The Letter

Take Me To The River

L.O.V.E

Something

Schooldays

Love Ritual

Let It Shine

Can't Get Next To You

Here I Am (Come And Take Me)

Tired Of Being Alone

Gotta Be More (Take Me Higher)

Sha La La

So Glad You're Mine

Call Me

What A Wonderful Thing Love Is

Feels Like Summer

Love & Happiness

Let's Stay Together

For The Good Times

The Second Mix is by Spoamusic (Tony S) it Features some of the Lesser Known Al Green Track's....... Checkout his Site for more Great Mixes and Downloads!

1. So You're Leaving 
2. L.O.V.E. 
3. Stay With Me Forever 
4. Tomorrow's Dream 
5. Right Now Right Now 
6. You Ought To Be With Me 
7. I'm So Tired To Be Alone 
8. Livin For You 
9. Stand Up 
10. I'm Hooked On You 
11. I Gotta Be More (Take Me Higher) 
12. Light My Fire 
13. Could I Be The One 
14. Your Love is Like the Morning Sun 
15. Beware


CHECKOUT SOME OF AL GREEN'S GREATEST ALBUMS!

FUNKY-SOUL-VINYLS CLASSIC SOUL AND FUNK ALBUMS OF THE 60's 70's and 80's # 3

In this Series of Posts, I will writing about a Particular Classic Soul/Funk Album from the 60's 70's and 80's


The one's that stand out in my Mind, as The Best Soul/Funk/Jazz/R&B Albums ever Released. All of them, I purchased as Vinyl many Years ago and also I have them on CD today.


You may have a Differing view (as we all do) on these Choices, but these are my Favorites!


# NUMBER 3


AL GREEN........CALL ME


This was Al Green's 6th Album Release and the 5th on the Hi Record Label, it came out during the Summer of 1973 and was Produced by the Great Willie Mitchell.


It Contained 3 Singles:                        US POP / US R&B / STATUS


You Ought To Be With Me                    3              1             GOLD
Call Me (Come Back Home)                10              2                 "
Here I Am (Come And Take Me)         10              2                 "

This Album is widely Acknowledged as Al Green's Masterpiece, in fact in 2003 it was Voted by Rolling Stone Magazine as the 289th Greatest Album of all Time!


Al Green is also "Rolling Stones" 65th Best Artist of All Time!


I Myself have made a Few Compilations of Al Green's Music, and they always include 7 out of the 9 Tracks from this Album!


I could not say which is my Favorite Track, but Tracks 2 and 7 would be probably be the main Choices!


Have a Listen to the Tracks, although there cannot be a Soul Music Fan out there who has not heard of these before, but you never know!


The Track Listing:

1. "Call Me (Come Back Home) – 3:03
2. "Have You Been Making Out O.K. – 3:42
3. "Stand Up – 3:25
4. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry – 3:10
5. "Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun – 3:09
6. "Here I Am (Come and Take Me) – 4:14
7. "Funny How Time Slips Away – 5:33
8. "You Ought to Be with Me – 3:15
9. "Jesus Is Waiting – 5:36

Album Personnel

Al Green - Vocals, Producer

Willie Mitchell - Producer, Engineer

Charles Chalmers - Background Vocals, Horn Arrangements

Howard Grimes - Drums

Jack Hale - Trombone

Charles Hodges - Organ, Piano

Leroy Hodges - Bass

Mabon "Teenie" Hodges - Guitar

Wayne Jackson - Trumpet

Ed Logan - Tenor Saxophone

Andrew Love - Tenor Saxophone

The Memphis Strings - Strings

James Mitchell - Baritone Saxophone, Horn Arrangements

Donna Rhodes - Background Vocals

Sandra Rhodes - Background Vocals

Archie Turner - Piano

Al Jackson, Jr. - Drums

Me and the Wife had the Pleasure of Seeing Al Green in Concert last year, it was Probably our Best Night of last Year, he was Great, Check out my Previous Post!

As you might know if you have read any of my Posts before, Al Green is my Favorite Singer, as Slave are my favorite Band!

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