Wilson Pickett - Funky Midnight Mover (2010)

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Artist: Wilson Pickett
Title: Funky Midnight Mover: The Atlantic Studio Recordings (1962-1978)
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Rhino Handmade ‎– RHM2 07753
Genre: Soul, R&B, Funk
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 7:46:24
Total Size: 3.66 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. I Found a Love (2007 Remaster) - By The Falcons
2. Let's Kiss and Make Up (2007 Remaster) - By The Falcons
3. Take This Love I've Got (2007 Remaster) - By The Falcons
4. My Heart Belongs To You (2007 Remastered Version)
5. Let Me Be Your Boy (2007 Remastered Version)
6. If You Need Me (2007 Remaster)
7. Baby Call on Me (2007 Remaster)
8. It's Too Late (2007 Remaster)
9. I'm Gonna Love You (2007 Remaster)
10. I'm Down to My Last Heartbreak (2007 Remaster)
11. I Can't Stop (2007 Remaster)
12. Baby, Don't You Weep (2007 Remaster)
13. Peace Breaker (2007 Remaster)
14. I'll Never Be the Same (2007 Remaster)
15. Give All Your Lovin' Right Now (2007 Remaster)
16. I'm Gonna Cry (2007 Remaster)
17. For Better or Worse (2007 Remaster)
18. Teardrops Will Fall (with Tami Lynn) [2007 Remaster]
19. Come Home Baby (with Tami Lynn) [2007 Remaster]
20. Take a Little Love (2007 Remaster)
21. Don't Fight It (2007 Remaster)
22. That's a Man's Way (2007 Remaster)
23. In the Midnight Hour (2007 Remaster)
24. I'm Not Tired (2007 Remaster)
25. It's All Over (2007 Remaster)
26. Danger Zone (2007 Remaster)
27. I'm Drifting (2007 Remaster)
28. 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) [2007 Remaster]
29. Ninety-Nine and One-Half (Won't Do) [2007 Remaster]
30. You're so Fine (2007 Remaster)

Disc 2
1. Land of 1000 Dances (2007 Remaster)
2. Something You Got (2007 Remaster)
3. She Ain't Gonna Do Right (2007 Remaster)
4. She's so Good to Me (2007 Remaster)
5. Barefootin' (2007 Remaster)
6. Nothing You Can Do (2007 Remaster)
7. Mercy, Mercy (2007 Remaster)
8. I Need a Lot of Loving Every Day (2007 Remaster)
9. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (2007 Remaster)
10. Sunny (2007 Remaster)
11. New Orleans (2007 Remaster)
12. You Left the Water Running (2007 Remaster)
13. Mustang Sally (2007 Remaster)
14. Three Time Loser (2007 Remaster)
15. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (2007 Remaster)
16. Up Tight Good Woman (2007 Remaster)
17. Time Is on My Side (2007 Remaster)
18. Knock on Wood (2007 Remaster)
19. Love Is a Beautiful Thing (2007 Remaster)
20. Soul Dance Number Three (2007 Remaster)
21. Funky Broadway (2007 Remaster)
22. Mojo Mama (2007 Remaster)
23. I Found a Love, Pt. 1 (2007 Remaster)
24. I Found a Love, Pt. 2 (2007 Remaster)
25. I Found the One (2007 Remaster)
26. You Can't Stand Alone (2007 Remaster)
27. I'm Sorry About That (2007 Remaster)
28. Something Within Me (2007 Remaster)
29. We've Got to Have Love (2007 Remaster)
30. She's Lookin' Good (2007 Remaster)

Disc 3
1. I've Come a Long Way (2007 Remaster)
2. I'm in Love (2007 Remaster Single Version)
3. Jealous Love (2007 Remaster Single Version)
4. Don't Cry No More (2007 Remaster)
5. That Kind of Love (2007 Remaster)
6. Bring It on Home to Me (2007 Remaster)
7. Stagger Lee (2007 Remaster)
8. Hello Sunshine (2007 Remaster)
9. Deborah (2007 Remaster)
10. Down by the Sea (2007 Remaster)
11. I Found a True Love (2007 Remaster)
12. Remember, I Been Good to You (2007 Remaster)
13. Let's Get an Understanding (2007 Remaster)
14. I'm a Midnight Mover (2007 Remaster)
15. Trust Me (2007 Remaster)
16. It's a Groove (2007 Remaster)
17. A Man and a Half (2007 Remaster)
18. Woman Likes to Hear That (2007 Remaster)
19. Night Owl (2007 Remaster)
20. Sit Down and Talk This Over (2007 Remaster)
21. People Make the World (2007 Remaster)
22. Hey Jude (2007 Remaster)
23. Search Your Heart (2007 Remaster)
24. Mini-Skirt Minnie (2007 Remaster)
25. Back in Your Arms (2007 Remaster)
26. Save Me (2007 Remaster)
27. Toe Hold (2007 Remaster)
28. My Own Style of Loving (2007 Remaster)

Disc 4
1. Born to Be Wild (2007 Remaster)
2. Hey Joe (2007 Remaster)
3. She Said Yes (2007 Remaster)
4. Sweet Inspiration (2007 Remaster)
5. Steal Away (2007 Remaster)
6. Funky Way (2007 Remaster)
7. You Keep Me Hangin' On (2007 Remaster)
8. Now You See Me, Now You Don't (2007 Remaster)
9. Cole, Cooke & Redding (2007 Remaster)
10. Groovy Little Woman (2007 Remaster)
11. This Old Town (2007 Remaster)
12. It's Still Good (2007 Remaster)
13. Sugar Sugar (2007 Remaster)
14. Lord Pity Us All (2007 Remaster)
15. Run Joey Run (2007 Remaster)
16. Bumble Bee (Sting Me) [2007 Remaster]
17. Days Go By (2007 Remaster)
18. Ain't No Doubt About It (2007 Remaster)
19. Come Right Here (2007 Remaster)
20. Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You (2007 Remaster)
21. Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9 (Pt. 1/Pt. 2) [2007 Remaster]
22. International Playboy (2007 Remaster)
23. Help the Needy (2007 Remaster)
24. Fire and Water (2007 Remaster)
25. (Your Love Has Brought Me) A Mighty Long Way [2007 Remaster]

Disc 5
1. Covering the Same Old Ground (2007 Remaster)
2. Don't Knock My Love (Pt. 1) [2007 Remaster]
3. Don't Knock My Love (Pt. 2) [2007 Remaster]
4. Hot Love (2007 Remaster)
5. Not Enough Love to Satisfy (2007 Remaster)
6. You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover (2007 Remaster)
7. Pledging My Love (2007 Remaster)
8. Mama Told Me Not to Come (2007 Remaster)
9. Call My Name, I'll Be There (2007 Remaster)
10. Woman Let Me Down Home (2007 Remaster)
11. One Step Away (2007 Remaster)
12. Funk Factory (2007 Remaster)
13. Love Dagger (2007 Remaster)
14. Time to Let the Sun Shine on Me (2007 Remaster)
15. Who Turned You On (2007 Remaster)
16. Dance You Down (2007 Remaster)
17. Dance with Me (2007 Remaster)
18. She's so Tight (2007 Remaster)
19. The Night We Called It a Day (2007 Remaster)
20. Hold on to Your Hiney (2007 Remaster)
21. Groovin' (2007 Remaster)
22. Lay Me Like You Hate Me (2007 Remaster)
23. A Funky Situation (2007 Remaster)

Disc 6
1. Hello Sunshine (Alternate Version without Overdub) [2007 Remaster]
2. Pray for the Rain (Take 1 - Scratch Vocals) [2007 Remaster]
3. Groovy Little Woman (Take 12 - Alternate Version without Overdub) [2007 Remaster]
4. Let It Come Naturally (2007 Remaster)
5. Believe I'll Shout (Gospel Jam) [2007 Remaster]
6. Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9 (Takes 1 & 2) [2007 Remaster]
7. Rock of Ages (2007 Remaster)
8. Many Roads to Travel (2007 Remaster)
9. I Hope She'll Be Happier with Him (2007 Remaster)
10. Heaven (2007 Remaster)
11. Can't Stop a Man in Love (2007 Remaster Alternate Version)
12. If You Need Me (2007 Remaster Second Version)
13. Don't Forget the Bridge (2007 Remaster)
14. International Playboy (2007 Remaster 2nd Single Version)
15. Talk Jive (2007 Remaster)
16. I'll Be There (2007 Remaster)
17. Groove City (2007 Remaster)
18. Superstar (2007 Remaster)

Wilson Pickett was a force of nature, a one-man hurricane that blew everything out of his path. As he sang in one of his many Top 40 R&B singles, he was A Man and a Half, a title so fitting it served as a summary for Rhino’s 1993 double-disc compilation, a collection that stood as the most exhaustive Pickett retrospective until Rhino Handmade unleashed the six-disc box Funky Midnight Mover: The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1978), a monumental testament to the sweatiest, grittiest, soul singer who ever grabbed a microphone. This set may not be billed as the "complete recordings", but it is effectively that, rounding up all the master takes Pickett cut for Atlantic during those 16 years, dipping back for a few sides by his early group the Falcons, skipping his three-year sojourn at RCA from 1972-1975, adding some rarities, but essentially serving up all his prime titles in a handsome, hardcover book. Subtlety wasn’t quite Pickett’s strong suit, but that isn’t a liability: no matter what song came his way, he never sounded anything less than committed, and in the case of his disco dabblings of the late ‘70s, it could be some real dregs indeed. As this set illustrates, Pickett was game to follow the shifting sands of fashion, singing blaxploitation funk at the beginning of the ‘70s and glitzy disco at the end of it, singing it with the same fire he had when he was at Muscle Shoals in the late ‘60s, where he cut such timeless sides as “In the Midnight Hour,” “Knock on Wood,” “634-5789 (Soulsville USA),” “Mustang Sally,” and “Funky Broadway.” These singles naturally form the foundation of Funky Midnight Mover, but that is to be expected, as they’re always the core of any Pickett collection -- what the box proves is the magnitude of his talent and the consistency of his prime. Dig deeper than the ‘60s hits and there’s a wealth of great music -- pure, uncut Southern soul that’s sometimes adventurous, like when Wilson flirted with rock & roll on covers of “Hey Joe” and “Hey Jude”-- but what impresses is how Pickett remains a dynamic force even when the quality of the songs dips, as it undeniably does in his second stint at Atlantic. Despite this limp ending, the box never feels weak, it’s always strong and soulful, a necessary monument to a talent with no parallel in his time or in any other. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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