The Ultimate Blue Notes

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Album: The Ultimate Blue Notes
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wake up Everybody
2)	Love I Lost, The
3)	Bad Luck
4)	If You Don't Know Me By Now
5)	Yesterday I Had the Blues
6)	Don't Leave Me This Way
7)	Keep on Lovin' You
8)	You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good
9)	Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
10)	I Miss You
11)	I'm Weak for You
12)	Be for Real
13)	Where Are All My Friends
14)	Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)
15)	Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby

Album: The Ultimate Blue Notes
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wake up Everybody
2)	Love I Lost, The
3)	Bad Luck
4)	If You Don't Know Me By Now
5)	Yesterday I Had the Blues
6)	Don't Leave Me This Way
7)	Keep on Lovin' You
8)	You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good
9)	Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
10)	I Miss You
11)	I'm Weak for You
12)	Be for Real
13)	Where Are All My Friends
14)	Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)
15)	Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby

Performer Notes

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes includes: Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass.
Additional personnel includes: Sharon Paige (vocals); Thom Bell, Norman Harris, Bobby Martin (arranger)..
Producers: Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff, Harold Melvin.
Compilation producer: Leo Sacks.
Recorded between 1972 & 1975. Includes liner notes by Gerald Marzorati.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Actually the Ultimate Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass, this collection covers their Philadelphia International years from 1972-1975 as in-depth and representative of the band's talents as a single disc can get. Not to split too many hairs, but the vocal soul group did have a handful of good songs past this period, although none that match the majestic sweep of this material. Boasting dance beats, swirling strings, smooth crooning storytelling, and Pendergrass' booming baritone, this is some of the best as well as most representative R&B of the '70s, and this 15-track compilation is all you'll need to hear why. Practically double the amount of songs as Collectors Item and over twice as long, this anthology adds such often ignored gems as the almost eight-minute "Yesterday I Had the Blues" and the original version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" before Thelma Houston took it Top Ten, which itself clocks in at another six minutes. An updating of Legacy's 1995 If You Don't Know Me By Now: The Best of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, this 2001 disc features improved sound, new liner notes with full chart documentation for pop and R&B positions, slightly different track selection, all full-length album versions, and a snazzier-looking package. Sequenced for most appropriate musical flow (as opposed to chronologically), the disc mixes upbeat tracks with softer ballads for a more consistent listening experience, helped by the coherent Gamble & Huff production team. If you need one album from the legendary soul vocal group, this is certainly the one to choose. ~ Hal Horowitz

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (5-6/02, p.81) - "...Proudly upholding the swirling, sophisticated soul conception of producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff....[this album] is mainly vehicles for sexy Teddy Pendergrass..."

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