Essential Patti Labelle

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Essential Patti Labelle
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Artist: Patti Labelle
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. If Only You Knew
  2. Love, Need and Want You
  3. If You Don't Know Me by Now [Live]
  4. The Best Is Yet to Come
  5. The Spirit's in It
  6. New Attitude
  7. On My Own
  8. When You Talk About Love
  9. My Love, Sweet Love [From Waiting to Exhale]
  10. Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)
  11. Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)
  12. The Bells
  13. Last Dance [#]
  14. Moon Shadow [Live]
  15. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman [Alternate Version]
Music CD 2
  1. Lady Marmalade
  2. What Can I Do for You?
  3. You Turn Me On
  4. Open Up Your Heart
  5. Messin' with My Mind
  6. Isn't It a Shame
  7. Joy to Have Your Love
  8. You Are My Friend
  9. It's Alright with Me
  10. Music Is My Way of Life
  11. Release (The Tension) [Disco Version][#]
  12. Over the Rainbow
  13. Come What May
  14. Love Has Finally Come
  15. Mean Ol' Man's World [#][*]

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Music Review: The Good, The Bad & The ...Eh
Rating: 3 Stars

Okay, I am one of the more hardcore Patti Labelle fans, despite my age of 25. Over the years, her voice has gotten stronger and stronger and nobody can throw down like her live on stage, even now.
Now when I saw this collection, I was excited because it's more formal than the "Gold" series, just by looking at the covers and etc. So that was at the top of my list, certainly after my "Patti Labelle: Gold" was stolen last year along with other CDs.
Now i looked over the tracklisting here and i looked over it again today before I brought the CD. Now I brought home and here I am. Now where do I start?

Well here it goes.

The Good: First of all this is Ms. Patti Labelle, that's the first reason. This has all the important cuts of her solo career to include "If Only You Knew" which is a great way to open any cd that you have LOL. It has the live version of "If You Don't Know Me By Now" which is in a class of its own and it is one of the best live performances by her, even better than "Over the Rainbow". It has her group cuts and earlier hard-to-find songs on here from her 60s heyday. Cool

The Bad: The order is out of whack, although they did put her earlier stuff all on one CD and her more recent stuff on another; the same goes for solo and group cuts.
There are some more than deserving cuts missing from this for it to be called Essential, to include "We Ain't Finished Yet" from the 5 Heartbeats, "Love Has Finally Come At Last" with Bobby Womack (That version that's on the CD pissed me off), her duet with Luther from her One Night Only "Is It Still Good To You", her live versions of "Here & Now", "Stand By You", "Wind Beneath My Wings", & "Stand" with Donnie McClurkin. Then there's "If You Asked Me To", "Superwoman" with Gladys Knight & Dionne Warwick, "Go Solo" with Ron Isley, "Walk Around Heaven", "One Of Those Mornings" with Moby, "Right Kinda Lover", "I'm Gone", "Stir It Up", "Ain't No Way", her very hard to find version of "Black Butterfly", now that's Essential.

The Eh: While it's nice to see some unreleased stuff, a majority of the stuff on the second CD came from her least successful time; from the Philadelphia International Label and some of the other songs on here aren't even close to her best. her GOLD collection was way more better than this one. I thought they would've got it together by now but they missed more this go around.

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Description of Essential Patti Labelle

Two CD set of winner of two Grammy Awards and seven N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards (including Entertainer of the Year) Patti Labelle's career has spanned four spectacular decades. From her early years with the Bluebelles in the sixties to the pioneering funk-band Labelle in the seventies to the stellar #1 hits as a solo artist in subsequent years, she has consistently been at the top of her game and she is one of the most beloved and recognized entertainers of our time.

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