Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin’: Black Music in Britain in the Sixties

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#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin’	Soul Brothers		2:26
2	Nothing But a Heartache recording of: Nothing but a Heartache writer: Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington	The Flirtations		2:44
3	Serving a Sentence of Life recording of: Serving a Sentence of Life writer: Pierre Tubbs	Carl Douglas		2:25
4	Springtime	Jimmy Thomas		2:40
5	This Heart of Mine	Jimmy James & the Vagabonds		2:32
6	Come on Home	Jackie Edwards		2:38
7	One Way Ticket	Chris Rayburn		2:36
8	Coming Home to You	Herbie Goins and The Night-Timers		2:40
9	Waterfall recording of: Waterfall lyricist and composer: Jimmy Cliff (Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician)	Jimmy Cliff		2:29
10	I Can’t Break the Habit	The Ferris Wheel		2:14
11	Michael	Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band		2:26
12	Don’t You Pass Me By	Cleo Laine		2:48
13	Whose Little Girl Are You recording of: Whose Little Girl Are You writer: King (songwriter) and Williams	Danny Williams		2:08
14	Picture Me Gone	Madeline Bell		2:57
15	Some Lovin’	Watson T. Browne & The Explosive		2:43
16	If You Knew	Ebony Keyes		2:47
17	Take It Easy	Sugar Simone		3:07
18	The Real Thing	Kim D		2:07
19	Looky, Looky	The Brothers Grimm		2:23
20	Ain’t Love Good, Ain’t Love Proud	Lucas & The Mike Cotton Sound		2:39
21	Ask the Lonely recording of: Ask the Lonely writer: Ivy Jo Hunter and Mickey Stevenson (Motown songwriter)	The Fantastics		2:49
22	Drowning in My Own Despair	Oliver Norman		3:07
23	Gonna Work out Fine	Owen Gray		2:37
24	Lookin’ for Love	John L. Watson & The Hummelflugs		2:53
25	Movin’ Away recording of: Movin' Away writer: Kenny Lynch (English singer, songwriter, entertainer & actor) and Bob Wackett	Kenny Lynch		3:28
26	Let’s Go Somewhere	Root & Jenny Jackson		2:53
27	What Love Brings	Kenny Bernard		2:26
28	Yes I Do	Ram John Holder		3:04
29	Turn Me On	Hoagy Benson		4:40

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#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	A Man Without a Face	The Chants		2:32
2	Walk on Gilded Splinters cover recording of: I Walk on Guilded Splinters lyricist and composer: John Creaux (New Orleans blues pianist, singer and songwriter) publisher: Marzique Music	Marsha Hunt		3:31
3	New Direction	The Foundations		3:01
4	Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad	Caleb Quaye	3	3:17
5	Stoned out of It	John Fitch and Associates		2:25
6	Bring Back Your Love (to Me)	Simon K & The Meantimers		2:23
7	Can’t We Be Friends	The Sugarlumps		2:37
8	Move Me	Flamma Sherman		2:42
9	What Greater Love	Jack Hammer		2:22
10	There Is cover recording of: There Is writer: Bobby Miller (US songwriter & record producer) and Raynard Miner publisher: Chevis Publishing Corp.	The Shadrocks featuring Little John		3:02
11	Only a Fool	Clyde McPhatter		2:36
12	I’m So Clean	Ronnie Jones		2:42
13	Get Down with It / I Can’t Get No Satisfaction cover recording of: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction writer: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (Rolling Stones guitarist) publisher: ABKCO Music, Inc. (this is a music publisher; for release labels, please use “ABKCO”), BMG VM Music Ltd. and Essex Music International cover recording of: Get Down With It lyricist and composer: Bobby Marchan	This 'n' That		2:55
14	But It’s Alright recording of: But It’s Alright writer: J.J. Jackson (soul/R&B singer/songwriter Jerome Louis Jackson) and Pierre Tubbs	J.J. Jackson		2:54
15	Swing a Ling Pt. 1	Ernest Ranglin & The G.B.S		2:06
16	Hurt	Norma Lee		2:52
17	Too Much of a Woman	The Corduroys		1:44
18	I Don’t Want	Errol Dixon		2:44
19	Giving Up on Love	Sonny Childe		2:36
20	Have You Ever Had the Blues (alternate take) cover recording of: Have You Ever Had the Blues writer: Harold Logan and Lloyd Price (US R&B/soul singer)	Ray Gates		2:27
21	I Know Some Day	Paula and The Jetliners		2:34
22	Motown Feeling	Maynell Wilson		3:32
23	Kiss Me, Kiss Me	B.B. James & Derv		2:55
24	Take It or Leave It	Blue Rivers and His Maroons		2:11
25	I’m Living Good cover recording of: I'm Living Good writer and composer: Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn (songwriter, soul singer) publisher: Screen Gems–EMI Music Ltd.	McFarthing Kissoon		2:43
26	Confusion	Laris McLennon		2:43
27	Sock It to ’em, J.B. (live) live recording of: Sock It to ’Em J.B. composer: Clayton Dunn (saxophonist // member of Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers), Rex Garvin and Pete Holman (drums)	Freddy Mack		5:16
28	That Man	The Reaction		3:11

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#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	African Velvet	Black Velvet		3:37
2	London Here I Come	Rico’s Combo		2:56
3	My Love and I	Millie		3:06
4	Bar Tender	Laurel Aitken and The Blue Beats		2:37
5	Work It Up	Winston Groovy		2:18
6	Jezebel	Pat Rhoden		2:17
7	Cutting Blade	King Horror		2:04
8	You Better Be Gone	Beresford Ricketts and The Blue Beats		3:17
9	Worried Over Me	The Classics		2:36
10	That Girl She Done Me Wrong	Sonny and the Daffodils		2:45
11	Children Get Ready	The Brixton Market		3:22
12	Show Me How (to Milk a Cow) cover recording of: Show Me How (You Milk the Cow) lyricist and composer: Nicola Paone (Italian-American singer songwriter)	Tony Washington & the D.C's		1:57
13	Musical Feet	Joe's All Stars		2:31
14	One More Try	The Fabulous Blue Beats		2:10
15	Boss Sound	The Rudies		2:47
16	Another Man	Bobby Johnson and The Atoms		1:39
17	Scandal in Brixton Market	Laurel & Girlie		3:33
18	Hey Jude cover recording of: Hey Jude written in: England, United Kingdom (in 1968-06) writer: John Lennon (The Beatles) (in 1968-06) and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) (in 1968-06) publisher: Maclen (Music) Ltd. (U.K. based publisher for Lennon-McCartney), Maclen Music, Inc. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney), Music Corporation of America, Inc. (BMI‐affiliated music publisher of MCA Records, Inc.?), Northern Songs, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020), Sony/ATV Songs LLC and Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) written at: Cavendish Avenue (Paul McCartney’s house c. 1969) in St John's Wood, Westminster, London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (from 1968-06 until 1968-07-26)	Ambrose Campbell		2:18
19	Girl Come See	Sugar 'N' Dandy		2:25
20	Kent People	Gruvy Beats		2:49
21	There I Go	The Bluebeaters		2:18
22	Pony Ride	Winston and Pat		2:26
23	Coronation Street	Top Grant		3:31
24	Call Collect	Seven Letters		2:21
25	Fleet Street	Dimples and Eddie with Rico’s Combo		2:37
26	Everything Is Go	Cab Kaye		3:17
27	King Cricket	Cy Grant		3:05
28	Run Thru the Park	The Barnaby Rudge Hip Band		2:05
29	Please Think of Me	Rupert & The Red Devils		2:49

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liner notes:	Fitzroy Facey Michael Mulligan
miscellaneous support:	Eddy Ball (task: licensing)
mastering:	Simon Murphy (mastering engineer)
compiler:	John Reed (British music journalist)
design:	Lora Findlay

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/release/24545777 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/mr0005649439 [info]

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