The Essential O’Jays

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Lonely Drifter
  2:24
• 2
  Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)
  2:44
• 3
  Stand in for Love
  3:44
• 4
  I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today)
  3:03
• 5
  There's Someone (Waiting Back Home)
  2:29
• 6
  One Night Affair
  2:18
• 7
  Deeper (In Love With You)
  2:41
• 8
  Back Stabbers
  3:05
  4.7 ★
• 9
  992 Arguments
  2:22
• 10
  Love Train
  2:58
  4.1 ★
• 11
  Time to Get Down
  2:53
• 12
  Put Your Hands Together
  4:07
• 13
  Sunshine, Part 1
  3:44
• 14
  You Got Your Hooks in Me
  5:34
• 15
  Now That We Found Love
  4:42
  5.0 ★
• 16
  For the Love of Money
  7:21
  4.6 ★
• 17
  Give the People What They Want
  4:12
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Survival
  3:44
• 19
  Let Me Make Love to You
  3:39
  4.0 ★
• 20
  I Love Music
  6:49
  5.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Livin' for the Weekend
  6:37
• 2
  Stairway to Heaven
  6:17
• 3
  Family Reunion
  6:57
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Ship Ahoy
  4:14
• 5
  Message in Our Music
  6:05
• 6
  Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love)
  4:12
  5.0 ★
• 7
  The Big Gangster
  3:18
• 8
  Use Ta Be My Girl
  3:19
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Brandy (I Really Miss You)
  4:12
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Cry Together
  5:34
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Forever Mine
  6:08
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Sing a Happy Song
  5:01
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Lovin' You
  5:20
• 14
  Wind Beneath My Wings

  Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert
  5:38
• 15
  Emotionally Yours
  5:38

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Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays

Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays 1994

Identify Yourself

Identify Yourself 1979

Ship Ahoy / Message in the Music / Live in London

Ship Ahoy / Message in the Music / Live in London 2023

The Story of Philadelphia International Records

The Story of Philadelphia International Records 2022

The Best Of The O’Jays

The Best Of The O’Jays 2021

Release credits

• Bobby Martin
  arranger [1.6, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16, 2.1-2]
• Bunny Sigler
  producer [13]
• Gamble & Huff
  producer [6]
• Harold Battiste
  arranger [2]
• Joe Tarsia
  recording [8-11, 13]
• Kenneth Gamble
  producer [1.8, 1.10-16, 1.18, 1.20, 2.1-3]
• Lanky Linstrot
  engineer [2]
• Leon Huff
  producer [1.8, 1.10-16, 1.18, 1.20, 2.1-3]
• MFSB
  performer [8, 15-16]
• Nick de Caro
  conductor [2]
• Norman Harris
  arranger [15, 20]
• Ron Fair
  arranger [15], conductor [15], producer [15]
• Thom Bell
  arranger [6, 8, 13]
• Tommy LiPuma
  producer [2]

Issues

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  The Essential O’Jays

  2x CD
  2008
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  The Essential O’Jays

  3x CD (Limited Edition 3.0)
  25 August 2009