Emperors of Soul

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Come On

  Otis Williams & The Distants
  2:19
• 2
  Oh, Mother of Mine
  2:21
• 3
  Romance Without Finance
  2:50
• 4
  Check Yourself
  2:45
• 5
  Dream Come True
  3:16
• 6
  Mind Over Matter (I’m Gonna Make You Mine)

  The Pirates
  3:03
• 7
  I’ll Love You ’til I Die
  2:52
• 8
  Paradise
  2:50
• 9
  Slow Down Heart
  2:43
• 10
  I Couldn’t Cry If I Wanted To
  2:43
• 11
  Witchcraft (For Your Love)
  2:32
• 12
  I Want a Love I Can See
  2:32
• 13
  The Further You Look, the Less You See
  2:20
• 14
  Farewell My Love
  2:42
• 15
  A Tear From a Woman’s Eyes
  2:39
• 16
  The Way You Do the Things You Do
  2:42
  2.5 ★
• 17
  I’ll Be in Trouble
  3:20
• 18
  The Girl’s Alright With Me
  2:58
• 19
  Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
  2:17
• 20
  Baby, Baby I Need You
  2:41
• 21
  My Girl
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 22
  (Talking ’bout) Nobody but My Baby
  2:49
• 23
  It’s Growing
  2:59
  2.0 ★
• 24
  You’ll Lose a Precious Love
  2:29
  1.0 ★
• 25
  Since I Lost My Baby
  2:52
  2.0 ★
• 26
  You’ve Got to Earn It
  2:41
• 27
  My Baby
  3:00
  2.0 ★
• 28
  Don’t Look Back
  2:53
• CD 2
• 1
  Get Ready
  2:39
• 2
  Fading Away
  2:39
• 3
  Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
  2:35
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
  2:43
• 5
  Who You Gonna Run To
  3:08
• 6
  Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 7
  I Got Heaven Right Here on Earth
  2:54
• 8
  (I Know) I’m Losing You
  2:30
  3.5 ★
• 9
  All I Need
  3:20
• 10
  Sorry Is a Sorry Word
  2:31
• 11
  I’m Doing It All
  2:33
• 12
  No More Water in the Well
  3:04
• 13
  You’re My Everything
  3:13
  3.4 ★
• 14
  Just One Last Look
  2:46
• 15
  Angel Doll
  2:31
• 16
  (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It’s You That I Need
  2:39
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Don’t Send Me Away
  2:55
• 18
  Hello Young Lovers
  2:58
• 19
  Ol’ Man River
  4:49
• 20
  I Wish It Would Rain
  2:56
  3.6 ★
• 21
  I Truly, Truly Believe
  2:47
• 22
  I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
  3:40
  1.0 ★
• 23
  Please Return Your Love to Me
  2:24
  1.0 ★
• 24
  How Can I Forget
  1:48
• 25
  For Once in My Life (live)
  3:59
• 26
  My Girl (vocal track only)
  2:51
• CD 3
• 1
  Cloud Nine
  3:37
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Why Did She Have to Leave Me (Why Did She Have to Go)
  3:11
• 3
  I’m Gonna Make You Love Me

  Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
  3:08
  2.6 ★
• 4
  I’ll Try Something New

  Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
  2:27
• 5
  Runaway Child, Running Wild
  4:50
• 6
  Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down
  4:42
• 7
  I Can’t Get Next to You
  2:54
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Message From a Black Man
  6:06
• 9
  War
  3:14
  1.0 ★
• 10
  Psychedelic Shack
  4:19
• 11
  Hum Along and Dance
  3:54
• 12
  Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Ungena za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)
  4:14
• 14
  Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
  3:54
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Take a Look Around
  3:12
• 16
  It’s Summer
  2:59
• 17
  Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)
  2:56
• 18
  I Ain’t Got Nothin’
  3:49
• 19
  Mother Nature
  3:14
• 20
  Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
  6:57
  3.4 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Masterpiece (single edit)
  4:24
  2.5 ★
• 2
  Plastic Man
  4:18
• 3
  Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)
  4:40
• 4
  Law of the Land (alt mix)
  5:04
• 5
  Let Your Hair Down
  2:43
• 6
  Heavenly
  3:56
  1.0 ★
• 7
  You’ve Got My Soul on Fire
  3:54
• 8
  Happy People
  3:40
• 9
  Shaky Ground
  4:05
  2.5 ★
• 10
  Glasshouse
  3:58
• 11
  Song for You
  4:48
  2.0 ★
• 12
  Memories
  6:02
• 13
  Keep Holding On
  3:16
• 14
  Darling Stand by Me (Song for My Woman)
  3:48
• 15
  Who Are You
  3:48
• 16
  In a Lifetime
  3:11
• 17
  Power
  4:12
• 18
  Isn’t the Night Fantastic
  4:20
• 19
  Aiming at Your Heart
  3:32
• CD 5
• 1
  Stand on the Top, Part 1
  4:24
  1.0 ★
• 2
  Sail Away
  4:18
• 3
  Treat Her Like a Lady
  4:19
  3.5 ★
• 4
  My Love Is True (Truly for You)
  6:11
• 5
  Do You Really Love Your Baby
  4:12
• 6
  Magic
  5:15
• 7
  Lady Soul
  4:35
• 8
  I Wonder Who She’s Seeing Now
  4:26
• 9
  Look What You Started
  4:33
• 10
  Soul to Soul
  4:22
• 11
  Special
  4:29
  2.0 ★
• 12
  My Kind of Woman
  4:10
• 13
  Hoops of Fire
  4:22
• 14
  Error of Our Ways
  5:20
• 15
  Givin’ U the Best
  4:54
• 16
  Elevator Eyes
  4:05
• 17
  Blueprint for Love
  3:53

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Release credits

• Al McKay
  producer [3]
• Ali Ollie Woodson
  lead vocals [3]
• Angelo Bond
  producer [17]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [21]
• Berry Gordy
  executive [4.11, 4.17, 5.1], producer [8-9, 17]
• Candace Bond
  art direction, design, executive
• Damon Harris
  lead vocals [4.1, 3.17, 3.20]
• David Ruffin
  background vocals [16], lead vocals [5.1, 1.21, 1.23-25, 1.27, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.16, 2.22]
• Deke Richards
  producer [4]
• Dennis Edwards
  lead vocals [5.1, 3.1, 3.6-7, 3.12, 3.17, 3.20, 4.1, 4.5, 4.9, 4.11, 4.17]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  strings [21]
• Diana Ross
  lead vocals [3]
• Eddie Kendricks
  background vocals [1.21, 2.3], lead vocals [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.7, 3.12, 3.14, 5.1, 2.1, 2.13, 2.23, 1.16, 1.26]
• Frank Wilson
  producer [2.9, 3.3-4]
• Gene Page
  arranger [4]
• Glenn Leonard
  lead vocals [17]
• Harry Weinger
  liner notes, producer
• James Anthony Carmichael
  brass [8], horn [9, 11], strings [11]
• James Jamerson
  bass [21]
• Jeffrey Bowen
  producer [8-9, 11]
• Joseph M. Palmaccio
  re
• Mary Jane Girls
  additional [1], background vocals [1], lead vocals [1]
• McKinley Jackson
  arranger [17]
• Melvin Franklin
  background vocals [2.3, 1.16], lead vocals [3.17, 4.1], vocal [7]
• Nancy Ogami
  art direction, design
• Nelson George
  liner notes
• Nickolas Ashford
  producer [3]
• Norman Whitfield
  producer [3.1, 3.6-9, 3.12, 3.14-15, 3.17, 3.20, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20, 2.22-23, 1.10, 4.1, 4.5-6]
• Otis Williams
  background vocals [1.16, 1.21, 2.3], spoken vocals [4.1, 3.3], vocal [7]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [3.3, 3.20, 4.1, 4.5-6], conductor [20], horn [17], strings [1.21, 4.17]
• Paul Williams
  background vocals [1.16, 1.21, 2.3], lead vocals [1.28, 3.1, 3.7, 3.12]
• Ralph Johnson
  producer [3]
• Richard Street
  lead vocals [3.17, 3.20, 4.1, 4.17]
• Rick James
  additional [1], arranger [1], background vocals [1], lead vocals [1], performer [1], producer [1]
• Robert White
  guitar [21]
• Ronald White
  producer [21]
• Smokey Robinson
  producer [2.1, 1.16, 1.21, 1.23-28]
• Suzee Ikeda
  executive [3]
• The Andantes
  background vocals [23]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [2.3, 3.7, 1.16, 1.21]
• The Temptations
  performer [21], vocal [14]
• Victor Carstarphen
  arranger [3]
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Issues

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  Emperors of Soul

  5x CD
  20 September 1994