VARIOUS - WRAP IT UP THE ISAAC HAYES & DAVID PORTER SONGBOOK

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VARIOUS - WRAP IT UP THE ISAAC HAYES & DAVID PORTER SONGBOOK

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Their partnership lasted barely four years and just over 50 songs - but between 1965 and 1969 Isaac Hayes and David Porter penned some of soul’s most enduring anthems of their era, many of which are still being regularly performed and recorded to this day.

Ace are delighted to welcome them into our ever-popular Songwriter Series this month with “Wrap It Up”, a fantastic collection featuring almost half of the total number of songs they wrote together in versions you would expect, and versions you wouldn’t!

Hayes and Porter wrote for almost every major act on the Stax roster, but the commercial appeal of their songs gave them appeal to artists operating outside of the perimeters of soul music. ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, the (Count) Bishops and Charlie Rich are just some of the fine turns you will find here essaying Hayes and Porter copyrights alongside Stax stalwarts such as Johnnie Taylor, Mable John, the Emotions, the Soul Children, Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, and, of course, Sam and Dave whose recordings of their songs were what established Hayes and Porter as a peerless songwriting force in the first place.

As lovingly curated and expertly annotated as you would expect any Ace project in the Songwriter Series to be, “Wrap It Up” is another valuable piece in the great American songwriting jigsaw, and very much a collection where the songs that were not necessarily big hits are easily on a par with those that were. It is a fitting audio tribute to two men who have between them won just about every major award going, from Grammys to election to the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.

Hold on, they’re coming…

Side 1

  • 01 Preview  Sixty Minutes Of Your Love - Homer Banks

     

  • 02 Preview  As Long As I've Got You - The Emotions

     

  • 03 Preview  B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet

     

  • 04 Preview  Can't Trust Your Neighbour - Freddie King

     

  • 05 Preview  May I Baby - Peter Frampton

     

  • 06 Preview  You're Taking Up Another Man's Place - Aretha Franklin

     

  • 07 Preview  Hold On I'm Comin' (single version) - The Righteous Brothers

     

  • 08 Preview  I've Got To Love Somebody's Baby - Peter Gallagher

     

  • 09 Preview  I'll Understand - Edwin Starr & Blinky

     

  • 10 Preview  I Take What I Want - The Bishops

     

  • 11 Preview  I Thank You - Z Z Top

     

  • 12 Preview  My Baby Specializes - Delaney & Bonnie

     

  • 13 Preview  Never Like This Before - Marcia Ball

     

  • 14 Preview  Soul Man - Sam & Dave

     

  • 15 Preview  Left Over Love - Ruby Johnson

     

  • 16 Preview  The Sweeter He Is (Parts 1 & 2) - The Soul Children

     

  • 17 Preview  Toe Hold (unedited version) - Johnnie Taylor

     

  • 18 Preview  When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

     

  • 19 Preview  Wrap It Up - Archie Bell & The Drells

     

  • 20 Preview  You Don't Know Like I Know - Keith Powell & Billie Davis

     

  • 21 Preview  You Got Me Hummin' - The Hassles

     

  • 22 Preview  Your Good Thing (Is About To End) - Mable John

     

  • 23 Preview  Love Is After Me - Charlie Rich

     

  • 24 Preview  I'm Dedicating My Life - Danny White