Album · Compilation

Simply the Best: Classic Soul

Released 199740 tracks · 119:42EnglishWarner Strategic Marketing United Kingdom

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Soul Man	Sam Moore, David Prater	2:40
1.2	Tears of a Clown	Smokey Robinson, Warren “Pete” Moore, Ronald White, Bobby Rogers, Claudette Robinson	3:00
1.3	My Girl	Earl Sims	2:54
1.4	Ain’t Too Proud to Beg	Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin	2:35
1.5	You Keep Me Hangin’ On	Diana Ross	2:40
1.6	Reach Out I’ll Be There	Lawrence Payton, Levi Stubbs, Renaldo Benson, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, The Andantes, Louvain Demps, Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow	2:58
1.7	Under the Boardwalk	Johnny Moore, Charlie Thomas, Winifred Terry, Gene Pearson	2:43
1.8	Try a Little Tenderness	Otis Redding	3:49
1.9	It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World	James Brown	2:49
1.10	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted	Jimmy Ruffin	2:56
1.11	I’ll Be There	The Jackson 5	3:46
1.12	If You Don’t Know Me by Now	Harold Melvin, The Blue Notes	3:27
1.13	Tired of Being Alone	Al Green	2:51
1.14	Could It Be I’m Falling in Love	Barbara Ingram, Billy Henderson, Bobbie Smith, Philippé Wynne, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson, Yvette Benson, Carla Benton	4:12
1.15	Walk On By	Dionne Warwick	2:53
1.16	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman	Aretha Franklin, The Sweet Inspirations, Erma Franklin, Carolyn Franklin	2:45
1.17	When a Man Loves a Woman	Percy Sledge	2:53
1.18	Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing	Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Valerie Simpson, Nickolas Ashford	2:14
1.19	Let’s Stay Together	Al Green	4:48
1.20	(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay	Otis Redding	2:42
2.1	Dancing in the Street	Martha Reeves, William Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter, Betty Kelly, Rosalind Ashford	2:40
2.2	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Gladys Knight	2:48
2.3	Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	3:07
2.4	Express Yourself	Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band	3:53
2.5	Knock on Wood	Eddie Floyd	3:05
2.6	Everybody Needs Somebody to Love	Solomon Burke	2:45
2.7	(Take a Little) Piece of My Heart	Erma Franklin	2:36
2.8	Respect	Aretha Franklin, Erma Franklin, Carolyn Franklin	2:24
2.9	In the Midnight Hour	Wilson Pickett	2:38
2.10	Green Onions	Booker T. & the MG’s	2:54
2.11	(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher	Jackie Wilson	2:56
2.12	I Say a Little Prayer	Aretha Franklin, The Sweet Inspirations	3:34
2.13	You’ll Never Get to Heaven	Dionne Warwick	3:05
2.14	Got to Be There	Michael Jackson	3:21
2.15	Baby Love	Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson	2:37
2.16	Up on the Roof	Rudy Lewis, Tommy Evans, Charlie Thomas, Dock Green	2:37
2.17	I Second That Emotion	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	2:43
2.18	I Get the Sweetest Feeling	Jackie Wilson	2:55
2.19	Groovin’	The Young Rascals	2:30
2.20	Stand by Me	Ben E. King	2:59

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