The Ultimate Collection
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Artist: Junior Walker & the All-Stars
Label: Motown
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 731453082823
EAN: 0731453082823
ASIN: B000001AO1
Release Date: 1997-10-07 |
The Ultimate Collection
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Tracks:
- Shotgun
- Shake And Fingerpop
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- Cleo's Mood
- Shoot Your Shot
- (I'm A) Road Runner
- Pucker Up Buttercup
- Do The Boomerang
- Tune Up
- Money (That's What I Want)
- Come See About Me
- Sweet Soul
- Cleo's Back
- Satan's Blues
- Hip City - Pt. ll
- Home Cookin'
- Twist Lackawanna
- What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
- These Eyes
- Gotta Hold On To This Feeling
- Do You See My Love (For You Growing)
- Take Me Girl, I'm Ready
- Way Back Home
- Walk In The Night
- Last Call
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Saxophonist Jr. Walker was the most gutbucket of Motown's consistent '60s hit makers. Even when trying his hardest to conform to label formulas ("What Does It Take [To Win Your Love]," "Gotta Hold On to This Feeling"), he sounded like he'd be just as much at home in the backroom of a barbecue joint. When pursuing his muse in even more minimalist form ("Shotgun," "[I'm a] Road Runner," the smoky "Cleo's Mood"), he sounded like the owner of the place. <I>--Rickey Wright</I>
Customer Reviews:
The Sweetest Sax this Side of Heaven.......2007-02-03
Nobody, I mean nobody, played saxophone like Junior Walker. When he passed away several years ago, the world of Rock and Soul suffered a major loss. This collection provides a rich history of Junior and his legacy as an artist. I challenge anyone to listen to songs like "Home Cookin", the seminal "Shotgun", "How Sweet it Is", and numerous others, and see if you can sit still. I guarantee you'll be moving to the music! But Junior's sax can evoke other moods as well. On "What Does It Take", (a major hit in 1969, and one of my all-time favorite songs), you can feel the despair and desperation in his voice and sax. He also reaches the heighths of happiness and exuberance on songs such as: "Gotta Hold On To This Feeling", "Take Me Girl I'm Ready", and "Do You See My Love".
I was privileged to see Junior Walker and the All Stars live in concert twice. This CD stimulates warm memories for me, and every song is a winner. Junior, I miss you, man.
Junior Walker & the All-Stars.......2007-01-10
This C. D. is just what I was looking for, to copy some sounds on the sax....J. W. was really ahead of his time ...
Great Trumpet.......2007-01-10
This product is recommended for true lovers of great music. I hope other albums by the same artist could be made available.
Consensual Sax.......2006-11-05
Junior Walker wrote the book on soul, R&B, and funk sax, nobody has touched him since. His singing was not flashy, but it was strong, and he succeeded by staying within his comfort zone.
Even as a kid plugged into Motown I noticed that Jr. Walker & The All Stars stood apart. For one thing, the sax was up front, ahead of the vocals. More than that though, JW&TAS had an earthy, funky groove that was raw, authentic, and infectious. While the other Motown acts were going for smooth, Walker went for the down-home, house party foot stomp.
What I didn't know then was that the folks at Motown had made a conscious decision to step back and let Junior do his thing. The times they did decide to run him through the Motown mill produced his most forgettable efforts, (How Sweet It Is, Come See About Me, What Does It Take, and These Eyes.)
Songs like Shotgun, Shake And Fingerpop, I'm A Road Runner, and Pucker Up Buttercup caused uptight, suburban teenagers to leap out of their seats and be transformed by the sheer joy of line dancing. Walker's music felt good all the way down to the shoes.
No discussion of Junior Walker is complete without mentioning Cleo's Mood, arguably the sexiest, sultriest song ever recorded by anyone. He stretches the groove out in Cleo's Back, and shows it off again in the outrageously slinky Satan's Blues. Sweet!
Many obscure gems on this anthology. Tune Up is the perfect throwdown track while Twist Lackawanna is so hot it could only have been played before an intermission. Hip City, though not obscure, is wonderful to hear again. Folks, if it gets any better than this - nobody told me.
Jr Walker is the No #1 album in the United States........2005-12-21
I can hear this album every day of the week, Not only that
I have a son love it too he's in his twenty's but I can remmeber
my mom used to play him. On the weekend it be so loud you can
hear it down the street. And when I play jr I play it loud have
the neighbors jamming and they older than me.
I love jr walker.
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