If You're Ready: The Best of Enchantment

Artist: Enchantment
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724383440122
EAN: 0724383440122
ASIN: B000002TYV

Release Date: 1996-08-20

If You're Ready: The Best of Enchantment

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| R&B | Styles | Music

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| Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

Tracks:

If You're Ready (Here It Comes)
It's You That I Need)
Sunshine
Gloria
Dance To The Music
My Rose
Thak You Girl For Loving Me
Come On And Ride
Sunny Shine Feeling
You Must Be An Angel/Up Higher
Hold On
Silly Love Song
Trying To Get Over (With You)
Where Do We Go From Here/Journey

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Customer Reviews:

You all are SO lucky!!! Im jealous!!!.......2007-05-01

Seems like everyone who's replied was blessed enough to live the era when all of this beautiful music was created. Unfortunately for me, being that I'm only 28, I only got to listen to it from my mother and uncle playing their records in the 80's. I never understood why they were holding on to this "old" music. Back then, I was too focused on Run DMC and the newly accepted form of music called hip hop. But in my teen years, our local radio stations would play the older music at night and I'd listen to and became mesmerized by the vocal talents, the emotion, the writing, the music production, and the sheer magic of these talented groups. I saw that a good majority of the rap songs that I loved had sampled from these classics. I lost countless hours of sleep getting up to write down what few lyrics I could remember so I could ask my mother who the artist was. This went on for years. Been hooked ever since and it's so far to the point that I really have a bias towards the modern stuff. You don't hear talent like this anymore. The Dells, Delfonics, Dramatics, the Emotions, Heatwave, Stylistics, Blue Magic, L.T.D., etc (I could go on forever) left the world with countless classics. Noone will be listening to Usher's Burn 20 years from now. That's how you know you've created a masterpiece. Some of these songs are over 30 years old and still remains appreciated and cherished the way I'm sure it was back then. I remember when Jesse Powell did "Gloria" and I was amazed at his abilities. My mother decided to play the original for me...so lucky I was for her to share her era with me. I was blown away. Jesse did well, but hearing the original left me mesmerized. And I'm far from homosexual, so getting worked up over another man's voice was quite awkward for me, lol!

I've been trying to find as much old music as I can because I'm addicted to it. So upon purchasing this album, nothing else saw the CD player for weeks. I love it. Every song is beautiful to me. I just like hearing the emotion the artists had back then. And the Enchantments raised the bar with several of these "cuts" (see, I even talk like I'm from that era! Lol!) This is art in it's purest form. The true definition of what "real" music is about. Unfortunately, I live in a generation where groups like this will never see the light of day due to groups like Pretty Ricky :(

Definitely a beautiful album and if anyone here has suggestions for a group they feel that I'd enjoy, please feel free to email me. Like I said, I wasnt around to experience it firsthand, so I'm sure there's some groups out there that I've never even heard of but would love to enjoy as you did.

Talented Singers.......2007-04-15

I grew up listening to this group of talented men and their voices are wonderful. My mother owns either 3 or 4 of their LPs and they sound good to this day. Enchantment has been underrated for years and I do not know why. They need more classy men and love songs like that today.

If You're Ready..........2006-12-21

Another Great Compilation by Enchantment - Worth the price - get your copy and enjoy it!!

Who are the Enchantment?.......2006-06-17

Sadly. If it had not been for the hit song 'Gloria' most would ask that question. This is one of the most underrated groups that would be mildly considered as the underground of R&B music of the 70's. Their style was the kind that made 'music to make love to' so popular. The dynamic lead singer E.J. Johnson is what made this group what it is. His unbelievable falsetto range is the hallmark for R&B lead singing to this date as you can hear at the end of the hit song, GLORIA.
Truely outstanding!
"Gloria" became a smash hit, and was one of the most popular songs of 1976-1977. They followed it up with another smash hit, "Sunshine," from the same album. Jesse Powell, a younger artist in the late 90's re-made Gloria, which to date is the closest I've ever heard to E.J. Johnson 'sound-a-likes'.
Here is a perfect opportunity to share with the young heads what real love songs are about...it is a responsibility to pass this on to our younger generation as footprints to muse their new talents.
So when you hear someone ask...Who is the Enchantment? Tell them and let them hear for themselves the greatness that they were!

If You're Ready: Best of Enchantment.......2006-01-02

WOW - classic, soulful, beautiful!! This group had all the vocals of the other male groups that got all the shine although much less mainstream recognition. This is another group that male r&b groups should listen to & try to get a feel for how a REAL group should sound. It's a shame that in our generation, the only group that came close to vocally matching groups in this era & genre was Boyz II Men.

My favorite tracks: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, SUNSHINE, IT'S YOU THAT I NEED, IF YOUR'RE READY, GLORIA, SILLY LOVE SONG, SUNNY SHINE FEELING & YOU MUST BE AN ANGEL/UP HIGHER.

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