Lady Marmalade: The Best of Patti and LaBelle

Lady Marmalade: The Best of Patti and LaBelle Artist: LaBelle
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 074646633946
EAN: 0074646633946
ASIN: B000002AQY


Release Date: 1995-02-28

Lady Marmalade: The Best of Patti and LaBelle


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Tracks:

  1. Lady Marmalade
  2. What Can I Do for You?
  3. Are You Lonely?
  4. You Turn Me On
  5. Messin' With My Mind - LaBelle
  6. Take the Night Off
  7. Get You Somebody New
  8. Isn't It a Shame
  9. Joy to Have Your Love
  10. I Think About You
  11. You Are My Friend
  12. Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)
  13. Quiet Time
  14. It's Alright With Me
  15. Don't Make Your Angel Cry
  16. Come What May

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars A Half-album of Labelle Hits / Best of Labelle, Vol. 2; Best of Patti, Vol. 1.......2007-01-04

"Lady Marmalade: The Best of Patti and Labelle" is a 1995 chronological collection of 16 Epic recordings, 8 by Labelle (tracks 1-8, 1974-1976) and 8 from Patti LaBelle's early solo career (tracks 9-16, 1977-1980).

The songs included here are good, but the legacy of the group Labelle deserves better. For a real collection of Labelle hits, see "Something Silver" a collection of songs taken from their first three albums, released 1971-1973 on Warner Bros. and RCA.
Labelle is Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash.

5 out of 5 stars Patti sadly overshadowed by the camp fest of Labelle.......2002-11-17

This excellent compilation of mid to late 70s material draws upon the best of Labelle and Patti's early solo recordings during their Epic years. It is also possibly the place to start for newer fans interested in checking out Patti's legacy before she became a full fledged supper club soul artiste.

The CD is divided equally between Labelle and Patti, the solo artiste. Trouble is, the first half featuring Labelle's best known numbers from their three Epic albums ("Nightbirds", "Phoenix" and "Chameleon") is so energetic, exciting and uniformly excellent they badly overshadow Patti's solo work. Understandably, half the 8 Labelle tracks here (including their #1 smash hit "Lady Marmalade") are extracted from their chart album "Nightbirds", though the quality of these are more than matched by 2 cuts each from "Phoenix" and "Chameleon". "Messing With My Mind" is as tough as "Get Me Somebody New" is funky. Somebody should lobby CBS to release the never-before-reissued "Phoenix" on CD, seeing that both "Nightbirds" and "Chameleon" have long been available in CD format.

Unfortunately, what goes up must come down. After the excitement and camp fest of Labelle, Patti's soft soul MOR ballads which take up the second half of this CD just seems so tame and boring. Apart from the samba styled "Teach Me Tonight", nothing that Patti cut with Epic remotely rivals the work of Labelle. Without the presence of Sarah and Nona to spice things up and lend Labelle its progressive touch, Patti gives in to her own smaltzy and maudlin tendencies and there's plenty of evidence to suggest that this was at work here.

This "best of" in the Legacy series is nevertheless a terrific compilation. Buy it for the two rare-on-CD Labelle tracks from "Phoenix" if nothing else.

5 out of 5 stars "GUT BUCKET "SISTA'S".......2002-11-14

PATTI LaBELLE, NONA HENDRIXS & SARAH DASH, ARE THREE SISTA'S FROM THE DAYS OF SOUL! WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC. THE VOCAL BLENDING, THE RYTHYMIC SOUNDS, JUST PURE FUNK 'N SOUL. THIS IS WHAT SINGING WAS ABOUT. NOT, THAT TODAY'S MUSIC ISN'T GOOD, BUT IT CAN'T MATCH NOTE FOR NOTE...SCREAM FOR SCREAM...PUTTING YOUR HEART IN IT!! LaBELLE WAS THIS TYPE OF ARTIST. JUST LISTEN TO: "WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU", OR "MESSING WITH MY MIND";..."THERE'S NO MORE TO SAY..."

3 out of 5 stars Just a minor correction.......2002-03-02

Lady Marmalade was not written by Patti Labelle even though many people are giving her credit for it. She was covering the song that was written and performed by Kenny Nolan and Bob Crewe of The Eleventh Hour.

4 out of 5 stars THE MOULIN ROUGE QUEEN OF SOUL !.......2001-06-09

This song was made in the 70s but, Mya,Pink,Christina Aguilera, and Lil' Kim and permission to copy Patti Labelle's hit song "Lady Marmalade". The song remade by the young talented artists did the movie for the movie "Moulin Rouge".

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