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Included on the album are \"ABC\" and Grammy Award nominated \"Dancing Machine\" (sampled by MC Hammer's in his hit \"Dancing Machine\"), \"Never Can Say Goodbye\" and seven more songs. \u003ci\u003eBoogie\u003c\/i\u003e is considered as one of the rarest Jackson 5 albums, as it was released on the Motown subsidiary record label Natural Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoogie\u003c\/i\u003e is being reissued for the first time since its original release in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Music On Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50400187285835,"sku":"2178415","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/714mM6N0ooL._AC_SL1200__b0a5c871_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726510920"},{"product_id":"christmas-album","title":"Christmas Album","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackson 5 Christmas Album\u003c\/i\u003e was the fourth studio album by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5, released in October 1970. 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The single ‘A Child Of God (It’s Hard To Believe)’\/ ‘You’re The Joy Of My Life’ was a Top 30 R\u0026amp;B hit and ‘Ask Me What You Want’\/‘I Just Can’t Stand It’, ‘My Man, A Sweet Man’\/‘I Gotta Get Away From My Own Self’ and ‘I Miss You Baby’\/‘I Ain’t Giving Up’ not only did more damage on the R\u0026amp;B chart but also entered the Hot 100. All four singles appeared on her debut LP “Millie Jackson”, issued on Spring in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVinyl tracklisting: Side One 1. If This Is Love 2. I Ain't Giving Up 3. I Miss You Baby 4. A Child Of God (It's Hard To Believe) 5. Ask Me What You Want Side Two 1. My Man, A Sweet Man 2. You're The Joy Of My Life 3. I Gotta Get Away (From My Own Self) 4. I Just Can't Stand It 5. 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Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with the original Swampers – Hood, Hawkins, Beckett and Johnson – and co-produced by Millie and Brad Shapiro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Caught Up \u003c\/i\u003eis the conclusion of the saga set out on its predecessor. Originally released on Spring in July 1975, the LP took the story a few years on from where \u003ci\u003eCaught Up\u003c\/i\u003e had left it and added a further dimension to the memorable love triangle that involved Millie, as “narrator” and \u003ci\u003eMr and Mrs Jody\u003c\/i\u003e. As before, Millie seamlessly married familiar material with some specially written songs to produce a story line that made your average Jerry Springer Show look meek and mild by comparison. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in the Southern soul Mecca, Muscle Shoals, \u003ci\u003eStill Caught Up\u003c\/i\u003e featured several songs that will always be associated with Millie, regardless of who cut them first – \u003ci\u003eLoving Arms\u003c\/i\u003e being perhaps the most obvious example. Although the LP did not get the chart success of \u003ci\u003eCaught Up\u003c\/i\u003e, the story line and the music was no less compelling and, thirty years on, many fans profess to prefer it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - For this expanded reissue on CD (not on the vinyl), Sound Mastering’s Duncan Cowell has gone back to the analogue production master that Spring delivered to its distributor, Polygram, and from which the original album stampers were created, to produce a sonic quality that all previous CD reissues have lacked. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ace","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50438360334667,"sku":"1031203","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/535b67f5-27c3-400a-aecd-0eddd0db8261_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726941690"},{"product_id":"21-of-the-best-1971-83","title":"21 Of The Best 1971-83","description":"\u003cp\u003eMillie’s top-selling Best Of compilation is reissued with a new cover and a new sleeve note. The CD contains 21 great tracks by Georgia’s finest soul singer. Chronicling her singing career between 1971 and 1983, \u003ci\u003e21 Of The Best\u003c\/i\u003e does not include her raps or monologues (which can’t be condensed). Beginning with 1971’s \u003ci\u003eA Child Of God (It’s Hard To Believe)\u003c\/i\u003e (Spring 119), \u003ci\u003e21 Of The Best \u003c\/i\u003eincludes 17 songs that made the US R\u0026amp;B charts (eight of them the Top 20) and six that crossed over into the US Pop 100 – \u003ci\u003eAsk Me What You Want \u003c\/i\u003e(#27), \u003ci\u003eMy Man, A Sweet Man\u003c\/i\u003e (#42), \u003ci\u003eIt Hurts So Good\u003c\/i\u003e (#24), \u003ci\u003eHow Do You Feel The Morning After\u003c\/i\u003e (#77), \u003ci\u003e(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday \u003c\/i\u003e(#43). The album concludes with the 1983 classic ballad \u003ci\u003eI Feel Like Walking In The Rain, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was her label swansong at Spring Records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southbound","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50453352776011,"sku":"1101813","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2068cb0a-78d9-4cfa-a77a-3e23c26f59a1_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727170996"},{"product_id":"abc-rsd-2022","title":"ABC (RSD 2022)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brothers Joe, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson formed the pop band the Jackson 5 in 1964. In 1968 they signed with Motown Records and became the first group to debut with four consecutive number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “ABC”. This single is featured on the same-titled album which was released in 1970. Other hit single “The Love You Save” is also included on the album. Both singles went directly to the number one position across the board, even knocking The Beatles off their number one spot. 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Both albums deal with infidelity – and see it from both the wife’s and the lover’s point of view. The combination of spoken word raps and forceful risqué lyrics was to become Millie’s trademark for several years to come. 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With \u003ci\u003eExposed\u003c\/i\u003e Ace go a long way to rectifying that with a dozen remixes by producer \/ engineer Steve Levine. Steve has piloted hits for a very wide range of artists from Culture Club’s huge chart successes to the Beach Boys and Motörhead, having collected a Grammy along the way for his work with Deniece Williams. He has also produced the long-running radio programme, The Record Producers, in which he has worked with such greats as Holland, Dozier and Holland, Nile Rodgers, Brian Wilson and the late Sir George Martin. A huge fan of Millie’s work, Steve’s background makes him the ideal man to bring these fantastic tracks into the 21st century. These remixes stay true to the original recordings and the great musicians who played on them. No extra ‘beats’ have been added, everything you hear was played on the original versions. Some have been extended to accentuate the grooves and all have been opened out using modern technology to better hear the quality of the playing and recording. Millie is loud and clear in the mix, exposing that great soul voice to maximum effect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ace","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50483916636491,"sku":"1036045","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/61f70725-b734-44b2-97a8-fbad494f302e_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727576212"},{"product_id":"on-the-soul-country-side","title":"On the Soul Country Side","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Millie Jackson's sassy big city image suggests otherwise, she's a country gal. Born in rural Georgia, Millie grew up listening to country music as there were no R\u0026amp;B stations in the area. It was only when she moved to New Jersey as a teenager that she had the chance to regularly hear anything else.Almost every album Millie made between 1975 and 1981 contained at least one country song. In 1977 she reached number 5 on the Soul chart with 'If You're Not Back in Love By Monday', a big hit for its writer Merle Haggard earlier that year. Millie also turned Kenny Rogers' groundbreaking 'Sweet Music Man' into a Top 40 Soul hit in 1978. In 1980 Millie cut an album that lived up to its title of 'Just A Li'l Bit Country' but the record did not receive the promotion it deserved due to personnel changes at her record company. Millie regards it as something of a 'lost album' and is pleased we are able to include several of its tracks in this new collection of her Soul Country material. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sweep ranges from 1950's classics such as Don Gibson's 'I Can't Stop Loving You' and Charlie Walker's 'Pick Me Up On Your Way Down' to songs that were nearly new when Millie put her stamp on them - Dolly Parton's 'Here You Come Again' and her duet with Isaac Hayes on Anne Murray's 'You Needed Me' (both Country chart-toppers) being two examples. Millie always picked her own material, usually in conjunction with producer Brad Shapiro. She chose all the songs here because she liked them and frequently liked the singers who sang them originally. 'Black Bitch Crazy', Millie's makeover of Tyler Farr's recent Country chart-topper 'Redneck Crazy' - created especially for this CD and her first new recording in 10 years - shows she can still interpret a country song in a compelling and contemporary way. Millie cut it this year after hearing Farr's record on the radio and identifying with its message. It's as good as anything she recorded at the peak of her chart popularity and is a more than welcome addition to her discography.They say \"you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl\". 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On October 25, Motown \/ UMe release \u003ci\u003eGreatest Hits\u003c\/i\u003e in its rare and sought-after quad mix, originally issued only in Japan in 1975, on black vinyl LP .\u003cbr\u003eJackson 5’s \u003ci\u003eGreatest Hits \u003c\/i\u003e(Quad Mix) includes alternate vocals, as well as some instrumentation not heard in the tracks’ well-known single and album mixes. Because the quad mixes are the stereo folds, the collection’s new vinyl LP editions do not require a special decoder or four speakers for listeners to enjoy the music. 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Certainly, until that time, it seemed that she harboured few aspirations to make something of herself in the music business.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in a quiet Georgia town called Thomson, half an hour’s drive from Augusta, Jackson’s first taste of public exposure came after she’d moved to Newark, New Jersey, at the age of fifteen and began modelling for teenage magazines. But the impulse that made her take part in a talent contest a few years later proved instantly fruitful, resulting in club engagements that validated her newfound ambition to be a vocalist. Successful gigs at the Crystal Ballroom, Club Zanzibar and 521 Club in the Big Apple led to a year-and-a-half stint on the road doing background vocals for Sam Cooke’s younger brother, L C Cooke, after which she eventually landed a recording deal in 1969, where she cut a debut 45, A Little Bit Of Something that was initially licensed to MGM. Although the record bombed, a couple of years later Jackson joined the roster of the newly created Spring label. Her inaugural single for the label, A Child Of God, made the Top 30 on the US R\u0026amp;B listings, followed by an eponymous debut LP in 1972. Another track from the album, Ask Me What You Want, broke into the R\u0026amp;B Top 5. Her strong follow-up LP, \u003ci\u003eIt Hurts So Good\u003c\/i\u003e, yielded a Top 3 R\u0026amp;B title song - which gained valuable exposure by being on the soundtrack to the black action movie, Cleopatra Jones - and catapulted Jackson into the big time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, Jackson in tandem with producer, Brad Shapiro, masterminded her magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eCaught Up\u003c\/i\u003e. A bold, imaginative song-cycle chronicling the vicissitudes of a ménage-a-trois and featuring frank confessionals, risqué raps and plenty of raunchy attitude,\u003ci\u003e Caught Up \u003c\/i\u003eproved a landmark album for soul music, transforming Jackson into a bona fide star. Its sequel, 1975’s \u003ci\u003eStill Caught Up\u003c\/i\u003e, pushed the envelope further. Feeling she needed to break away from concept albums rather than become typecast, Millie took a more relaxed approach to music making with with \u003ci\u003eFree And In Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eLovingly Yours\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), two solid and often overlooked albums that kept her name out there and flew the flag for real soul in the face of disco’s seemingly unstoppable popularity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTowards the end of 1977, though, Jackson returned to conceptual album making with \u003ci\u003eFeelin' Bitchy\u003c\/i\u003e, which became her biggest-selling long player, spending 38 weeks on the Stateside R\u0026amp;B charts. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, the Mecca of 70s Southern Soul, the album also spawned two big hits in the shape of the Latimore-penned All The Way Lover (#12 US R\u0026amp;B) and If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday (#5 US R\u0026amp;B), a poignant, heart-rending ballad. Following on from several recent critically-acclaimed reissues of Jackson’s earlier Spring albums on Southbound, Ace has just revamped \u003ci\u003eFeelin' Bitchy\u003c\/i\u003e. Sonically, it’s a vast improvement on previous CD editions and the original eight-track album is supplemented with three bonus cuts; alternate versions of Lovin’ Your Good Thing Away, Angel In Your Eyes and the smash single, If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns sardonic and sassy, Jackson’s raw vocal delivery possesses a powerful, almost visceral sensuality, especially on the album’s ten-minute leadoff track, the epic All The Way Lover, which boasts opulent strings and horn charts, the latter provided by David Van De Pitte, who scored Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” album. Marrying soul-drenched vocals with a narrative thread and top-notch material supplied by stellar tunesmiths such as Lamont Dozier (You Created A Monster) and George Jackson (Lovin’ Your Good Thing Away and A Little Taste Outside Love, the latter previously cut by Candi Staton), \u003ci\u003eFeelin' Bitchy\u003c\/i\u003e proves to be an excellent vehicle for showcasing Millie Jackson’s sublime vocal talents. Its gripping themes of love, lust and betrayal resonated with the US public, resulting in the singer’s most commercially successful recording. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 years on, \u003ci\u003eFeelin' Bitchy\u003c\/i\u003e has lost none of its potency. 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