V.A. - The 5 Royales - The Definitive 5 Royales : King A Sides & B Sides (2014)

Includes Legendary Long Lost Track - Good Looking Woman!! The Definitive “5” Royales is a project comprising three double CD sets, bringing together all known recordings of the “5” Royales and their songwriter Lowman Pauling. Volume One covers the Home Of The Blues, Federal and Todd recordings between 1960 and 1963, along with the very last private tapes they made in the 1990s. This set, Volume Two brings together all the singles they recorded for Ohio-based King Records during their six year stay from 1954 to 1960 together with several alternate takes and songs that remained unissued at the time. We're particularly pleased to include the legendary Good Looking Woman, which has never been heard since the New York session in 1954 when it was recorded. Volume Three will present all their Apollo recordings together with a disc of “5” Royales curios and outtakes. When the “5” Royales joined King in the spring of 1954 they were coming off a run of hits for Apollo that had made them the most successful R & B group in the US. The cuts represent artistically the most successful period of this great group’s long career; it was during this time that they developed their classic style, merging secular and sacred musical influences into a coherent whole, and in the process, laying down the future guidelines of soul music. The music on these CDs contains some of the very best R&B ever recorded – and it still hits both the feet and the heart over 50 years after it was laid down.

TRACKLIST

Disc One
1. I'm Gonna Run It Down 1954
2. Monkey Hips And Rice 1954
3. One Mistake 1954
4. You Didn't Learn It At Home 1954
5. Mohawk Squaw 1954
6. Good Looking Woman 1954
7. I Need Your Lovin' Baby 1955
8. Do Unto You 1955
9. Someone Made You For Me 1955
10. Right Around The Corner 1955
11. My Wants For Love 1955
12. Come On And Save Me 1956
13. Just As I Am 1956
14. Tears Of Joy 1957
15. Think 1957
16. Messin' Up 1957
17. Dedicated To The One I Love 1958
18. The Feeling Is Real 1958
19. Tell The Truth 1958
20. Don't Let It Be In Vain 1958
21. The Real Thing 1958
22. I Know It's Hard But It's Fair 1959
23. Wonder Where Your Love Has Gone (45rpm fade) 1959
24. It Hurts Inside 1959
25. I'm With You (45rpm fade) 1960
26. (Something Moves Me) Within My Heart 1960
27. Get Something Out Of It (Take 1, 2 & 3) 1956
28. Stompenin' Stomp 1958
29. Just As I Am (Take 1, 2, 3 & 4) 1956
30. Obadiah Carter Speaks 1991

Disc Two
1. Behave Yourself 1954
2. Devil With the Rest 1954
3. School Girl 1954
4. Every Dog Has His Day 1954
5. How I Wonder 1954
6. I Can't Stand Losing You 1954
7. When I Get Like This 1955
8. Women About To Make Me Go Crazy 1955
9. I Ain't Getting Caught 1955
10. When You Walked Through The Door 1955
11. I Could Love You 1955
12. Get Something Out Of It 1956
13. Mine Forevermore 1956
14. Thirty Second Lover 1957
15. I'd Better Make A Move 1957
16. Say It 1957
17. Don't Be Ashamed 1957
18. Do The Cha Cha Cherry 1958
19. Double Or Nothing 1958
20. The Slummer The Slum 1958
21. Your Only Love 1958
22. Miracle Of Love 1959
23. Tell Me You Care 1959
24. My Sugar Sugar 1959
25. Don't Give No More Than You Can Take 1960
26. Why 1960
27. Come On And Save Me (Take 3, 4 & 5) 1956
28. Don't Let It Be In Vain (Take 2) 1958
29. Wonder Where Your Love Has Gone (fluffed ending) 1959
30. I'm With You (extended) 1960