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In March 1966, Atlantic Records released Percy Sledge's best-known song, the million-selling When A Man Loves A Woman, an epochal Southern soul hymn Sledge achieved his strongest success when... more

2014 collection, an installment in Bear Family's SWEET SOUL MUSIC series, which tells the story of R&B-Soul-Funk from 1945-1975, year-by-year, song-by-song. This is the sound that still influences... more

Ain't That Peculiar Marvin Gaye; A Sweet Woman Like You Joe Tex; Uptight (Everything's Alright) Stevie Wonder; 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) Wilson Pickett; She Blew a Good Thing Poets; Cool Jerk... more

Soul Man Sam & Dave; Respect Aretha Franklin; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Cannonball Adderley; Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley; Jimmy Mack Martha & the Vandellas; Tramp Otis Redding/Carla Thomas; Ain't No... more

This Harlem vocal group's smash Speedoo hit the pop charts December 10, 1955—almost a month before it hit the R&B charts. That had never happened to an R&B single before; their wild jump tunes set... more

This Brooklyn vocal group only charted with their 1958 Top 10 hit One Summer Night, but that moonlit classic is not their whole story. They recorded everything from slow-dance ballads to up-tempo... more

Allen's been one of the lords of New Orleans R&B since the late '50s, but he's made very few recordings under his own name. This stellar Bear Family release brings together his very first sides,... more

Legally reissued on CD for the first time! Includes the hit title cut plus Oh My Baby's Gone; That's the Way I Feel; cool covers of Red Sails in the Sunset; On the Street Where You Live, and 22 more... more

The British Invasion was awash in the oh-so-funky, oh-so-groovy sound of the B-3 Hammond organ, and now, to celebrate the 70th birthday of the instrument itself, Bear Family has put together an... more