SYL JOHNSON " COMPLETE MYTHOLOGY" SEALED VINYL BOXSET

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SYL JOHNSON " THE COMPLETE MYTHOLOGY" SEALED 6LP , 4 CD BOXSET 81 TRACKS 35,000 WORD 49 PHOTOS ALL BEAUTIFULLY PACKAGED

For casual soul and funk fans, Syl Johnson's career began in 1967 with the funky, oft-sampled "Different Strokes" and was followed by the burning socially conscious anthem "Is It Because I'm Black." In the 1970s, Johnson's name became synonymous with Hi Records in Memphis -- "I Hear the Love Chimes" was immortalized in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. But his story begins many years and labels before, in 1959 to be exact. He cut "Teardrops" and "They Who Love" for King Records' subsidiary Federal, based on the strength of a demo he walked in off the street with -- on his way to a Chess session!Johnson recorded a slew of singles for Federal between 1959 and 1962, before leaving and recording for a series of labels that included Cha Cha, One-derful!, TMP-Ting, Zachron, Twinight, and P-Vine, all but the last cut before moving to Memphis and Hi in 1972. The story told here reveals that Johnson -- despite his off-the-chart talent as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer --

Tracks

Disc 1

        Title Composer Time 1 Teardrops 2:30 2 They Who Love 2:17 3 I've Got Love 2:46 4 Lonely Man 2:37 5 I Need Love 2:42 6 His Gift 2:44 7 I've Got To Find My Baby 2:34 8 She's So Fine-I Just Gotta Make Her Mine 2:28 9 Little Sally Walker 2:34 10 I Resign From Your Love 2:35 11 I Wanna Know 2:18 12 Well Oh Well Bradshaw 2:41 13 Please, Please, Please 2:29 14 I'm Looking For My Baby 2:31 15 She's Alright 2:41 16 I Know 2:09 17 A Half Love 2:50 18 I've Been talked About 1:42 19 This Heart of Mine 2:44

Disc 2

        Title Composer Time 1 Teardrops Goldberg 2:27 2 I've Got To Get Over 2:23 3 Straight Love, No Chaser 2:24 4 Surrounded 2:12 5 Try Me 2:04 6 Half a Love 2:13 7 Do You know What Love Is Goldberg 1:53 8 The Love I Found In You 2:39 9 Do You Know What Love Is Goldberg 1:53 10 Things Ain't Right 2:32 11 Come On Sock It To me Armstead 2:27 12 Different strokes 2:19 13 Sorry 'Bout Dat Armstead 2:15 14 Ode to Soul Man 2:33 15 Ill Take Those Skinny Legs 1:58 16 Send Me Some Lovin' 1:41 17 Soul Drippin' 2:24 18 Fox Hunting on the Weekend 2:32 19 Try Me 2:34 20 I Feel an Urge Armstead 2:25 21 I Resign 2:08 22 Love Condition 3:05

Disc 3

        Title Composer Time 1 My Funky Band 3:23 2 Sockin' Soul Power 2:52 3 Double Whammy 2:18 4 Dresses Too Short 2:47 5 I Can Take Care of Business 3:01 6 Same Kind of Thing 2:24 7 I've Got the Real Thing 2:42 8 Take Me Back 2:50 9 I Take Care of Homework 2:19 10 Let Them Hang High 2:20 11 Don't Give It Away 2:48 12 Going Back To The Shack Steward 2:42 13 Is It Because I'm Black 7:34 14 Concrete Reservation 2:27 15 Together Forever 2:52 16 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 3:15 17 Black Balloons 2:39 18 Walk a Mile in My Shoes 2:43 19 I'm Talkin' 'Bout Freedom 3:41 20 Right On 7:13 21 Everybody Needs Love 3:37

Disc 4

        Title Composer Time 1 One Way Ticket to Nowhere 2:30 2 Kiss By Kiss 2:33 3 Thank You Baby 2:37 4 We Do It Together 2:42 5 Try My Love 2:33 6 That's Why 2:31 7 Get Ready 3:04 8 The Way You Do The Things You Do 3:26 9 Annie Got Hot Pants Power Part 1 3:09 10 Wouldn't Change My Lady 2:53 11 All I Need Is Someone Like You 2:58 12 Let's Start All Over Again 4:18 13 Hot Pants Lady 2:53 14 Wiggle In Your Hips 2:02 15 Your Love Is Good For Me 2:27 16 Trying To Get To you 2:19 17 Soul Strokes 2:40 18 Annie Got Hot Pants Power Part 2 2:59 19 Soul Heaven 2:35

Disc 5

        Title Composer Time 1 Teardrops 2 They Who Love 3 I've Got a Love 4 Lonely Man 5 I Need Love 6 His Gift 7 I've Got To Find My Baby 8 She's So Fine-I Just Gotta Make Her Mine 9 Little Sally Walker 10 I Resign from Your Love 11 I Wanna Know 12 Well Oh Well Bradshaw 13 Please, Please, Please 14 I'm Looking for My baby

Disc 6

        Title Composer Time 1 She's Alright 2 I Know 3 A Half Love 4 I've Been Talked About 5 This Heart of Mine 6 Falling In Love Again Goldberg 7 I've Got To Get Over 8 Straight Love, No Chaser 9 Surrounded 10 Half a Love 11 Do You Know What Love is Goldberg 12 The Love I Found In You 13 Do You Know What Love Is Goldberg 14 Things Ain't Right

Disc 7

        Title Composer Time 1 Dresses Too Short Johnson, Smith 2 I Can Take Care of Business Fuller 3 Different Strokes Zachary 4 Soul Drippin' Monda 5 Fox Hunting on the Weekend Monda 6 Ode to Soul Man Johnson 7 Come On Sock It To Me Armstead, Johnson 8 I'll Take Those Skinny Legs Johnson, Zachary 9 Try Me Ellison 10 Same Kind of Thing Johnson, Smith 11 I've Got the Real Thing Johnson, Smith 12 Sorry 'Bout Dat! 13 Soul Strokes Zachary

Disc 8

        Title Composer Time 1 Send Me Some Lovin' 2 Try Me 3 I Feel an urge Armstead 4 I Resign 5 Love Condition 6 Going to the Shack Steward 7 Don't Give It Away 8 My Funky band 9 Sockin' Soul Power 10 Double Whammy 11 Take Me Back 12 I Take Care of Homework 13 Let Them Hang High

Disc 9

        Title Composer Time 1 Is It Because I'm Black Johnson, Watts 2 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 3 Together Forever Reed 4 Everybody Needs Love Keyes 5 Soul Heaven Johnson, Watts 6 Concrete Reservation 7 Black Balloons Brown 8 Walk a Mile in My Shoes South 9 I'm Talkin' 'Bout Freedom Keyes 10 Right On Johnson

Disc 10

        Title Composer Time