Chicago Soul ‘62Various Artists

• 1. The Town I Live In – McKinley Mitchell
• 2. I’m The One Who Loves You – The Impressions
• 3. Shake A Tail Feather – The Five Du-Tones
• 4. Mama Didn’t Lie – Jan Bradley
• 5. Make It Easy On Yourself – Jerry Butler
• 6. Seven Day Fool – Etta James
• 7. The Blues Don’t Like Nobody – Tony Adams
• 8. I’ve Got To Get Away From It All – Mitty Collier
• 9. How Much Longer – Geraldine Taylor
• 10. I’m On The Prowl – Roberta
• 11. Fat Boy – Billy Stewart
• 12. Can’t Take No More – Ted Taylor
• 13. I Don’t Want To Suffer – Walter Jackson
• 14. Open Your Heart – Sugar Pie DeSanto
• 15. Shook Up Over You – Dee Clark
• 16. Something’s Got A Hold On Me – Etta James
• 17. Why Not Tonight – Dorothy Prince
• 18. Delilah – Major Lance
• 19. Money In My Pocket – Moss Tolbert

In 1962, Black Music was making its transition from R&B to soul, and the Chicago music industry was exploding, producing thousands of records and dozens of new labels.

The two biggest Black labels, Vee-Jay and Chess, led in the creation of the distinctive, smooth Chicago soul brand with names familiar and not so familiar: the former with Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler, and the latter with Mitty Collier, Etta James, and Billy Stewart.

And yet, it’s the smaller labels that make up the bulk of the Chicago story: Hawk with Geraldine Taylor, Lu-Cee with Roberta, M-Pac with Dorothy Prince. It’s here that we explore some of the finest sounds of the era in this collection.