Chicago Soul The Early Years

• Hi Yo Silver – Harold Burrage
• Play It Cool – The Spaniels
• Could It Be You – The Four Tops
• The Town I Live – McKinley Mitchell
• I Got A Claim On You Baby – Betty Everett
• I'm The One Who Loves You – The Impressions

• 1. Hi Yo Silver – Harold Burrage
• 2. Play It Cool – The Spaniels
• 3. Could It Be You – The Four Tops
• 4. For Your Precious Love – Jerry Butler w The Impressions
• 5. Billy's Blues, Part – Billy Stewart
• 6. I'll Weep No More – Betty Everett
• 7. Satisfied – Harold Burrage
• 8. Never Felt This Way Before – The Sheppards
• 9. Senorita I Love You – The Impressions
• 10. I Want To Know – Sugar Pie DeSanto
• 11. Crying For My Baby – Harold Burrage
• 12. I've Got A Girl – Major Lance
• 13. He Will Break Your Heart – Jerry Butler
• 14. Tragic – The Sheppards
• 15. These Tears – Mary Johnson
• 16. If I Can't Have You – Etta James & Harvey Fuqua
• 17. Say That You Love Me – The Impressions
• 18. Where Is She – Dobie Hicks
• 19. So Mean To Me – Little Milton
• 20. Stop Giving Your Man Away – Joyce Davis
• 21. Waiting For Charlie To Come Home – Etta James
• 22. Better Tell Him No – The Starlets
• 23. Gypsy Woman – The Impressions
• 24. Your Friends – Dee Clark
• 25. Oh Cindy – The Vibrations
• 26. Forgotten – The Sheppards
• 27. Oh What A Way To Be Loved – The Daylighters
• 28. New Rockin' Baby – The Chaunteurs
• 29. Be Ever Wonderful – Ted Taylor
• 30. I Got To Get Away From It All – Mitty Collier
• 31. The Town I Live – McKinley Mitchell
• 32. I Got A Claim On You Baby – Betty Everett
• 33. I'm The One Who Loves You – The Impressions
• 34. I Don't Want To Suffer – Walter Jackson
• 35. Ask Me Sugar – Pie DeSanto
• 36. Can't Take No More – Ted Taylor
• 37. Master Key – Harold Burrage
• 38. I'm So Glad – McKinley Mitchell
• 39. Your Love Is Important To Me – Betty Everett
• 40. Make It Easy On Yourself – Jerry Butler
• 41. Could This Be Love – Cicero Blake
• 42. Mama Didn't Lie – The Fascinations
• 43. Nite Owl – The Dukays
• 44. Can`t Work No Longer – The Impressions
• 45. Something's Got A Hold On Me – Etta James
• 46. Cool Breeze – Gerald Sims & The Daylighters
• 47. Father Knows Best – The Radiants
• 48. Message To Martha – Jerry Butler
• 49. The Flea – The Five Du
• 50. The Bird – The Dutones
• 51. I Lost A Love – Dorothy Prince
• 52. Pushover – Etta James
• 53. Please Love Me – Betty Everett
• 54. We Girls – Jan Bradley
• 55. Little Young Lover – The Impressions
• 56. Tear For Tear – Gene Chandler
• 57. Please Change Your Mind – The Five Du
• 58. Don't Let Her Take My Baby – Mitty Collier
• 59. Why Not Tonight – Dorothy Prince
• 60. One Day I'll Show You – The Radiants
• 61. Fat Boy – Billy Stewart
• 62. Delilah – Major Lance

Part of the 'History of Soul' series but a pleasure in its own right, this release bears witness to the creation of a distinctive, smooth soul sound made in Chicago in the early 1960s that we associate with such legendary figures as Curtis Mayfield, Betty Everett and McKinley Mitchell.