Artist	Song
Etta James	Tell Mama
from Her Best - The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)
Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness
from The Very Best of Otis Redding (2007)
Gladys Knight & The Pips	Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
from The Ultimate Collection: Gladys Knight & the Pips (1997)
Wilson Pickett	I'm In Love
from A Man and a Half (2008)
Stevie Wonder	Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
from Signed, Sealed and Delivered (1992)
Fontella Bass	Rescue Me
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Irma Thomas	Good to Me
from Women Blues Singers (1999)
Janis Joplin	Get It While You Can
from Pearl (1992)
Shirley Brown	Woman to Woman
from Woman to Woman (2006)
Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman
from I Love the Way You Love (2007)
Dorothy Moore	Misty Blue
from Misty Blue (1976)
The Sweet Inspirations	Sweet Inspiration
from The Sweet Inspirations (2005)
Erma Franklin	Piece of My Heart
from Legacy's Rhythm & Soul Revue (1995)
Laura Lee	Dirty Man
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Etta James	Tell Mama
from Her Best - The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)
Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness
from The Very Best of Otis Redding (2007)
Gladys Knight & The Pips	Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
from The Ultimate Collection: Gladys Knight & the Pips (1997)
Wilson Pickett	I'm In Love
from A Man and a Half (2008)
Stevie Wonder	Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
from Signed, Sealed and Delivered (1992)
Fontella Bass	Rescue Me
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Irma Thomas	Good to Me
from Women Blues Singers (1999)
Janis Joplin	Get It While You Can
from Pearl (1992)
Shirley Brown	Woman to Woman
from Woman to Woman (2006)
Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman
from I Love the Way You Love (2007)
Dorothy Moore	Misty Blue
from Misty Blue (1976)
The Sweet Inspirations	Sweet Inspiration
from The Sweet Inspirations (2005)
Erma Franklin	Piece of My Heart
from Legacy's Rhythm & Soul Revue (1995)
Laura Lee	Dirty Man
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Lorraine Ellison	Stay With Me (Single Version)
from Best of Loma Records - Rise and Fall of a 1960's Soul Label (2011)

Comment:

Just as Aretha came into her own, a stage of other full-cry singers stepped forward to deliver secular sermons that sound fresher today than when they washed over the counterculture congregation 40 years ago. Etta James grabs us by our collective throat with her soul-soft shoulder-to-cry-on “Tell Mama.” Cue it up and press [i]play[/i] — she’s about to convert you to the Church of the Full-Tilt Boogie. Another pop preacher, Wilson Pickett, prowls like a panther, and his “I’m in Love” cuts through your brain like a buzz saw, an electric jolt of pure sexual energy. (Yes, that is, in fact, steam rising off your iPod.) Which says nothing of the heat coming off “Good to Me,” where Irma Thomas, going for rock-bottom broke, reaches out and touches you in all the right places. From Gladys to Janis, from “Clean Up Woman” to “Woman to Woman,” we’ve got the songs to get you through the storm.

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