Artist	Song
Rufus Thomas	Do the Funky Penguin, Part 1
from Funkiest Man Alive: The Stax Funk Sessions 1967-1975 (2006)
Soul Children	I'll Understand
from Chronicle (2006)
Albert King	Cold Feet
from The Very Best of Albert King (2007)
Booker T. & The MG's	Boot Leg
from The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's (2007)
The Staple Singers	Brand New Day (Theme from "The Landlord") [Single Version]
from The Very Best of the Staple Singers (2007)
The Bar-Kays	In the Hole
from The Best of the Bar-Kays (2006)
Otis Redding	Cigarettes and Coffee
from The Soul Album (2010)
Wilson Pickett	Danger Zone
from The Exciting Wilson Pickett (2007)
Sam & Dave	I Got Everything I Need
from Hold On, I'm Comin' (2005)
Johnnie Taylor	Ain't That Lovin' You (For More Reasons Than One)
from Good Love! (1996)
Carla Thomas	Don't Say No More
from Stax Profiles: Carla Thomas (2006)
Rance Allen	Ring My Bell (Long Version)
from Stax Profiles: Rance Allen (2006)
Wendy Rene	After Laughter (Comes Tears)
from Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles (1959-1968) (2007)
The Charmels	As Long As I've Got You
from Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles (1959-1968) (2007)
Don Covay	I Never Get Enough of Your Love
from See Saw (2005)
The Mar-Keys	Philly Dog
from The Great Memphis Sound (2005)
The Dramatics	Beware of the Man (With the Candy In His Hand)
from The Best of the Dramatics (2006)
The Mad Lads	Make This Young Lady Mine
from The Best of the Mad Lads (2007)
Margie Joseph	Takin' All the Love I Can
from Margie Joseph Makes a New Impression / Phase II (2006)
Ruby Johnson	Weak Spot
from I'll Run Your Hurt Away (2006)
Wilson Pickett	Don't Fight It
from Rhino Hi-Five: Wilson Pickett - EP (2005)
Mavis Staples	Endlessley
from Only for the Lonely (2006)
The Newcomers	The Whole World's a Picture Show
from The Astors Meet the Newcomers: Sweet Soul from Memphis (2005)
Veda Brown	Take It Off Her (And Put It On Me)
from Private Numbers (2007)
TSU Toronados	My Thing Is a Moving Thing
from One Flight Too Many (2006)

Comment:

Weirdly enough, all of our featured bands found their biggest success in the wake of a personnel shift — and not always a happy one. After trimming from a sextet to a five-piece, the Dynamics even ditched their name, morphing into the Dramatics . . . and they couldn't have [i]been[/i] more dramatic than in their high-tension wire of a blaxploitation movie packed into a three-minute single, "Beware of the Man (With the Candy In His Hand)." Backing Otis Redding was both the Bar-Kays' greatest triumph [i]and[/i] tragedy, as two-thirds of the band died in the plane crash that also claimed the life of the King of Soul. Recovered, regrouped, and reinvented, they emerged barely a year later, and their chitlin-and-collard-green-funky "In the Hole" [i]sizzles[/i] in its greasy groove. And the Soul Children, recruited to fill the Stax roster slot vacated by Sam & Dave, put the [i]adult[/i] back in [i]adultery[/i], delivering the lowdown on the down-low in their hush-hush slow-dancin' rendezvous "I'll Understand."

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