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Boy Meets Girl – Classic Stax Soul Duets

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A cool repackaging of the classic Boy Meets Girl album on Stax – featuring a slightly different set list than the original, with some key extra cuts! The core album was issued as a special project by Stax in their first year after parting with Atlantic, almost as a message to that label that they were more than capable of handling things on their own! The double-length set brings together the label's best male and female artists, each in duets that largely only ever appeared on this LP – expanded here with a few other key Stax duets. Other soul labels – like Vee Jay or Motown – had had good luck with the male/female duet sound, but the quality of Stax's singers puts them right up there with the top of the genre – as singers like William Bell, Mavis Staples, Carla Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, and Eddie Floyd all work perfectly together here – really getting past cliches of the format. Original titles include "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by William Bell & Carla Thomas, "I Thank You" by William Bell & Mavis Staples, "Ain't That Good" and "Piece Of My Heart" by Eddie Floyd & Mavis Staples, "It's Unbelievable (How You Control My Soul)" by Pervis Staples & Carla Thomas, "It's Our Time" by Eddie Floyd & Carla Thomas, and "Soul-a-Lujah", sung by the whole group. New cuts include "Private Number" – sung by both the original team of William Bell & Judy Clay, and the duo of Dusty Springfield & Spencer Davis – plus "Get Ourselves Together" and "My Baby Specializes" by Delaney & Bonnie – in place of some tracks that were pulled from the original album. 18 tracks in all. (CD case has a cutout hole.)  © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc.