2007 reissue and repackaged in a slipcase, now part of Rhino Entertainment's excellent Greatest Hits series. Formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1978, R&B/funk outfit Zapp scored a string of hits marked by their prominent use of the vocoder alongside their fat electric grooves. Comprised of the Troutman brothers (leader Roger on vocals and guitar, Larry on percussion, Lester on drums and Tony on bass), Zapp's self titled 1980 debut LP was produced by P-Funk legend Bootsy Collins. It soared up the R&B and Pop charts and launched a series of seriously funky discs. Features the #1 smash 'Dance Floor', the Top 10 hits 'I Can Make You Dance,', 'Computer Love' and more on this 17 track collection that went platinum when it was originally released in '93. Warner.

Single disc containing 20 highlights from 2021 box set. To say that Aretha Franklin was one of the greatest American artists of all time is an understatement. Her multi-octave voice moved millions around the world during an unrivaled career that spanned six decades and garnered the singer-songwriter every achievement and honor imaginable.

Chrome edition. Vinyl LP pressing housed in foil embossed jacket. Ungodly Hour is the second studio album by R&B duo Chloe X Halle. The album features the singles "Do It", "Catch Up", "Forgive Me", and the title track, the former of which became their most successful song to date. Ungodly Hour received widespread acclaim from music critics, with many praising the album's cohesiveness and the duo's vocal delivery, artistic growth and maturity. It also featured on various year-end lists and received a nomination for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, along with nominations for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Wonder What She Thinks of Me," and Best R&B Song for "Do It". The album debuted at number 16 on the Billboard 200 chart with 24,000 album-equivalent units, marking the duo's highest-charting album.

Double vinyl LP pressing. To say that Aretha Franklin was one of the greatest American artists of all time is an understatement. Her multi-octave voice moved millions around the world during an unrivaled career that spanned six decades and garnered the singer-songwriter every achievement and honor imaginable. This 2LP version features 20 highlight tracks from the CD box set.

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Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing. Painted is the debut studio album by American singer Lucky Daye. The album received a nomination for Best R&B Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards, while the album's lead single "Roll Some Mo" received nominations for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance. Album cut "Real Games" received a nomination in the Best Traditional R&B Performance category.

Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Anniversary is the third studio album by singer Bryson Tiller, originally released in 2020. The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart.

Limited six 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Features remastered versions of all their studio albums to date: Diamond Life (1984), Promise (1985), Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992), Lovers Rock (2000), and Soldier Of Love (2010) all packaged into a beautifully finished, white casebound box. The six album sleeves have been meticulously reproduced in exact detail with authentic paper and printing methods, perfectly replicated for the first time since their original release, and assembled in the outer box which was designed by Tom Hingston Studios in London.

Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos brings together 146 demos from the legendary Stax Records. Including 140 previously unreleased recordings, this collection combines both songwriter demos of some of music's biggest songs with full-blown arrangements of never released tracks. Compiled by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer Cheryl Pawelski, this 7 CD set is packaged in a 7"x7" boxset and includes archival photos, and a new essay written by Deanie Parker and Robert Gordon.

Janelle Mon�e's The Electric Lady album is pressed on a two clear LPs and is a one-time pressing. This vinyl is a part of Atlantic Records' 75th Anniversary vinyl collection.

Marv Johnson - You Got What It Takes: The Complete Singles & Albums 1958-62 / This collection offers a comprehensive overview of his early years, as well as an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talent. The R&B singer and songwriter Marv Johnson was one of the first artists to be signed to the Tamla by Berry Gordy, although his records came out on United Artists, as the fledgling Motown set-up was not ready to handle him. He continued recording for UA as he racked up a string of hits and recorded several albums before rejoining Motown in the '60s. This 52-track 2-CD collection comprises the A & B sides of his singles on the Kudo and United Artists labels from this era, plus the titles from his albums "Marvelous Marv Johnson", "More Marv Johnson" and "I Believe" not otherwise released on singles. It features all his chart entries from these years, including the pop and R&B Top 10 hits "You Got What It Takes" and "I Love The Way You Love" and his other pop and R&B hits "Come To Me", "I'm Coming Home", "Ain't Gonna Be That Way", "All The Love I've Got", "You've Got To) Move Two Mountains", "Happy Days" and "Merry-Go-Round". He was a versatile song stylist, with his records encompassing the spectrum of pop and R&B styles, and also taking in gospel-flavoured material on the "I Believe" album, and this collection offers a comprehensive overview of his early years, as well as an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talent.

Julia Lee - King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 / it is a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for her very personal brand of R&B. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1902, pianist and singer Julia Lee grew up singing and playing in the musical hotbed of that city's jazz scene in the '20s and '30s, developing a style that featured "the songs my mother taught me not to sing" - risqu� material with unsubtle double entendres - and in 1944 signed to the fledgling, but already successful Capitol label. This great-value 72-track 3-CD collection comprises early recordings with the orchestra of her brother George Lee and then with Jay McShann, followed by most of her A & B sides with Her Boy Friends on Premier/Mercury and Capitol from this era. It features all her career hits, including her R&B No. 1s "Snatch It And Grab It" and "King Size Papa", and her Top 10 hits "Gotta Gimme Watcha Got", I'll Get Long Somehow", "Tell Me Daddy", "That's What I Like", "You Ain't Git It No More" and "I Didn't Like It The First Time". She was a highly distinctive performer, and hugely entertaining, and this collection, as well as being a substantial and reasonably comprehensive overview of the primary era of her recording career, is a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for her very personal brand of R&B.

Frankie Lymon was just 14 years old when he burst onto the scene as leader of an R&B doowop group in the wake of the first flush of rock 'n' roll in the charts during the mid-50s, and the precociously talented teenager, already writing his own songs, made a huge impact on both sides of the Atlantic with his landmark debut hit with The Teenagers "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?". His chart career was telescoped into a few short years, his hits drying up in 1960, and his career declining until his untimely demise in 1968 at the age of 25 from a drug overdose. This 61-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of his singles with The Teenagers and as a solo artist on the Gee and Roulette labels during what was the primary era of his career, along with selected titles from the album "At the London Palladium" and the titles not otherwise released as singles from the album "Rock 'n' Roll" for Roulette. It features all his ten US pop and R&B hits, and his UK chart entries from these years, including the Top 10 hits "Why Do Fools Fall In Love", "Who Can Explain", "I Promise To Remember", "The ABC's Of Love", "Baby Baby" and "Out In The Cold Again". His music represented a fascinating strand of pop/R&B which was a significant part of the musical zeitgeist of the era, and this collection is a substantial showcase for his highly distinctive style and talent.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. One of the truly timeless albums in soul music history and the one that launched the career of Isaac Hayes, putting him firmly on the map as a musical force to be reckoned with and a source on musical inspiration for generations to come. After writing and performing for Stax for years, Hayes broke out as a solo artist with this 1969 #8 smash. This sea of strings, funk and sensual vocals pave the way for '70s soul: his hit versions of "Walk On By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and more featuring the Bar-Kays. Craft. This new vinyl reissue, complete with replica old-school style tip-on jacket, features audio remastered from the original analog tapes by leading engineer Dave Cooley.

A long-overlooked gem from the Fantasy Records vaults, the 1972 album Sister Woman finds Esther Marrow incorporating socially conscious lyricism with a blend of jazz, gospel, and R&B influences, backed by an all-star lineup of musicians including drummer Bernard Purdie, guitarist Cornell Dupree, and bassist Chuck Rainey. This reissue of Sister Woman features all-analog mastering from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. Pressed on 180g LP at RTI. Housed in a tip-on jacket.

Limited 4xLP This Is It: The Movie is made up of intimate and spectacular footage filmed during rehearsals for Jackson's proposed July 2009 comeback shows. When he died in June of 2009, he left behind hundreds of hours of footage, which have been edited together to create a glorious tribute to his majestic talents. Disc One features some of his biggest hits sequenced in the same order as they appear in the film.

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download and poster. 2019 release, the second studio album by Khalid. Features the single 'Talk'. Khalid's debut studio album, American Teen, was released on March 3, 2017. Khalid's music is primarily R&B and pop. He sings in both the baritone and tenor ranges, effectively rendering him a baritenor. Khalid cites Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, Chance the Rapper, Lorde, India. Arie, and James Blake as influences.

En Vogue / Part of Rhino's "Now Playing" Series! - The brainchild of Oakland-based songwriter-producer duo Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy, en Vogue was - and still is - a girl group with a modern twist: In addition to their harmonic splendor, all four members swapped turns in the spotlight as lead singers. These original recordings capture that round robin sound in all it's chart-topping, MTV-ruling glory. Soulful, sexy, with attitude to burn, they ruled the '90s as the funkiest divas of all.

The Spinners / Part of Rhino's "Now Playing" Series! - Filed under "S," The Spinners can indeed be described with many "S" words - sweet, sophisticated, symphonic, soulful among them. Formed in 1959 in Detroit, the quintet spent a decade as second-stringers at Motown before finding their chart-topping groove in Philadelphia, with falsetto-rich lead singer Philippe Wynne. These ten original recordings, under the guiding hand of maestro producer Thom Bell, explore the full spectrum of love, from the mighty to the melancholy.

This 1993 album was the last of Mariah's great dreamy ballad albums, as that pop genre faded for a period soon thereafter.

2017 debut album from the neo-soul singer/songwriter. In October 2012, SZA self-released an EP titled See. SZA. Run, which she then followed up with her second EP, titled S, in October 2013. In July 2013, it was revealed that she had signed to the hip hop record label Top Dawg Entertainment, through which she released Z, her third EP and first retail release, in April 2014. SZA's music is described as alternative R&B, with elements of soul, hip hop, minimalist R&B, cloud rap, ethereal R&B, witch house and chillwave. Rowe's lyrics are described as "unravelling", that revolve around themes of sexuality, nostalgia, and abandonment. Rowe cites a variety of artists as influences including Billie Holiday, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bj�rk, Jamiroquai, and Wu-Tang Clan.

Vinyl LP pressing. The Coasters were one of the key vocal groups of the '50s and early '60s who successfully bridged the gap between the doowop and R&B eras of the early '50s through to the rock 'n' roll explosion and beyond, with a run of hits that extended into the 1960s. Starting life as a spin-off from the doo-wop group The Robins, they were adopted by the up-and-coming songwriting and production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as a vehicle for their work. They decided to change their name after their first hit from The Robins to The Coasters as they switched from Leiber & Stoller's Spark label to the Atlantic subsidiary Atco. This fantastic LP manages to feature all their US R&B chart entries and Hot 100 top tens alongside a selection of their best singles, starting with their biggest hits as The Robins and continuing through as The Coasters to 1961. It naturally features the legendary US and UK hits Searchin', Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown and Poison Ivy, plus other memorable US successes such as Smokey Joe's Caf�, Down In Mexico, Youngblood, Along Came Jones and Little Egypt. It's not only a hugely entertaining slice of R&B-flavoured rock 'n' roll, with hits that were landmarks along the rite of passage for many baby-boomers, but a testimony to the songwriting and production genius of Leiber and Stoller - heir humorous 'street saga' songs providing the biggest of the group's hits.

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2017 collection from the late, great pop/soul legend. Michael Jackson's Scream is the perfect collection of 13 all-time electrifying dance classics and fan favorites from The King of Pop on one album, including "Ghosts," "Thriller," "Dirty Diana" and more. The album also includes a brand-new bonus track: the five-song mash-up "Blood On The Dance Floor X Dangerous (The White Panda Mash-Up)." Fans can unlock an immersive Scream augmented reality experience with their mobile device and the collectible poster in this package!

Tracks include "Always," "Freak-A-Ristic," "Secret Lovers," "My First Love," "Masterpiece," "Circles" and many more.