h33t - Solomon Burke - King Solomon+I Wish I Knew (blues soul r&b)(goingdownsouth)[FLAC][h33t]

Label : Koch Records
Released: 1999
Reissue of Atlantic Vinyls : "King Solomon"
"I Wish I Knew"

Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Joe Tex, My soul heroes in my younger days, and I still love them. Some souvenirs on this cd, who compiles two vinyls "King Solomon"and "I Wish I Knew"
Shared with pleasure, I hope you 'll like these songs, and feel the soul..

Quoted from Wikipedia

Solomon Burke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 21, 1940. Some sources claim that he was born in 1936, others say 1938, but in a 2002 interview with Philadelphia Weekly Burke stated himself that he was indeed born in 1940. He began his adult life as a preacher in Philadelphia, and soon moved on to hosting a gospel radio show. In the 1960s, he signed with Atlantic Records and began moving towards more secular music. His first hit was "Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)", a cover of a country song. Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R&B hits, Burke never could quite break through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's "Down in the Valley" for 1965's Otis Blue. His best known song is "Cry to Me", used in the dance and seduction scene in the film Dirty Dancing.

In 1964 he wrote and recorded "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", Burke's most prominent bid for an enduring soul standard. Almost immediately covered by The Rolling Stones the same year, other well-known versions include one by Wilson Pickett and another, a decade and a half later, in the 1980 film by The Blues Brothers..........

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Solomon is still on stage, an amazing story about
"The King of Rock 'N' Soul"