Edwin Starr
The Essential Collection
Spectrum Music Catalogue Number 544 492-2
Released in the UK on the 26th March 2001
UK Recommended retail price £6.99

This release is one of many that Spectrum have released in the UK on sixties Motown stars. This time the Soul Master himself goes under the spotlight and this nineteen track CD contains numerous favourites from this popular artist, including the superb Ric Tic/Polydor single ‘I Have Faith In You’ plus two of his big chart toppers for 20th Century with ‘Contact’ and ‘H.A.P.P.Y Radio’
 

A complete history of Edwin Starr can be found by clicking here where you can enjoy a series of questions in real audio format that I put to him back in 1994 when he was my special guest on my radio show the ‘Sunday Soul Club’

Meanwhile the complete track listing for this excellent CD is as follows;

* denotes that this song is discussed with Edwin on my Real Audio interview

1.  Contact
2.  War*
3.  I Have Faith In You*
4.  I’m Still A Struggling Man
5.  Ooh Baby Baby
6.  You’ve Got My Soul On Fire
7.  24 Hours To Find My Baby*
8.  There You Go
9.  Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On*
10.  I Want My Baby Back
11.  Ain’t It Hell Up In Harlem
12.  My Kinda Woman
13.  Time*
14.  Back Street*
15.  Who Is The Leader Of The People
16.  Easin’ In
17.  Stop The War Now
18.  H.A.P.P.Y Radio

Track number 12 shown above has not been included on commercial copies and therefore the whole set consists of seventeen songs and not eighteen. Apparently there are a few promo copies that got out with 'My Kinda Woman'

Rating 10/10
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Edwin Starr discography (does not include some seventies releases, or post Motown product)