Twenty Greatest Hits

Great music. I love the oldies.

I love this music. I grew up on this music.

This CD will go into "My Favorite's" collection of GREAT SONGS! As a teenager, in the early '60's, in my opinion, Gene Chandler stood out as one of the best male singers of that time, hearing his songs again still makes me feel the same way...My thank's to Amazon for being the best of making it possible to find all the "CLASSICS" of all genre of music!!

Gene Chandler's music, like most of the Chicago-Soul acts, was woefully underrated and overshadowed by the folks at Stax and Motown. This is a good intro to Gene's smooth, crooning style. Here we have (of course), "Duke Of Earl" which he is best known for, but this also includes other tunes that aren't well known to those who weren't listening to Black radio stations at the time, such as "Bless Our Love," and "What Now" (the latter featuring Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions in the background). "Gonna Be Good Times" captures the spirit of a soulful party at the time, and "Soul Hootenanny" is an amaziing live recording capturing Gene's rapport with the audience (in this case at Chicago's Regal theater in 1965). Only minor complaint here is that this doesn't have Gene's 1970 classic "Groovy Situation" which those of us who remember love so well, but at least that's available elsewhere.

I have always liked Gene Chandler.

I got this sooner than expected, thanks.

All the other songs are ok, but Duke of Earl is timeless.

What can I say, I have always loved this man's music. It brings back a lot of memories. The sound quality is superb. Definitely a must have for any R & B music lover.

シカゴが生んだ名R&B~ソウル・シンガー、Gene Chandlerの初期ベスト盤。1962～1963年のVee-Jayレコード時代、1963～1965年のConstellationレコード時代の音源20曲が収録されています。初期のこの時代は、チャート1位を獲得した名曲「Duke Of Earl」が有名ですが、他にも多くのヒットがあり、本CDにもそれらは収録されています。（2.「Rainbow」などなど）「Duke Of Earl」はジーン・チャンドラーのソロ名義ですが、実際にはジーンがもともと参加していたThe Dukays（ザ・デュケイズ）による録音で、完全なDoo Wopスタイルのヒット曲。ジーン・チャンドラーは1980年代まで第一線で活躍した息の長い歌手ですが、本CD2.ではDoo Wopからソウルへの変化を捉えています。ただし本CDには一切の解説がないので残念。

Best remembered for his classic track Duke Of Earl Gene Chandler has a lot of surprises on this collection. It is sweet Soul Music at its very best. From an era that we can now check in retrospect we had so many great Soul singers from Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls and Motown giants like Marvin Gaye, David Ruffin and the irrepressible Levi Stubbs the list is endless but add Gene Chandler to that list. My favourite track is Bless Our Love. If you love soul from the 60`s go for this. Great album!