William Bell

The Soul Of A Bell

WEA Records SD7719 2000 12" 33rpm (Canada)

William Bell's history illustrates just how singles-oriented soul was in the 1960s. Though he'd enjoyed a hit in 1961 with "You Don't Miss Your Water," it wasn't until 1967 that Stax finally released his first album, the magnificent The Soul of a Bell. From that classic and Bell's moderate hits "Never Like This Before" and "Everybody Loves A Winner" to heartfelt versions of "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long," everything on this album (reissued on CD in 1991) illustrates the gospel-drenched richness of Southern soul. Meanwhile, the influence of Motown and the Four Tops is hard to miss on the riveting single "Eloise (Hang On In There)," which should have been a major hit, but surprisingly, never even charted.

Tracklist
A1  Everybody Loves A Winner    Written-By – Booker T. Jones, William Bell 2:49
A2  You Don't Miss Your Water    Written-By – William Bell 2:40
A3  Do Right Woman--Do Right Man    Written-By – Chips Moman, Dan Penn 3:10
A4  I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)    Written-By – Jerry Butler, Otis Redding 3:24
A5  Nothing Takes The Place Of You    Written-By – Toussaint L. McCall 3:25
A6  Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye    Written-By – John Loudermilk 3:36
B1  Eloise (Hang On In There)    Written-By – Booker T. Jones, William Bell 2:40
B2  Any Other Way    Written-By – William Bell 2:42
B3  It's Happening All Over    Written-By – Isaac Hayes, Joe Shamwell 2:33
B4  Never Like This Before    Written-By – Booker T. Jones, David Porter, Isaac Hayes 2:48
B5  You're Such A Sweet Thang    Written-By – Booker T. Jones, Joe Shamwell, William Bell 2:25

    Bass – Donald "Duck" Dunn (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Drums – Al Jackson Jr. (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Guitar – Steve Cropper (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Keyboards – Booker T. Jones (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5), Isaac Hayes (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Saxophone [Alto] – Joe Arnold (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Saxophone [Tenor] – Andrew Love (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Trumpet – Wayne Jackson (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3, B5)
    Vocals – William Bell

This album was originally released as Stax 719 on July 16, 1967

C

ondition:  LP is NEAR MINT in a plastic inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in Near Mint condition (shrink wrap intact) 

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
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