Product Description
The rockin' R&B years of the former front man of Huey "Piano" Smith and his Clowns, Bobby Marchan, have been collected on CD in the past - but his superior soul recordings of the 1960s have previously escaped compilation. "Get Down With It" remedies that by anthologising all of Bobby's recordings for Volt, Dial and Cameo Records. More than half of the tracks on "Get Down With It" are making their CD debut. Several have never been issued before, in any format. This is one truly essential collection of 60s Southern soul.

Recorded in Memphis, Nashville and Muscle Shoals between 1964 and 1968, embracing every facet of 60s soul, from deep to sweet to danceable it shows that Marchan was unlucky not to have parlayed these great recordings into a sequence of big R&B and Pop hits. Instead some of the songs become hits for others, for example, the title track that became a 1971 UK and European #1 for Slade.

Musicians backing Bobby include Booker T and The MGs, the Memphis Horns, the second great FAME Studios band aka the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and the American Studios group. Songwriters include Joe Tex, Paul Kelly (shortly to be the subject of his own 60s Kent anthology), Clarence Reid, Steve Cropper and Bobby himself. The tracks are produced by either Stax boss Jim Stewart or Dial head honcho Buddy Killen. This is a Who's Who of quality Southern soul.

Those who have only known Marchan via his crazed New Orleans rock'n'roll recordings with the Clowns or the proto-soul of his early 60s sides for Fury Records will be more than surprised at how easily Bobby made the transition to soul music - something that not all of his contemporaries were able to do with such conviction - when they hear "Get Down With It".

1. Meet Me In Church
2. Funny Style
3. There's Something About My Baby
4. Just To Hold My Hand
5. Just Be Yourself
6. You Won't Do Right
7. Everything A Poor Man Needs
8. What Can I Do (Pt 1)
9. What Can I Do (Pt 2)
10. Hooked
11. That's The Way It Goes
12. I Gotta Sit Down And Cry
13. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogaloo Flu
14. Half A Mind
15. Shake Your Tambourine
16. Someone To Take Your Place
17. Sad Sack
18. I Feel It Coming
19. Help Yourself
20. Hello Happiness
21. Just A Little Bit
22. I Just Want What Belongs To Me
23. Too Late For Our Love
24. I've Got A Thing Going On
25. You Better Hold On
26. Gimme Your Love
27. Don't Worry About Tomorrow
28. Get Down With It

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Bump: added tracklisting to the first post.