Track Listing

1. Wake Up Everybody
2. Love I Lost
3. Bad Luck
4. If You Don't Know Me By Now
5. Yesterday I Had the Blues
6. Don't Leave Me This Way
7. Keep on Lovin' You
8. You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good
9. Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
10. I Miss You
11. I'm Weak for You
12. Be for Real
13. Where Are All My Friends
14. Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)
15. Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61369 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Tops them all
There are a bewildering bunch of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes greatest hits CDs out there but this one, the only one with dynamic, crystal-clear remastered sound and all full-length album tracks, is quite simply THE one to get. Superb.

Philly soul at its very best
This collection of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' classic '70s songs, courtesy of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's wildly successful Philadelphia International Records, sound just as good as they did now as when I first heard them when I was a kid! Boy, do these songs take me back. I was raised on this music...when there was REAL passion and meaning in the lyrics, and there were REAL singers behind them. Case in point: Philly-born Teddy Pendergrass, whose powerhouse and distinctive lead vocals dominated all of the Blue Notes' major (and not so major) hits, lifted the group out of almost certain musical oblivion when he joined the group in 1971. Who could've guessed that when he crooned with such force in "If You Don't Know Me By Now": "Ten long years, ten long years we've been together, if you don't know me by now..." he was only a youthful 22?! He certainly sang it as if he had indeed invested ten years in a romantic relationship.

I loved all the selections on this CD, and especially the extended versions of "Wake Up Everybody", "The Love I Lost", "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Bad Luck". I gave this collection only four stars because "I Miss You" is in its edited version, so I felt a bit cheated. But overall, this is without a doubt one of my favorite CDs. Philly soul at its very best.

harold melvin and the blue notes featuring teddy pendergrass the ultimate blue notes
harold melvin and the blue notes featuring teddy pendergrass "the ultimate blue notes" is a spended cd over view of the best of their songs released on philadelphia international records of the 1970's. favs include "wake up everybody", "the love i lost", "bad luck", "if you don't know me by now", "don't leave me this way", "satisfaction guranteed (or take your love back) and "yesterday i had the blues". teddy pendergrass shines on this cd with his powerful strong singing style. a voice that commands your attention. pendergrass sings with such force and honesty. the best of all male soul singers. he would later move on to a very successful solo career. the music and the harmony is first rate. classic 70's soul at it's very best.