Love's Train: The Best of Funk Essentials Ballads

by Love's Train: B.o. Funk Essenti

Overview

Some multiple-artists compilations satisfy more than others. On some you enjoy a few cuts, while others are use to accentuate romantic encounters -- the kind you lay on the CD player, push "repeat all," and go for it, knowing the music is set. This collection is like that. It begins soft and slow with "Baby Blues" by the Love Unlimited Orchestra featuring Barry White; it kicks into second with Con Funk Shun's "Love's Train" and hits high gear on Stephanie Mills' electrifying closer "Feel the Fire."The different styles offer a cornucopia of love jams. Everything from Randy Brown's deep soul romp "I Wanna Make Love to You" to Kool & the Gang's jazzy, synthesized "Summer Madness." You won't find any disappointing edited versions, either; seven minutes and twenty seconds of "Heaven Must Be Like This" by the Ohio Players attest to that. ~ Andrew Hamilton

Product Details

Release Date:	06/06/1995
Label:	Mercury
UPC:	0731452809124
Rank:	7779

Tracks

1. Baby Blues  -  Love Unlimited Orchestra  - Barry White
2. Love's Train  -  Con Funk Shun  - Michael Cooper  - Felton C. II Pilate
3. Hangin' Downtown  -  Cameo  - Kenni Hairston
4. I Touched a Dream  -  Dells  - Eugene Record
5. I Believe in You and Me  -  Four Tops  - Sandy Linzer  - David Wolfert
6. Heaven Must Be Like This  -  Ohio Players  - James "Diamond" Williams
7. All Night Long  - Renee Diggs  - Ernesto Phillips  -  Starpoint
8. Summer Madness  - Robert Bell  - Ronald Bell  - George "Funky" Brown  -  Kool & the Gang  - Robert "Spike" Mickens  - Claydes Smith  - Alton Taylor  - Dennis "D.T." Thomas  - Richard Westfield
9. Your Smile  - Rene Moore  -  Rene & Angela  - Angela Winbush
10. Yearning for Your Love  -  Gap Band  - Oliver Scott  - Ronnie Wilson
11. I Belong to You  - Peter Black  -  Love Unlimited  - Barry White
12. Running in and Out of My Life  - James Alexander  - Charles "Scoop" Allen  -  Bar-Kays  - Michael Beard  - Larry "D" Dodson  - Harvey Joe Henderson  - Allen Jones  - Lloyd Smith  - Winston Stewart  - Frank "Captain Disaster" Thompson
13. I Wanna Make Love to You  - Homer Banks  - Randy Brown  - Carl Hampton
14. I Might as Well Forget About Loving You  - Michael Bacon  - Thomas Cain  -  Kinsman Dazz
15. Why Have I Lost You  - Larry Blackmon  -  Cameo
16. Feel the Fire  - Peabo Bryson  - Stephanie Mills

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Gap Band   Primary Artist
The Four Tops   Primary Artist
Bar-Kays   Primary Artist
Cameo   Primary Artist
Starpoint   Primary Artist
Kool & the Gang   Primary Artist
Rene & Angela   Primary Artist
Randy Brown   Primary Artist
Ohio Players   Primary Artist
Love Unlimited   Primary Artist
Con Funk Shun   Primary Artist
Kinsman Dazz   Primary Artist
The Dells   Primary Artist
Stephanie Mills   Primary Artist
The Love Unlimited Orchestra   Primary Artist
Sonny Sanders   Conductor
Tom Tom 84   Conductor

Technical Credits

Wade Marcus   Mixing,Horn Arrangements
Gary N. Mayo   Digital Remastering
Patrice Rushen   Mixing
Starpoint   Performer
Angela Winbush   Composer,Producer
Bill Levenson   Executive Producer
Kool & the Gang   Producer,Performer
Clarence "Satch" Satchell   Composer
Felton C. Pilate II   Composer
Gene Page   Arranger
Charles Koppelman   Executive Producer
Dennis "D.T." Thomas   Composer
Ronnie Wilson   Composer
Richard Westfield   Composer
Michael Bacon   Composer
Rene & Angela   Performer
Cameo   Performer
Tawatha Agee   Vocal Arrangement
Stephanie Mills   Performer
Peabo Bryson   Composer
Bar-Kays   Performer
Larry "D" Dodson   Composer
Carl Hampton   Composer,Producer
Lawrence Payton   Vocal Arrangement
James Mtume   Arranger,Producer,Vocal Arrangement
Curtis Reginald Lewis   Composer
The Dells   Performer
Barry White   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Clifton Chenier   Composer
Charles "Scoop" Allen   Composer
Eugene Record   Composer,Producer
Homer Banks   Composer,Producer
Kinsman Dazz   Arranger,Performer
Con Funk Shun   Producer,Performer
Larry Blackmon   Arranger,Composer,Producer
James Johnson   Composer
James Alexander   Composer
Robert "Kool" Bell   Composer
David Wolfert   Composer,Producer
Love Unlimited   Performer
Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner   Composer
Lloyd Smith   Composer
Lonnie Simmons   Producer
Robert "Spike" Mickens   Composer
Mark Bynum   Composer
Ronald Bell   Composer
Sandy Linzer   Composer
Lionel Job   Producer
The Love Unlimited Orchestra   Performer
Peter Black   Composer
Philip Bailey   Arranger,Producer
Charlie Singleton   Arranger
Renee Diggs   Composer
Ralph Middlebrooks   Composer
Ohio Players   Producer,Performer
Oliver Scott   Composer
Franklin Thompson   Composer
Michael Cooper   Composer
Rene Moore   Composer,Producer
Michael Beard   Composer
Harvey "Joe" Henderson   Composer
Thomas Cain   Composer
Tommy Vicari   Arranger,Producer
Reggie Lucas   Arranger,Producer,Vocal Arrangement
Bruce Swedien   Producer
Harry Weinger   Compilation Producer
Winston Stewart   Composer
William Beck   Composer,Composer
James "Diamond" Williams   Composer
Frank "Captain Disaster" Thompson   Composer
Terri Tierney   Project Coordinator
Tony Sepe   Composer
Catherine Ladis   Project Assistant
Marty Brooks   Composer
Matty Brooks   Composer
Ernesto Phillips   Composer
Wayne Edwards   Liner Notes
Mark Weinberg   Design
Sherman Guy   Composer
Alton Taylor   Composer
Tom Tom   Arranger
Carl Davis   Producer
George "Funky" Brown   Composer
James Williams   Composer,Composer
Marshall Jones   Composer
Harvey Henderson   Composer
Claydes Smith   Composer
Marvin R. Pierce   Composer
Allen Jones   Composer,Producer
Kenni Hairston   Composer
The Four Tops   Performer
The Gap Band   Performer
Bobby Harris   Horn Arrangements
Khalis Bayyan   Producer
Allen Alvoid Jones Jr.   Composer
James Edward Alexander   Composer
Oliver A. Scott   Composer
Larry Charles Dodson   Composer
Lloyd Ed Smith   Composer
Michael Edward Beard   Composer
Winston Allen Stewart   Composer
Charles Leonard Allen   Composer
Kenneth Hairston   Composer
Leroy Bonner   Composer
Randy Brown   Performer