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| Artist: The Sons Of Champlin
Label: Acadia Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $25.98
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 22666
Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 805772817227
EAN: 0805772817227
ASIN: B000SQKZTM
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hold On | | • | Here Is Where Your Heart Belongs | | • | Follow Your Heart - The Sons of Champlin, Heavy, B.B | | • | Knickanick - The Sons of Champlin, Preston | | • | Imagination's Sake | | • | Still in Love with You - The Sons of Champlin, Haggerty | | • | Circle Filled with Love | | • | To the Sea | | • | You | | • | For a While | | • | Slippery When It's Wet - The Sons of Champlin, McLary | | • | Helping Hand | | • | Saved by the Grace of Your Love - The Sons of Champlin, Smith | | • | Loving Is Why | | • | Whatcha' Gonna' Do? | | • | West End | | • | Big Boss Man - The Sons of Champlin, Smith | | • | Time Will Bring You Love | | • | Doin' It for You - The Sons of Champlin, Moitoza | | • | Where I Belong | | • | Let That Be a Lesson - The Sons of Champlin, Haggerty | | • | Love Can Take Me Now - The Sons of Champlin, |
Disc 2
| • | Lookout | | • | Like to Get to Know You | | • | Marp - The Sons of Champlin, Isham | | • | Planet Ripper - The Sons of Champlin, Haggerty | | • | All and Everything | | • | Without Love | | • | Rainbow's End - The Sons of Champlin, Wood | | • | Geoff's Vibe - The Sons of Champlin, Palmer | | • | Queen of the Rain | | • | Goldmine |
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Album Description
A compilation of three albums re-mastered from original tapes available for the first time on CD. Emerging from the late 60's SAN FRANCISCO psychedelic scene THE SONS OF CHAMPLIN were relatively unusual among BAY AREA bands for favouring more soul influenced material The three albums featured on this set are THE SONS OF CHAMPLIN, A CIRCLE FILLED WITH LOVE and LOVING IS WHY, THE SONS OF CHAMPLIN still tour to this day, band leader BILL CHAMPLIN is also a member of CHICAGO
Album Details
2007 Digitally Remastered Edition that Compiles Three Original Albums on to 2CD'S: "Sons of Champlin", "Circle Filled with Love" and "Loving is Why". The Group Emerged from the Late 60's San Francisco Psychedelic Scene and were Relatively Unusual Among Bay Area Bands for Favouring More Soul Influenced Material, Lead by Bill Champlin, who Would also Later Join Chicago.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Great Tunes to Hear Again! September 12, 2008
klstrob (Phoenix, AZ USA)
I've had these albums on my CD want list for years and it's great they are finally here. The first album is the best in my opinion. When I first got it (on the original Gold Mine label before its reissuance on Ariola) I was blown away by the tight musicianship of this band. They reflect some touches of Chicago, Sanford-Townsend Band, Ambrosia and Tower of Power, among others. The sequence of the first seven tracks is one of the best ever for a rock album, especially the soulful "Here is Where Your Love 'Be-lao-wongs'" and "Imagination's Sake." Grab a copy while it's still available.
Finally in Print! February 23, 2008
MNFunky (Nashville, TN)
The Sons are probably one of the Top Ten Most Underrated Bands of All Time. This collection more or less completes their non-bootlegged catalog (p.s. they are still creating their catalog - see "Hip L'il Dreams"). while some of the songs on this compilation border on 70's-overproduced, Bill Champlin's always-soulful vocals more than make up for it. This is a "must own" for aficionados of blue-eyed soul, horn bands and good music in general - beautiful ballads, gritty funk and everything in between.
Late to the dance December 27, 2007
Michael L. Knapp (Placerville, CA United States)
While the Sons Of Champlin were one of the first of the San Francisco ballroom bands, they were one of the last to be signed. When they finally did relese an album it was a masterpiece that unfortunatly wasn't a big seller. To compound matters before it's release somebody noticed that hidden in the very psychedellic cover was the phrase "big f**king deal" which they insised on having cut with a razor blade to obscure the phrase before it could ship to the stores delaying it till after the promotional push had passed. This was typical of their luck that kept them from larger acceptance. The album at hand is from the three later albums after they were dropped by Capitol & Columbia & before they broke up (they later reformed). All three were great albums that have held up very well indeed & it's very nice to have this music on CD. My cherrished vinyl copies have just about had it. Not a bad song on the set! All I can say is "Surrender, you just might fall in love". Alfter all this time it's great that they are still performing. Don't miss them if you get the chance & don't miss this CD.
Rediscovered Nugget September 12, 2007
CDnut (San Francisco, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Always been a fan of Bill C. in all of his combinations and I'm old enough to go back to the Loosen Up Naturally Days of the Sons (which I think is great, but epic? Hmmm.) I just wanted to get my two cents in about the production of the CD. I bought it at a place that warned me about other titles from Ariola that sounded less than fantastic. This remastering sounds great and I agree with the earlier performance reviews comparing to early Boz Scaggs and TOP. If you are a fan of the Sons don't worry about the sound of this CD. You will not be let down.
The SONS that shine on your ears September 10, 2007
Peppino
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
To be with some perspective , I am not a fan of rock musics, have my favourites.
I do not consider the Sons of Champlin a rock musics grupo, even if they were a Hippy band from the USA , and from Sao Francisco!
The recordings I heard before the wonderful Ariola record label releases were fun, creative, adventurous harmonically and FUNKY as 3 month old underwears, BUT...probably do to excessive narcotic refreshments, the Sons were ragged sounding to my ears, and the jazz-influenced guitar of Terry Haggerty most enjoyable AND irritating, same time. He comes from jazz guitar family , as I was told..Bill Champlin's voice, much like his "vanilla soul" fratello Lowell George, was sweet like honey or soulful to the stars!
BUT, to this recording of ALL THREE Ariola recordings have smooth out the edges, the compositions more cogent and chord progressions less sounding as forced, (obvious the influence of the jazz contingency in the band ~~later including , for one CD, MArk Isham!).
T Hagerty still plays his own way, but, check some songs, he plays a fluid jazz style, again, comparable to Denny Dias on early Steely Dan,a STRAIGHT UP jazzer!
Some hypnotic musical interludes, some polished ballads, and, what you have is less a pseudo-R& B influenced rock group, but a true jazz/funk/soul aggregation, although there are a few "throw back" tunes that have the "trademark" Sons of Champlin sound. These, MY least favourite .
The 2nd CD is the most innovative, the 1st CD (2 recordings) have a sound as reminding one of the EARLY Boz Scaggs (before he went "Hollywood") and not quite, but a bit as the other Sao Francisco(actually Oakland, no?) "horn bands" like Tower of Power , Cold Blood, etc.
The trademark Sons of Champlin composing style is also abundant, especially as CD #1 draws to the 10-21 tracks.
So, this CD a MUST for any fan , not only for the Sons, but of very well conceived soul/jazz sounds.
100 stars, and FINALLY this music was released, I first hear it in 1975-77!
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