ARTIST: VA
TITLE: Norman Jay MBE Presents Good Times 6
LABEL: Resist
GENRE: R&B
BITRATE: 212kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 2h 15min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-21
RIP DATE: 2006-08-30

Track List: CD #1/2
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01. Brooklyn Bronx And Queens Band  4:56
    - Starlette
02. Cece Peniston - Keep On         3:38
    Walking (Album Mix Edit)
03. Jimmy Ruffin - Tell Me What     3:44
    You Want (Extended Mix)
04. Archie Bell And The Drells - I  2:38
    Could Dance All Night
05. Boyz II Men - Thank You         5:43
    (Untouchable Mix)
06. Doris - Don't                   3:01
07. Pressure Drop - Groove Me       3:50
08. Desmond Dekker And The Aces -   2:33
    Israelites
09. The Clash - Rock The Casbah     3:38
10. Smokey Robinson And The         3:10
    Miracles - I Don't Blame You
    At All
11. Dayton - Meet The Man           5:49
12. The Trammps - The Night The     7:02
    Lights Went Out
13. Monique Bingham - Poor People   5:47
14. Tortured Soul - Don't Hold Me   7:06
    Down
15. Bugz In The Attic - Once Twice  4:02
16. High Contrast - Racing Green    4:53

Track List: CD #2/2
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01. Lena Horne - Maybe I'm Amazed   3:36
02. Omar - Golden Brown             4:03
03. Pentangle - Light Flight        3:13
04. Chris Montez - The More I See   2:38
    You
05. Rufus Feat. Chaka Khan -        3:43
    Hollywood
06. Linn - Available                4:08
07. Norman Connors - Be There In    4:14
    The Morning
08. Barry White - Don't Make Me     4:43
    Wait Too Long
09. DJ Spinna Feat. Heavy - We Can  6:03
    Change This World (Club Mix)
10. Willie Colon - Set Fire To Me   7:07
11. Peter Bouncer - Love Is All We  4:46
    Need
12. Heavy - Wonderlove (For         6:31
    Minnie) (Jazzanova Remix)
13. House Of Pain - Jump Around     3:37
    (Master Mix)
14. Erma Franklin - I Get The       2:59
    Sweetest Feeling
15. Ronnie Dyson - Point Of No      2:35
    Return

Release Notes:

Norman Jay’s Good Times Soundsystem is one of the legends of Carnival. The tunes
resonate with the many faces of funk, from house to soul, reggae to R’n’B
(classic, not modern trash) Sir Norman of Jay can always be relied on to bring
the noise, in the most tasteful way possible. Things kick right off with quality
here, with the orchestral quality of the Brooklyn Bronx & Queens Band’s
Starlette giving way to some classic Ce Ce Peniston, Keep On Walking hitting all
the right notes, as ever. The classic tunes keep coming, as Norman mines Boyz II
Men (Thank You) and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (I Don’t Blame You At All)
for some seriously soulful crowd-pleasers. There’s room for new blood too,
though, because nestling at the end of the first CD -hen you’ve quite finished
re-appreciating The Clash’s Rock The Casbah and Desmond Dekker’s Isralites
-here’s Bugz in the Attic’s Once Twice and High Contrast’s Racing Green. There
are two tunes that should blow out the cobwebs nicely, as you limber up for a
listen to the second CD (or indeed another hour of dancing on Southern Row).

Lena Horne starts things off in fine form now (with Norman rescuing yet another
gem you may not have heard for a while) then things continue with a real British
classic: Omar. His Golden Brown sounds as beautiful as ever, fittingly for a
sound as celebratory as Good Times. Now, though, things do take a quieter tone,
as Norman brings things down a level or two with Pentangle’s Light Flight and
Chris Montez’s The More I See You. The latter in particular is definitely the
more eccentric side of Good Times, what with its classic folk vocals. Still,
Good Times wouldn’t have survived this long without a healthy love of the
unexpected; a feeling which continues on this second CD of curios. Barry White
gets all ‘love walrus’ as he implores us, Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long, while
Willie Colon’s Set Fire To Me is an underrated piece of down-low funk. Still,
though, the crowds will be jumping for joy to House Of Pain’s Jump Around,
Norman’s recently announced ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ tune for those dodgy moments
even an old pro must face. Play this loud, you know you want to.