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Lifetime | 
 enlarge | Artist: Johnnie Taylor
Label: Stax
Category: Music
Buy New: $29.98
New (12) Used (2) from $16.95
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 66587
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 025218443227
EAN: 0025218443227
ASIN: B00004Z3ZY
Release Date: November 21, 2000
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This | | • | Heaven Is My Home (Take 1) | | • | The Love Of God (Take 7-Previously Unissued Alternet) | | • | Out On A Hill (Take 1-Alt.) | | • | Until Then (Take 3-Alt.) | | • | When The Gates Swing Open | | • | Never, Never | | • | Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day) | | • | Dance What You Wanna | | • | Baby, We've Got Love | | • | I Had A Dream | | • | Easy Lovin' (Previously Unissued) | | • | I've Got To Love Somebody's Baby | | • | Just The One (I've Been Looking For) | | • | Part Time Love | | • | Sixteen Tons | | • | Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed | | • | Blues In The Night | | • | Save Your Love For Me | | • | I Need Lots Of Love | | • | You Can't Win With A Losing Hand | | • | Rumors | | • | You Don't Know Like I Know | | • | Twenty Years From Today | | • | Twenty Years From Today |
Disc 2
| • | Little Bluebird | | • | Toe Hold | | • | That's Where It's At | | • | I Ain't Particular | | • | Woman Across The River | | • | Who's Making Love | | • | I'm Not The Same Person | | • | I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water | | • | Mr. Nobody Is Somebody Now | | • | Take Care Of Your Homework | | • | Testify (I Wonna) | | • | Separation Line | | • | I Could Never Be President | | • | Love Bones | | • | Steal Away | | • | Steal Away (Live) | | • | I Am Somebody (Parts 1 & 2) | | • | Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone | | • | I Don't Wanna Lose You (Parts 1 & 2) | | • | Don't Take My Sunshine | | • | Hijackin' Love |
Disc 3
| • | Standing In For Jody | | • | Doing My Own Thing (Part 1) | | • | Stop Doggin' Me | | • | I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) | | • | Cheaper To Keep Her | | • | We're Getting Careless With Our Love | | • | Starting All Over Again | | • | I've Been Born Again | | • | It's September | | • | Try Me Tonight | | • | Free | | • | Disco Lady | | • | Running Out Of Lies | | • | God Is Standing By | | • | Play Something Pretty | | • | Lady, My Whole World Is You | | • | Lover Boy | | • | Last Two Dollars | | • | Soul Heaven |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Before Johnnie Taylor was the soul sage of "Who's Making Love" or the pop-disco smoothie of "Disco Lady," he was a gospel star--the lead singer of the Highway Q.C.'s and later of the Soul Stirrers, where he followed Sam Cooke. He eventually shook off Cooke's vocal mannerisms and left gospel for the soul and disco world, but the church always stayed in his voice--and in the wry moralism that underscored even his most libidinous songs. When he sang "I've Been Born Again," it was nominally about the woman who'd made him monogamous, but his prayerful phrasing argued otherwise. Taylor died in early 2000, and Lifetime is a smartly constructed survey of his entire recording career, including dozens of big hits and a healthy helping of alternate takes and rarities (admittedly, though, the last two decades of the years in the title are represented by all of four tracks). His first big break in secular pop came when the unrelated Little Johnny Taylor had a hit with "Part Time Love" but couldn't promote it effectively; Johnnie with an "ie" stepped in and remade himself as a bluesy shouter, backed up by the Stax house band in Memphis. By the end of the '60s, he'd hooked up with producer/songwriter Don Davis, who was his creative foil for the commercial peak of his career and introduced his voice to the Detroit sound for a string of little morality plays that zoomed to the upper reaches of the R&B charts. (Admirers of XTC's "Standing in for Joe" should enjoy Taylor's "Standing in for Jody.") The culmination of this period, and of his hitmaking career, was "Disco Lady," a 1975 collaboration with P-Funk sidemen, but Lifetime's final disc even makes Taylor's long decline sound as sharp as the rest of his canon. --Douglas Wolk
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| Customer Reviews:
He Is Mr. Wonderful August 22, 2008
I have many of JT's cds and this is a good one. This box set is a combination of blues, gospel and soul. What a delightful mixture. JT could sing anything; just give him the music becuse he had the voice. The "live" rendition of "Steal Away" is great...again JT at his best. Of course many of his hit songs are included but listen to "Free" and "Separation Line". These cds contains many of JT's previous unissued alternates. The price is good and if you're a JT fan you won't go wrong with this purchase. Additionally there is a booklet included that gives all of JT's singles, albums, with photos of family and concerts. This is a must have box set! Do yourself a favor and order it today.
Woman Across The River: What Regret Sounds Like June 30, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Any set that includes JT singing "Woman Across The River" with Booker T & The MGs gets 5 stars; I don't care if there's 900 songs on it. "Woman" is the absolute pinnacle of southern rhythm & blues as far as I'm concerned. They say in Memphis, a musician doesn't play the next note until the last one's finished. Here's the proof, right here. It seems unfair to single out any one musician because they mesh together perfectly as a whole, but Booker's Hammond B-3 playing is just sublime. And the liners say they recorded most of this stuff live with very little overdubbing. Holy Mackerel. Oh yeah; there's lots of other killer material on here as well.
THE SOUL PHILOSOPHER !THE KING OF STAX RECORDS ! December 3, 2002
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
OH YES,FINALLY SOMEONE IS PAYING TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SOUL SINGERS OF OUR TIME,A BOX SET THAT FINALLY IS DONE RIGHT!FROM HIS EARLY DAYS WITH THE SOUL STIRRERS,THE STAX VOLT ERA,ON TO THE COLUMBIA LABEL,& LAST THE MALACO LABEL!I ONLY WISH THEY WOULD HAVE MADE A 4TH CD WITH ALOT MORE OF HIS TIMELESS BALLADS!I KNOW HE'S UP IN "SOUL HEAVEN"JESUS PERSONALLY TOOK HIM THERE,ALL OF HIS FRIENDS ARE WAITING FOR HIM THERE,BROOKE BENTON,SAM COOKE,NAT KING COLE,BILLY ECKSTINE,THE COUNT,THE DUKE,OTIS REDDING,MARVIN GAYE,JACKIE WILSON,JAMES CARR,MARV JOHNSON,DAVID,EDDIE,PAUL,& MELVIN ( THE TEMPS),LARRY PAYTON (THE 4 TOPS),MARY WELLS, TAMMIE TERRELL, FLORANCE "FLO" BALLARD, "ARETHA'S" SISTER CAROLYN FRANKLIN,ELLA,MAHALIA,BILLIE HOLIDAY,DINAH WASHINGTON,BABY WASHINGTON, GROVER WASHINGTON JR.,SARAH VAUGHN,CLARA WARD,MOM'S MABLEY,PEARL BAILEY,ESTHER PHILLIPS,LINDA JONES,JOE TEX,IVORY JOE HUNTER,BIG JOE TURNER,KING CURTIS,CLYDE MCPHATTER,LAVERN BAKER,THE BAR KAYS, JIMI HENDRIX,BIG MAMA THORTON,LOUIE ARMSTRONG,LOUIS JORDAN,BILLY STEWART, RUFUS THOMAS,DONNY HATHAWAY,ALL SINGING UP IN "SOUL HEAVEN" J. H. H.PEACE TO THE WORLD!!DOVER PA. USA GOD BLESS!!
A great tribute to a "show you right!" soul singer! May 2, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This set is a necessary purchase for the JT fan. If you own few of his Stax CD's, this is a treat, since 75% of the box is Stax material. I am a Stax nut, so I had many of the tracks presented.
But it is still worth it due to his early pre-Stax tracks plus his Columbia and Malaco output, ending in the classic " Soul Heaven." I liked JT because of his great singing voice and his attitude about life in general. He cared less about the critics and the negative publicity. He was one of the greatest.I missed his show in Birmingham about 2 weeks before he died in Dallas in May 2000. Forget the critics that don't give this set 5 stars. They believe after a certain period of time at Stax his stuff got dull. I believe JT produced quality product until Stax was forced into bankruptcy in 1975 and continued to produce quality until his death. Look at the review on his last album for Malaco! Show you right!
" mr. johnnie taylor the legend himself" January 13, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I THINK THIS IS THE BEST CD'S BECAUSE THE MAN HAD TALENT AND HE HAD THE VOICE AND HE KNEW IT. FROM GOSPEL TO SOUL HE HAD IT ALL. AND I DON'T THINK THAT IT IS ENOUGH SAID ABOUT HIM AND HIS MUSIC. I HAVE ALMOST ALL OF HIS CD'S AND IT IS MY PLESURE TO ADD THIS ONE TO IT.HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST, BECAUSE IN HIS SONGS HE WAS JUST TELLING IT LIKE IT IS AND WHAT HE FELT AND THOUGHT ABOUT AND YOU REALLYHAVE TO LISTEN TO THE WORDS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT J.T. WAS TALKING ABOUT.JOHNNIE TAYLOR IS RATED NUMBER IN MY CD COLLECTION AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
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