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“Sweet Inspiration” does a bang-up job of assembling the key songs Dan and Spooner wrote together during the 1960s and early 1970s. A quick look at the track listing will show prospective buyers that my co-compiler Bob Dunham and I have tried hard to make sure that there’s a version of every major Penn and Oldham composition included. We haven’t always chosen the obvious versions, so there will be some nice surprises here for even the most avid collectors. It was difficult to bring what started out as a massive wish list down to just 24 selections, but we think our choices do justice to the performers of the songs and, most importantly, the writers.
Tracklist
1 Out of Left Field - Percy Sledge
2 I'm Your Puppet - Dionne Warwick
3 Sweet Inspiration - The Sweet Inspirations
4 A Woman Left Lonely - Charlie Rich
5 I Worship the Ground You Walk On - Etta James
6 I'm Living Good (With Spoken Intro) - The Ovations
7 Take Me (Just As I Am) - Solomon Burke
8 Cry Like a Baby - Arthur Alexander
9 It Tears Me Up - Jeanne Newman
10 Slippin' Around With You - Art Freeman
11 I Met Her in Church - Tony Borders
12 Are You Never Coming Home - Sandy Posey
13 Let It Happen - James Carr
14 Everything I Am - The Box Tops
15 Everything I Am - Ted Taylor
16 Watching the Trains Go By - Tony Joe White
17 In the Same Old Way - Arthur Conley
18 Denver - Ronnie Milsap
19 Dreamer - Patti LaBelle & The Bluebells
20 Good Things Don't Come Easy - Irma Thomas
21 I Need Someone - The Wallace Brothers
22 He Ain't Gonna Do Right - Barbara Lynn
23 Wish You Didn't Have to Go - Tommy Roe
24 Let's Do It Over - Joe Simon