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The Best of Philip Bailey: A Gospel Collection is a compilation album by the American gospel, soul and R&B singer Philip Bailey (best known as the lead falsetto of ’70s group Earth, Wind & Fire), released on Word Records in 1991. The tracks are culled from Bailey’s three gospel albums released on Myrrh records during the 1980s; The Wonders of His Love (1984), Triumph (1986), and Family Affair (1989).
One still remembers the awed excitement that greeted the 1984 release of Phil’s ‘The Wonders Of His Love‘. Here at last was a gospel album that exuded the same kind of glitzy soul music class that post-disco black music had adopted and such was the quality of the songs, the smooth funkiness of the production and the superlative quality of Phil’s head-to-the-sky vocals that it put in the shade all but the very best Earth Wind And Fire classics. Phil has never been able to quite repeat the effect with subsequent soul-gospel albums and though ‘Triumph‘ and ‘Family Affair‘ both have some fine stuff they’re decidedly flawed. So this compilation which pulls together the best cuts from all three albums and puts them on a spanking new CD is to be more than welcome. From that so-catchy lilter «He Don’t Lie» through to the extended re-mix of «Thank You», this is a fine album which will no doubt be blessing the Cummings family for a decade to come. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, June 1991]
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CD tracklist:
01. The Wonders of His Love – 5:14
02. He Don’t Lie – 4:58
03. The Love of God – 3:13
04. All Soldiers – 4:48
05. Lonely Broken Hearted People – 4:09
06. Marvelous – 4:24
07. Come Before His Presence – 4:31
08. I Am Gold – 5:05
09. I Will No Wise Cast You Out – 4:40
10. No Compromise – 3:40
11. Call to War – 5:14
12. The Other Side – 4:39
13. Thank You (Extended Remix) – 5:26
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