| You Don't Miss Your Water / Formula Of Love |
Stax
116 |
1961 |
| Any Other Way / Please Help Me I'm Falling |
Stax 128 |
1962 |
| I Told You So / What'cha Gonna Do |
Stax 132 |
1963 |
| Just As I Thought / Waiting On You |
Stax 135 |
1963 |
| Somebody Mentioned My Name / What Can I Do |
Stax 138 |
1963 |
| I'll Show You / Monkeying Around |
Stax 141 |
1963 |
| Don't Make Something Out Of Nothing / Who Will It Be
Tomorrow |
Stax 146 |
1964 |
| Crying All By Myself / Don't Stop Now |
Stax 174 |
1965 |
| Share What You Got / Marching Off To War |
Stax 191 |
1966 |
| Never Like This Before / Soldier's Goodbye |
Stax 199 |
1967 |
| Everybody Loves A Winner / You're Such A Sweet Thing |
Stax 212 |
1967 |
| Eloise (Hang On In There) / One Plus One |
Stax 227 |
1967 |
| Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday / Ain't Got No Girl |
Stax 237 |
1968 |
| A Tribute To A King / Every Man Oughta Have A Woman |
Stax 248 |
1968 |
| Private Number / Love - Eye - Tis (with Judy Clay) |
Stax 0005 |
1968 |
| I Forgot To Be Your Lover / Bring The Curtain Down |
Stax 0015 |
1968 |
| My Baby Specializes / Left Over Love (with Judy Clay) |
Stax 0017 |
1968 |
| My Whole World Is Falling Down / All God's Children Got
Soul |
Stax 0032 |
1969 |
| Happy / My Kind Of Girl |
Stax 0038 |
1969 |
| Soul-a-lujah / Instr
(With J.Taylor, Mavis, Cl. & P. Staples, E. Floyd, C.Thomas) |
Stax 0040 |
1969 |
| Love's Sweet Sensation / Strung Out (with Mavis Staples) |
Stax 0043 |
1969 |
| I Can't Stop / I Need You Woman (with Carla Thomas) |
Stax 0044 |
1969 |
| Born Under A Bad Sign / A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart) |
Stax 0054 |
1969 |
| All I Have To Do Is Dream(with C. Thomas) / Leave The Girl Alone (with M. Staples) |
Stax 0067 |
1970 |
| Lonely Soldier / Let Me Ride |
Stax 0070 |
1970 |
| A Penny For Your Thoughts / Till My Back Ain't Got No Bone |
Stax 0092 |
1971 |
| All For The Love Of A Woman / I'll Be Home |
Stax 0106 |
1971 |
| Save Us / If You Really Love Me |
Stax 0128 |
1972 |
| Lovin' On Borrowed Time / The Man In The Street |
Stax 0157 |
1973 |
| I've Got To Go On Without You / You've Got The Kind Of Love I Need |
Stax 0175 |
1973 |
| Gettin' What You Want / All I Need Is Your Love |
Stax 0198 |
1974 |
| Get It While It's Hot / Nobody Walks Away From Love Unhurt |
Stax 0221 |
1974 |
| Trying To Love Two / If Sex Was All I Had |
Mercury 73839 |
1976 |
| Coming Back For More / Absotively Posolutely Love You |
Mercury 73922 |
1977 |
| Easy Comin' Out / Your Love Keeps Me Going |
Mercury 73961 |
1977 |
| Bad Time To Break Up / The Truth In Your Eyes |
Kat Family 03502 |
1983 |
| Playing Hard To Get / Truth In Your Eyes |
Kat Family 03995 |
1983 |
| I Don't Want To Wake Up
(with Janice Bullock) / Whatever You Want (You Got It) |
Wilbe 202 |
1986 |
| Headline News / Let Him Pay The Band |
Wilbe 404 |
1986 |
| ALBUMS |
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The Soul Of A Bell Stax 1967
1. Everybody Loves a Winner (Bell/Jones) - 2:49
2. You Don't Miss Your Water (Bell/Bell) - 2:40
3. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Moman/Penn) - 3:10
4. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Butler/Redding) - 3:24
5. Nothing Takes the Place of You (McCall) - 3:25
6. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (Loudermilk) - 3:36
7. Eloise (Hang on in There) (Bell/Jones) - 2:40
8. Any Other Way (Bell) - 2:42
9. It's Happening All Over (Hayes/Shamwell) - 2:33
10. Never Like This Before (Hayes/Jones/Porter) - 2:48
11. You're Such a Sweet Thang (Bell/Jones/Shamwell) - 2:25 |
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Duets Stax 1968
1. Let Me Ride
2. Lonely Soldier (Carter)
3. Get It While It's Hot (Beane/Bell)
4. Love-Eye-Tis performed by Bell / Judy Clay
5. Left over Love performed by Bell / Judy Clay
6. Private Number performed by Bell / Judy Clay
7. My Baby Specializes performed by Bell / Judy Clay
8. Love's Sweet Sensation performed by Bell / Mavis Staples
9. Strung Out performed by Bell / Mavis Staples
10. Leave the Girl Alone performed by Bell / Mavis Staples
11. I Need You Woman performed by Bell / Carla Thomas
12. I Can't Stop performed by Bell / Carla Thomas
13. All I Have to Do Is Dream performed by Bell / Carla Thomas |
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Bound To Happen Stax 2024 1969
1. I Forgot To Be Your Lover
2. Western Union Man
3. My Whole World Is Falling Down
4. Everyday People
5. Johnny I Love You
6. All God's Children Got Soul
7. Happy
8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
9. Bring The Curtain Down
10 A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart)
11.Born Under A Bad Sign
12.I Got A Sure Thing |
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Wow Stax 2037 1971
1. I Can't Make It (All By Myself)
2. Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone
3. All For The Love Of A Woman
4. My Door Is Always Open
5. A Penny For Your Thoughts
6. You'll Want Diamonds
7. Winding Winding Road
8. Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt
9. I Forgot To Be Your Lover
10.I'll Be Home. |
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Phases
Of Reality Stax 3005 1973
1.
Save Us (Bell/Shipp)
2. True Love Don't Come Easy (Beane/Bell)
3. Fifty Dollar Habit (Bell/Shipp)
4. What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me (Soule/Wiggins)
5. Phases of Reality (Bell)
6. If You Really Love Him (Soule/Woodford)
7. Lonely for Your Love (Bell)
8. The Man in the Street (Bell/Shipp) - |
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Relating Stax5502 1974
1. Lovin' On Borrowed Time
2. All I Need Is Your Love
3. Such A Fever
4. Nobody Walks Away From Love Unhurt
5. Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got)
6. I've Got To Go On Without You
7. Drinklin' And Thinkin'
8. You've Got The Kind Of Love I Need
9. You Don't Want A Man
10.Nobody But You. |
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Comin' Back For More Razor & Tie 1977
1. Tryin' to Love Two (Bell/Mitchell)
2. If Sex Was All We Had (Bell/Mitchell)
3. Relax (Bell/McDuffie/Mitchell)
4. You Don't Miss Your Water (Bell)
5. Malnutrition (Bell/Mitchell)
6. Coming Back for More (Bell/Mitchell)
7. Just Another Way to Feel (Mitchell)
8. I Absotively, Posolutely Love You (Bell/Mitchell)
9. I Wake up Cryin' (Bacharach/David)
10. You've Really Got a Hold on Me (Robinson) |
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It's Time To Take Another Listen
Mercury 1977
1. Easy Comin' Out (Hard Goin' In)
2. I Don't Want Nobody to Love Me (But You)
3. Yesterday I Lied, Today I Cried
4. Morning Glory
5. Shed a Little Light on the Subject
6. Satin Sheets
7. Hollywood Streetwalker
8. Your Love Keeps Me Going
9. Let It Shine
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On many of these tracks, William Bell sounds years younger than his actual age. Intense rompers like "Passion", "That's What You Get", and "Whatever You Want (You Got It)", a duet with Janice Bullock, should have made somebody's Urban Contemporary rotation. Bell never strays far from his Southern soul roots - "Lovin' on Borrowed Time", "Let Him Pay the Band", and "I Don't Want to Wake Up (Feelin' Guilty)", another duet with Bullock, all attest to that. "Headline News" is a floating midtempo number, featuring female backup singers crooning deliciously behind Bell's matter-of-fact delivery. The infectious "I'm Lighting Somebody Else's Fire" is an adultery tale sung to a reggae beat. |
Passion 1986
1. Passion
2. Lovin' On Borrowewd Time
3. That's What You Get
4. I Don't Want To Wake Up
5. Whatever You Want (You Got It)
6. Let me Pay The Band
7. Headline News
8. Heavy On The Love Side
9. I'm Lighting Somebody Else's Fire |
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On A Role
Wilbe 1989
1.Getting Out of Your Bed (Bell/Stewart)
2.If You Don't Use It (Bell)
3.I Need Your Love So Bad (Bell)
4.When You've Got the Best (Bell)
5.On a Roll (Bell)
6.I'm Ready (Bell)
7.I Can Do It (Bell)
8.Short Circuit (Bell/Stewart)
9.Holding on to Love (Bell/Stewart) |
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Bedtime Stories
Wilbe 1992
1. Bedtime Story (Bell/Jones)
2. Shake Hands (Come Out Lovin') (Bell/Jones)
3. I'd Rather Be Blind (Bell/Jones)
4. Baby Don't Rush (Bell/Jones/Martin/Simone)
5. Private Number (Bell/Jones)
6. How Long Is My Love (Bell/Jones)
7. Movers and Shakers (Bell/Jones/Martin)
8. Paper Thin (Bell/Jones)
9. Keep Your Body Warm (Bell/Jones/Martin)
10. I'll Be Around (Bell/Jones)
11. Crazy 'Bout Your Love (Bell/Jones)
12. Ain't Nothing I Won't Do (Bell/Jones)
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A Little Something Extra Stax 1992
A fine collection of Stax outtakes from the 1960s
1. She Won't Be Like You
2. All That I Am
3. Let's Do Something Together
4. Forever Wouldn't Be Too Long
5. You Got Me (Where You Want Me) [Slow Version]
6. Quittin' Time (Bell/Cropper)
7. That's My Love
8. You Need a Little Something Extra
9. There's a Love
10.Never Let Me Go (Scott)
11.We Got Something Good
12.You Got Me (Where You Want Me)
13.Will You Love Me Tomorrow
14.Love Will Find a Way
15.What Did I Do Wrong
16.Sacrifice (Cropper/Hayes)
17.Love Is After Me
18.The Life I Live
19.Wait
20.You're Never Too Old |
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A Portrait Is Forever
Earth
Sounds 2000
1. Operator (Bell)
2. Listen With My Mind (Bell/Hayes/McCants/Richardson)
3. That's My Job (Bell)
4. Come in Out of the Rain (Bell/Jones)
5. Take Advantage of a Good Thang (Beane/Bell)
6. After the Paint Comes Off (Bell/Wyms)
7. Lifestyles of the Poor & Unknown (Bell)
8. I Can't Leave Your Love Alone (Bell/Hayes/McCants/Richardson)
9. If You Can't Handle the Finance (Bell)
10. Like a Man (Bell)
11. You Should've Covered Your Tracks (Bell)
12. Just a Man (Working Hard) (Bell/Hayes/McCants/Richardson) |
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Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Ichiban 1994
New Recordings(Wilbe)
1. Tryin' to Love Two (Bell/Mitchell)
2. Bring the Curtain Down (Bell/Jones)
3. Everybody Loves a Winner (Bell/Jones)
4. Lovin' in Borrowed Time [Uptempo Version] (Banks/Bell/Shamwell)
5. I Forgot to Be Your Lover (Bell/Jones)
6. Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday (Bell/Jones)
7. I've Got to Go on Without You (Jackson/Mcintosh)
8. Any Other Way (Bell)
9. I Don't Want to Wake up (Feelin' Guilty)performed by Bell / Janice Bulluck
10. Born Under a Bad Sign (Bell/Jones) |
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Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Ichiban 1995
New Recordings(Wilbe)
1. Save Us (Bell/Shipp)
2. You Don't Miss Your Waterperformed by Bell / Rubi Burt
3. Private Number (Bell/Jones)
4. Tribute to a King (Bell/Jones)
5. Happy (Bell/Jones)
6. Headline News (Bell/Burroughs)
7. I Need Your Love So Bad (Bell)
8. Eloise (Hang on in There) (Bell/Jones)
9. Lovin' in Borrowed Time (Banks/Bell/Shamwell)
10. Easy Comin' Out (Hard Goin' In) (Bell/Mitchell)
11. Everybody Loves a Winner [Unplugged Version] (Bell/Jones)
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