Houston,Thelma Devil In Me / Ready To Roll / Ride To The Rainbow CD

Two CD set containing a quartet of albums from the soul vocalist. Thelma Houston was a mainstay artist at Motown from 1971-1979, worthy additions to previous SMR reissues of Thelma's Motown work. The Devil In Me (1977), Ready To Roll (1978) and Ride To The Rainbow (1979) focus on her work in the wake of the international success of her timeless cover of 'Don't Leave Me This Way', which catapulted Thelma to worldwide mainstream recognition. Like Ready To Roll, the album Reachin' All Around (a 1982 collection of material released after Thelma left Motown in 1979) is making it's worldwide first release on CD. Included on the (37) musically-satisfying tracks featured here are the charted hits, 'I'm Here Again' and 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning'. Also included, two bonus tracks, 1977's 'If You Won't Let Me Walk On The Water', a non-album 'B' side and 1978's 'Love Masterpiece', from the soundtrack of the popular movie, Thank God It's Friday. Working with top producers including Hal Davis, Michael Masser, Van McCoy and Brian Holland, Thelma demonstrated her distinctive vocal style in full effect on a range of material from her covers of The Miracles' 'Love Machine' to an imaginative medley of 'Stormy Weather' and Ann Peebles' 'I Can't Stand The Rain' to the Stevie Wonder-Syreeta-penned 'Just A Little Piece Of You' and key tracks such as 'Memories', 'Rhythm Of Love', 'Your Eyes', 'Imaginary Paradise', 'Am I Expecting Too Much' and 'Don't Wonder Why'.

1. I'm Here Again 2. It's Just Me Feeling Good 3. I Can't Go on Living Without Your Love 4. Triflin' 5. Give Me Something to Believe in 6. Memories 7. I've Got the Devil in Me 8. Baby, I Love You Too Much 9. Your Eyes 10. Bonus Track 11. If You Won't Let Me Walk on the Water (Non-Album 'B' Side) 12. Ready to Roll 13. Love Is Comin' on 14. I Wanna Start My Life All Over Again 15. Midnight Mona 16. Pardon Me 17. Everybody's Got a Story 18. Strange 19. Am I Expecting Too Much 20. Can't We Try 21. Ride to the Rainbow 22. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning 23. I Wanna Be Back in Love Again 24. Love Machine 25. Imaginary Paradise 26. Just a Little Piece of You 27. Ride to the Rainbow 28. Paying for It with My Heart 29. Give It to Me 30. Reachin' All Around 31. You Never Were My Friend 32. Reachin' All Around My Love 33. I Can't Go Home Again 34. Lies 35. Don't Wonder Why 36. I Never Took No for An Answer 37. Rhythm of Love 38. (I've Given You) the Best Years of My Life 39. Little Bit of Heaven and a Little Bit of Hell 40. Medley: Stormy Weather/I Can't Stand the Rain 41. Love Masterpiece (From 'Thank God It's Friday' O/S/T)