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Eight CDs. SoulMusic Records is very proud to present a deluxe box set of the 11 Columbia and ARC albums by award-winning icon Deniece Williams released between 1976-1988. Produced by SoulMusic. Com founder David Nathan, Free: The Columbia/ARC Recordings includes an outstanding in-depth essay by distinguished US writer Justin Kantor, with 2021 direct comments from Deniece herself along with interview quotes from the legendary Johnny Mathis as well as an array of producers, songwriters and collaborators involved with some of Niecy's albums, such as Nathan East, Bill Neale, Greg Mathieson, Monte Moir, Michael Jeffries, Diane Warren, and Michele Val Jean specifically for this project. This beautifully-packaged set boasts 115 tracks that display Denice Williams' soulful artistry as a pre-eminent hitmaker and creative mainstay with a global audience. Includes the albums Niecy, Song Bird, That's What Friends Are For, When Love Comes Calling, My Melody, Niecy, I'm So Proud, Let's Hear It For The Boy, Hot On The Trail, Water Under The Bridge, and As Good As It Gets. Disc 8 comprises 15 tracks with a selection of single edits including the Verdine White co-penned 'Baby, Baby My Love's All For You' (1977) and 'Do What You Feel' (1983) as well as 12" disco mixes of 'I Found Love' (1979), the 12" version of 'Let's Hear It For The Boy' (1984) and 12" extended versions of 'Wiser And Weaker'(1986) and 'Never Say Never' (1987).
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 It's Important to Me
2 That's What Friends Are for
3 How'd I Know That Love Would Slip Away
4 Cause You Love Me Baby
5 Free
6 Watching Over
7 If You Don't Believe
8 Time
9 The Boy I Left Behind
10 We Have Love for You
11 God Is Amazing
12 Baby, Baby My Love's All for You
13 Season
14 Be Good to Me
15 The Paper
- Disc 2 -
1 You're All I Need to Get By
2 Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
3 You're a Special Part of My Life
4 Ready or Not
5 Me for You, You for Me
6 Your Precious Love
7 Just the Way You Are
8 That's What Friends Are for
9 I Just Can't Get Over You
10 Touching Me with Love
11 Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
12 Emotion
13 Love Won't Let Me Wait
- Disc 3 -
1 I Found Love
2 Are You Thinking?
3 My Prayer
4 I've Got the Next Dance
5 Touch Me Again
6 When Love Comes Calling
7 God Knows
8 Like Magic
9 Turn Around
10 Why Can't We Fall in Love?
11 My Melody
12 It's Your Conscience
13 Silly
14 Strangers
15 What Two Can Do
- Disc 4 -
1 Waiting By the Hotline
2 It's Gonna Take a Miracle
3 Love Notes
4 I Believe in Miracles
5 How Does It Feel
6 Waiting
7 Now Is the Time for Love
8 A Part of Love
9 Do What You Feel
10 I'm So Proud
11 So Deep in Love
12 I'm Glad It's You
13 Heaven in Your Eyes
14 They Say
15 Love, Peace and Unity
16 It's Okay
- Disc 5 -
1 Let's Hear It for the Boy
2 I Want You
3 Picking Up the Pieces
4 Black Butterfly
5 Next Love
6 Haunting Me
7 Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing
8 Blind Dating
9 Wrapped Up
10 Whiter Than Snow
11 Wiser and Weaker
12 Hot on the Trail
13 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
14 Video
15 I Feel the Night
16 We're Together
17 Straight from the Heart
- Disc 6 -
1 I Confess
2 Never Say Never
3 Water Under the Bridge
4 Love Finds You
5 Not By Chance
6 One Less Lonely Heart
7 I Believe in You
8 Someone for Someone
9 Baby This Is Love
10 Don't Blame It on My Heart
- Disc 7 -
1 I Can't Wait
2 This Is As Good As It Gets
3 We Are Here to Change the World
4 All I Need
5 Memories
6 There's No Other
7 I Am Sure
8 It's You I'm After
9 Don't Stop the Love
10 Hold Me Tight
- Disc 8 -
1 Free (Long Single Version)
2 Baby Baby My Love's All for You
3 (Promotional Single Version)
4 Silly (Single Version)
5 It's Your Conscience (Single Version)
6 It's Gonna Take a Miracle (Single Version)
7 Do What You Feel (Single Version)
8 It's Okay (Single Version)
9 I Found Love (12" Disco Mix)
10 I've Got the Next Dance (12" Disco Mix)
11 Let's Hear It for the Boy (12" Version)
12 Next Love (12" Version)
13 The Wiser Gets Weaker (12" Extended Version)
14 Never Say Never (12" Extended Version)
15 I Confess (12" Dance Mix)
16 I Can't Wait (12" Version)
