Eddie Piller Presents: The Mod Top 100 4-Disc Deluxe CD

A lot of youngsters fell in love with the Mod lifestyle during the revival at the end of the 03970s, but the more inquisitive ones like Eddie wanted to know more about the original fashions, the original influential figures, and most of all the original music. Step forward one Randy Cozens, eager to give the benefit of his advice. In those preinternet days his platform of choice was the letter pages of the weekly music press. His enthusiasm, his passion, and the sheer volume of missives he posted persuaded Sounds to commission Randy039s guide to the music that was played in the allnighter clubs in London039s West End in those early 03960s halcyon days. And so, the original Mod Top 100 was born.039Eddie Piller Presents The Mod Top 100039 includes Soul divas like Doris Troy, Betty Everett, and Bessie Banks, the tender side of Soul from Chuck Jackson, Mitty Collier, and Eddie Holman, floorfillers from James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, and Solomon Burke, instrumental grooves from Hank Jacobs, George Stone, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio, and much more. The Soul torch passes down the generations but the flame just keeps on burning.