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Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side of Stax 1968-1974
10x7" Box Set + Book $40
Digital Download $9.99
  • Record Store Day 2012 Official Release
  • Only 4,000 hand-numbered copies worldwide
  • Fifteen random copies include autographed photos
  • Meticulously remastered from the original tapes
  • Ten 45rpm singles featuring original label and sleeve art and housed in a gorgeous custom made magnetic flip-top box
  • Extensive 84-page bound booklet brimming with informative interviews with the surviving musicians contained within and liner notes by Memphis writer Andria Lisle, candid photographs, and personal anecdotes from Stax enthusiasts and label veterans Stewart, co-owner Al Bell, and promotions manager Phillip Rauls.
  • Includes free Download Card for full set

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Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side Of Stax 1968-1974 is Light In The Attic’s Record Store Day 2012 love letter to some of the lesser-known Stax Records artists, collected and presented in a knock-out 7” vinyl box set.

AVAILABLE APRIL 21, 2012 (RECORD STORE DAY)

Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side Of Stax 1968 – 1974 | Ten 45rpm 7" Box Set with Download Card | What’s Inside? from Light In The Attic Records on Vimeo.

Lavishly Packaged Love Letter To The Final Years Of Stax!

Stax Records was black and white coming together in a pioneering integrated music enterprise. Native Tennessean Jim Stewart founded Satellite in the late 1950s but soon joined up with sister Estelle Axton and rechristened the label Stax Records (the “St” and “ax” of Stax respectively). This ever-evolving Memphis-based label became one of the landmark touchstones of soul, R&B, and funk throughout the 1960s and 70s, its finger snapping logo brand synonymous with sonic quality and heartfelt integrity. Releasing hundreds of long players...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Running Out
    2:09
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  • 2 Shouldn't I Love Him
    2:30
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  • 1 Cool Strut Pt. 1
    2:54
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  • 2 Cool Strut Pt. 2
    2:46
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  • 1 Them Hot Pants Pt. 1
    3:06
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  • 2 Them Hot Pants Pt. 2
    3:25
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  • 1 Hijackin' Love
    3:19
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  • 2 Love In The Streets
    2:47
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  • 1 Sweetback's Theme
    3:24
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  • 2 Hoppin' John
    3:32
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  • 1 Gone! The Promises Of Yesterday
    3:42
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  • 2 I'm So Glad I Fell In Love With You
    2:09
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  • 1 My Honey And Me
    3:38
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  • 2 Blind Alley
    3:04
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  • 1 Itch & Scratch Pt. 1
    3:11
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  • 2 Itch & Scratch Pt. 2
    3:02
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  • 1 The Dryer Pt. 1
    2:18
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  • 2 The Dryer Pt. 2
    2:22
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  • 1 The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy
    3:12
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  • 2 Ask The Lonely
    3:30
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