Tommy Tate - I'm So Satisfied: The Complete Ko Ko Recordings and More (2007)

Ask any soul fan for a short list of that music’s biggest ‘cult heroes’ and you can bet that Tommy Tate will be up there with Sam Dees, George Jackson and Phillip Mitchell. Like all of these men, Tommy is a first-tier songwriter, with hundreds of quality copyrights to his credit. And like all of them, too, Tommy’s catalogue of released masters, from the 1960s to the 21st Century, is frighteningly meagre in comparison with his talent. In a 40+ year career that began in 1965, Tommy has probably released no more than 50 recordings that feature him as lead vocalist. Happily, Kent is now able to make 20 of the very best available – in many cases, for the first time outside of Japan – on a CD that will have most of its buyers echoing the sentiments of its title – “I’m So Satisfied”.