Soul Is... Pretty Purdie

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.

1. "What's Going On/Ain't No Sunshine" (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye/Bill Withers), 3:58
2. "Don't Go" (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie), 3:15
3. "Good Livin' (Good Lovin')" (Horace Ott), 3:35
4. "Day Dreaming" (Aretha Franklin), 5:05
5. "Song for Aretha" (Ott, Purdie, Bob Thiele), 7:30
6. "Put It Where You Want It" (Joe Sample), 5:15
7. "Heavy Soul Slinger" (Ott), 4:16

• Bernard Purdie, drums, vocals
• Danny Moore, Ernie Royal, trumpet (tracks 2 & 5)
• Garnett Brown, trombone (tracks 2 & 5)
• Jimmy Powell, alto saxophone (tracks 2 & 5)
• Charlie Brown (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7), Harold Vick (tracks 2 & 5), Seldon Powell (tracks 2 & 5), tenor saxophone
• Arthur Clarke, baritone saxophone (tracks 2 & 5)
• Cornell Dupree (tracks 2 & 5), Jay Berliner (tracks 2 & 5), Billy Nichols (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7), Lloyd Davis (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7), guitar
• Horace Ott, electric piano, piano, arranger, conductor
• Paul Griffin (tracks 1, 4 & 6), Richard Tee (Tracks 2 & 5), organ
• Jerry Jemmott (tracks 2 & 5), Paul Martinez, electric bass (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7)
• Norman Pride, congas, bongos
• Gayle Dixon, Julien Barber, Noel DaCosta, Sanford Allen, violin (tracks 2 & 5)
• Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, viola (tracks 2 & 5)
• Kermit Moore, Ronald Lipscomb, cello (tracks 2 & 5)
• Ralph MacDonald, bongos (track 2 & 5)
• Gordon Powell, percussion (tracks 2 & 5)
• Barbara Massey, Carl Hall, Eileen Gilbert, Hilda Harris, Maeretha Stewart, backing vocals (track 5)

Production

• Bob Thiele, producer
• Bob Simpson and Tony May, engineer

• "Good Livin' (Good Lovin')" has been sampled in "3 Kilos" by The Prodigy, from their album Music for the Jilted Generation (1994).
• "Song for Aretha" has been sampled by Beck in the song "Hotwax" from his 1996 album Odelay.
• "Heavy Soul Slinger" has been sampled in "Poison" by The Prodigy, from their album Music for the Jilted Generation (1994), and by Massive Attack in the song Mezzanine from the eponymous 1998 album.