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Sweet Soul Music
Posted on 9/6/12 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 9/6/12 at 12:29 pm
Yes, another genre thread. Haters will be happy to know I may run out soon.
William Bell - "You Don't Miss Your Water" (1961) -- The original version of a song later done by many country acts, including Gram Parsons (on the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo)
Garnett Mimms -- "Cry Baby"
Little Richard - "I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me" -- Mr. Lipstick tries to cash in on the soul boom
Toussaint McCall - "Nothing Takes The Place Of You" -- As you might guess from the first name, he was from LA (Monroe)
James Carr - "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man"
Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand The Rain"
Nat Hall - "A Broken Hearted Clown" -- Now THIS is an obscure record. I only know about it b/c a guy on a music message board posted that he had uploaded it to YouTube.
William Bell - "You Don't Miss Your Water" (1961) -- The original version of a song later done by many country acts, including Gram Parsons (on the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo)
Garnett Mimms -- "Cry Baby"
Little Richard - "I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me" -- Mr. Lipstick tries to cash in on the soul boom
Toussaint McCall - "Nothing Takes The Place Of You" -- As you might guess from the first name, he was from LA (Monroe)
James Carr - "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man"
Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand The Rain"
Nat Hall - "A Broken Hearted Clown" -- Now THIS is an obscure record. I only know about it b/c a guy on a music message board posted that he had uploaded it to YouTube.
This post was edited on 6/6/13 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 9/6/12 at 12:33 pm to Kafka
Ive always loved this William Bell tune...
Every Day (will be like a holiday)
Also love this version of this Terry Callier song w/Beth Orton
Lean on Me
Ted Hawkins - Green Eyed Girl
Every Day (will be like a holiday)
Also love this version of this Terry Callier song w/Beth Orton
Lean on Me
Ted Hawkins - Green Eyed Girl
This post was edited on 9/6/12 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 9/6/12 at 1:02 pm to Kafka
Posted on 9/6/12 at 5:00 pm to Kafka
Writer-producer Jerry Ragovoy (1930-2011):
I could have included him in the Brill Building thread, but he seems to fit better here
Howard Tate - "Get It While You Can"
Erma Franklin - "Piece Of My Heart" (Aretha's sister)
Some may know these songs via covers by Janis Joplin (she also did Ragovoy's "Cry Baby" -- see OP)
Irma Thomas - "Time Is On My Side"
Lorraine Ellison - "Stay With Me"
I could have included him in the Brill Building thread, but he seems to fit better here
Howard Tate - "Get It While You Can"
Erma Franklin - "Piece Of My Heart" (Aretha's sister)
Some may know these songs via covers by Janis Joplin (she also did Ragovoy's "Cry Baby" -- see OP)
Irma Thomas - "Time Is On My Side"
Lorraine Ellison - "Stay With Me"
Posted on 11/1/12 at 2:46 pm to Kafka
Posted on 11/1/12 at 3:33 pm to Kafka
Posted on 2/17/13 at 5:10 pm to Kafka
The Mighty Hannibal - "Hymn No.5"
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Taking the form of a letter to his baby, "Hymn No. 5" opens with Hannibal's mighty belting voice but soon moves into the claustrophobic clunking of a tambourine complemented by a haunting organ, giving the song the feel of a feverish nightmare.
"Hymn No. 5" doesn't spare the listener, it pulls you into the fear and feeling of senselessness that the soldiers in Vietnam must have felt. "Tell my father" Hannibal pleads, "I'm way over here in these trenches covered with blood" he moans, baring naked the horrors of war. "There's no tomorrow" continues the song in harmonic desperation taking us in to moaning that seems to be somewhere between pain and hopelessness, while remembering he has a family and a home far from that Godforsaken jungle in Vietnam.
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Posted on 3/18/13 at 5:05 pm to Kafka
Motown news:
Funk Brothers Getting Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Standing in the Shadow of Motown -- (Watch online)
The man behind the opening of "My Girl", bassist James Jamerson
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Bad month for the Temps:
Richard Street, Of The Temptations, Has Died
Damon Harris, Who Sang With the Temptations, Dies at 62
Funk Brothers Getting Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The amazing Funk Brothers, the Motown group that played on almost every one of the classic hits from the label during the 1960's, will get a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on March 21.
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The Funk Brothers, in effect, had more hits than any other artist during the 60's and early 70's with the number of songs on which they played. While the casual music fan was not familiar with the name, their popularity began to skyrocket after the releases of the superb documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown from 2002.
Standing in the Shadow of Motown -- (Watch online)
The man behind the opening of "My Girl", bassist James Jamerson
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Bad month for the Temps:
Richard Street, Of The Temptations, Has Died
Damon Harris, Who Sang With the Temptations, Dies at 62
Posted on 3/18/13 at 9:28 pm to Kafka
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Northern Soul is a music and dance movement that emerged, initially in Northern England in the late 1960s, from the British mod scene. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound. The northern soul movement, however, generally eschews Motown or Motown-influenced music that has met with significant mainstream success. The recordings most prized by enthusiasts of the genre are usually by lesser-known artists, and were initially released only in limited numbers, often by small regional United States labels such as Ric-Tic and Golden Records (Detroit), Mirwood (Los Angeles) and Shout and Okeh (New York/Chicago).
Top 10 Northern Soul Songs (links to YouTube videos)
100 Best Northern Soul Songs (list)
This is the Number 1 song on the Top 100 list:
Frank Wilson -- "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"
Only two copies of this single are known to exist -- one of these copies sold in 2009 for over £25,000.
Posted on 3/19/13 at 12:20 pm to Kafka
quote:Randomly clicked this thread. Randomly tried this song. I like it.
Nat Hall - "A Broken Hearted Clown" -- Now THIS is an obscure record. I only know about it b/c a guy on a music message board posted that he had uploaded it to YouTube.
Posted on 4/20/13 at 6:17 pm to Kafka
Posted on 6/5/13 at 6:48 pm to Kafka
Posted on 7/9/13 at 9:02 pm to Kafka
3 pages and no mention of Otis Redding? This thread is full of fail.
Posted on 8/7/13 at 9:42 pm to Kafka
Posted on 1/5/14 at 12:05 am to Kafka
Posted on 1/25/14 at 6:38 pm to Kafka
Didn't see any Carla Thomas... B-a-b-y
or Lou Rawls-Dead End Street
or Lou Rawls-Dead End Street
This post was edited on 12/6/19 at 11:01 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 8:07 pm to Kafka
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This post was edited on 1/11/21 at 11:23 am
Posted on 5/15/14 at 7:16 pm to Kafka
Mary Wells - "Bye Bye Baby" (1959)
Mary is fondly remembered for her smooth pop hits like "My Guy", mostly written by Smokey Robinson and always given impeccably tasteful Motown production, but her first record (which she wrote herself) is a rawer, more emotional slice of gospel-influenced soul.
Mary is fondly remembered for her smooth pop hits like "My Guy", mostly written by Smokey Robinson and always given impeccably tasteful Motown production, but her first record (which she wrote herself) is a rawer, more emotional slice of gospel-influenced soul.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 5:01 pm to Kafka
Posted on 8/12/14 at 6:00 pm to Kafka
Pitchfork.com review
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Sometimes exploitative impulses yield good art. Despite the way it's presented, Dylan's Gospel, the sole album by the Brothers and Sisters (aka the Brothers & Sisters of Los Angeles, aka the Los Angeles Gospel Choir—it's been reissued a few times), did not arise from a group of L.A. area gospel singers deciding what they really wanted to do was record some Bob Dylan songs. The idea came from producer and Ode Records chief Lou Adler, who can't help but have noticed that the Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day" had recently become the first full-on black gospel choir recording to hit the Pop Top Five.
Adler's choir and soloists had, indeed, mostly learned to sing in church. But the "Brothers and Sisters" were recruited from the L.A. backup-singer circuit—if you've seen 20 Feet from Stardom, you've seen a lot of their names, and if you've ever listened to classic-rock radio, you've heard their voices on other people's records. Over two days in July, 1969, the group recorded churchified versions of 10 familiar Dylan tunes
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it's way better than it has a right to be: it's always at least interesting, and often pretty delightful. If you didn't catch the words, Dylan's Gospel could pass as a solidly played, splendidly sung "contemporary gospel" record, and if you can overlook the choir keeping a straight face as they raise the roof about "her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls", it can pass as that even if you do catch the words
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the language of "Chimes of Freedom" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" makes the stylistic transition beautifully. His lyrics were also open wide enough to interpretation that it wasn't hard to come up with a reading of, say, "The Mighty Quinn" as an impassioned if slightly eccentric parable about Christ's return, which is exactly how the great Merry Clayton delivers it here.
The Brothers and Sisters - "Lay Lady Lay" -- Lead vocal: Edna Wright
The Brothers and Sisters - "The Mighty Quinn" -- Lead vocal: Merry Clayton
The Brothers and Sisters - "The Times They Are A-Changin'" -- Lead vocal: Merry Clayton
NPR feature on Dylan's Gospel by The Brothers and Sisters
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