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Chicago
Chicago (
i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
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Detroit
Detroit (
/diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
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FAME Studios
FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios are located at 603 East Avalon in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They have been an integral part of American popular music from the late 1950s to the present. Artists who recorded there included Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, Duane Allman, The Hour Glass, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton, Mac Davis, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Etta James, Andy Williams, The Osmonds, Shenandoah, and many others. The studio was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on December 15, 1997.
Founded by Rick Hall, Billy Sherrill and Tom Stafford in the late 1950s, the studio was first located above the City Drug Store in Florence, Alabama. The facility was moved to a former tobacco warehouse on Wilson Dam Road in Muscle Shoals in the early 1960s, when Hall split from Sherrill and Stafford. Hall soon recorded the first hit record from the Muscle Shoals area, Arthur Alexander's "You Better Move On".
Hall took the proceeds from that recording to build the current facility on Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, and in 1963, Hall recorded the first hit produced in that building, Jimmy Hughes' "Steal Away."
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Northern England
Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North or the North Country, is a cultural region of England. It is not an official government region, but rather an informal amalgamation of counties. The southern extent of the region is roughly the River Trent, while the North is bordered by Scotland.
Northern England comprises three regions of England - the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber. The counties of Northern England combined have a population of around 14.5 million covering an area of 37,331 km2 (14,414 sq mi).
During antiquity most of the area was part of Brigantia — homeland of the Brigantes and the largest Brythonic kingdom of Great Britain. After the Roman conquest of Britain the city of York became capital of the area, called Britannia Inferior then Britannia Secunda. In Sub-Roman Britain new Brythonic kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd emerged. The Angle settlers created Bernicia and Deira from which came Northumbria and a Golden Age in cultural, scholarly and monastic activity, centred around Lindisfarne and aided by Irish monks.Norse and Gaelic Viking raiders gained control of much of the area, creating the Danelaw. During this time there were close relations with Mann and the Isles, Dublin and Norway. Northumbria was unified with the rest of England under Eadred around 952.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States (including three that went to number one on Billboard's adult contemporary chart and one that went to number one on the R&B chart) along with four platinum-certified albums. He has also recorded with his brothers Art, Charles and Cyril as The Neville Brothers and is the father of singer/bassist Ivan Neville. Of mixed African American and Native American heritage,[citation needed] his music also features Cajun and Creole influences.
Neville's first major hit single was "Tell It Like It Is", which topped Billboard's R&B chart for five weeks in 1967 and also reached #2 on the Hot 100. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. A remake of the song was a Top 10 Pop hit for the Rock group Heart featuring Ann and Nancy Wilson in 1981.
In 1989 Neville teamed up with Linda Ronstadt on the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. Among the duets recorded for the disc were the #1 Grammy-winning hits "Don't Know Much" and "All My Life". "Don't Know Much" earned a million-selling Gold single, while the album was certified Triple Platinum for US sales of more than 3 million.
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Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together". In 2005, Rolling Stone named him #66 in their list of the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time'. The nomination stated that "people are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Green in 1995, referring to him as "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music." Green has sold more than 20 million records.
Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was the sixth of ten children born to Robert and Cora Greene. The son of a sharecropper, he started performing at age ten in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "E" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. His father kicked him out of the group because he caught Green listening to Jackie Wilson.
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Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint (IPA: /ˈtuːseɪnt/; born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.
Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)", "Southern Nights," "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "I'll Take a Melody" and "Mother-in-Law".
Toussaint grew up in a shotgun house in the New Orleans neighborhood of Gert Town, where his mother welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son. After a lucky break at age 17 in which he stood in for Huey Smith at a performance with Earl King's band in Prichard, Alabama, Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians who performed regularly at a night club on LaSalle street Uptown; they were known as the Dew Drop Set. Initially, he recorded for RCA Victor as Al Tousan and recorded an album of instrumentals, including the song "Java", which years later became a big hit for Al Hirt (also on RCA).
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
In 2007 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times: once in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", once in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and once in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game".
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Ann Peebles
Ann Peebles (born April 27, 1947) is an African American singer-songwriter who gained celebrity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s on the Hi Records label. Two of her most popular songs are "I Can't Stand the Rain" and "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down", which she wrote with her husband, Don Bryant, and radio broadcaster Bernard "Bernie" Miller and were subsequently popularized in cover versions by, among others, Eruption (1978) and Paul Young (1984), respectively.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Ann Peebles was given her first opportunity as a professional performer by Hi Records' Gene "Bowlegs" Miller during a 1968 trip to sit in singing with him at a Memphis nightclub. A popular local bandleader, Miller was known for helping other musicians, such as members of the Hi Rhythm Section, get their start in the Memphis music industry. Peebles soon began penning and singing hits for the label, co-writing with label staff songwriter Don Bryant, whom she married in 1974. She released a number of commercially successful and critically well received albums produced by Willie Mitchell on Hi Records throughout the 1970s, until the rise of disco music in the late 1970s took her music out of the limelight. Although Hi Records was sold in 1977, she reunited with Mitchell in 1989 to produce her comeback album, Call Me.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
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Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was an American country soul singer. Jason Ankeny, music critic for Allmusic, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries."
Alexander was born in Sheffield, Alabama. Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, Alexander recorded his first single, "Sally Sue Brown", under the name of June Alexander (short for Junior), which was released in 1960 on Jud Phillips' Judd Records. (Phillips is the brother of music pioneer Sam Phillips).
A year later, Alexander cut "You Better Move On" at a former tobacco warehouse-turned-recording studio in Muscle Shoals. Released on Nashville's Dot Records, the song became a soul/R&B chart hit, and laid the foundation for the modern recording studio FAME. "You Better Move On" is perhaps Alexander's best-known song, covered by the Rolling Stones, the Hollies, George Jones & Johnny Paycheck and Mink DeVille. "Anna (Go to Him)", a U.S. R&B Top Ten Hit, was covered by the Beatles and Humble Pie. The Beatles also did live recordings of "Soldier of Love", which was also performed by Marshall Crenshaw and Pearl Jam, "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues", and "Where Have You Been" recorded live at the Star-Club, in Hamburg, 1962. "Set Me Free" (covered by Esther Phillips and Joe Tex) were also major hits and established Alexander as a pioneering arranger of others' tunes, as well as an established songwriter in his own right.
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Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy, Jr. (born November 28, 1929) is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries.
Berry Gordy, Jr. (born in Detroit, Michigan) was the seventh of eight children (Fuller, Esther, Anna, Loucye, George, Gwen, Berry and Robert), born to the middle-class family of Berry Gordy II (a.k.a. Berry Gordy, Sr.) and Bertha Fuller Gordy (1899–1975), who had relocated to Detroit from Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1922. Gordy was brought up in a tight-knit family with strong morals.[citation needed] Berry Gordy II (1888–1978) was the son of Berry Gordy I and a woman named Lucy Hellum. Berry Gordy I was the son of James Thomas Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and his female slave Esther Johnson. Berry Gordy, Jr. is distantly related to former president Jimmy Carter through Carter's mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy.
Berry Gordy II was lured to Detroit by the many job opportunities for black people offered by booming automotive businesses.
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Betty Everett
Betty Everett (November 23, 1939, Greenwood, Mississippi – August 19, 2001, Beloit, Wisconsin) was an American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)".
Everett began playing the piano and singing gospel music in church at the age of nine. She moved to Chicago in 1957 to pursue a career in secular music. She recorded for various small local Chicago soul labels, before she was signed in 1963 by Calvin Carter, A&R musical director of fast-growing independent label, Vee-Jay Records.
An initial single failed, but her second Vee-Jay release, a bluesy version of "You're No Good" (written by Clint Ballard, Jr. and later a #1 hit for Linda Ronstadt), just missed the U.S. top 50. Her next single, the catchy "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", was her biggest solo hit. The Rudy Clark song climbed to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made #1 on the Cashbox R&B chart for three weeks.
Her other hits included "I Can't Hear You",(covered by numerous artists, including Dusty Springfield, Helen Reddy, and others), "Getting Mighty Crowded" (covered by Elvis Costello in 1980), and several duets with Jerry Butler, including "Let It Be Me" which made the US Top 5 in 1964 and was another Cashbox R&B number 1. After Vee-Jay folded in 1966, she recorded for several other labels, including Uni, Fantasy, and ABC.
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Betty Harris
Betty Harridick (born 1939, in Orlando, Florida) is an American Soul Singer. Her recording career in the 1960s produced three hit records that made the Billboard R&B and pop charts: "Cry to Me" (1963), "His Kiss" (1964) and "Nearer to You" (1967). However, her reputation among soul music connoisseurs far exceeds her commercial success of the 1960s, and her recordings for the Jubilee and Sansu record labels are highly sought after in the 2000s by fans of Northern Soul and Deep Soul.
In 1963, after being in the music business for a few years, Betty Harris recorded a slowed down version of Solomon Burke's hit of the year before, "Cry to me", produced by the original record's producer, Bert Berns, and released on the Jubilee record label. Taken at a slower pace, Betty's rendition turned the song into a top 10 R&B hit and Deep Soul classic. Two further singles were released on Jubilee, also produced by Bert Berns, with "His Kiss", another Deep Soul ballad, making the lower part of Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
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Bobby Womack
Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack ( /ˈwoʊmæk/; born March 4, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 50 years and has spanned a repertoire in the styles of R&B, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.
Womack wrote and originally recorded The Rolling Stones' first UK No. 1 hit, "It's All Over Now" and New Birth's "I Can Understand It" among other songs. As a singer he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' For a Love", "That's The Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman's Gotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street" and his 1980s hit "If You Think You're Lonely Now".
In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born and raised in Cleveland's East 85th & Quincy area to Naomi Womack and Friendly Womack, Womack was the third of five brothers. Raised Baptist, their mother played organ in their church and their father was a minister and musician, often known to play guitar though he advised his sons to not touch the instrument while he was away. One night, eight-year-old Bobby, who was often playing it, broke a guitar string. After Friendly Womack fixed the string, he let Bobby play the guitar for him. According to Bobby later, Friendly was shocked by his son's talents as well as the talents of his other sons. Soon afterwards, he bought Bobby his own guitar and formed The Womack Brothers. The group toured the gospel circuit with their parents accompanying them on organ and guitar respectively. In 1954, the group under the moniker Curtis Womack and the Womack Brothers, the group issued the Pennant single, "Buffalo Bill". Bobby was only ten years old at the time.
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Brian Holland
Brian Holland (born February 15, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Holland, along with Lamont Dozier, served as the team's musical arranger and producer.
For a short time, Holland partnered with Robert Bateman, together known as "Brianbert", collaborating on such hits as "Please Mr. Postman" for the The Marvelettes.
Holland has also had an on-and-off career as a performer. He released a solo single in 1958 under the name of "Briant Holland". He and longtime friend and future songwriting partner Freddie Gorman were in a short-lived group called The Fidalatones, and was later (1960–62) a member of Motown recording act The Satintones as well as being a member of The Rayber Voices, a quartet that backed up several early Motown recording acts. He partnered with Lamont Dozier under the name "Holland-Dozier", releasing a lone single for Motown in 1963, then was inactive for a number of years, and was then revived in the early and mid-1970s, scoring a number of medium-sized R&B hits. Holland resumed his solo recording career in 1974, hitting the charts as a solo artist in '74 and '75.
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Carrie Lucas
Carrie Lucas, is an American female R&B musician, born in Carmel, California. In 1976 she was signed to Soul Train Records. Lucas made six albums over seven years with Soul Train and Solar Records.
"I Gotta Keep Dancing" and "Gotta Get Away From Your Love" were the two hit singles from Lucas's first album, Simply Carrie, released in 1977. "I Gotta Keep Dancing" peaked at number #64 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.
Lucas' second album Street Corner Symphony was released in 1978. It featured The Whispers as backing vocalists. A single from the LP, of the same name was a homage to the 1960s doo-wop groups. The album was released on the record producer Dick Griffey's Solar Records label.
In 1979 Lucas released Carrie Lucas in Danceland. Griffey brought in Jody Watley (Shalamar) for background vocals, Lakeside (co-producers and backgrounds) and Walter and Wallace Scott (The Whispers) for backgrounds. Organist Kossi Gardner (1941–2009) wrote (and played on) the hit "Dance With You", which propelled the album to #37 in the U.S Dance Album chart. "Dance With You" gave Lucas her only appearance in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #40. 1980's Portrait of Carrie was less commercially successful, although it did spawn three modest hit singles. The first 12" was a reworking of her first hit, re-titled as "Keep Smilin'." This was followed by "It's Not What You Got (It's How You Use It)" and "Career Girl." Griffey shared production duties with Leon Sylvers and Gardner.
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Chips Moman
Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman (born, June 12, 1937 La Grange, Georgia, United States) is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, Carla Thomas, and Merrilee Rush, as well as guiding the career of the Box Tops in Memphis, Tennessee during the 1960s. As a songwriter, he is responsible for standards associated with Aretha Franklin, James Carr, Waylon Jennings, and B. J. Thomas. He has been a session guitarist for Franklin and other musicians.
After moving to Memphis, Tennessee as a teenager, Moman played in the road bands of Johnny Burnette and Gene Vincent. Settling in Los Angeles, California, he played guitar on sessions recorded at the Gold Star Studios. Back in Memphis, he began an association with Satellite Records (later Stax Records), producing their first hit single, Carla Thomas's 1960 "Gee Whiz." He also produced the first single for the Stax subsidiary label Volt, "Burnt Biscuits" b/w "Raw Dough," by the Triumphs, whose members included future Al Green and drummer Howard Grimes. Leaving Stax in 1964 after a monetary dispute with label founder Jim Stewart, he began operating his own Memphis recording studio, American Sound Studio.
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Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt is a magazine editor, journalist and author. He has worked in journalism for over twenty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was managing editor of Match from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the Editor of a series of special editions of UK music magazines, Mojo, Q, Uncut and New Musical Express, producing themed publications on subjects such as The Beatles, U2, Kurt Cobain, Oasis, punk rock and mod. He was the editor of the series of three special editions of Mojo magazine that told the story of The Beatles one thousands days at a time - the three magazines were eventually published as the book, The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World, by Dorling Kindersley in 2004.
His book, World Cup Stories: The History Of The FIFA World Cup, was published in April 2006 to accompany a BBC television series of the same name. The book was updated in November 2006 and published in a Greek language edition in 2010. His second book about the tournament, The Compact Book Of The World Cup, was published in 2010 in both the UK and North America (in the USA it was titled World Cup Of Soccer: The Complete Guide).
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Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan (1998).
In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." Her sophomore and her debut Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a Christmas third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, though she was displeased with her lack of input in her music and image. After parting from her management, Aguilera took creative control over her fourth studio album, Stripped (2002). The album's second single, "Beautiful", was a commercial success and helped the album's commercial performance amidst controversy over Aguilera's image. Aguilera followed up Stripped with the soul, jazz and blues inspired, Back to Basics (2006), released to positive critical acclaim. The album produced three singles "Ain't No Other Man", "Hurt" and "Candyman". Four years later Aguilera released her sixth studio album, Bionic (2010), which incorporated aspects of R&B, electropop, and synthpop and was met with mixed reviews and low sales. Aguilera's seventh studio album is set to be released in 2012.
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Commodores
The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
This group is best known for their ballads, such as "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include "Brick House", "The Bump", "Fancy Dancer", and "Too Hot ta Trot". The Commodores originally called themselves the Mystics, but wanted to change the name. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"[citation needed]
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Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an African-American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Curtis Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award (in 1994) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1995), and was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He is also a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Born on June 3, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Mayfield was the son of Marion Washington and Kenneth Mayfield. Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini–Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years. Mayfield attended Wells Community Academy High School. He dropped out of high school early to become lead singer and songwriter for The Impressions, then went on to a successful solo career. Perhaps most notably, Mayfield was among the first of a new wave of mainstream African-American R&B performing artists and composers injecting social commentary into their work. This "message music" became extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dan Penn
Dan Penn (born Wallace Daniel Pennington, 16 November 1941) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s including "Dark End Of The Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" with Chips Moman as well as "Out Of Left Field" and "Cry Like A Baby" with Spooner Oldham. Penn also produced many hits including "The Letter" by The Box Tops. Though considered to be one of the great white soul singers of his generation, Penn has released relatively few records featuring his own vocals and musicianship preferring the relative anonymity of songwriting and producing.
Penn grew up in Vernon, Alabama, and spent much of his teens and early twenties in the Quad Cities/Muscle Shoals area. He was a regular at Rick Hall's FAME Studios as a performer, songwriter, and producer. It was during his time with FAME that Penn cut his first record, "Crazy Over You" in 1960, and wrote his first hit, "Is a Bluebird Blue?" which was recorded by Conway Twitty in the same year, and was later covered by James Brown. The success of the #6 pop hit, "I'm Your Puppet" by James & Bobby Purify convinced him that songwriting was a lucratively worthwhile career choice.
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Dave Godin
David Edward Godin (21 June 1936, Peckham, London - 15 October 2004 in Rotherham, England) was an English fan of American soul music, who made a major contribution internationally in spreading awareness and understanding of the genre, and by extension African-American culture.
The son of a milkman, Dave Godin spent his early childhood in Peckham before bombing forced the family to move to Bexleyheath, Kent, where he won a scholarship to Dartford Grammar School. Godin began collecting American R&B records when at school, where he encouraged the younger Mick Jagger's interest in black American music. He said: "..It was at Dartford Grammar School that I met Mick Jagger and introduced him to black music, I'm ashamed to say. It's ironic that as a result of meeting me he's where he is today." Godin played a minor role in the early jam sessions out of which the Rolling Stones emerged, but resented Jagger for what he saw as the Stones' exploitation of black music.
After working at an advertising agency and as an hospital porter in place of national service (he was a conscientious objector), Godin founded the Tamla Motown Appreciation Society, and in time was recruited by Berry Gordy to become Motown's consultant in the UK, setting up its distribution through EMI. At a recording of Ready Steady Go! in 1964, Jagger asked Godin to introduce him to Marvin Gaye. "I told him to fuck off and introduce himself", Godin recalled.
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David Hood
David Hood (born 21 September 1943, in Sheffield, Alabama, USA), is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
Hood started his career playing with The Mystics and as a back-up musician at FAME Studios, then went on to found Muscle Shoals Sound Studio where he produced songs for The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, and Cher along with others. David Hood has played bass on albums by Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, Traffic, The Staple Singers, Frank Black, John Hiatt and Percy Sledge. Most recently he played on a solo album by Klaus Voormann.
His son, Patterson Hood, is the frontman, and one of three songwriters for Drive-By Truckers.
Hood attended the University of North Alabama.
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Dee Clark
Dee Clark (November 7, 1938 – December 7, 1990) was an African-American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the ballad "Raindrops," which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961.
He was born Delectus Clark in Blytheville, Arkansas, and moved to Chicago in 1941. His mother was a gospel singer and encouraged her son to pursue his love of music. Clark made his first recording in 1952 as a member of the Hambone Kids, who enjoyed some success with a recording of "Hambone" on the OKeh label. In 1953, he joined an R&B group called the Goldentones, who later became the Kool Gents and were discovered by Chicago radio DJ Herb Kent upon winning a talent competition. Kent got the Kool Gents signed to Vee-Jay label's subsidiary Falcon/Abner. The group recorded for Falcon/Abner in 1956, and also recorded a novelty record as "The Delegates".
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Dick Griffey
Richard Gilbert "Dick" Griffey (November 16, 1938 – September 24, 2010) was an American record producer and promoter who founded SOLAR Records, an acronym for "Sound of Los Angeles Records", which played a major role in developing a funk-oriented blend of disco, R&B and soul music during the 1970s and 1980s. As a concert promoter, Griffey arranged bookings for artists including James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Jon Gibson,[1] Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.
Griffey was born on November 16, 1938, and grew up in the housing projects of Nashville, Tennessee, where he was a drummer in local clubs in his teens. After briefly attending Tennessee State University he enlisted in the United States Navy at age 17, where he served as a medic and worked as a private-duty nurse after completing his military service.
After moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, Griffey became part owner of Guys and Dolls, a nightclub which featured performances by such rising stars as Isaac Hayes and Ike & Tina Turner. Griffey worked as talent coordinator on Soul Train, the musical variety show created by Don Cornelius, and the two men established Soul Train Records in 1975. He formed SOLAR Records (an acronym for Sound of Los Angeles Records) in 1977. Music critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times predicted a bright future for the label in the pop market, writing a profile under the headline "Solar Could Be the Motown of the 80's". SOLAR acts included Shalamar, which produced such hits as "The Second Time Around" and "This Is for the Lover in You". With The Whispers, SOLAR released such hits as "And the Beat Goes On" (co-written by Griffey) and "Rock Steady". Other acts signed by SOLAR during the 1980s were The Deele, Dynasty, Klymaxx, Lakeside, Midnight Star and The Whispers. As a promoter, Griffey booked tours for artists including James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson, earning the moniker "Kingpin of Soul Promoters".
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Don Cornelius
Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 to 1993. Cornelius sold the show to MadVision Entertainment in 2008.
Cornelius was born in Chicago's South Side on September 27, 1936, and raised in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Following his graduation from DuSable High School in 1954, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served 18 months in Korea. He worked at various jobs following his stint in the military, including selling tires, automobiles, and insurance, and as an officer with the Chicago Police Department. He quit his day job to take a three-month broadcasting course in 1966, despite being married with two sons and having only $400 in his bank account. In 1966, he landed a job as an announcer, news reporter and disc jockey on Chicago radio station WVON.
Cornelius joined Chicago television station WCIU-TV in 1967 and hosted a news program called A Black's View of the News. In 1970, he launched Soul Train on WCIU-TV as a daily local show. The program entered national syndication and moved to Los Angeles the following year.
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Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienOBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time.
Born in West London to an Irish Catholic family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. She joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, in 1958, then formed the pop-folk vocal trio The Springfields in 1960 with her brother Dion.
Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want to Be with You" (1963). Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin'" (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968). A fan of American pop music, she was the first public figure to bring little-known soul singers to a wider British audience, when she created and hosted the first British performances of the top-selling Motown artists in 1965. By 1966, she was the best-selling female singer in the world, and topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist. She was the first British singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde beehive hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
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Eddie Floyd
Eddie Lee Floyd (born June 25, 1937) is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".
Floyd was born in Montgomery, Alabama, but grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He founded The Falcons, which also featured Mack Rice. They were forerunners to future Detroit vocal groups such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. Their most successful songs included "You're So Fine" and later, when Wilson Pickett was recruited into the group as the lead singer, "I Found a Love". Pickett then embarked on a solo career, and The Falcons disbanded.
Floyd signed on with the Memphis based Stax Records as a songwriter in 1965. He wrote a hit song, "Comfort Me" recorded by Carla Thomas. He then teamed with Stax's guitarist Steve Cropper to write songs for Wilson Pickett, now signed to Atlantic Records. Atlantic distributed Stax and Jerry Wexler brought Pickett down from New York to work with Booker T. & the MGs. The Pickett sessions were successful, yielding several pop and R&B hits, including the Floyd co-written "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" and "634-5789 (Soulsville USA)".
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Eddie Holland
Edward Holland, Jr. (born October 30, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, known during his recording career as Eddie Holland) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
Although Holland was an early Motown artist who recorded minor hit singles such as "Jamie", he started working behind the scenes due to stage fright. He was a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team responsible for much of the Motown Sound and hit records by Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, the Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers, among others.
Holland served as the team's lyricist, and also worked with producer Norman Whitfield on lyrics for the songs he produced for The Marvelettes and The Temptations, like "Too Many Fish In The Sea" and "Beauty's Only Skin Deep".[citation needed]
All singles on Motown, unless noted. All of Holland's Mercury and United Artists singles were produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy, but leased to these other record labels for national distribution.
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Domino was French Creole and Creole was his first language. Domino was delivered at home by his midwife grandmother who was born into enslavement in 1857. Like most families in the Lower Ninth Ward, Domino's family were new arrivals from the sugar and cotton plantations. His father was a well known violinist, and Domino was inspired to play himself. He eventually learned from his Uncle, jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett. Fats released five Gold (million selling) records before 1955. Domino also had 35 Top 40 American Hits and has a music style based on traditional R&B ensembles or Bass, Piano, Electric Guitar, Drums, and Saxophone.
Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a strong back beat. "The Fat Man" sold one million copies by 1953. Fats Domino released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader. Domino finally crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That A Shame" (1955), which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with a milder cover of the song that received wider radio airplay in a racially-segregated era. Domino eventually had 37 Top 40 singles.
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Gene Chandler
Gene Chandler (born Eugene Dixon, July 6, 1937) also known as "The Duke of Earl" or simply "The Duke", is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, producer and record executive. He is one of the leading exponents of the 1960s Chicago soul scene. He is best known for his million-selling hits, "Duke Of Earl," and "Groovy Situation," and his associations with the Dukays, the Impressions and Curtis Mayfield. A Grammy Hall Of Fame inductee, and winner of the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers Producer of the Year Award, and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award, and one of the few artists to chart hit records during the doo-wop, rhythm and blues, soul, and disco eras. Between 1961 and 1986 Chandler has had forty Pop and R&B chart hits.
Chandler attended Englewood High School on Chicago's south side. He began performing in the early 1950s with the Gaytones. In 1957, he joined a doo-wop group, The Dukays, with James Lowe, Shirley Jones, Earl Edwards and Ben Broyles, soon becoming their lead singer. After his draft into the US Army he returned to Chicago in 1960 and rejoined the Dukays.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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Howard Tate
Howard Tate (August 13, 1939 – December 2, 2011) was an American soul singer and songwriter.
He moved with his family to Philadelphia in the early 1940s. In his teens, he joined a gospel music group that included Garnet Mimms and, as the Gainors, recorded rhythm and blues sides for Mercury Records and Cameo Records in the early 1960s. Tate performed with organist Bill Doggett and returned to Philadelphia.
Mimms, leading a group called the Enchanters, introduced Tate to record-producer Jerry Ragovoy, who began recording Tate for Verve Records. Utilizing New York session musicians such as Paul Griffin, Richard Tee, Eric Gale, Chuck Rainey, and Herb Lovell, Tate and Ragovoy produced, from 1966 to 1968, a series of soul blues recordings that are regarded as some of the most sophisticated of the era.[by whom?] "Ain't Nobody Home" (1966), "Look at Granny Run Run" (1966), "Baby I Love You" (1967), and "Stop" (1968) all written or co-written by Ragovoy, were well received by record buyers. "Ain't Nobody Home", "Look At Granny" and "Stop" charted in the Top 20 in the US Billboard R&B chart.
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Huey Piano Smith
Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll.
His piano playing incorporated the boogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons; the jazz style of Jelly Roll Morton and the piano playing of Fats Domino.Allmusic journalist, Steve Huey, also noted "At the peak of his game, Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, "Don't You Just Know It."
Smith was born in New Orleans' Garden District, and was influenced by New Orleans' piano innovator, Professor Longhair. He became known for his shuffling right-handed break on the piano that influenced other Southern players.
Smith wrote his first song on the piano, "Roberson Street Boogie" (named after the street where he lived), when he was only eight years old, and performed the tune with a friend. They billed themselves as Slick and Dark. Smith attended McDowell High and Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. When Smith was fifteen he began working in clubs and recording records with his flamboyant partner, Eddie Jones, who rose to fame as Guitar Slim. When he was eighteen, in 1952, he signed a recording contract with Savoy Records, which released his first known single, "You Made Me Cry". In 1953 Smith recorded with Earl King.
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Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941,Ponchatoula, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans".
Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial success; still, she has a large cult following among soul aficionados. In 2007, she won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album for After the Rain, her first Grammy in a career spanning over 50 years.
Born Irma Lee, as a teen she sang with a Baptist church choir, auditioning for Specialty Records as a 13-year old. By the age of 19 she had been married twice and had four children. Keeping her second ex-husband's surname, she worked as a waitress in New Orleans, occasionally singing with bandleader Tommy Ridgley, who helped her land a record deal with the local Ron label. Her first single, "(You Can Have My Husband but) Don't Mess with My Man," was released in spring 1960, and reached number 22 on the Billboard R&B chart.
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Jackie Wilson
Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr. Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was considered a master showman, one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock history. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening. During a 1975 benefit concert, he collapsed on-stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death in 1984. By this time, he had become one of the most influential artists of his generation.
A two-time Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee, Jackie Wilson was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jackie Wilson #69 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Jerry Ragovoy
Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy (September 4, 1930 - July 13, 2011) was an American songwriter and record producer.
His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" (written under the pseudonym of Norman Meade) was made famous by The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas. Ragovoy also wrote "Stay With Me", which was originally recorded by Lorraine Ellison, and was performed by Mary J. Blige at the 49th Grammy Awards.
An important behind-the-scenes force of East Coast soul music, Ragovoy wrote or co-wrote several classic New York and Philadelphia soul records in the 1960s, often distinguished by a conspicuous gospel feel. The best of these included Garnet Mimms' "Cry Baby," Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart," Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can," all later covered by Janis Joplin, plus "Time Is on My Side" and "Stay With Me." Ragovoy also contributed to first-class soul records as a producer and arranger.
Ragovoy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a Hungarian-born Jewish optometrist. He entered record production in 1953 with "My Girl Awaits Me" by The Castelles.
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Johnnie Taylor
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1934 – May 31, 2000) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.
Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas. As a child, he grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas and performed in gospel groups as a youngster. As an adult, he had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Chance Records label in the 1950s, as part of the gospel group Highway QCs, which had been founded by a young Sam Cooke. His singing was strikingly close to that of Sam Cooke, and he was hired to take Cooke's place in the latter's gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, in 1957.
A few years later, after Cooke had established his independent SAR Records, Taylor signed on as one of the label's first acts and recorded "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" in 1962. However, SAR Records quickly became defunct after Cooke's death in 1964.
In 1966, Taylor moved to Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was dubbed "The Philosopher of Soul". Whilst there he recorded with the label's house band, Booker T. & the MGs. His hits included "I Had a Dream", "I've Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) and most notably "Who's Making Love", which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1968. "Who's Making Love" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
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Joss Stone
Jocelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the equally multiplatinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004 was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart in history to have her first album at number one. In early 2009, she joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
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Kedar Massenburg
Kedar Massenburg is an American record producer and record label executive, who was the president of Motown Records from 1997 to 2004. Massenburg is the current president and CEO of Kedar Entertainment. Massenburg is best known for bringing Erykah Badu to fame, and for coining the term "neo soul" to describe Badu's sound and that of several like-minded artists.
Kedar was born in 1963 and is the son of a single parent in Flatbush neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York. Massenburg is a 1981 graduate of Erasmus Hall High School. He is also a 1985 graduate of Central State University in Ohio. In college, Massenburg had his eye on the music business. After college, Massenburg spent several years in marketing positions, including two years as a district manager for Pepsico (maker of Pepsi Cola), and more than a year with SmithKline Beecham Clinical Labs Pharmaceuticals. But he still had his eye on the entertainment world. He was saving money for law school, having noticed a relationship between the worlds of popular music and the law. "One of the reasons I wanted to be a lawyer is I realized that everything in this business is controlled by legal documents and contracts," Massenburg recalled during an interview with Black Enterprise Massenburg graduated from University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina having completed a project while he was there on the legal problems involved in developing a home-based business. In 1995, he established Kedar Entertainment, originating out of his New York home, with a $1,700 outlay from his own pocket and consisted of a desk set, fax machine, copier, and portable phone. He became President and CEO. Involved in artist management, he directed the career of the pioneering rap group Stetsasonic for a time.
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Lamont Dozier
Lamont Herbert Dozier (born June 16, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.
Dozier is best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Along with Brian Holland, Dozier served as the team's musical arranger and producer. After H-D-H left Motown in 1967 to form the Invictus/Hot Wax labels, Dozier began recording as an artist on their labels. Dozier departed from H-D-H in the mid-1970s, and was replaced by new arranger/producer Harold Beatty.
Dozier had another #1 hit as a songwriter in the 1980s, combining with Phil Collins to write the song "Two Hearts" from the movie soundtrack for Buster. "Two Hearts" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song. Collins and Dozier also co-wrote "Loco in Acapulco" for The Four Tops, which is also featured on the Buster soundtrack.
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Larry Graham
Larry Graham, Jr. (born August 14, 1946, Beaumont, Texas) is an American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "Thumpin' and Pluckin'."
Graham played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1966 to 1972. It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum. This style has become archetypal of modern funk. Slap-pop playing couples a percussive thumb-slapping technique of the lower strings with an aggressive finger-snap of the higher strings, often in rhythmic alternation. The slap and pop technique incorporates a large ratio of muted or "dead" notes to normal notes, which adds to the rhythmic effect.
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Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 – December 2, 1986) was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.
Born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name "Kid Chocolate" and was quite successful.
Dorsey met songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint at a party in the early 1960s, and was signed to the Fury record label. The song that launched his career was inspired by a group of children chanting nursery rhymes - "Ya Ya" went to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He recorded other songs for Fury before the label folded, and Dorsey went back to his car repair business.
Toussaint later came back on the Amy label and began to work with Dorsey once again. From 1965 to 1969 Dorsey put seven songs in the Hot 100, the most successful of which was "Working in the Coal Mine" in 1966. It was to be his second and last Top Ten song. In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey's last entry in the singles chart. It was later a hit for the Pointer Sisters under the title, "Yes We Can Can".
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Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor.
Lewis has released two albums to date, Spirit and Echo, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. A multi-platinum selling artist and three-time Grammy Award nominee, her most successful single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one in over thirty countries around the world, and was the best-selling single worldwide in 2008. Other notable singles include "Better in Time", "Happy" and "I Got You". She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine in 2008.
Lewis's debut tour, The Labyrinth, took place in 2010, and her third album, Glassheart, is scheduled for release in 2012. It was preceded by "Collide", a single from the album, which became her seventh top-five hit in the United Kingdom. Lewis's net worth was estimated at £12 million in April 2012.
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Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Stansfield (born 11 April 1966) is an English singer and songwriter.
Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982. She won it singing The Human League track "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of". The series was produced by the then Head of Light Entertainment at Granada TV, Johnny Hamp.
After releasing several unsuccessful singles in her mid-teens, she co-hosted a children's TV pop show, Razzamatazz with Alistair Pirrie; additionally, Stansfield could be seen in 1983 children's television series The Krankies Klub, alongside comedian Jimmy Cricket and rock band Rocky Sharpe and the Replays. She also sung radio jingles for Manchester companies LBS and Alfasound - her voice being heard on packages for the short lived ILR station Sunset 102 and BBC GMR (Greater Manchester Radio).
After being signed by Arista, she became an international celebrity in the early 1990s.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the mid-1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the early development of soul music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website entry on Penniman states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast. More than any other performer – save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul music and rhythm and blues (R&B), and one of the greatest singers in popular music. His open-throated singing was an influence on other soul singers of the 1960s, and he helped to craft the lean and powerful style of R&B that formed the basis of the Stax Sound. After appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he wrote and recorded "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", which became a number-one record on both the pop and R&B charts after his death in a plane crash.
Redding was born and raised in the American state of Georgia. At age 15, he left school to support his family by working with Little Richard's backing band, The Upsetters, and by playing talent shows for prize money. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins's band, The Pinetoppers, and toured the Southern United States while serving as driver and musician. An unscheduled appearance on a session led to a turning point in his career. He signed a contract with Stax Records and released his debut album, Pain in My Heart, in 1964. This album produced his first Stax single, "These Arms of Mine".
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Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson (born Robert Peapo Bryson, April 13, 1951, given name changed from "Robert" to Peabo c. 1965) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, born in Greenville, South Carolina. He is well known for singing soft-rock ballads (often as a duo with female singers) and his contribution to several Disney animated feature soundtracks.
As one of the oldest of three siblings, two sisters and a brother, he spent much of his childhood on his grandfather's farm in Mauldin, South Carolina. His love for music stemmed from his mother, who often took the family to concerts of well known African-American artists at the time, such as Sam Cooke, Little Richard and Billie Holiday.[citation needed]
At age 14, Bryson marked his professional debut singing backup for Al Freeman and the Upsetters, a local Greenville group. It was Freeman's difficulty in pronouncing Bryson's French West Indian name, 'Peapo', that led Bryson to change its spelling to Peabo. Two years later he left home to tour the chitlin' circuit with another local band, Moses Dillard and the Textile Display. Bryson's first break came during a recording session at Atlanta's Bang Records. Although Bang was not impressed with Dillard's band, the young backup singer caught the ear of the label's general manager, Eddie Biscoe. Biscoe signed Bryson to a contract as a writer, producer, and arranger and encouraged Bryson to perform his own songs. For several years Bryson worked with hometown bands and wrote and produced for Bang.[citation needed] In 1976, he launched his own recording career with "Underground Music" on the Bang label. His first album, Peabo, followed shortly thereafter. Although only a regional success, Bryson signed to Capitol Records in 1977.
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Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge (born November 25, 1941, Leighton, Alabama) is an American R&B and soul performer who recorded the hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966.
Percy Sledge worked in a series of blue-collar jobs in the fields in Leighton, Alabama before taking a job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Through the mid 1960s, he toured the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends, while working at the hospital during the week. A former patient and mutual friend of Sledge and record producer Quin Ivy introduced the two. An audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract.
Sledge's soulful voice was perfect for the series of soul ballads produced by Ivy and Marlin Greene, which rock critic Dave Marsh called "emotional classics for romantics of all ages."
"When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's first song recorded under the contract, and was released in March 1966. The song's inspiration came when Sledge's girlfriend left him for a modeling career after he was laid off from construction job in late 1965. Because bassist Calvin Lewis and organist Andrew Wright helped him with the song, he gave all the songwriting credits to them. It reached #1 in the U.S. and went on to become an international hit. "When A Man Loves A Woman" was a hit twice in the UK, reaching #6 in 1966 and, on reissue, peaked at #2 in 1987. The song was also the first gold record released by Atlantic Records. The soul anthem became the cornerstone of Sledge's career, and was followed by "Warm and Tender Love" (Covered by UK songstress Elkie Brooks in 1981), "It Tears Me Up", "Take Time to Know Her" (his second biggest U.S. hit, reaching #11 and written by Steve Davis), "Love Me Tender", and "Cover Me".
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Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector on December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter.
The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits in 1960–1965. Some of his famous girl groups are The Ronettes and The Crystals. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim. He produced The Beatles' Academy Award winning album Let It Be, and the Grammy Award–winning Concert for Bangladesh by former Beatle George Harrison. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for The Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. airplay in the 20th century.
In 2009 Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Reggie Young
Reggie Young (born December 12, 1936) was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studios Band (aka The Memphis Boys), and is a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, J.J. Cale, Dionne Warwick, Roy Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the Box Tops, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, and George Strait.
Born December 12, 1936, in Caruthersville, Missouri, Young's first band was Eddie Bond & the Stompers, a rockabilly band from Memphis, Tennessee, that toured with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Roy Orbison during the mid '50s. By 1958, Young was with singer Johnny Horton, making several appearances on the popular Louisiana Hayride radio show in Shreveport.
He was an original member of Bill Black's Combo, which had several instrumental hits in the U.S. in 1959 and the early '60s, the most successful being "Smokie, Pts. 1 & 2", "White Silver Sands," and an instrumental version of "Don't Be Cruel," released on Hi Records. Billboard Magazine listed the Combo as the #1 instrumental band three years in a row, 1960–1962.
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Roger Hawkins
Roger G Hawkins (born October 16, 1945 in Mishawaka, Indiana, US), is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama. Hawkins's drumming can be heard on dozens of hit singles, including tracks by Percy Sledge (When a Man Loves a Woman), Aretha Franklin ("Respect, "I Never Loved A Man", etc.), Wilson Pickett (Mustang Sally, "Land of 1,000 Dances"), The Staple Singers, Johnnie Taylor, Cat Stevens, Duane Allman, Joe Cocker, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Traffic and Willie Nelson.
"Playing with the same guys for so long, well, it's really hard to impress Barry, David or Jimmy because they've heard me do it before. And it's the same with them. I mean, if Barry plays a hot lick, I don't congratulate him; he's supposed to do that. I don't know what it is, but when the four of us sit down to play, it's almost like a burden has been lifted from our shoulders. It's like, "Hey, we're home."
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Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocal abilities and influence on the modern world of music. His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.
Cooke had 29 top-40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964. Major hits like "You Send Me", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cupid", "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World", and "Twistin' the Night Away" are some of his most popular songs. Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career. He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. He also took an active part in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is most notable for being the founder and front man of the popular Motown vocal group, The Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as The Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president.
However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year, later having solo hits such as "Baby That's Backatcha", "Quiet Storm", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "Cruisin'", "Being With You" and "Just to See Her". Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left Motown in 1990. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Robinson was born in Detroit and raised in the city's North End section. At one point, he and Diana Ross were next-door neighbors; he said he has known Ross since she was eight. Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him "Smokey Joe", which Robinson assumed was a "cowboy name for me" until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks. Robinson, who is mainly of African American descent and is light-skinned, remembers his uncle saying to him, "I'm doing this so you won't ever forget that you're black." Robinson grew up as a fan of Western films.
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Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People. Burke was known as "King Solomon," the "King of Rock 'n' Soul," and as the "Bishop of Soul," and described as "the Muhammad Ali of soul," and as "the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age." Burke was "the founding father of what was defined as soul music in America in the 1960s," and "a major architect of 1960s soul, infusing post-World War II R&B with [his] gospel roots." and "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul," Burke's "sound was a bold merger of orchestrated sophistication and countryish, down-home grit, and his best singles built a Gothic sense of drama and heartbreak. These tracks bridged the gap between the more mannered mainstream rhythm and blues of the Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller songwriting team of the 1950s, as exemplified by the Coasters and Drifters, and the gruffer Southern styles of the later '60s, as heard on the Stax Records sides of Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. At one time considered by Jerry Wexler to be "the greatest male soul singer of all time," Burke was "a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s." Burke drew from his roots: gospel, soul, and blues, as well as developing his own style at a time when R&B, and rock were both still in their infancy. Artistically, Burke was influenced by the music of the church, as well as by Little Richard. Described as both "Rabelaisian" and also as a "spiritual enigma," "Perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music."
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Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper (born Steven Lee Cropper, October 21, 1941, Dora, Missouri), also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and has backed artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor, also acting as producer on many of these records. He later gained fame as a member of the Blues Brothers band.Rolling Stone lists him 36th on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.Mojo ranks Cropper as the second-best guitarist ever.
When he was nine years old, Cropper moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of ten, he strummed his brother-in-law's Gibson guitar for the first time[citation needed]. Cropper received his first guitar by mail order at 14 and started playing with local musicians. His guitar heroes at the time included Lowman Pauling of the "5" Royales, as well as Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Reed, and the guitarist of the Bill Doggett band, Billy Butler.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Syl Johnson
Syl Johnson (born July 1, 1936) is an American blues and soul singer and record producer.
Born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, he migrated with his family to Chicago in 1950; blues guitarist Magic Sam was his next-door neighbor. Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed for Vee-Jay in 1959. He made his solo debut that same year with Federal, a subsidiary of King Records of Cincinnati, backed by Freddie King on guitar.
He then began recording for Twinight Records of Chicago in the mid 1960s. Beginning with his first hit, "Come On Sock It to Me" in 1967, Johnson dominated the label as both a hitmaker and producer. His song "Different Strokes", also from 1967, featured on the Ultimate Breaks and Beats breakbeat compilation.
Like other black songwriters of the period, several of his records at this time explored themes of African-American identity and social problems in songs including "Is It Because I'm Black", which reached Number 11 in the US Billboard R&B chart in 1969.
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Tammi Terrell
Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, known as Tammi Terrell (April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American recording artist and songwriter most notable for her association with Motown Records and her duets with Marvin Gaye. As a teenager she recorded for the Scepter–Wand, Try Me and Checker record labels. She signed with Motown in April 1965 and enjoyed modest success as a solo singer. Once she was paired with Gaye in 1967, her stardom grew, but on October 14 of that year she collapsed on stage into Gaye's arms during a performance. She was soon thereafter diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor which eventually led to her death at age 24.
Tammi Terrell was born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in Philadelphia. Members of her family have said her parents figured their eldest child would be a son and had settled on "Thomas". After Terrell's birth, they added in "-ina". Terrell was called "Tommie" by family. Terrell has a younger sister, Ludie (born 1949). Terrell began singing in church at an early age. Terrell developed a rebellious, free-spirited streak and changed her name to "Tammy" after seeing the film Tammy and the Bachelor in the summer of 1957 and hearing its theme song "Tammy". Around this time, Terrell began complaining of migraines and headaches. Terrell's family said that this foreshadowed her later struggle with brain cancer but that at the time they did not regard it as a major issue.
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Teddy Pendergrass
Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the waist down. After his injury, he founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. Pendergrass commemorated 25 years of living after his spinal cord injury with star filled event, 'Teddy 25 - A Celebration of Life' at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. His last performance was on a PBS special at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino in November 2008.
Pendergrass was born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of Jesse Pendergrass and Ida Geraldine Epps. When Pendergrass was still very young, his father left the family; Jesse Pendergrass was murdered when Teddy was 12. Pendergrass grew up in Philadelphia and sang often at church. He dreamed of being a pastor and got his wish when, at 10, he was ordained a minister (according to author Robert Ewell Greene). He also took up drums during this time and was a junior deacon of his church. Pendergrass attended Thomas Edison High School for Boys in North Philadelphia (now closed). He sang with the Edison Mastersingers. He dropped out in the eleventh grade to enter the music business, recording his first song "Angel With Muddy Feet." The recording, however, was not a commercial success.
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Thom Bell
Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell (born January 26, 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.
Bell was classically trained, but as a teenager had sung with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates fame). Bell's first big break in soul music came with Cameo Records in Philadelphia in 1967, where he was introduced to a local group called The Delfonics. Bell brought a smooth, lush style to soul and his production talents yielded several big hits for the group on the Philly Groove label run by their manager Stan Watson, including "La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," the latter nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970.
By 1971, Bell had left the Delfonics to produce another local group, The Stylistics, this time on Avco Records. By then he had teamed up with the Philadelphia born songwriter Linda Creed and Russell Thompkins, Jr., lead singer of the Stylistics. This partnership generated three albums full of memorable tracks. Bell and Creed became one of the era's dominant soul songwriting teams, penning hits such as "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".
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Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.
A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100. Among his best known hits are "In the Midnight Hour" (which he co-wrote), "Land of 1,000 Dances", "Mustang Sally", and "Funky Broadway".
The impact of Pickett's songwriting and recording led to his 1991 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up singing in Baptist church choirs.
He was the fourth of 11 children and called his mother "the baddest woman in my book," telling historian Gerri Hirshey: "I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood — (one time I ran away and) cried for a week. Stayed in the woods, me and my little dog." Pickett eventually left to live with his father in Detroit in 1955.
Pickett's forceful, passionate style of singing was developed in the church and on the streets of Detroit, under the influence of recording stars such as Little Richard, whom he later referred to as "the architect of rock and roll.
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-You came into my life
-I don't have to wonder no more, I can feel it all in my soul
It's Soul Music
-It's deep down in my soul
Feel the Burn
I can see I got a good foundation deep down in my soul
-Its deep down in my soul
It's Soul Music
I feel the need for contemplation deep down in my soul
-It's deep down in my soul
Yo, I first took breath in Hemstead, Long Island
Born in American ancestry from Ireland
You ain't knowin me, you'd better stop smilin'
Aint nothin funny once my dummies start whiling
You talkin loud now all of a sudden it's silent
Your premonitions say it's about to get violent
You want permission just to blink your own eyelids
I got my soldiers, everywhere they go, I win
No stick moves, aint no cap peeling
Where I come from real men don't catch feelins
We don't rhyme about fake jacks or drug dealin
The shit I drop will leave all your brains on the ceilin'
Mass appealin, done it since the '80s
Rock rhymes for my dogs, sing songs for my ladies
Spend money like crazy, aint got no babies
If I don't make it in heaven I'll run shit in Hades
Now I can see I got a good foundation deep down in my soul
-Its deep down in my soul
It's Soul Music
I feel the need for contemplation deep down in my soul
-It's in my soul
Soul Music
And I can feel a dark sensation deep down in my soul
-It's deep down in my soul
Soul Music
Tryin to find an explanation deep down in my soul
-It's deep down in my soul
Yo I shit on competition
Spit on percussion
Beats are bonecrushin
One deep I'm bum-rushin
Guns they get stuck in
Someone starts buckin
The jewels that I'm truckin got pimps upchuckin
You can't hold me down
You can't hold my hand
A full grown man with the one God plan
I represent the colors that never run
God bless DMC
God bless Reverend Run
R.I.P. for the J.M.J.
Tell Big and Scott LaRock that we all say hey
Be like Tupac or be like Kid 'n Play
Do you wanna burn out or just fade away
I can rock the mic with no delay
With my head to the ground every time I pray
You can catch a heart attack or get blown away
Cause this type of shit happens everyday
Feel the burn
-I can feel it all in my soul
It's Soul Music
-It's deep down in my soul
Feel the burn
-It's in my soul
It's Soul Music
-It's deep down in my soul
Feel the burn
Now I can see I got a good foundation deep down in my soul
-Its deep down in my soul
It's Soul Music
I feel the need for contemplation deep down in my soul
-It's in my soul
Soul Music
And I can feel a dark sensation deep down in my soul
-It's deep down in my soul
Soul Music
Tryin to find an explanation deep down in my soul
-It's deep down in my soul
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Arthur Conley-Sweet Soul Music
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Classic Arthur Conley music video from the mid 60's on The Rick Shaw TV Show, Miami, FL
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Classic Arthur Conley music video from the mid 60's on The Rick Shaw TV Show, Miami, FL
Anita Baker - Body And Soul (Music Video)
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
From VH1's "Top 50 Music Videos of 1994". From the album "Rhythm Of Love". (C) 1994 Elektra Entertainment
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From VH1's "Top 50 Music Videos of 1994". From the album "Rhythm Of Love". (C) 1994 Elektra Entertainment
- published: 23 Jan 2010
- views: 1108298
- author: SFCHonorGuard
"Temptations Medley" - Sweet Soul Music Revue - Deutsches Theater München
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- Duration: 17:06
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
"Get Ready", "Ain´t To Proud To Beg", "My Girl", "Just My Imagination", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" - Derrick Alexander, Alexander Hutson, Jimmy James, Daniel Stoyanov & sir waldo weathers. Klaus Gassmanns "Sweet Soul Music Revue" und Gastgeber Ron Williams reisst die Zuschauer im Deutschen...
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"Get Ready", "Ain´t To Proud To Beg", "My Girl", "Just My Imagination", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" - Derrick Alexander, Alexander Hutson, Jimmy James, Daniel Stoyanov & sir waldo weathers. Klaus Gassmanns "Sweet Soul Music Revue" und Gastgeber Ron Williams reisst die Zuschauer im Deutschen...
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 41204
- author: EOSMOVIE
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "100 Days, 100 Nights"
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- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
"100 Days, 100 Nights" by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the title song from the album, available in stores offline and online. The video was directed by Adam Elias Buncher using two vintage TV cameras bought on E-Bay for $50 dollars each. Shows how much you can do with just a little soul! www.sharonjonesandthedapkings.com
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"100 Days, 100 Nights" by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the title song from the album, available in stores offline and online. The video was directed by Adam Elias Buncher using two vintage TV cameras bought on E-Bay for $50 dollars each. Shows how much you can do with just a little soul! www.sharonjonesandthedapkings.com
- published: 30 Oct 2007
- views: 2457110
- author: DaptoneRecords
Drumline: American Soul Music
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
As part of the Drumline performance, a series of videos produced by American Technologies are played throughout the show to enhance the energy of the night
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As part of the Drumline performance, a series of videos produced by American Technologies are played throughout the show to enhance the energy of the night
- published: 14 Jan 2011
- views: 2701
- author: BeyondTheCuttingEdge
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music (live 1967)
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- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964 ("Poor Girl", "I Believe", and "Flossie Mae") on the Atlanta based record label, National Recording Company. In 1964, he moved to a new label (Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records) and released "I'm a Lonely Stranger". When Otis Redding heard this, he asked Conley to record a new version, which was released on Redding's own fledgling label Jotis Records, as only its second release.[citation needed] Conley met Redding in 1967, but after this meeting Redding took Conley under his care, and taught him the finer points of the music industry. Together they re-wrote the Sam Cooke song "Yeah Man" into "Sweet Soul Music", which, at Redding's insistence, was released on the Atco-distributed label Fame Records, and was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It proved to be a massive hit, going to the number two position on the US charts and the Top Ten across much of Europe. "Sweet Soul Music" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
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Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964 ("Poor Girl", "I Believe", and "Flossie Mae") on the Atlanta based record label, National Recording Company. In 1964, he moved to a new label (Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records) and released "I'm a Lonely Stranger". When Otis Redding heard this, he asked Conley to record a new version, which was released on Redding's own fledgling label Jotis Records, as only its second release.[citation needed] Conley met Redding in 1967, but after this meeting Redding took Conley under his care, and taught him the finer points of the music industry. Together they re-wrote the Sam Cooke song "Yeah Man" into "Sweet Soul Music", which, at Redding's insistence, was released on the Atco-distributed label Fame Records, and was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It proved to be a massive hit, going to the number two position on the US charts and the Top Ten across much of Europe. "Sweet Soul Music" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
- published: 19 Dec 2010
- views: 63337
- author: tonyhellfinger
TobyMac - Lose My Soul
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- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Music video by TobyMac performing Lose My Soul feat. Kirk Franklin & Mandisa.
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Music video by TobyMac performing Lose My Soul feat. Kirk Franklin & Mandisa.
- published: 24 Apr 2010
- views: 2134642
- author: emimusic
Sam & Dave - Sweet Soul Music
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 28 Feb 2013
Sweet Soul Music sang by Sam & Dave
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Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music.flv
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music.flv
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De La Soul - Me, Myself And I
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- Duration: 4:02
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York.The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. The members are Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, Plug One), David Jude Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove, Dave, Plug Two) and Vincent Mason (PA Pasemaster Mase, Maseo, Plug Three). The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Prince Paul with a demo tape of the song "Plug Tunin'". Prince Paul was also sometimes referred to as Plug Four. The Plug names are alleged to come from the numbers that each bandmate's microphone was labeled on the soundboard. Posdnuos was always plugged into plug one, Trugoy was plugged into plug two, and so forth. Album "3 Feet High And Rising" (1989)
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De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York.The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. The members are Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, Plug One), David Jude Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove, Dave, Plug Two) and Vincent Mason (PA Pasemaster Mase, Maseo, Plug Three). The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Prince Paul with a demo tape of the song "Plug Tunin'". Prince Paul was also sometimes referred to as Plug Four. The Plug names are alleged to come from the numbers that each bandmate's microphone was labeled on the soundboard. Posdnuos was always plugged into plug one, Trugoy was plugged into plug two, and so forth. Album "3 Feet High And Rising" (1989)
- published: 06 Apr 2011
- views: 1421359
- author: 1990spaceghost
Vick Allen - Soul Music
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
To purchase got to: itunes.apple.com The new smash hit from Vick Allen, AKA "The Velvet Voice of Soul". A timeless soul music classic from the soon to be released new album, "Soul Music" on Soul 1st Records. www.soul1st.com or http
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To purchase got to: itunes.apple.com The new smash hit from Vick Allen, AKA "The Velvet Voice of Soul". A timeless soul music classic from the soon to be released new album, "Soul Music" on Soul 1st Records. www.soul1st.com or http
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 34174
- author: testmic01
Relaxing Piano Music - A Beautiful Soul - Nature Scenes
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- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Google+ plus.google.com Facebook www.facebook.com Relaxing Music Therapy For Stress Relief Relaxing music therapy is a very potent phenomenon. Sounds can soothe you, fire your imagination, bring you to the heights of ecstasy or bring you down to the depths of your soul. Music is known to relax and to help in stress relief. In the right manner, music can bring lightness into a serious situation. Relaxing music therapy can heal, soothe and bring calm tot an agitated mind. Defining "relaxing music" seems a matter of personal choice. Some people find the serene sounds of the waterfall and chirping birds relaxing while others relax with their favorite hard rock. How Does It Work? The therapeutic effect of relaxing sounds seems to have a scientific definition of its own. When the human brain is relaxed it produces more alpha brain waves. When a person is stressed out, his brain produces more beta and theta waves. Beta and theta waves are faster changing brain waves than alpha waves. Within the fight-or-flee logic of a sudden stressful situation, the human brain processes seem to speed up to act faster. This can be helpful in short, specific moments, but it is counter productive when it becomes a chronically state of being. A relaxing tune can help with its sounds typically rich in frequencies that are similar to our alpha type brain waves. The mind is always open to suggestions and thus when a person is agitated or tensed, relaxing sounds, rich in alpha like frequencies, can ...
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Google+ plus.google.com Facebook www.facebook.com Relaxing Music Therapy For Stress Relief Relaxing music therapy is a very potent phenomenon. Sounds can soothe you, fire your imagination, bring you to the heights of ecstasy or bring you down to the depths of your soul. Music is known to relax and to help in stress relief. In the right manner, music can bring lightness into a serious situation. Relaxing music therapy can heal, soothe and bring calm tot an agitated mind. Defining "relaxing music" seems a matter of personal choice. Some people find the serene sounds of the waterfall and chirping birds relaxing while others relax with their favorite hard rock. How Does It Work? The therapeutic effect of relaxing sounds seems to have a scientific definition of its own. When the human brain is relaxed it produces more alpha brain waves. When a person is stressed out, his brain produces more beta and theta waves. Beta and theta waves are faster changing brain waves than alpha waves. Within the fight-or-flee logic of a sudden stressful situation, the human brain processes seem to speed up to act faster. This can be helpful in short, specific moments, but it is counter productive when it becomes a chronically state of being. A relaxing tune can help with its sounds typically rich in frequencies that are similar to our alpha type brain waves. The mind is always open to suggestions and thus when a person is agitated or tensed, relaxing sounds, rich in alpha like frequencies, can ...
- published: 14 May 2011
- views: 254061
- author: ScenicVideos
arthur conley ... sweet soul music
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
northern soul
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![Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze [Official Music Video]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130303190854im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0XcN12uVHeQ/default.jpg "Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze [Official Music Video]")
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze [Official Music Video]
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- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
© 2007 WMG "Soul To Squeeze" by Red Hot Chili Peppers from 'Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits,' available now. Download 'Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits' on iTunes: bit.ly The Red Hot Chili Pepper's new album, 'I'm With You,' is available everywhere now. Download 'I'm With You' on iTunes: glnk.it Links: Website: redhotchilipeppers.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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© 2007 WMG "Soul To Squeeze" by Red Hot Chili Peppers from 'Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits,' available now. Download 'Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits' on iTunes: bit.ly The Red Hot Chili Pepper's new album, 'I'm With You,' is available everywhere now. Download 'I'm With You' on iTunes: glnk.it Links: Website: redhotchilipeppers.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 15 Jul 2011
- views: 3099000
- author: RHCPtv
Clear Soul Forces - Get No Better
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- Duration: 4:56
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Download the new album "Detroit Revolutions" NOW!!!! www.clearsoulforces.bandcamp.com Our 1st single off Detroit Revolution(s) Prod. by the homie KanKick 03/13/12 Directed by Richard Taylor.Our 1st single off Detroit Revolution(s) Prod. by the homie KanKick 03/13/12 Directed by Richard Taylor. Make sure you follow us on Twitter.com/clearsoulforces & visit www.forceswithyou.com for everything about CSF and Detroit Revolution(s)
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Download the new album "Detroit Revolutions" NOW!!!! www.clearsoulforces.bandcamp.com Our 1st single off Detroit Revolution(s) Prod. by the homie KanKick 03/13/12 Directed by Richard Taylor.Our 1st single off Detroit Revolution(s) Prod. by the homie KanKick 03/13/12 Directed by Richard Taylor. Make sure you follow us on Twitter.com/clearsoulforces & visit www.forceswithyou.com for everything about CSF and Detroit Revolution(s)
- published: 09 Jan 2012
- views: 1932213
- author: clearsoulforces
Nujabes - Modal Soul
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- Duration: 62:13
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Welcome again. Secound upload of Nujabes' album called Modal Soul. Worth listening to, one of the best albums ever heard. // Song order: 00:00 - 02:51 - Feather (feat. Cise Starr & Akin) 02:52 - 07:49 - Ordinary Joe (feat. Terry Callier) 07:50 - 11:54 - Reflection Eternal 11:55 - 17:24 - Luv (Part 3 featuring Shing02) 17:25 - 21:33 - Music is Mine 21:34 - 24:57 - Eclipse (feat. Substantial) 24:58 - 29:41 - The Sign (feat. Pase Rock) 29:42 - 33:46 - Thank You (feat. Apani B) 33:47 - 39:25 - World's End Rhapsody 39:26 - 44:06 - Modal Soul (feat. Uyama Hiroto) 44:07 - 48:03 - Flowers 48:04 - 51:02 - Sea of Cloud 51:03 - 54:52 - Light on the Land 54:53 - Horizon // Sites www.facebook.com nujabes.org soundcloud.com hydeout.net // Download link www.mediafire.com depositfiles.com // Picture astraltourism.com // Facebook fanpage www.facebook.com // Hope u enjoy the album and u going to listen more of his art! //All credits goes to the creator, I don't own these songs! RIP NUJABES.
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Welcome again. Secound upload of Nujabes' album called Modal Soul. Worth listening to, one of the best albums ever heard. // Song order: 00:00 - 02:51 - Feather (feat. Cise Starr & Akin) 02:52 - 07:49 - Ordinary Joe (feat. Terry Callier) 07:50 - 11:54 - Reflection Eternal 11:55 - 17:24 - Luv (Part 3 featuring Shing02) 17:25 - 21:33 - Music is Mine 21:34 - 24:57 - Eclipse (feat. Substantial) 24:58 - 29:41 - The Sign (feat. Pase Rock) 29:42 - 33:46 - Thank You (feat. Apani B) 33:47 - 39:25 - World's End Rhapsody 39:26 - 44:06 - Modal Soul (feat. Uyama Hiroto) 44:07 - 48:03 - Flowers 48:04 - 51:02 - Sea of Cloud 51:03 - 54:52 - Light on the Land 54:53 - Horizon // Sites www.facebook.com nujabes.org soundcloud.com hydeout.net // Download link www.mediafire.com depositfiles.com // Picture astraltourism.com // Facebook fanpage www.facebook.com // Hope u enjoy the album and u going to listen more of his art! //All credits goes to the creator, I don't own these songs! RIP NUJABES.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 862762
- author: moarthanmusic
"Memphis Soul Stew" (live) King Curtis & The Kingpins
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
The only band that could make Booker T & The MG's sweat. "And now we need a pound of fat back drums..." King Curtis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 6, 2000.
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The only band that could make Booker T & The MG's sweat. "And now we need a pound of fat back drums..." King Curtis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 6, 2000.
- published: 08 Feb 2008
- views: 404748
- author: McGarVision
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
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- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, New York Community Choir. Visuals courtesy Mad Vision - soultrain.com
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Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, New York Community Choir. Visuals courtesy Mad Vision - soultrain.com
- published: 11 Aug 2009
- views: 3056643
- author: Funkenpumpen
BLACK SOUL MUSIC - BLACK SOUL
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 05 Feb 2013
Otro super exito verbenero. Video creado por Killero72 y El Canal Killero.
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Otro super exito verbenero. Video creado por Killero72 y El Canal Killero.
- published: 29 Mar 2011
- views: 14923
- author: killero72
Fantan Mojah - Rasta Got Soul Produce by Dameon Gayle
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
itunes.apple.com Title: Rasta Got Soul Artiste: Fantan Mojah Produce by: Dameon Gayle Label: Warriors Musick Production
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itunes.apple.com Title: Rasta Got Soul Artiste: Fantan Mojah Produce by: Dameon Gayle Label: Warriors Musick Production
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 1306658
- author: Dameon Gayle
Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko (Official Video)
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
#controlsystem available now! itunes.apple.com Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko Prod. by Dave Free of Digi+Phonics MixedByAli Directed by FredoTovar/ScottFleishman www.Facebook.com @abdashsoul | Facebook.com/AbSoulMusic TopDawgMusic.com
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#controlsystem available now! itunes.apple.com Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko Prod. by Dave Free of Digi+Phonics MixedByAli Directed by FredoTovar/ScottFleishman www.Facebook.com @abdashsoul | Facebook.com/AbSoulMusic TopDawgMusic.com
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 3268945
- author: TopDawgEntTDE
ScHoolboy Q - Druggys WitH Hoes Again ft Ab-Soul (Official Video)
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
"Habits & Contradictions" on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Directed by JeromeD.com @ScHoolboyQ | facebook.com/schoolboyq topdawgmusic.com
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"Habits & Contradictions" on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Directed by JeromeD.com @ScHoolboyQ | facebook.com/schoolboyq topdawgmusic.com
- published: 24 Feb 2012
- views: 1678666
- author: TopDawgEntTDE
Gregory Porter - "Be Good (Lion's Song)" Official Video (Jazz, Soul Music)
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
"Be Good" is the first video from Jazz singer Gregory Porter's critically acclaimed album of the same name. Purchase the album: itunes.apple.com motema.com gregoryporter.com Video Credits: Directed by award winning filmmaker Pierre Bennu, with cinematography by Shawn Peters and special set work by visual artist Dirk Joseph. Shot entirely on location in Baltimore, Maryland, director Pierre Bennu visually compliments Porter's intense lyrics and smooth, soulful vocals with vibrant colors and whimsical storytelling, and sets it all against Charm City's unique backdrop. As two lovers traverse their everyday lives amidst the mundane, Bennu draws on the power of everyday magic, the fear of loss, and the yearning for love in what he calls a "lullaby for your inner child." "The dance of love is something that can be done alone but it is also fun with somebody else," says Bennu. "I wanted to show two characters; one who was so busy dancing alone, never looking to have a partner... and another so desperate for love that he would do whatever it took to get it. What that character finally realizes is that all he needed to offer forth was himself." To compliment his artistic vision, Bennu tapped the talents of Baltimore-based multidisciplinary visual artist Dirk Joseph, whose 'magical props' add significantly to the video's playful and enchanting sensibility.
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"Be Good" is the first video from Jazz singer Gregory Porter's critically acclaimed album of the same name. Purchase the album: itunes.apple.com motema.com gregoryporter.com Video Credits: Directed by award winning filmmaker Pierre Bennu, with cinematography by Shawn Peters and special set work by visual artist Dirk Joseph. Shot entirely on location in Baltimore, Maryland, director Pierre Bennu visually compliments Porter's intense lyrics and smooth, soulful vocals with vibrant colors and whimsical storytelling, and sets it all against Charm City's unique backdrop. As two lovers traverse their everyday lives amidst the mundane, Bennu draws on the power of everyday magic, the fear of loss, and the yearning for love in what he calls a "lullaby for your inner child." "The dance of love is something that can be done alone but it is also fun with somebody else," says Bennu. "I wanted to show two characters; one who was so busy dancing alone, never looking to have a partner... and another so desperate for love that he would do whatever it took to get it. What that character finally realizes is that all he needed to offer forth was himself." To compliment his artistic vision, Bennu tapped the talents of Baltimore-based multidisciplinary visual artist Dirk Joseph, whose 'magical props' add significantly to the video's playful and enchanting sensibility.
- published: 20 Mar 2012
- views: 462782
- author: motemamusic
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The Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul.
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Music Explosion were an American Garage/Rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, best know for their top 10 hit "Little Bit O' Soul" released on Laurie records in 1967, the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Little Bit O' Soul" / "I See The Light" (Laurie 3380)
" Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite,
You need a little bit o' soul to put you right "
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The Music Explosion were an American Garage/Rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, best know for their top 10 hit "Little Bit O' Soul" released on Laurie records in 1967, the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Little Bit O' Soul" / "I See The Light" (Laurie 3380)
" Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite,
You need a little bit o' soul to put you right "
- published: 14 May 2012
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The Music Explosion - Little Bit O'Soul
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Music Explosion was an American garage rock band from Galion, (Near Mansfield) Ohio, discovered and signed by record producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz. The quintet is best known for their #2 Hot 100 1967 hit "Little Bit O'Soul" that received gold record status by the R.I.A.A. Written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, who had previously written big hits for The Ivy League and Herman's Hermits, the song (Laurie Records #3380, subsequently reissued on Buddah Records) was the band's only top 40 hit.
Kasenetz, Katz and Elliot Chiprut produced "Little Bit O' Soul", paving the way for bubblegum pop bands like Ohio Express and 1910 Fruitgum Company. "Little Bit O' Soul" has been subsequently covered by several bands including The Ramones; Dodging Susan; and 2 Live Crew, who sampled the melody. On its own, the flip "I See The Light" (featuring a surf guitar bridge) was covered by The Fourth Amendment and had a resurgence on some stations in the Midwest four years later.
Lead singer Jamie Lyons also recorded several solo singles on Laurie while still recording with the group. His first single, "Soul Struttin'" became a Northern Soul hit in several Northeast regions. Lyons died of heart failure at his home at 57 in Little River, South Carolina on September 25, 2006. ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Added Sept. 1, 2012 ~ This video has been Featured on the Mansfield, Ohio Music Hall Of Fame Website.... http://momhof.info/Home.html
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The Music Explosion was an American garage rock band from Galion, (Near Mansfield) Ohio, discovered and signed by record producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz. The quintet is best known for their #2 Hot 100 1967 hit "Little Bit O'Soul" that received gold record status by the R.I.A.A. Written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, who had previously written big hits for The Ivy League and Herman's Hermits, the song (Laurie Records #3380, subsequently reissued on Buddah Records) was the band's only top 40 hit.
Kasenetz, Katz and Elliot Chiprut produced "Little Bit O' Soul", paving the way for bubblegum pop bands like Ohio Express and 1910 Fruitgum Company. "Little Bit O' Soul" has been subsequently covered by several bands including The Ramones; Dodging Susan; and 2 Live Crew, who sampled the melody. On its own, the flip "I See The Light" (featuring a surf guitar bridge) was covered by The Fourth Amendment and had a resurgence on some stations in the Midwest four years later.
Lead singer Jamie Lyons also recorded several solo singles on Laurie while still recording with the group. His first single, "Soul Struttin'" became a Northern Soul hit in several Northeast regions. Lyons died of heart failure at his home at 57 in Little River, South Carolina on September 25, 2006. ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Added Sept. 1, 2012 ~ This video has been Featured on the Mansfield, Ohio Music Hall Of Fame Website.... http://momhof.info/Home.html
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 58044
- author: PlaylistPanda6
Iron Cross - Little Bit O' Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake! 1972
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
French glam rock band remake of The Music Explosion mega hit! This disc has become popular among the vinyl collectors.
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French glam rock band remake of The Music Explosion mega hit! This disc has become popular among the vinyl collectors.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 7424
- author: PlaylistPanda6
"Little Bit O' Soul" - The Little Darlings (ORIGINAL VERSION 1965)
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- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The original version of the song which would be a monster hit for The Music Explosion two years later.
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The original version of the song which would be a monster hit for The Music Explosion two years later.
If you like this, check out my blog: http://listenpeopleblog.blogspot.com/
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 38199
- author: PlaylistPanda6
Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion cover by The Vynals
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Vynals cover Little Bit O' Soul, live in Memphis.
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The Vynals cover Little Bit O' Soul, live in Memphis.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2757
- author: PlaylistPanda6
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
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- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
Download now: http://tinyurl.com/cmg3wlj
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Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
Download now: http://tinyurl.com/cmg3wlj
Visit website: http://tinyurl.com/aetcueg
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 208595
- author: PlaylistPanda6
The Pulse - Little Bit O'Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake!
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Late 70's remake of the Music Explosion 60's classic! Vocals sound a tad like Bon Jovi with a little "Calypso" thrown in. Erie, Pennsylvania band.
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Late 70's remake of the Music Explosion 60's classic! Vocals sound a tad like Bon Jovi with a little "Calypso" thrown in. Erie, Pennsylvania band.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 1986
- author: PlaylistPanda6
The Explosive Rockats - Little Bit O' Soul (Music Explosion Cover)
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- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The 'Kats do their version of the Music Explosion's hit. June 2010
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The 'Kats do their version of the Music Explosion's hit. June 2010
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 507
- author: PlaylistPanda6
RAMONES - Little Bit O'Soul (guitar & bass cover)
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- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
One from the Subterranean Jungle album that I hadn't covered before. The original is from 'The Music Explosion'.
Guitars and bass recorded as usual and mixed with a filtered version (most of the bass and guitar removed) from the original in Cool Edit Pro.
PS: if you want to play along, then you have to tune your guitar (and bass) flat to 435 Hz.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
No copyright infringement intended.
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One from the Subterranean Jungle album that I hadn't covered before. The original is from 'The Music Explosion'.
Guitars and bass recorded as usual and mixed with a filtered version (most of the bass and guitar removed) from the original in Cool Edit Pro.
PS: if you want to play along, then you have to tune your guitar (and bass) flat to 435 Hz.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
No copyright infringement intended.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2067
- author: PlaylistPanda6
The Flyte - Little Bit O'Soul (live cover)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Chuck covering the garage band song by the Music Explosion made famous in the sixties. This is at the B-360 event in Boulder at Scott Carpenter park 6-5-2011
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Chuck covering the garage band song by the Music Explosion made famous in the sixties. This is at the B-360 event in Boulder at Scott Carpenter park 6-5-2011
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 160
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Little Bit O' Soul
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- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
STEVE GOTTFRIED and ROCK N ROLL REVIVAL
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Little Bit O'Soul - Time Machine
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Time Machine performing Little Bit O'Soul. Original composition by Music Explosion ('67). Video provided by Cathy Chapman @ Ballydoyle-Bloomingdale, IL
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Time Machine performing Little Bit O'Soul. Original composition by Music Explosion ('67). Video provided by Cathy Chapman @ Ballydoyle-Bloomingdale, IL
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 415
- author: PlaylistPanda6
The Music Explosion
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1967 - The Summer of Love... took The Mansfield, Ohio band The Music Explosion to the top of the charts. Over 5 million albums later...They still rock n roll every chance possible. For booking go to www.MusicExplosionBand.com
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1967 - The Summer of Love... took The Mansfield, Ohio band The Music Explosion to the top of the charts. Over 5 million albums later...They still rock n roll every chance possible. For booking go to www.MusicExplosionBand.com
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 22515
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The Gizzards - Little Bit'o Soul
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gizzards Rock Their Soul Side On This 60s Party Tune From the Music Explosion !
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The Gizzards Rock Their Soul Side On This 60s Party Tune From the Music Explosion !
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- views: 153
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Music Explosion - I See The Light
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Midwest garage band hit from June, 1967. This was the B-side of "Little Bit O' Soul"
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Midwest garage band hit from June, 1967. This was the B-side of "Little Bit O' Soul"
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2463
- author: PlaylistPanda6
Springsteen - Little Bit O Soul - The Spectrum October 13, 2009
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Working on a Dream Tour. Night 1 of 4 for The Spectrum
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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Working on a Dream Tour. Night 1 of 4 for The Spectrum
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 23518
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry Pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry Pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry Pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry Pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry Pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 7 part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 7 part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 7 part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Terry pratchett soul music
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Otis Redding- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Live 1967
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Live performance of one of the greatest love songs ever written.
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Live performance of one of the greatest love songs ever written.
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1339124
- author: browsemusicvideos
Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone (SoulSchool)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Al Green singing Tired Of Being Alone in Soul School
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Al Green singing Tired Of Being Alone in Soul School
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 2774152
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CHI-LITES "OH GIRL"
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- Duration: 3:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A NUMBER ONE HIT SONG FROM THE CHI-LITES
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A NUMBER ONE HIT SONG FROM THE CHI-LITES
- published: 20 Oct 2011
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Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Don't Want To Do Wrong
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1971
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Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Original Version)
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- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is the original version of "Lovely Day" which i decided to upload because it was not on youtube already. Please do not complain of there not being a video, as it would probably be taken down by youtube anyway. This is purely audio along with the artwork of the album from which the song came from. I would appreciate any ratings and comments. So enjoy this brilliant song! If you liked this then please subscribe and check out some of my other videos.
Lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day
... lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ...
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day.....
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day...
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This is the original version of "Lovely Day" which i decided to upload because it was not on youtube already. Please do not complain of there not being a video, as it would probably be taken down by youtube anyway. This is purely audio along with the artwork of the album from which the song came from. I would appreciate any ratings and comments. So enjoy this brilliant song! If you liked this then please subscribe and check out some of my other videos.
Lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day
... lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ...
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day.....
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day...
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 6231937
- author: browsemusicvideos
The Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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diana ross & the supremes - My World Is Empty Without You
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
You can download this song for free from http://www.newtracks2008.com diana ross & the supremes - My World Is Empty Without You - Motown Legends
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You can download this song for free from http://www.newtracks2008.com diana ross & the supremes - My World Is Empty Without You - Motown Legends
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 315889
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The Four Tops-I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
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The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 2141374
- author: browsemusicvideos
The four tops - Bernadette
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Released 1967
Buy the song @: cdon.no/musikk/four_tops/gold-520418
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Released 1967
Buy the song @: cdon.no/musikk/four_tops/gold-520418
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- views: 737934
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ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.mp4
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- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Live from Soul Train..ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.
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Live from Soul Train..ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 246672
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes "If You Don't Know Be Now" (1972)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From their 1972 debut album "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes"
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B;, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. In 1970, the group recruited Teddy Pendergrass as the drummer for their backing band. Pendergrass had been a former member of The Cadillacs, and was promoted to lead singer when John Atkins quit the group the same year.
Despite success, the Blue Notes' lineup continued to change regularly. In 1974, Melvin brought in Jerry Cummings to replace Lloyd Parks, and female singer Sharon Paige was added to the lineup. While at the top of their success in 1976, Pendergrass quit the Blue Notes, after unsuccessfully lobbying to have Melvin rename the act "Teddy Pendergrass & the Blue Notes". Pendergrass went on to a successful solo career, cut short by a paralyzing 1982 car accident, although he made a brief comeback at the Live Aid concert in 1985.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes are arguably the most-covered Philly soul group in history: many of their hits have been re-recorded by other artists, including Simply Red, David Ruffin, Jimmy Somerville and Sybil, while dance music DJ Danny Rampling cites "Wake Up Everybody" as his favorite song of all time. Today, Gil Saunders continues to perform as a solo artist, and still performs all the hits of the past as well as his own material. Several members of various incarnations of the Blue Notes continue to tour as "Harold Melvin's Blue Notes". Harold's widow currently manages Harold Melvin's Blue Notes featuring Lead singer, Donnell "Big Daddy" Gillespie, Anthony Brooks, Rufus Thorne, John Morris and Sharon Paige.
http://wn.com/Harold_Melvin_The_Blue_Notes_If_You_Don't_Know_Be_Now_1972
From their 1972 debut album "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes"
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B;, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. In 1970, the group recruited Teddy Pendergrass as the drummer for their backing band. Pendergrass had been a former member of The Cadillacs, and was promoted to lead singer when John Atkins quit the group the same year.
Despite success, the Blue Notes' lineup continued to change regularly. In 1974, Melvin brought in Jerry Cummings to replace Lloyd Parks, and female singer Sharon Paige was added to the lineup. While at the top of their success in 1976, Pendergrass quit the Blue Notes, after unsuccessfully lobbying to have Melvin rename the act "Teddy Pendergrass & the Blue Notes". Pendergrass went on to a successful solo career, cut short by a paralyzing 1982 car accident, although he made a brief comeback at the Live Aid concert in 1985.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes are arguably the most-covered Philly soul group in history: many of their hits have been re-recorded by other artists, including Simply Red, David Ruffin, Jimmy Somerville and Sybil, while dance music DJ Danny Rampling cites "Wake Up Everybody" as his favorite song of all time. Today, Gil Saunders continues to perform as a solo artist, and still performs all the hits of the past as well as his own material. Several members of various incarnations of the Blue Notes continue to tour as "Harold Melvin's Blue Notes". Harold's widow currently manages Harold Melvin's Blue Notes featuring Lead singer, Donnell "Big Daddy" Gillespie, Anthony Brooks, Rufus Thorne, John Morris and Sharon Paige.
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 64264
- author: browsemusicvideos
The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
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- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
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The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 97552
- author: browsemusicvideos
Blue Magic - Sideshow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Blue Magic-Sideshow
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The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again 1978
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
When Will I See You Again by The Three Degrees 1978 Snowtime Special
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When Will I See You Again by The Three Degrees 1978 Snowtime Special
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 563242
- author: browsemusicvideos
![THE O'JAYS - Love Train [Live]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130303190854im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/M1cTun4foMM/default.jpg "THE O'JAYS - Love Train [Live]")
THE O'JAYS - Love Train [Live]
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Live
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Jr Walker & Allstars - Shotgun
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1966 Hullabaloo
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The Chi-lites "Have you seen her"
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- Duration: 5:06
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" original song
http://wn.com/The_Chi-lites_Have_you_seen_her
The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" original song
- published: 31 Oct 2011
- views: 4677015
- author: browsemusicvideos
Jackie Wilson - Lonely teardrops
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Jackie Wilson performing Lonely teardrops in front of an audience.
http://wn.com/Jackie_Wilson_Lonely_teardrops
Jackie Wilson performing Lonely teardrops in front of an audience.
- published: 25 Oct 2011
- views: 2951246
- author: browsemusicvideos
Oh Girl - Chi Lites - Lyrics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Oh, girl
Id be in trouble if you left me now
Cause I dont know where to look for love
I just dont know how
http://wn.com/Oh_Girl_Chi_Lites_Lyrics
Oh, girl
Id be in trouble if you left me now
Cause I dont know where to look for love
I just dont know how
- published: 31 Oct 2011
- views: 388047
- author: browsemusicvideos
Al Green-Lets Stay Together
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
mean song!
http://wn.com/Al_Green-Lets_Stay_Together
2:21
The Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul.
The Music Explosion were an American Garage/Rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, best know for ...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul.
The Music Explosion were an American Garage/Rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, best know for their top 10 hit "Little Bit O' Soul" released on Laurie records in 1967, the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Little Bit O' Soul" / "I See The Light" (Laurie 3380)
" Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite,
You need a little bit o' soul to put you right "
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 12717
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:21
The Music Explosion - Little Bit O'Soul
The Music Explosion was an American garage rock band from Galion, (Near Mansfield) Ohio, d...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Music Explosion - Little Bit O'Soul
The Music Explosion was an American garage rock band from Galion, (Near Mansfield) Ohio, discovered and signed by record producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz. The quintet is best known for their #2 Hot 100 1967 hit "Little Bit O'Soul" that received gold record status by the R.I.A.A. Written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, who had previously written big hits for The Ivy League and Herman's Hermits, the song (Laurie Records #3380, subsequently reissued on Buddah Records) was the band's only top 40 hit.
Kasenetz, Katz and Elliot Chiprut produced "Little Bit O' Soul", paving the way for bubblegum pop bands like Ohio Express and 1910 Fruitgum Company. "Little Bit O' Soul" has been subsequently covered by several bands including The Ramones; Dodging Susan; and 2 Live Crew, who sampled the melody. On its own, the flip "I See The Light" (featuring a surf guitar bridge) was covered by The Fourth Amendment and had a resurgence on some stations in the Midwest four years later.
Lead singer Jamie Lyons also recorded several solo singles on Laurie while still recording with the group. His first single, "Soul Struttin'" became a Northern Soul hit in several Northeast regions. Lyons died of heart failure at his home at 57 in Little River, South Carolina on September 25, 2006. ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Added Sept. 1, 2012 ~ This video has been Featured on the Mansfield, Ohio Music Hall Of Fame Website.... http://momhof.info/Home.html
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 58044
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:34
Iron Cross - Little Bit O' Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake! 1972
French glam rock band remake of The Music Explosion mega hit! This disc has become popular...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Iron Cross - Little Bit O' Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake! 1972
French glam rock band remake of The Music Explosion mega hit! This disc has become popular among the vinyl collectors.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 7424
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:37
"Little Bit O' Soul" - The Little Darlings (ORIGINAL VERSION 1965)
The original version of the song which would be a monster hit for The Music Explosion two ...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
"Little Bit O' Soul" - The Little Darlings (ORIGINAL VERSION 1965)
The original version of the song which would be a monster hit for The Music Explosion two years later.
If you like this, check out my blog: http://listenpeopleblog.blogspot.com/
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 38199
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:28
Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion cover by The Vynals
The Vynals cover Little Bit O' Soul, live in Memphis....
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion cover by The Vynals
The Vynals cover Little Bit O' Soul, live in Memphis.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2757
- author: PlaylistPanda6
1:27
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
Download now: http://tinyurl.com/cmg3wlj
Visit website: ht...
published: 14 Dec 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
Download now: http://tinyurl.com/cmg3wlj
Visit website: http://tinyurl.com/aetcueg
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 208595
- author: PlaylistPanda6
3:11
The Pulse - Little Bit O'Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake!
Late 70's remake of the Music Explosion 60's classic! Vocals sound a tad like Bon Jovi wit...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Pulse - Little Bit O'Soul - 45rpm Music Explosion Remake!
Late 70's remake of the Music Explosion 60's classic! Vocals sound a tad like Bon Jovi with a little "Calypso" thrown in. Erie, Pennsylvania band.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 1986
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:37
The Explosive Rockats - Little Bit O' Soul (Music Explosion Cover)
The 'Kats do their version of the Music Explosion's hit. June 2010...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Explosive Rockats - Little Bit O' Soul (Music Explosion Cover)
The 'Kats do their version of the Music Explosion's hit. June 2010
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 507
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:45
RAMONES - Little Bit O'Soul (guitar & bass cover)
One from the Subterranean Jungle album that I hadn't covered before. The original is from ...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
RAMONES - Little Bit O'Soul (guitar & bass cover)
One from the Subterranean Jungle album that I hadn't covered before. The original is from 'The Music Explosion'.
Guitars and bass recorded as usual and mixed with a filtered version (most of the bass and guitar removed) from the original in Cool Edit Pro.
PS: if you want to play along, then you have to tune your guitar (and bass) flat to 435 Hz.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
No copyright infringement intended.
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2067
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:15
The Flyte - Little Bit O'Soul (live cover)
Chuck covering the garage band song by the Music Explosion made famous in the sixties. Thi...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Flyte - Little Bit O'Soul (live cover)
Chuck covering the garage band song by the Music Explosion made famous in the sixties. This is at the B-360 event in Boulder at Scott Carpenter park 6-5-2011
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 160
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:51
Little Bit O' Soul
STEVE GOTTFRIED and ROCK N ROLL REVIVAL...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Little Bit O' Soul
STEVE GOTTFRIED and ROCK N ROLL REVIVAL
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 3999
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:21
Little Bit O'Soul - Time Machine
Time Machine performing Little Bit O'Soul. Original composition by Music Explosion ('67)....
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Little Bit O'Soul - Time Machine
Time Machine performing Little Bit O'Soul. Original composition by Music Explosion ('67). Video provided by Cathy Chapman @ Ballydoyle-Bloomingdale, IL
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 415
- author: PlaylistPanda6
7:29
The Music Explosion
1967 - The Summer of Love... took The Mansfield, Ohio band The Music Explosion to the top ...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Music Explosion
1967 - The Summer of Love... took The Mansfield, Ohio band The Music Explosion to the top of the charts. Over 5 million albums later...They still rock n roll every chance possible. For booking go to www.MusicExplosionBand.com
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 22515
- author: PlaylistPanda6
2:21
The Gizzards - Little Bit'o Soul
The Gizzards Rock Their Soul Side On This 60s Party Tune From the Music Explosion !...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
The Gizzards - Little Bit'o Soul
The Gizzards Rock Their Soul Side On This 60s Party Tune From the Music Explosion !
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 153
- author: PlaylistPanda6
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1:48
Experience Human Flight
http://www.facebook.com/InfinityList
twitter.com/InfinityList
A Video From www.InfinityLi...
published: 15 Apr 2011
author: InfinityList
Experience Human Flight
http://www.facebook.com/InfinityList
twitter.com/InfinityList
A Video From www.InfinityList.com
The Cinematic Sports Experience
Chapter 1: Experience Human Flight
Chapter 2: Experience Zero Gravity (http://vimeo.com/29017795)
Chapter 3: Experience Freedom (http://vimeo.com/36778012)
In February 2011, the five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett from Soul Flyers were invited to Melbourne to provide advanced 3D coaching to some of Australia's leading Skydive athlete talent.
The goal of the Training camp and the production were:
1. To increase participation in our sport.
2. Provide greater pathways for our elite athletes.
Hopefully this video will give all that view it a different perspective of what skydiving can offer. Hopefully it will provoke some necessity to learn to fly in our wonderful three-dimensional environment- The Sky!
InfinityList.com is a central platform to find the best and most cinematic adventure sports video.
If you have any questions or further comment please contact us through our website infinitylist.com
Starring:
Ossie Khan, Fred Fugen and Vince Refett, ….
Produced by:
Betty Wants In
www.BettyWantsIn.com
facebook.com/BettyWantsIn
In Association with:
Melbourne Skydive Centre
www.MelbourneSkydiveCentre.com.au
www.facebook.com/MelbourneSkydiveCentre
Shot on a GoPro
Music: Alex Khaskin - "She Is"
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/she-is-from-experience-human/id433729395
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5:21
"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post...
published: 16 Jun 2010
author: Anthony Francisco Schepperd
"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead's 'The Music Scene.'
Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
Music by Blockhead
7:40
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Pe...
published: 13 Jan 2013
author: NRS Films
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection.
Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen, Tim Kemple, Anson Fogel, Blake Hendrix and Skip Armstrong hunt the remote Mexican jungle for the perfect waterfall...and the perfect shot. Paddler and cinematographer alike explore a world beyond the expected.
Cascada.
From www.forgemotionpictures.com, makers of the award-winning films Of Souls + Water, WildWater and Cold.
Presented By NRS www.nrsweb.com
Directed by Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong
Music by HECQ and Anson Fogel. Learn more about HECQ and buy his amazing work here:
www.hecq.de/
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/hecq/id79947932
Media and Film Festival Inquiries
Anson Fogel - anson@forgemotionpictures.com
15:58
MADE IN ICELAND
by Klara Harden
Official Selection THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINFILMFESTIVAL 2012
BECOME A PA...
published: 26 Oct 2011
author: Klara Harden
MADE IN ICELAND
by Klara Harden
Official Selection THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINFILMFESTIVAL 2012
BECOME A PART OF MY NEXT GREATADVENTURE NOW!
http://klaraharden.com/
Find out more on https://www.facebook.com/klaraharden
See photography on http://www.flickr.com/photos/allesklara/
MADE IN ICELAND FAQ: http://www.travelettes.net/made-in-iceland-faq/
Featured on http://www.nomadearth.com/2011/10/31/made-in-iceland/
Thanks for the support! http://www.nomadearth.com/
-Shot on Canon 550D with
-Tamron 10-24mm f3.5-4.5
-Nikorr 35mm f2
MUSIC (in this order)
Mumford and Sons/ Awake my Soul
Fleet Foxes/ Blue Ridge Mountains
The Tallest Man on Earth/ Wild Hunt
Bon Iver/ Babys
Asteroid Galaxy Tour/ Sunshine Coolin'
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2:31
Music Explosion - I See The Light
Midwest garage band hit from June, 1967. This was the B-side of "Little Bit O' Soul"...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Music Explosion - I See The Light
Midwest garage band hit from June, 1967. This was the B-side of "Little Bit O' Soul"
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 2463
- author: PlaylistPanda6
3:46
Springsteen - Little Bit O Soul - The Spectrum October 13, 2009
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Working on a Dream Tour. Night 1 of 4 for The Spect...
published: 14 May 2012
author: PlaylistPanda6
Springsteen - Little Bit O Soul - The Spectrum October 13, 2009
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Working on a Dream Tour. Night 1 of 4 for The Spectrum
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 23518
- author: PlaylistPanda6
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 54035
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 26166
- author: ramtopsman
6:17
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 1 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 23376
- author: ramtopsman
9:01
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 28492
- author: ramtopsman
9:01
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 20339
- author: ramtopsman
6:25
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 2 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 18480
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 1
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 18739
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 16824
- author: ramtopsman
6:30
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 3 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 17582
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 1
Terry Pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 1
Terry Pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 16232
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 2
Terry Pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 2
Terry Pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 14275
- author: ramtopsman
6:34
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 3
Terry Pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 4 part 3
Terry Pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 14365
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 1
Terry Pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 1
Terry Pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 13855
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 2
Terry Pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 2
Terry Pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
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- author: ramtopsman
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Experience Human Flight
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A Video From www.InfinityLi...
published: 15 Apr 2011
author: InfinityList
Experience Human Flight
http://www.facebook.com/InfinityList
twitter.com/InfinityList
A Video From www.InfinityList.com
The Cinematic Sports Experience
Chapter 1: Experience Human Flight
Chapter 2: Experience Zero Gravity (http://vimeo.com/29017795)
Chapter 3: Experience Freedom (http://vimeo.com/36778012)
In February 2011, the five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett from Soul Flyers were invited to Melbourne to provide advanced 3D coaching to some of Australia's leading Skydive athlete talent.
The goal of the Training camp and the production were:
1. To increase participation in our sport.
2. Provide greater pathways for our elite athletes.
Hopefully this video will give all that view it a different perspective of what skydiving can offer. Hopefully it will provoke some necessity to learn to fly in our wonderful three-dimensional environment- The Sky!
InfinityList.com is a central platform to find the best and most cinematic adventure sports video.
If you have any questions or further comment please contact us through our website infinitylist.com
Starring:
Ossie Khan, Fred Fugen and Vince Refett, ….
Produced by:
Betty Wants In
www.BettyWantsIn.com
facebook.com/BettyWantsIn
In Association with:
Melbourne Skydive Centre
www.MelbourneSkydiveCentre.com.au
www.facebook.com/MelbourneSkydiveCentre
Shot on a GoPro
Music: Alex Khaskin - "She Is"
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/she-is-from-experience-human/id433729395
Help support the creation of InfinityList's next video with a small tip to the Tip Jar below!
5:21
"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post...
published: 16 Jun 2010
author: Anthony Francisco Schepperd
"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead's 'The Music Scene.'
Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
Music by Blockhead
7:40
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Pe...
published: 13 Jan 2013
author: NRS Films
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection.
Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen, Tim Kemple, Anson Fogel, Blake Hendrix and Skip Armstrong hunt the remote Mexican jungle for the perfect waterfall...and the perfect shot. Paddler and cinematographer alike explore a world beyond the expected.
Cascada.
From www.forgemotionpictures.com, makers of the award-winning films Of Souls + Water, WildWater and Cold.
Presented By NRS www.nrsweb.com
Directed by Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong
Music by HECQ and Anson Fogel. Learn more about HECQ and buy his amazing work here:
www.hecq.de/
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/hecq/id79947932
Media and Film Festival Inquiries
Anson Fogel - anson@forgemotionpictures.com
15:58
MADE IN ICELAND
by Klara Harden
Official Selection THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINFILMFESTIVAL 2012
BECOME A PA...
published: 26 Oct 2011
author: Klara Harden
MADE IN ICELAND
by Klara Harden
Official Selection THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINFILMFESTIVAL 2012
BECOME A PART OF MY NEXT GREATADVENTURE NOW!
http://klaraharden.com/
Find out more on https://www.facebook.com/klaraharden
See photography on http://www.flickr.com/photos/allesklara/
MADE IN ICELAND FAQ: http://www.travelettes.net/made-in-iceland-faq/
Featured on http://www.nomadearth.com/2011/10/31/made-in-iceland/
Thanks for the support! http://www.nomadearth.com/
-Shot on Canon 550D with
-Tamron 10-24mm f3.5-4.5
-Nikorr 35mm f2
MUSIC (in this order)
Mumford and Sons/ Awake my Soul
Fleet Foxes/ Blue Ridge Mountains
The Tallest Man on Earth/ Wild Hunt
Bon Iver/ Babys
Asteroid Galaxy Tour/ Sunshine Coolin'
Youtube results:
6:26
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 3
terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 5 part 3
terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 13667
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 1
terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
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Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 1
terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 13027
- author: ramtopsman
9:00
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 2
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 11916
- author: ramtopsman
6:19
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: ramtopsman
Terry Pratchett Soul music Episode 6 part 3
Terry pratchett soul music
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 12146
- author: ramtopsman
4:23
Otis Redding- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Live 1967
Live performance of one of the greatest love songs ever written....
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
Otis Redding- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Live 1967
Live performance of one of the greatest love songs ever written.
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1339124
- author: browsemusicvideos
3:16
Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone (SoulSchool)
Al Green singing Tired Of Being Alone in Soul School...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone (SoulSchool)
Al Green singing Tired Of Being Alone in Soul School
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 2774152
- author: browsemusicvideos
3:12
CHI-LITES "OH GIRL"
A NUMBER ONE HIT SONG FROM THE CHI-LITES...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
CHI-LITES "OH GIRL"
A NUMBER ONE HIT SONG FROM THE CHI-LITES
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 989161
- author: browsemusicvideos
3:35
Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Don't Want To Do Wrong
1971...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Don't Want To Do Wrong
1971
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 81790
- author: browsemusicvideos
4:15
Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Original Version)
This is the original version of "Lovely Day" which i decided to upload because it was not ...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Original Version)
This is the original version of "Lovely Day" which i decided to upload because it was not on youtube already. Please do not complain of there not being a video, as it would probably be taken down by youtube anyway. This is purely audio along with the artwork of the album from which the song came from. I would appreciate any ratings and comments. So enjoy this brilliant song! If you liked this then please subscribe and check out some of my other videos.
Lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day
... lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ...
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day.....
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day...
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 6231937
- author: browsemusicvideos
5:31
The Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New
...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: browsemusicvideos
The Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1693139
- author: browsemusicvideos
2:34
diana ross & the supremes - My World Is Empty Without You
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published: 20 Oct 2011
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diana ross & the supremes - My World Is Empty Without You
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2:46
The Four Tops-I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)...
published: 20 Oct 2011
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The Four Tops-I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
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3:03
The four tops - Bernadette
Released 1967
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published: 20 Oct 2011
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The four tops - Bernadette
Released 1967
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4:42
ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.mp4
Live from Soul Train..ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974....
published: 20 Oct 2011
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ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.mp4
Live from Soul Train..ISLEY BROTHERS-WHO'S THAT LADY,LIVE 1974.
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3:24
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes "If You Don't Know Be Now" (1972)
From their 1972 debut album "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes"
Harold Melvin & the Blue N...
published: 20 Oct 2011
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes "If You Don't Know Be Now" (1972)
From their 1972 debut album "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes"
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B;, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. In 1970, the group recruited Teddy Pendergrass as the drummer for their backing band. Pendergrass had been a former member of The Cadillacs, and was promoted to lead singer when John Atkins quit the group the same year.
Despite success, the Blue Notes' lineup continued to change regularly. In 1974, Melvin brought in Jerry Cummings to replace Lloyd Parks, and female singer Sharon Paige was added to the lineup. While at the top of their success in 1976, Pendergrass quit the Blue Notes, after unsuccessfully lobbying to have Melvin rename the act "Teddy Pendergrass & the Blue Notes". Pendergrass went on to a successful solo career, cut short by a paralyzing 1982 car accident, although he made a brief comeback at the Live Aid concert in 1985.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes are arguably the most-covered Philly soul group in history: many of their hits have been re-recorded by other artists, including Simply Red, David Ruffin, Jimmy Somerville and Sybil, while dance music DJ Danny Rampling cites "Wake Up Everybody" as his favorite song of all time. Today, Gil Saunders continues to perform as a solo artist, and still performs all the hits of the past as well as his own material. Several members of various incarnations of the Blue Notes continue to tour as "Harold Melvin's Blue Notes". Harold's widow currently manages Harold Melvin's Blue Notes featuring Lead singer, Donnell "Big Daddy" Gillespie, Anthony Brooks, Rufus Thorne, John Morris and Sharon Paige.
- published: 20 Oct 2011
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3:41
The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye...
published: 20 Oct 2011
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The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Good Bye
- published: 20 Oct 2011
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3:14
Blue Magic - Sideshow
Blue Magic-Sideshow...
published: 20 Oct 2011
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Blue Magic - Sideshow
Blue Magic-Sideshow
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2:48
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again 1978
When Will I See You Again by The Three Degrees 1978 Snowtime Special...
published: 20 Oct 2011
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The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again 1978
When Will I See You Again by The Three Degrees 1978 Snowtime Special
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Experience Human Flight
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published: 15 Apr 2011
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Experience Human Flight
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The Cinematic Sports Experience
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In February 2011, the five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett from Soul Flyers were invited to Melbourne to provide advanced 3D coaching to some of Australia's leading Skydive athlete talent.
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"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post...
published: 16 Jun 2010
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"The Music Scene"
Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.
An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead's 'The Music Scene.'
Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
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7:40
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Pe...
published: 13 Jan 2013
author: NRS Films
CASCADA
Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection.
Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen, Tim Kemple, Anson Fogel, Blake Hendrix and Skip Armstrong hunt the remote Mexican jungle for the perfect waterfall...and the perfect shot. Paddler and cinematographer alike explore a world beyond the expected.
Cascada.
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15:58
MADE IN ICELAND
by Klara Harden
Official Selection THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINFILMFESTIVAL 2012
BECOME A PA...
published: 26 Oct 2011
author: Klara Harden
MADE IN ICELAND
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MUSIC (in this order)
Mumford and Sons/ Awake my Soul
Fleet Foxes/ Blue Ridge Mountains
The Tallest Man on Earth/ Wild Hunt
Bon Iver/ Babys
Asteroid Galaxy Tour/ Sunshine Coolin'
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THE O'JAYS - Love Train [Live]
Live...
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THE O'JAYS - Love Train [Live]
Live
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2:44
Jr Walker & Allstars - Shotgun
1966 Hullabaloo...
published: 25 Oct 2011
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Jr Walker & Allstars - Shotgun
1966 Hullabaloo
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5:06
The Chi-lites "Have you seen her"
The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" original song...
published: 31 Oct 2011
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The Chi-lites "Have you seen her"
The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" original song
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2:34
Jackie Wilson - Lonely teardrops
Jackie Wilson performing Lonely teardrops in front of an audience....
published: 25 Oct 2011
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Jackie Wilson - Lonely teardrops
Jackie Wilson performing Lonely teardrops in front of an audience.
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photo: Malacañang Photo Bureau / Jay Morales
01 Mar 2013
TERESA CEROJANO. Associated Press= MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Shooting erupted in a Malaysian village that has been occupied by nearly 200 members of a Filipino clan for three weeks, but the Malaysian home minister denied Friday that his forces were responsible. Members of a Muslim royal clan from the southern Philippines landed in a coastal village in Malaysia's Sabah state on Feb ... He said his plan was "to fight." ... --- ... World news....(size: 3.0Kb)
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
03 Mar 2013
Syrian president Bashar Assad has accused the British government of being "naive, confused and unrealistic" in its approach to the conflict in his country and warned of dire consequences if the West armed its rebels. In an interview with the Sunday Times Mr Assad said Britain was sacrificing peace talks to push for an end to an EU arms embargo, which would allow rebels to be armed ... "We do not expect an arsonist to be a firefighter." ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)
photo: AP
03 Mar 2013
"Our path to freedom is irreversible," declared Nelson Mandela on February 11, 1990. Addressing over fifty thousand cheering South African supporters in Cape Town, he had just been freed after three decades of imprisonment ... Millions of South Africans accepted his challenge. Political violence and interethnic tensions soon diminished. Educational and employment opportunities increased ... Without one the other two cannot exist....(size: 4.3Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
02 Mar 2013
Srinagar, March 02.. Two local policemen were killed by separatist guerrillas in a hit-and-run attack in Kupwara district of north Kashmir Saturday. A senior police officer told IANS that militants fired from close range at two constables of an armed battalion near the bus stand in Handwara town, 75 kilometres from here this morning ... The area has been cordoned off and searches have started in the town....(size: 2.1Kb)
Palm Beach Post
02 Mar 2013
The Examiner
02 Mar 2013
The initial lineup for Bonnaroo 2013 is out and, while there are sure to be some major lineup additions in the coming weeks, there's already more great music than any one human could ever see in a single weekend ... Soul Superjam curated by Jim James ... This year, fans get a chance to get a double dose of Jim James, once as a solo artist and once as the leader of this year's soul music themed Superjam....(size: 8.7Kb)
Skiddle
02 Mar 2013
Stop Look Listen is cut to fit the music lovers of the capital ... Featuring exciting original music ... Ever since Liz Lawrence discovered the guitar she was determined to make acoustic music an exciting, fresh and honest genre ... His raw and emotive artistic approach is demonstrated in his deep, lyrical and soulful music ... Music Genres.....(size: 4.5Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
01 Mar 2013
Patterson also has a local high profile friend in the super soulful Larry g(EE) ... It’s my dream to create timeless soulful music that inspires people to follow their own dreams out of love for it ... Larry and I have been childhood friends and we’ve always tried to make music that you feel in your soul. Our music speaks for itself! ... By doing that, it puts me in a more soulful mindset to create my style of music....(size: 3.4Kb)
North Shore News
01 Mar 2013
SHE was raised in a household that valued traditional Portuguese music, developed her singing voice in the bars and nightclubs of Lisbon, and has drawn on contemporary inspiration to breathe new life into an old-world genre ... Literally translating to "fate" in Portuguese, fado is a traditional musical style that Moura describes as "soul music." ... Her music-loving parents instilled in their daughter a passion for traditional song....(size: 4.6Kb)
North Shore News
01 Mar 2013
SHE was raised in a household that valued traditional Portuguese music, developed her singing voice in the bars and nightclubs of Lisbon, and has drawn on contemporary inspiration to breathe new life into an old-world genre ... Literally translating to "fate" in Portuguese, fado is a traditional musical style that Moura describes as "soul music." ... Her music-loving parents instilled in their daughter a passion for traditional song....(size: 4.6Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
01 Mar 2013
It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music. But my music is different from a lot of the stuff in the mainstream ... I was trying to achieve that emotional feeling you hear in soul music with my music ... I don't know what it is - that was the music that spoke to me ... The main thing was how cool it could be if loads of people like your music ... If anything, I've fallen in love with music more....(size: 2.4Kb)
Huffington Post
01 Mar 2013
Teaching is about soul. Yes, soul>. Soul like the music, like the food, like creole and the fried chicken in the diners where I grew up. It's soul like a big Italian wedding or a Quinceanera. Teaching is sharing one's soul. Why is it about soul? Because it is about inspiring students to follow in the footsteps of the explorers that chased dreams generations before ... We need to restore the soul of humanity in each classroom....(size: 3.4Kb)
Rollingstone
01 Mar 2013
Detroit Free Press
01 Mar 2013
Time has come today. That's what we expect Gov. Rick Snyder to say ... • Related. Preparing for Snyder announcement, Detroit City Council discusses legal options ... "Time ... Those lyrics from the soul music group were put on vinyl back in 1968, and come to think of it, Detroit's been in a state of crisis since just around that time ... Time ... "I've been crushed by the tumbling tide," they sang back in '68, "and my soul has been psychedelicized."....(size: 3.4Kb)
Detroit Free Press
01 Mar 2013
Time has come today. That's what we expect Gov. Rick Snyder to say ... • Related. Preparing for Snyder announcement, Detroit City Council discusses legal options ... "Time ... Those lyrics from the soul music group were put on vinyl back in 1968, and come to think of it, Detroit's been in a state of crisis since just around that time ... Time ... "I've been crushed by the tumbling tide," they sang back in '68, "and my soul has been psychedelicized."....(size: 3.4Kb)
Toronto Sun
01 Mar 2013
An all-animated version starring the voices of Judy's daughter Liza Minnelli as Dorothy, her mom's old musical buddy Mickey Rooney as Scarecrow, Danny Thomas as Tin Man and Milton Berle as Cowardly Lion ... The Super Soul Musical "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Despite the presence of Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow and Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, the movie was not warmly embraced by either audiences or critics....(size: 6.9Kb)
Vibe Magazine
28 Feb 2013
25), TDE's Ab-Soul, headlined his own show at SOBs on Wednesday. The downtown venue was filled with overjoyed spectators who believe in Soul's music and message ... Before dabbling into his latest album, 'Control System,' Soul rocked tracks from his previous projects ... Next up, was Smoke DZA, the Harlem bred emcee performed his collaboration "Diamonds" with Soul....(size: 1.6Kb)
For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation).
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| Soul | |
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| Stylistic origins | Rhythm and blues - Gospel - Doo-wop |
| Cultural origins | Late 1950s, United States |
| Typical instruments | Guitar - Bass - Piano - Organ - Drums - Horn section - Keyboards - Vocals |
| Mainstream popularity | International, 1960s through early 1980s, revival in late 2000s and early 2010s |
| Derivative forms | Funk - Disco - Contemporary R&B |
| Subgenres | |
| Blue-eyed soul - Brown-eyed soul - Motown Sound - Psychedelic soul - Smooth soul - Quiet Storm | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Neo soul - Soul blues - Soul jazz - Spoken word soul - Nu jazz | |
| Regional scenes | |
| British soul - Chicago soul - Detroit soul - Memphis soul - New Orleans soul - Northern soul - Philly soul - Southern soul | |
| Other topics | |
| Soul Musicians | |
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, combining elements of African American gospel music and rhythm and blues.
According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."[1] Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds.[2]
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Origins[link]
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Soul music has its roots in gospel music and rhythm and blues. The term 'soul' in black American parlance has connotations of black pride and culture. Gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz that self-consciously derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz. As singers and arrangers began using techniques from gospel and soul jazz in black popular music during the 1960s, soul music gradually functioned as an umbrella term for the black popular music at the time.[3] The term "soul music" itself, to describe gospel-style music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961.[4]
Ray Charles is often cited as inventing the soul genre with his string of hits starting with 1954's "I Got a Woman". Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style. Another view has it that a decade would transpire until Solomon Burke's early recordings for Atlantic Records codified the soul style; his early 1960s songs "Cry to Me", "Just Out of Reach" and "Down in the Valley" are considered classics of the genre. Little Richard (who was the inspiration for Otis Redding),[5] Fats Domino and James Brown originally called themselves rock and roll performers.[citation needed] However, as rock music moved away from its R&B roots in the 1960s, Brown claimed that he had always really been an R&B singer.[citation needed] Little Richard proclaimed himself the "king of rockin' and rollin', rhythm and blues soulin'", because his music embodied elements of all three, and because he inspired artists in all three genres.[6][7] Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke are also often acknowledged as soul forefathers.[citation needed]
Aretha Franklin's 1967 recordings, such as "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect" (originally sung by Otis Redding), and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" (written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn), are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions.[citation needed] In the late 1960s, Stax artists such as Redding, Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, and Johnnie Taylor made significant contributions to soul music.[citation needed] Howard Tate's recordings in the late 1960s for Verve Records, and later for Atlantic (produced by Jerry Ragovoy) are another notable body of work in the soul genre. By 1968, the soul music movement had begun to splinter, as artists such as James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone began to incorporate new styles into their music.[citation needed]
Geographical origins[link]
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Many[who?] consider the birthplace of soul music to be northern United States inner cities, particularly Chicago. Other cities, such as New York, Detroit, Memphis and Florence, quickly followed, creating their own soul styles based on their regional gospel roots.
Florence, Alabama, was the home of FAME Studios. Jimmy Hughes, Percy Sledge and Arthur Alexander recorded at Fame, and Aretha Franklin recorded in the area later in the 1960s. Fame Studios (often referred to as Muscle Shoals after a nearby town) enjoyed a close relationship with the Memphis label Stax Records, and many of the musicians and producers who worked in Memphis contributed to recordings in Alabama. Another notable Memphis label was Goldwax Records, which signed O.V. Wright and James Carr. Carr's "The Dark End of the Street" (written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn) was recorded in 1967 at two other Memphis studios, Royal Recording and American Sound Studios. American Sound Studios owner Chips Moman produced "The Dark End of the Street", and the musicians were his house band of Reggie Young, Bobby Woods, Tommy Cogbill and Gene Chrisman. Carr also recorded songs at Fame Studio with musicians David Hood, Jimmy Johnson and Roger Hawkins.
The Detroit-based Motown Records also contributed to the soul canon in the 1960s, although at the time, the label described itself as a manufacturer of pop music. Music by Motown artists such as Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and the Supremes did much to popularize what became known as the Motown sound.
In Chicago, Curtis Mayfield helped develop the sweet soul sound that later earned him a reputation as the Godfather of northern soul. As a member of The Impressions, Mayfield infused a call and response style of group singing that came out of gospel, and influenced many other groups of the era, notably fellow Chicago artists the Radiants.
1970s and later[link]
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Later examples of soul music include recordings by The Staple Singers (such as I'll Take You There), and Al Green's 1970s recordings, done at Willie Mitchell's' Royal Recording in Memphis. Mitchell's Hi Records continued the Stax tradition in that decade, releasing many hits by Green, Ann Peebles, Otis Clay, O.V. Wright and Syl Johnson. Bobby Womack, who recorded with Chips Moman in the late 1960s, continued to produce soul recordings in the 1970s and 1980s.
In Detroit, producer Don Davis worked with Stax artists such as Johnnie Taylor and The Dramatics. Early 1970s recordings by The Detroit Emeralds, such as Do Me Right, are a link between soul and the later disco style. Motown Records artists such as Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson contributed to the evolution of soul music, although their recordings were considered more in a pop music vein than those of Redding, Franklin and Carr. Although stylistically different from classic soul music, recordings by Chicago-based artists are often considered part of the genre.
By the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres. The social and political ferment of the times inspired artists like Gaye and Curtis Mayfield to release album-length statements with hard-hitting social commentary. Artists like James Brown led soul towards funk music, which became typified by 1970s bands like Parliament-Funkadelic and The Meters. More versatile groups like War, the Commodores and Earth, Wind and Fire became popular around this time. During the 1970s, some slick and commercial blue-eyed soul acts like Philadelphia's Hall & Oates and Oakland's Tower of Power achieved mainstream success, as did a new generation of street-corner harmony or city-soul groups like The Delfonics and Howard University's Unifics.
The syndicated television series Soul Train, created hosted by Chicago native Don Cornelius, debuted in 1971. The show provided an outlet for soul music for several decades, also spawning a franchise that saw the creation of a record label (Soul Train Records) that distributed music by The Whispers, Carrie Lucas, and an up-and-coming group known as Shalamar. Numerous disputes led to Cornelius spinning off the record label to his talent booker, Dick Griffey, who transformed the label into Solar Records, itself a prominent soul music label throughout the 1980s. The TV series continued to air until 2006, although other predominantly black music genre such as hip hop began overshadowing soul on the show beginning in the 1980s.
As disco and funk were dominating the charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, soul went in the direction of quiet storm. With its relaxed tempos and soft melodies, quiet storm soul took influences from soft rock and adult contemporary. Many funk bands, such as Con Funk Shun, Cameo, and Lakeside would have a few quiet storm tracks on their albums. Among the most successful acts in this era include Smokey Robinson, Teddy Pendergrass, Peabo Bryson, Atlantic Starr, and Larry Graham.
After the decline of disco and funk in the early 1980s, soul music became influenced by electro music. It became less raw and more slickly produced, resulting in a style known as contemporary R&B, which sounded very different from the original rhythm and blues style.
The United States saw the development of neo-soul around 1994. Mainstream record label marketing support for soul genres cooled in the 2000s due to the industry's re-focus on hip hop.
Notable record labels and producers[link]
Motown Records[link]
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Main article: Motown Records
Berry Gordy's successful Tamla/Motown group of labels was notable for being black-owned, unlike most of the earlier independent R&B labels. Notable artists under this label were The Supremes, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Martha and the Vandellas, and The Jackson Five. Hits were made using a quasi-industrial production-line approach. Some considered the sound to be mechanistic but producers and songwriters such as Phil Spector brought artistic judgement to the three minute tunes. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland were rarely out of the charts for their work as writers and producers for The Supremes, the Four Tops and Martha and the Vandellas. They allowed important elements to shine through the dense musical texture. There was a large emphasis on the rhythm section with handclaps or tambourine. Smokey Robinson was another writer and producer who added lyrics to "The Tracks Of My Tears" which was one of the most important songs of the decade.
Stax Records and Atlantic Records[link]
Main article: Stax Records
These independent labels produced high-quality dance records with such singers as Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. They tended to have smaller ensembles marked by expressive gospel-tinged vocals. Brass and Saxophones were also used extensively.[8]
Subgenres[link]
Detroit (Motown) soul[link]
Further information: Motown Records
Dominated by Berry Gordy's Motown Records empire, Detroit soul is strongly rhythmic and influenced by gospel music. The Motown sound often includes hand clapping, a powerful bass line, violins and bells. Motown Records' house band was The Funk Brothers.
Deep soul and southern soul[link]
Further information: Deep soul and Southern soul
The terms deep soul and southern soul generally refer to a driving, energetic soul style combining R&B's energy with pulsating southern United States gospel music sounds. Memphis, Tennessee label Stax Records nurtured a distinctive sound, which included putting vocals further back in the mix than most contemporary R&B records, using vibrant horn parts in place of background vocals, and a focus on the low end of the frequency spectrum. The vast majority of Stax releases were backed by house bands Booker T and the MGs (with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, and Al Jackson) and the Memphis Horns (the splinter horn section of the Mar-Keys).
Memphis soul[link]
Further information: Memphis soul
Memphis soul is a shimmering, sultry style of soul music produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee. It featured melancholic and melodic horns, organ, bass, and drums, as heard in recordings by Hi's Al Green and Stax's Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The latter group also sometimes played in the harder-edged Southern soul style. The Hi Records house band (Hi Rhythm Section) and producer Willie Mitchell developed a surging soul style heard in the label's 1970s hit recordings. Some Stax recordings fit into this style, but had their own unique sound.
New Orleans soul[link]
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The New Orleans soul scene directly came out of the rhythm and blues era, when such artists as Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Huey Piano Smith made a huge impact on the pop and R&B charts and a huge direct influence on the birth of Funk music. The principal architect of Crescent City’s soul was songwriter, arranger, and producer Allen Toussaint. He worked with such artists as Irma Thomas (“the Soul Queen of New Orleans”), Jessie Hill, Kris Kenner, Benny Spellman, and Ernie K. Doe on the Minit/Instant label complex to produced a distinctive New Orleans soul sound generating a passel of national hits. Other notable New Orleans hits came from Robert Parker, Betty Harris, and Aaron Neville. While record labels in New Orleans largely disappeared by the mid-1960s, producers in the city continued to record New Orleans soul artists for other mainly New York and Los Angeles record labels—notably Lee Dorsey for New York–based Amy Records and the Meters for New York–based Josie and then LA-based Reprise.
Chicago soul[link]
Further information: Chicago soul
Chicago soul generally had a light gospel-influenced sound, but the large number of record labels based in the city tended to produce a more diverse sound than other cities. Vee Jay Records, which lasted until 1966, produced recordings by Jerry Butler, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, and Gene Chandler. Chess Records, mainly a blues and rock and roll label, produced a number of major soul artists. Curtis Mayfield not only scored many hits with his group, The Impressions, but wrote many hit songs for Chicago artists and produced hits on his own labels for The Fascinations and the Five Stairsteps.
Philadelphia soul[link]
Further information: Philadelphia soul
Based primarily in the Philadelphia International record label, Philadelphia soul (AKA Philly Soul) had a lush orchestral sound and doo-wop-inspired vocals. Thom Bell, and Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff are considered the founders of Philadelphia soul.
Psychedelic soul[link]
Further information: Psychedelic soul
Psychedelic soul was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music in the late 1960s, which paved the way for the mainstream emergence of funk music a few years later. The Politicians were one example.
Blue-eyed soul[link]
Further information: Blue-eyed soul
Blue-eyed soul is a term used to describe R&B or soul music performed by white artists. The term does not refer to a distinct style of music, and the meaning of blue-eyed soul has evolved over decades. Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records. The term continued to be used in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly by the British media to describe a new generation of singers who adopted elements of the Stax and Motown sounds. To a lesser extent, the term has been applied to singers in other music genres that are influenced by soul music.Artists like Christina Aguilera and Adele are known as Blue-eyed soul singers.
British Soul[link]
Main article: British soul
Soul has been a major influence on British popular music since the 1960s including bands of the British Invasion, most significantly The Beatles.[9] There were a handful of significant British Blue-eyed soul acts, including Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones.[10] American soul was extremely popular among some youth sub-cultures like the Northern soul and Modern soul movements, but a clear genre of British soul did not emerge until the 1980s when a number of artists including George Michael, Sade, Simply Red, Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul enjoyed commercial success.[11] The popularity of British soul artists in the U.S., most notably Amy Winehouse, Adele, Estelle, Duffy, Joss Stone, and Leona Lewis led to talk of a third British Invasion or soul invasion in the 2000s.[12][13]
Neo soul[link]
Further information: Neo soul
The term neo soul is a marketing phrase coined by producer and record label executive Kedar Massenburg to describe a musical blend of 1970s soul-style vocals and instrumentation with contemporary R&B sounds, hip hop beats and poetic interludes. The style was developed in the early to mid 1990s. A key element in neo soul is a heavy dose of Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano pads over a mellow, grooving interplay between the drums (usually with a rim shot snare sound) and a muted, deep funky bass. The Fender Rhodes piano sound gives the music a warm, organic character.
Northern soul and modern soul[link]
Further information: Northern soul and Modern soul
The phrase northern soul was coined by journalist Dave Godin and popularised in 1970 through his column in Blues and Soul magazine.[14] The term refers to rare soul music that was played by DJs at nightclubs in northern England. The playlists originally consisted of obscure 1960s and early 1970s American soul recordings with an uptempo beat, such as those on Motown Records and more obscure labels such as Okeh Records. Modern soul developed when northern soul DJs began looking in record shops in the United States and United Kingdom for music that was more complex and contemporary. What emerged was a richer sound that was more advanced in terms of Hi-Fi and FM radio technology.
Nu-jazz and soulful electronica[link]
Further information: Nu jazz and Electronica
Many artists in various genres of electronic music (such as house, drum n bass, UK garage, and downtempo) are heavily influenced by soul, and have produced many soul-inspired compositions.
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References[link]
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- ^ Otis Redding
- ^ Valter Ojakäär (1983). Popmuusikast. Eesti Raamat.
- ^ "Soul music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 23. London. 2001.
- ^ "Soul" at Online Etymological Dictionary
- ^ White, Charles. (2003), p. 229. The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography. Omnibus Press.
- ^ Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, (Columbia University Press 2008), chapter 7
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/little-richard-p4765
- ^ Winterson, Nickol, Bricheno, Pop Music: The Text Book (Edition Peters) 2003.
- ^ P. Humphries, The Complete Guide to the Music of the Beatles (Music Sales Group, 1998), p. 83.
- ^ R. Gulla, Icons of R&B and soul: an encyclopedia of the artists who revolutionized rhythm (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008), p. xxii.
- ^ G. Wald, "Soul's Revival: White Soul, Nostalgia and the Culturally Constructed Past, M. Guillory and R. C. Green, Soul: Black power, politics, and pleasure (New York University Press, 1997), pp. 139–58.
- ^ Selling their soul: women leading the way in R&B British invasion Canada.com June 9, 2008
- ^ The New British Invasion: Soul Divas 2008 The Daily Voice April 30, 2008
- ^ For Dancers Only by Chris Hunt, Mojo. 2002]
Bibliography[link]
- Cummings, Tony (1975). The Sound of Philadelphia. London: Eyre Methuen.
- Escott, Colin. (1995). Liner notes for The Essential James Carr. Razor and Tie Records.
- Gillett, Charlie (1974). Making Tracks. New York: E. P. Dutton.
- Guralnick, Peter (1986). Sweet Soul Music. New York: Harper & Row.
- Hannusch, Jeff (1985). I Hear You Knockin': The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues. Ville Platte, LA: Swallow Publications. ISBN 0-9614245-0-8.
- Hoskyns, Barney (1987). Say it One More Time for the Broken Hearted. Glasgow: Fontana/Collins.
- Jackson, John A. (2004). A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514972-6.
- Miller, Jim (editor) (1976). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. New York: Rolling Stone Press/Random House. ISBN 0-394-73238-3. (Chapter on "Soul," by Guralnick, Peter. pp. 194–197.
- Pruter, Robert (1991). Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01676-9.
- Pruter, Robert, editor (1993). Blackwell Guide to Soul Recordings. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd. ISBN 0-631-18595-X
- Walker, Don (1985). The Motown Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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| Anita Baker | |
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 Baker performing at the 17th Annual Salute to Freedom |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1958-01-26) January 26, 1958 (age 54) Toledo, Ohio, United States |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | R&B, soul jazz, smooth jazz, soul, quiet storm |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Labels | Ariola (1979) Beverly Glen Records (1982-1984) Elektra (1985-1995) Atlantic (1996-2001) Blue Note (2004-present) |
| Website | Blue Note artist page |
Anita Baker (born January 26, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Detroit, Michigan)[1] is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit.
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Music career[link]
[edit] Chapter 8 (1979)
In 1975, Baker (Contralto) joined the Detroit-based band, Chapter 8, which featured Michael J. Powell, who would later produce her solo works. The band eventually got a record deal with Ariola, and their self-titled debut Chapter 8 came out in Fall 1979. Two singles hit the R&B charts: "Ready for Your Love," a duet between Baker and group member Gerald Lyles; and the Baker-led "I Just Wanna Be Your Girl."
Ariola Records was bought by Arista Records. Chapter 8 were subsequently dropped from the label roster.
[edit] The Songstress (1983)
Baker released her solo debut album, The Songstress, in 1983. Produced by Patrick Moten and Otis Smith, the album was released on the small independent label Beverly Glen Records. The album was initially not a success, but featured the moderate R&B hit "Angel".
[edit] Rapture (1985-1986)
She released her second album, Rapture, in 1986. Produced by her friend Michael J. Powell (from the Detroit soul band Chapter 8), Baker wrote several tracks for the album herself including "Been So Long" and "Watch Your Step", and co-wrote the single "Sweet Love" which became her first mainstream hit; it peaked at number eight on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number two on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, also making the Top 20 in the United Kingdom. "Caught Up in the Rapture", "No One in the World", and "Same Ole Love" also became major R&B and adult contemporary chart hits during 1986 and 1987. Rapture remains Baker's biggest-selling album and went on to sell nearly eight million copies worldwide. It also earned Baker two Grammy Awards in 1987: Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for the album and Best Rhythm & Blues Song for "Sweet Love". A show from Baker's world tour, entitled A Night of Rapture, was filmed and released on home video (and DVD in 2007).
In 1987, Baker collaborated with The Winans on the single "Ain't No Need to Worry", which earned Baker her third Grammy Award the following year, in the Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus category.
[edit] Giving You the Best That I Got (1988)
Baker's third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, was released in October 1988. She again worked with Powell, and the album became a critical and commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 chart and selling five million copies worldwide (including three million in the U.S. alone). It featured such hits as "Just Because" and the title track, which became Baker's biggest pop hit, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 while topping both the R&B and adult contemporary charts.[2] The album also won three more Grammy awards.
[edit] Compositions (1990)
Baker returned to the studio in 1990 for her fourth album (her third for Elektra), entitled Compositions. Once again produced by Powell, this time Baker became more involved in the songwriting and production process and began to experiment with jazz influences. Baker wrote or co-wrote seven of the nine songs on the album, including the hits "Talk to Me", "Fairy Tales", "No One to Blame", and "Whatever It Takes" (written with Gerald Levert). The album was mostly cut "live", in that the rhythm section was playing as Baker sang. The album included musicians Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East, Paulinho da Costa, Vernon Fails, Ricky Lawson, and Stephen Ferrone.
The three singles from Compositions all failed to reach the top forty of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart ("Talk to Me" came closest peaking at number forty-four). The singles became top twenty hits on the R&B singles chart and were also moderate adult contemporary hits. Compositions peaked at number five on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, number three on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and number four on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums, and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for one million units sold in the US. The album also earned Baker her seventh Grammy Award and her fourth in the category of Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (a category that she had won four times during five awards ceremonies between 1987 - 1991).
Following Compositions, Elektra Records secured the rights to Baker's debut album The Songstress from 1983, and re-released it with a new cover artwork in 1991.
After almost five years of touring, performing, and recording, Baker took a break, only entering the studio to record the jazz standard "Witchcraft" with Frank Sinatra for his 1993 Duets album.
[edit] Rhythm of Love (1994)
Baker's fifth album, Rhythm of Love, was issued in September 1994. After ending her production partnership with Powell, Baker produced most of the album herself along with many famous producers such as George Duke, Arif Mardin, Barry J. Eastmond, and Tommy LiPuma. Rhythm of Love was mainly recorded at Baker's home due to her pregnancy at the time, and she wrote five of the album's twelve songs. The album was a commercial success, peaking at number three on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and eventually being certified double platinum by the RIAA. The first single, "Body and Soul", became Baker's first US top forty hit in over five years. Baker won the award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the single "I Apologize" at the 1996 Grammy Awards, her fifth Grammy Award in this category and her eighth overall. Baker embarked on the Rhythm of Love World Tour in support of the album, on December 14, 1994 to November 14, 1995.
Recent career[link]
After Rhythm of Love, Baker largely withdrew from the public eye for many years to dedicate time to her new family. In June 2002, Rhino Records released The Best of Anita Baker (known as Sweet Love: The Very Best of Anita Baker in the UK, with a slightly different track listing), a compilation of Baker's material from 1983–2002.
Two years later, in March 2004, Blue Note Records announced that they had signed Baker to an exclusive recording contract that would result in at least two new albums. Bruce Lundvall, president and CEO of EMI Jazz & Classics, signed her after she approached him to record for Blue Note. At the same time Rhino Records released A Night of Rapture: Live, a compilation that contained nine live tracks and three multimedia videos recorded in the 1980s.
In September 2004, a decade after her last studio album, Baker released a new album, entitled My Everything. Co-produced by Barry J. Eastmond and Baker herself, she wrote or co-wrote nine of this album's ten tracks, including a duet with Babyface, "Like You Used to Do". Though she had been out of the limelight for some considerable time, the album was still moderately successful, peaking at number four on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album was certified gold by the RIAA, denoting sales in excess of 500,000 units in the US.
In October 2005, Baker released her first Christmas album, Christmas Fantasy. Again produced by Baker and Eastmond, the album mixed traditional Christmas carols ("God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"), standards ("I'll Be Home for Christmas"), re-imagined classics ("Frosty's Rag"), Broadway show tunes ("My Favorite Things"), and three new songs by Baker and Eastmond ("Moonlight Sleighride", "Family of Man", and "Christmas Fantasy"). She received a Grammy Award nomination in 2007 for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for the song "Christmas Time Is Here", although she did not win.
In 2007, Baker appeared on Dave Koz's album At the Movies. She sang "Somewhere" from the Broadway musical West Side Story.[citation needed]
Baker embarked on a concert tour in 2008, entitled An Evening with Anita Baker. Her performance at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, on July 12, 2008, was recorded and Baker announced plans to release a new DVD and/or CD live album in early 2009.[citation needed]
On September 19, 2008, BusyBoy Productions[3] filmed her entire An Evening with Anita Baker concert at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota, for Baker's up-and-coming DVD and B-roll footage for promotional purposes.
On April 25, 2010, Baker performed at the New Orleans Annual Jazz Fest 2010 at the Congo Square Stage.[citation needed]
On June 10, 2010, Baker sang the National Anthem at Game 4 of the NBA Finals in TD Garden. Her performance was criticized by viewers, and many began criticizing the performance on Twitter after she finished singing.[4]
Baker was scheduled to release her seventh studio album in 2010, entitled 21st Century Love, on Blue Note Records/EMI.[5] However, the album has yet to surface.
Baker was scheduled to perform at VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul taped December 18 2011: she was to sing "Sweet Love" during a salute to Detroit R&B music. However Baker dropped out of the show at the last minute: rumors claimed there had been friction between Baker and Divas 2011 performer Jill Scott but Baker attributed her leaving the show to its producers refusing to allow her to properly rehearse her number with the other Divas performers who'd be singing with her - presumably Marsha Ambrosius and Ledisi who performed "Sweet Love" on the finalized Divas 2011 broadcast.[6]
Personal life[link]
She married Walter Bridgforth Jr. on Christmas Eve 1988. As of October 2007 they were finalizing their divorce.[7] They have two sons, Walter Baker Bridgforth (born January 1993) and Edward Carlton Bridgforth (born May 1994).[8] Baker currently lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.[9]
Selected awards and accolades[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
| Grammy Award history[10] | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 1987 | Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female | Rapture | Won |
| Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Sweet Love" | Won | |
| 1988 | Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus | "Ain't No Need to Worry" (with The Winans) | Won |
| Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female | "Giving You The Best That I Got" | Won | |
| 1989 | Record of the Year | "Giving You the Best That I Got" | Nominated |
| Song of the Year | "Giving You the Best That I Got" | Nominated | |
| Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female | "Giving You the Best That I Got" | Won | |
| Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Giving You the Best That I Got" | Won | |
| 1990 | Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female | Compositions | Won |
| 1995 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | "Body and Soul" | Nominated |
| Best R&B Album | Rhythm of Love | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | "I Apologize" | Won |
| Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals | "When You Love Someone" (with James Ingram) | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | "You're My Everything" | Nominated |
| Best R&B Album | My Everything | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | "Christmas Time Is Here" | Nominated |
American Music Awards[link]
| American Music Award history[10] | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 1987 | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Anita Baker | Nominated |
| Favorite Soul/R&B Album | Rapture | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Anita Baker | Won |
| Favorite Soul/R&B Album | Rapture | Won | |
| 1990 | Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist | Anita Baker | Nominated |
| Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Anita Baker | Won | |
| Favorite Soul/R&B Single | "Just Because" | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Anita Baker | Won |
| 1996 | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Anita Baker | Nominated |
Other honors[link]
- Baker received a "Legend Award" at the 2010 Soul Train Music Awards, where she also performed and was honored.[11]
| Year | Category | Organization | Result |
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| 1994 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Star at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. | |
| 2005 | International Artist of the Year | Canadian Smooth Jazz Award[12] | Won |
Discography[link]
Main article: Anita Baker discography
- 1983: The Songstress
- 1986: Rapture
- 1988: Giving You the Best That I Got
- 1990: Compositions
- 1994: Rhythm of Love
- 2004: My Everything
- 2005: Christmas Fantasy
Tours[link]
- A Night of Rapture Tour (1986/87)
- Giving You The Best Tour (1988)
- Compositions World Tour (1990)
- The Rhythm of Love Tour (1994/95)
- An Evening with Anita Baker Tour (2008)
References[link]
- ^ "Anita Baker bio". VH1. http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/baker_anita/artist.jhtml#biographyEnd. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ www.busyboyproductions.com
- ^ National Anthem Hits a Bad Note, Twitter users blast Anita Baker's singing of the Star-Spangled Banner
- ^ Anita Baker Hit The Studio With Snoop Dogg
- ^ »» (2011-12-28). "Anita Baker Explains ‘VH1 Divas’ Drama: 5 Other Famous Show Feuds | Rolling Out - Black News, Celebrity Videos, Entertainment, Business & Politics". Rolling Out. http://rollingout.com/music/anita-baker-explains-vh1-divas-drama-5-other-famous-show-feuds/. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ Baker says she is finalizing her divorce
- ^ Steve Dougherty (October 10, 1994). "Starting to Recapture the Rapture". People. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104096,00.html.
- ^ "Grosse Pointe police: Peeper at Anita Baker's window was mistaken". February 1, 2012. http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Grosse-Pointe-police-Peeper-at-Anita-Baker-s-window-was-mistaken/-/1719418/8580760/-/10a3xqyz/-/index.html. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- ^ a b "Rock On The Net: Anita Baker". Rock On The Net. http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-b/anitabaker.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
- ^ "Upcoming Events". Soul Train. 2011-07-19. http://soultrain.com/upcoming-events/. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ 2005 Canadian Smooth Jazz Award
External links[link]
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- Anita Baker at Allmusic
- Anita Baker at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography and note to fans at SoulTracks
- Official Myspace Page
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Arthur Lee Conley (January 4, 1946 – November 17, 2003) was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".[1]
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Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964 ("Poor Girl", "I Believe", and "Flossie Mae") on the Atlanta based record label, National Recording Company.
In 1964, he moved to a new label (Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records) and released "I'm a Lonely Stranger". When Otis Redding heard this, he asked Conley to record a new version, which was released on Redding's own fledgling label Jotis Records, as only its second release.[citation needed] Conley met Redding in 1967, but after this meeting Redding took Conley under his care, and taught him the finer points of the music industry.[citation needed] Together they re-wrote the Sam Cooke song "Yeah Man" into "Sweet Soul Music", which, at Redding's insistence, was released on the Atco-distributed label Fame Records, and was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It proved to be a massive hit, going to the number two position on the U.S. charts and the Top Ten across much of Europe. "Sweet Soul Music" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2]
After several years of singles in the early 1970s, he relocated to England in 1975, and spent several years in Belgium, then settled in Amsterdam, Netherlands in spring 1977. In the beginning of 1980 he had some major performances as Lee Roberts and the Sweaters in the Ganzenhoef, Paradiso, De Melkweg and the Concertgebouw, and was highly successful. At the end of 1980 he moved to the Dutch village of Ruurlo and legally changed his name to Lee Roberts (his middle name and his mother's maiden name). There he occupied himself with promoting new music by means of his Art-Con Productions company. Amongst the bands he promoted was the heavy metal band Shockwave from The Hague. Arthur was also active as a designer of specialized tapestries and furniture.
A live performance on January 8, 1980, featuring Lee Roberts & the Sweaters, was released as an album entitled Soulin' in 1988.
Arthur Conley died after a long battle with intestinal cancer in Ruurlo, Netherlands at the age of 57 in November 2003. His remains were buried in Vorden.
Recordings[link]
- "Aunt Dora's Soul Love Shack", 1968
- "Burning Fire"
- "Baby, What You Want Me To Do"
- "Day-O", 1969, Jamaican folk song recorded by Harry Belafonte
- "Flossie Mae", 1963, as Arthur & the Corvets
- "Funky Street", 1968, #5 R&B, #14 pop
- "God Bless", 1970, Top 40 R&B
- "Ha Ha Ha"
- "I Believe", 1963, as Arthur & the Corvets
- "I Can't Stop (No, No, No)", 1966, written by Dan Penn
- "I Got A Feeling"
- "I'm a Lonely Stranger", 1964, solo, re-recorded in 1965
- "I'm Living Good", 1971–1974
- "It's So Nice [When It's Someone Else's Wife]", 1971–1974
- "Is That You Love"
- "Let's Go Steady", B-side of "Sweet Soul Music"
- "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", 1968, #51 pop, #41 R&B, Beatles cover featured guitar of Duane Allman
- "One Night Is All I Need"
- "Otis Sleep On", 1968
- "People Sure Act Funny", 1968, Top 20 R&B
- "Poor Girl", 1963, as Arthur & the Corvets
- "Rita", 1971–1974
- "Run On", 1968
- "Shake, Rattle and Roll", 1967, Top 40 pop, Top 20 R&B
- "Shing-A-Ling"
- "Something You Got"
- "Speak Her Name", featured guitar of Duane Allman.
- "Star Review", 1969, with Tom Dowd, written by Allen Toussaint
- "Stuff You Gotta Watch", featured guitar of Duane Allman.
- "Sweet Soul Music", 1967, co-written with Otis Redding, #2 R&B, #2 pop
- "Take A Step"
- "Take Me (Just as I Am)", 1966-1967(?)
- "That Can't Be My Baby"
- "Walking on Eggs", 1971–1974
- "Who's Foolin' Who", 1966
- "Whole Lotta Woman", 1967, #73 pop
- "Wholesale Love"
References[link]
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 51 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 7] : UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19832/m1/.
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- Otis Redding's biography contains history of Jotis Records
- Answers.com article on Arthur Conley
- Arthur Conley Dies
External links[link]
- Memorial website (in Dutch) Photos from Arthur's last live performance, 9 June 2002 in Netherlands.
- Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music Home Page w/ CD Liner Notes, Discography and Latest Releases
- Yoni's Home of Soul Music page on Conley, w/ info about unreleased tracks
- Find-A-Grave profile for Arthur Conley
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| Name | Conley, Arthur |
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| Date of birth | January 4, 1946 |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | November 17, 2003 |
| Place of death | |
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For the professional wrestler, see King Curtis Iaukea.
| King Curtis | |
|---|---|
| King Curtis King Curtis |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Curtis Ousley |
| Born | (1934-02-07)February 7, 1934 Fort Worth, Texas |
| Died | August 13, 1971(1971-08-13) (aged 37) New York, New York |
| Genres | Soul, R&B, rock, funk, jazz |
| Occupations | Musician, bandleader, producer |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1950–1971 |
| Labels | King, Prestige, True Sound, Capitol, Atlantic, Groove |
| Associated acts | Aretha Franklin, The Coasters, The King Pins, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, The Shirelles, The Noble Band, Cornell Dupree |
Curtis Ousley (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. He was adopted, alongside with his adopted sister, Josephine Ousley Allen. They both grew up in Texas, together. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. Adept at tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, he was best known for his distinctive riffs and solos such as on "Yakety Yak", which later became the inspiration for Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" and his own "Memphis Soul Stew".[1]
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Career[link]
King Curtis started playing saxophone at the age of twelve in the Fort Worth area. Josephine, took interest in him, knowing that she was also into music and singing as well. He took interest in many musical genres including jazz, rhythm and blues, and popular music. As a student pursuing music he turned down college scholarships in order to join the Lionel Hampton Band.[2] During his time with Lionel Hampton he was able to write and arrange music and learn guitar.[2] In 1952 Curtis decided to move to New York and became a session musician, recording for such labels as Prestige, Enjoy, Capitol, and Atco. He recorded with Nat Adderley and Wynton Kelly,[2] Buddy Holly and Andy Williams.[3]
Stylistically, Curtis took inspiration from saxophonists Lester Young, Louis Jordan, Illinois Jacquet, Earl Bostic, and Gene Ammons.[2] Known for his syncopated and percussive style, he was both versatile and powerful as a musician. He put together a group during his time as a session musician including Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott, and Bernard Purdie.[3]
Move into Rock[link]
King Curtis enjoyed playing jazz and rock but decided he would make more money as a rock musician. From the 1950s until the mid 1960s, he worked as a session player, recording under his own name and with others such as the Coasters, with whom he recorded "Yakety Yak." Buddy Holly hired him for session work, during which they recorded "Reminiscing." Buddy wrote this song, but gave Curtis the songwriting credit for flying down to the session. His best-known singles from this period are "Soul Twist" and "Soul Serenade."
In 1965, he moved to Atlantic Records and recorded his most successful singles, "Memphis Soul Stew" and "Ode to Billie Joe" (1967). He worked with The Coasters, led Aretha Franklin's backing band The Kingpins. The Kingpins opened for The Beatles during their 1965 performance at Shea Stadium. Curtis produced records, often working with Jerry Wexler and recorded for Groove Records during this period.[4]
In 1970, he appeared with Aretha Franklin and The King Pins on Aretha Live at Fillmore West, and another record, Live at Fillmore West, which included a version of "Memphis Soul Stew" and covers of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", Isaac Hayes' "I Stand Accused" and Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours". The line-up for these performances included: Hammond organ player Billy Preston, bassist Jerry Jemmott, guitarist Cornell Dupree, Pancho Morales (percussion), drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and The Memphis Horns. A cover of Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" was taken from this album, and used as the title music in the cult British comedy film, Withnail & I. In July 1971, Curtis recorded saxophone solos on "It's So Hard" and "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die" from John Lennon's Imagine.[5] Along with The Rimshots, he recorded the original theme song for the 1971 hit television show, Soul Train, titled "Hot Potatoes."
Death[link]
Around midnight on August 13, 1971[6] Curtis was lugging an air-conditioning unit towards his brownstone apartment on West 86th Street in New York City when he noticed two junkies were using drugs on the steps to his home. When he asked them to leave, an argument started.[7] The argument quickly became heated and turned into a fist fight with one of the men, 26-year old Juan Montañez. Suddenly, Montañez pulled out a knife and stabbed Curtis in the chest. Curtis managed to wrestle the knife away and stab his assailant four times before collapsing. Montañez staggered away from the scene and Curtis was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died from his wounds less than an hour later.[8]
Montañez was arrested at the same hospital Curtis had been taken to. When police officers investigating the murder learned that another man had been admitted to Roosevelt hospital with stab wounds around the same time as Curtis, they quickly realized that the two events were connected. Montañez was charged with Curtis' murder and subsequently sentenced to a term of imprisonment.[9]
On the day of Curtis' funeral Atlantic Records closed their offices.[10] Jesse Jackson administered the service and as the mourners filed in, Curtis's band 'The Kingpins' played "Soul Serenade". Amongst those attending were his close family, sister Josephine Ousley Allen, other family members, Aretha Franklin, Cissy Houston, Brook Benton and Duane Allman.[11] Franklin sang the closing spiritual "Never Grow Old" and Stevie Wonder performed "Abraham, Martin and John and now King Curtis".[12]
Curtis was subsequently buried in a red granite-fronted wall crypt in the 'West Gallery of Forsythia Court' mausoleum at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York, the same cemetery that holds Jazz greats Count Basie and John Coltrane.[13]
Awards[link]
In 1970, Curtis won the Best R&B Instrumental Performance Grammy for "Games People Play".[14]
Curtis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 6, 2000.[15]
Discography[link]
King Curtis[link]
- The Good Old Fifties (1959)
- Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow (1959)
- Azure (1960)
- King Soul (1960)
- Soul Meeting (1960)
- Party Time (1961)
- Trouble in Mind (1961)
- Old Gold (1961)
- Night Train (1961)
- Doin' the Dixie Twist (1962)
- Country Soul (1962)
- Soul Twist and other Golden Classics (1962)
- It's Party Time (1962)
- The Best of (1962)
- Soul Serenade (1964)
- Plays Hits made by Sam Cooke (1965)
- That Lovin' Feeling (1966)
- Live at Small's Paradise (1966)
- Play Great Memphis Hits (1967)
- Memphis Soul Stew (1967) #33 Pop, #6 R&B
- Sweet Soul (1968)
- Sax in Motion (1968)
- Instant Groove (1969)
- Everybody Talkin (1970)
- Get Ready (1970)
- Blues at Montreux (1971)
King Curtis and The Kingpins[link]
- Soul Twist (1962) with The Noble Knights
- The Shirelles & King Curtis Give A Twist Party (1962) with The Shirelles a/k/a Eternally, Soul (1968)
- King Size Soul (1967)
- Live at Fillmore West (1971)
References[link]
- ^ Porter, Bob. "King Curtis". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p6357/biography. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ a b c d Theroux, Gary; Howard Rye (2010-02-15). "Curtis, King". Oxford Music Online. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J109200. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2010-02-15). "King Curtis". Oxford Music Online. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/epm/38199. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ^ Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and Shouters. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. pp. 460–466.
- ^ "Imagine". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r11531/credits. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ Kernfield, Barry Dean. Newgrove Dictionary of Jazz. Grove's Dictionaries. p. 544.
- ^ Tortorici,Frank. "King Curtis". vh1.com. http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/620991/02042000/king_curtis.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
- ^ Schumach, Murray (1971-08-15). [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?That morning radio DJ Herb Hamlett, started his morning show on WCMF FM, he received a call from long time friend Frankie Crocker, who delivered the news of King's death, he openly cried on the air for his long time friend.Hamlett opened and closed all of his programs with Curtis famed "Memphis Soul Stew" Hamlett in tribute played all King's albums the remainder of his show. res=F40615F8355B137A93C7A81783D85F458785F9&scp=1&sq=King+Curtis&st=p "King Curtis is stabbed to death"]. nytimes.com. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?That morning radio DJ Herb Hamlett, started his morning show on WCMF FM, he received a call from long time friend Frankie Crocker, who delivered the news of King's death, he openly cried on the air for his long time friend.Hamlett opened and closed all of his programs with Curtis famed "Memphis Soul Stew" Hamlett in tribute played all King's albums the remainder of his show. res=F40615F8355B137A93C7A81783D85F458785F9&scp=1&sq=King+Curtis&st=p. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ http://www.texasheritagemusic.org/special_stories/Texas_Stories/King%20Curtis.pdf
- ^ Poe Randy and Gibbons, Billy F. Sky Dog. Backbeat Books. pp. 195.
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. pp. 229. CN 5585.
- ^ Jet Vol 40, No 23. Johnson Publishing Company. 1971-09-02. pp. 54, 55, 56.
- ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6650
- ^ Clifford, Mike, and Futrell, John. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black music. Harmony Books. p. 36.
- ^ "King Curtis (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)". rockhall.com. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/king-curtis. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ "King Curtis". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p6357/discography. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
Bibliography[link]
- Clifford, Mike: Futrell, John and Bonds, Ray. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black music. Harmony Books (1982). Digitized 29 Dec (2006)
- Kernfield, Barry Dean. Newgrove Dictionary of Jazz. Grove's Dictionaries (2002). Digitized 21 Dec 2006. ISBN 978-1-56159-284-5
- Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and Shouters. Macmillan Publishing Company (1978). Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 0-02-061740-2
- Poe, Randy and Gibbons, Billy F. Sky Dog. Backbeat Books (2006) ISBN 978-0-87930-891-9
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| Name | Curtis, King |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 1934-02-07 |
| Place of birth | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Date of death | 1971-08-13 |
| Place of death | New York, New York |
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| Fantan Mojah | |
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| Birth name | Owen Moncrieffe |
| Also known as | Fantan Mojah |
| Born |
August 5, 1975  Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica |
| Genres | Reggae |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Greensleeves Records Downsound Productions |
Fantan Mojah (born Owen Moncrieffe August 5, 1975), is a Jamaican reggae singer.
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Biography[link]
Owen Moncrieffe aka Fantan Mojah was born in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. To gain experience, he took a job working with a traveling soundsystem, and performed songs during soundchecks. He adopted the name Mad Killer, in an homage to one of his favorite artists, Bounty Killer. After being exposed to the Rastafarian movement his music began to take on a more positive tone, and he was encouraged by Capleton to take the name Fantan Mojah.[1]
Lyrical Themes[link]
Fantan Mojah is notable for being one of the new wave of contemporary reggae singers who prefer to include positive themes in their lyrics. Like some popular new reggae singers, he is a Bobo Ashanti. His faith is reflected in his lyrics, where some recurring themes are - praise for Jah and messages of Rastafari, positive portrayal of women, and condemnation of ill morals. This is a contrast to many popular dancehall artists, who encourage "slackness" in their lyrics, with boasts of sexual prowess and derogatory messages to women.
Hail the King and success[link]
After performing at many popular Jamaican festivals, Fantan Mojah recorded several songs on popular riddims, and was signed by Downsound Productions. He released his debut full length album Hail the King in 2005. It has become a hit in Jamaica, especially the track "Hail the King", which has an accompanying music video.[2]
Discography[link]
- Hail the King - 2005
- Stronger - 2008
Notes[link]
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| Name | Mojah, Fantan |
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| Date of birth | August 5, 1975 |
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