Classic Soul - your picks

[BCBlues]

Great thread. I'll run through all the above tunes later when I can link up to a speaker.
Meantime...

 

[Ground Elder]

Couple more from Stax classics

 

[Diamond]

Couple more from Stax classics

Both great but that first one's a gem!

 

[Ground Elder]

Both great but that first one's a gem!

That was Frederick Knight's only hit, but he wrote some great tunes. Two of my favourites -

 

[Diamond]

Coming back with some Frederick Knight, Ann Peebles, and Sam and Dave:

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[BCBlues]

Tamla at it's best. I've only just learned that Martha Reeves & The Vandellas have a (previously unreleased) version out...

 

[Diamond]

This is great too, gospel influence could hardly be clearer:

 

[toblerone3]

Let Yourself Go - The Supremes. I think Dianna Ross had gone by this time.

 

[Ground Elder]

This one from Walter Heath is getting a lot of plays in my kitchen at the moment

 

[Ground Elder]

Another from the 70s,

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Diamond]

Found this little gem this morning:

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Diamond]

Love this:

 

[Diamond]

Odd title, cracking tune:

 

[Ground Elder]

Just heard this nice mid tempo beat ballad

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Diamond]

This is so fascinating, such an amazing track and, I think at least partly to do with the great mid-20th century internal migration of black people in the States:



But, above all else, it's just some incredible voices.

 

[Lurdan]

The Delfonics - 1968. Love this TV performance.



William Hart - lead singer and co-writer (1947-2022)

 

[Ground Elder]

A favourite Delfonics tune of mine

 

[BCBlues]

Love this.
Popular game in our house...name the film?

 

[planetgeli]

 

[Lurdan]

Inez Foxx 1942-2022

1963 - her best known single with her brother Charlie



1967 album track



1970 - this civil rights anthem doesn't seem to be on YouTube

View attachment WeGotAChanceToBeFree.mp4


1973 - solo single on Volt (Stax)

 

[cloudyday]

 

[Ground Elder]

RIP Inez Foxx. One more, a Twisted Wheel classic. Until just now I hadn't realised Charlie was her brother and not her husband

 

[Ground Elder]

Gloria Scott's finally got round to releasing a second album

1975



2022