Sweet Soul Ballads>>1975

[no_place_like_motown]

Started my day listening to sweet soul ballads. Here's a tracklist I compiled with personal favs from 1975, including some rare gems. Enjoy!

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Ballads - Confessing A Feeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhqWaaYvQgQ

Black Ivory - Love Won't You Stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31oQCTVhlw

Chapter Four - [[It's My Nature) To Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOI9Z0_s27M

Chi-Lites - Half A Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoQyYDengy4

Continental Four - Loving You [[Is The Next Best Thing To Heaven)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfighwAP6iM

Dells - We Got To Get Our Thing Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4HchfZgT4

Dramatic Experience - Someday Somewhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtrA581qu8

Dramatics - She's A Rainmaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-YCNf6g8k

Gaslight - Just Because Of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN6H5_F4Mo4

Impressions - Loving Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdL85lh96M

Liquid Smoke - Where Is Our Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PYaVdmFTw

Manhattans - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-x4dW7hsvM

Modulations - Worth Your Weight In Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOpu_Sat5Qk
*Soul Train Performance

Moments - Look At Me [[I'm In Love)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTrimXNkU-k

Natural Four - Give This Love A Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3YcHhoEP8

Oral Caress - It's Funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKZ-j8F5PNc

Pure Velvet - Hooked On Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ubsjhDhqjA

Step By Step - She's Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4exmg2nAKTo

Tomorrow's Promise - Should I Follow My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E83NykTAWk

Variations Of Love - I'll Always Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxi4dJJvZik

Water & Power - Ain't No Hurt Like The Hurt You Get
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2W2O6KO8Q

21st Century - Remember The Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn72xd_MkMs

[marv2]

One of my favorite Soul Ballads of late 1975 was "Sweet Love" by the Commodores.

[splanky]

I don't ever remember seeing the Modulations performance on Soul Train as much and as
long as I've loved Worth Your Weight In Gold. Lead Larry Duncan definitely makes my list of
most underated male vocalists in soul music. Lot of stuff there I don't have and much unavailable on cd, even the Black Ivory track...Marv, Sweet Love was a masterpiece of a
cut! For the life of me I cannot figure out why Lionel Ritchie abandoned that group and that
sound and though I know it's his right to, I've never forgiven him for it, I must admit...

[no_place_like_motown]

I have "Love Won't You Stay" by BI on CD. The "Feel It" LP from 75 was released as a papersleeve CD by Sony in 2011.

Love the Modulations! Their LP, "It's Rough Out Here" was one of my top favorite LPs I bought in 1975, every cut was great. It was also released on CD last year.

[marv2]

I don't ever remember seeing the Modulations performance on Soul Train as much and as
long as I've loved Worth Your Weight In Gold. Lead Larry Duncan definitely makes my list of
most underated male vocalists in soul music. Lot of stuff there I don't have and much unavailable on cd, even the Black Ivory track...Marv, Sweet Love was a masterpiece of a
cut! For the life of me I cannot figure out why Lionel Ritchie abandoned that group and that
sound and though I know it's his right to, I've never forgiven him for it, I must admit...

I agree Splanky. They, the Commodores had struck gold [[in terms of their sound) by the time they released "Sweet Love" and to go on and destroy that just miffs me. "Sweet Love" is one of those "memory enhancement" songs for me. Whenever I hear it, I can remember back to that time, the places I went and the people in my life vividly.

[splanky]

I have "Love Won't You Stay" by BI on CD. The "Feel It" LP from 75 was released as a papersleeve CD by Sony in 2011.

Love the Modulations! Their LP, "It's Rough Out Here" was one of my top favorite LPs I bought in 1975, every cut was great. It was also released on CD last year.


I didn't know about either being on cd, there goes my budget:)...

[splanky]

I agree Splanky. They, the Commodores had struck gold [[in terms of their sound) by the time they released "Sweet Love" and to go on and destroy that just miffs me. "Sweet Love" is one of those "memory enhancement" songs for me. Whenever I hear it, I can remember back to that time, the places I went and the people in my life vividly.

Memory enhancement....I like that. The song does exactly the same thing to me. Even though I lost my own sweet love of that time I can still have her back-in memory...