This one is still sad to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmS29CXNZ8
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This one is still sad to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmS29CXNZ8
And this one is sadder. Still gets to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFBaHstz5o
This is reputedly about a dog that ran away but it's also beautiful and a classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsM4IadZax0
And the '80s had its share of beautiful sad songs. This one was said to have been recorded off the first take, which makes it even more remarkable. Marv, I'm sorry if I had it on here before. The thread is at 30 pages [[and counting) and I didn't go back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sy2NwfcXqA
This doesn't qualify as a "classic" but it's one of my favorite songs to sing and dance to when I'm the only one in the room. This band had so much potential but even more heartache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0VLJ9Htnjw
I think this was an English band. I played this cassette so much in the '80s, it now has pops and clicks like an old record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfCIFKekYq0
Another from View From The Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXra3FJarOg
Another great 80s/90s English band. Carl McIntosh split off from his two former mates on this Loose Ends album that was, in my opinion, their best. Need to check and see what happened to him after this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAg04vJSQ0
This song gives me chills. Such an atmospheric album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQXdmlG0taw
Another English band that kind of defies classification is Level 42. Verdine White produce this album and this song has a lot of fans although it wasn't released as a single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZo6BJAiqp4
Nice ones Jerry!
One of my all-time favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeZxEOYZ_M
She knocked me out with this one......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pws7g3OQ2Eo
Senior year in high school and this was one of our JAMS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUR7fZV9Vpo
Marv, that was a heck of a debut album. In addition to Ffun, it had Shake And Dance With Me and this underrated gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVjKn_Co6iY
Con Funk Shun also had one of my favorite instrumental funk songs. I don't know if anybody appreciates this as much as I do but I play it often and turn it up in my car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzgm-XjO5M0
And speaking of instrumental jams, the bass and drums on this cut by Pleasure still blow me away. Not for the faint of heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brm5K5aMEI4
And one more from the Clarke Duke Project. John Robinson's banging these drums like he wants to rip a hole in the skins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d5tsk0YHK8
From that wild summer of 1995! LOL!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjaHbjhauk
High drama Soul..........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4r3_FqrrsM
Now go dance your face off.......LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhK9otA0cs
Miss Bettye Swan y'all............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXE6ksv_cBI
Classic from Solomon Burke that I seem to hear a lot lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEu8DrO9PbY
And another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKAlBC-XWQ
Toni Braxton's first hit on LaFace Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oc7NnKklfM
Also on the Boomerang soundtrack with that Toni Braxton song was the following from Kenny Vaughan. It was actually a "classic soul jam" because it wasn't a hit, but it's a great soul jam that should have been a hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om67rnruv9E
It also included one of Boyz 2 Men's best songs. This one truly is a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mRj76IyxTg
I couldn't find the video of the stage performance for Maze's The Look In Your Eyes [[from "Live In New Orleans"; it exists) but here is the audio. One of my favorite concert albums, I wore this album out for months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmw8u9Ua34
Here's the live clip of Feel That You're Feelin'. Frankie Beverly is the man. My nephew became a fan after going to a concert to see somebody else and being shocked that he and his wife were the only people in the crowd who didn't sing every song along with the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HGLnfzamw
Yessir, Jerry! A Maze show was always an event in my hometown. They are the epitome of “Black Famous”—-household words in the African-American community, but obscure elsewhere.
Now for some 60s French Soul by Vigon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPiqip-gnY
Does she have a friend-gene chandler.
Tighten up my thing-soul children
Good one JAI!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwL-7fKKUE
Con Funk Shun - Too Tight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmKyQuTdjUo
My favorite thread that Marv created. In remembrance of him this holiday season.
Here is one of my favorites taking this standard and making it into a R&B doo-wop tune by The Flamingos "I Only Have Eyes For You"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADcioP26c8
Merry Christmas to everybody!
Here are some Christmas songs for the season. Starting with The Temptations "Silent Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0mgk0KgI0Q