The greatest Rap record in history!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
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The greatest Rap record in history!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
[QUOTE=marv2;404895]The greatest Rap record in history!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message"
Hey Marv
Never really got into much of this stuff, do remember this one tho' and The Sugar Hill Gang one Rappers Delight?
Guess I was and still am stuck in the 50s/60s
How about some Godfather not Marlon Brando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xP6hmh3Hc
I went through music that came just before me [[the 50s) on through the 00s and every now and then a song will pop up I like today!
Here's one of my favorite artists from the 80s...........SADE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVI0GW-Xd4
Man, Sade was so smooth. I don't know of another singer who sat on my soul like she did with that voice.
It is late night in the Mid-60s and if your are tuned into radio station WKLR [[Kooler Radio) in Toledo, OH I guarantee you would here this. "I [[WHO HAVE NOTHING)" - Ben E. King [[original 1963 rendition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOUyAwLz7Wg
Well, if we're going there, let's break out my favorite Ben E. King song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE
And another classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGd6CdtOqEE
These songs came out when I was just an infant. LOL!
Oh man, my father loved the Drifters! When the Temptations hit, it was curtains for the Drifters at our house. Outside of Motown and perhaps Stax, almost everyone else had to wait to get a play. The radio was on, however everyday and we heard everyone eventually.
Need to push this thread back up, and what better way to do it than with a little TP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvdOvUv0mYk
Solomon Burke, in my opinion, the most influential of them all!
Not the most danceable, but certainly one of the most powerful soul songs I ever heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joXHmEOGy38
That sounds familiar, but my Pops held onto every act that he loved and added to the playlist. Still loves the Dominoes, Clovers, and the Coasters to this day. Consequently, so do I. His dad influenced him, too. I remember my grandfather's last favorite song was Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and I can remember him playing "Take A Look Around", too.
One of my favorite bands from my high school days was GQ. They were one of the four-man ensembles who seemed to get as much out of their collaboration as a lot of larger groups. Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc was one of those guys like Steve Arrington, whose voice seemed kind of average except for it sounded really good with the songs that they sung. To me, anyway. This song was huge for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4quJtamr0k
And of course, there is this very respectful remake of Billy Stewart's classic, "I Do Love You". You know that LeBlanc was digging in the stacks from how he treated this and the next album's "Sitting In The Park".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKq1VmEbtc
Switch is one those acts that I didn't like when their records were fresh but can't hear enough later in life. They are a classic late '70s act but still sound better as time goes on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUG-xWj1IQ
And from Switch arose DeBarge. I'll admit that I only played this album a couple of times before putting it away without caring for it much. I pulled it out a few months ago and every single song on it is fantastic. I don't know how I missed it when everybody else was jamming to it. Better 30 years late than never, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqaKisKIyUo
Man Jerry, you're hitting it hard. Those are some true Classic Soul Jams! Speaking of Luther, my brother Robert was hip to him as early as 1975-76 when Luther had his own group called "Luther". In fact, he encourage us to use this song as a part of my high school's homecoming ceremony in the fall of 1977:
Luther- "This Is For Real"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oZv-gLnOg
No words are needed other than......Chaka Khan - "Clouds"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SiAJf0RnYo
My uncle brought a Luther album back from Mississippi. It had "The Second Time Around" on it. He'd later re-record it as a solo artist. It's one of my favorite songs by one of my very favorite singers. I remember wondering how he won the Best New Artist Grammy when he'd been performing for years. I guess the Grammys don't consider regional releases.
Today is the one year anniversary of this thread and my birthday.....YEAH! LOL!
Let the music play on and on and on!
Remember this one?
Doug E. Fresh - "The Show"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkqz5C62SM
Hey Marv
belated birthday greetings, I've been chillin'. There is probably a thread here of soulful birthday songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdsqbh_0zzg
For some reason this song jumped into my head today, certainly can't remember hearing it in the last 20 years or so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_H23dEmO4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9rXBPXOMc
Marv - Happy Belated Birthday. I am having The Empress of Soul singing it for you! All the best to you.
Sorry I miss your posting on your birthday as this was the time we were going through hurricane Irma.
Thank you Marv for this wonderful thread. It one of my all time favorites. Can't believe it's been a year.
If we've posted this one, let's play again. Memories of late 70s party life!
Inner Life - I'm Caught Up [[In a One Night Love Affair)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq6HQG-cce0
A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie [[1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjw1aQ0M9WM
I remember that I first heard this on Halloween 1978 at a party.....
Chic - Le Freak!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY
Now this one was very popular in Detroit and New York City:
Denroy Morgan -- I'll Do Anything For You [[1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnC5zgdr06c