Jerry, ironically that was the very first song they played at midnight New Years Eve 1980 at the party I was at!
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Ok well then "Let's Start the Dance"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDWhHSDA2k
Love like sunshine-teena marie
If somebody asked me what soul music is, I'd play this and ask if they had any more questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3xq7Q8yWGE
Marv, this song was one of the jams from my senior year in high school. It was from one of my favorite albums too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvReo9RuaE
Don't forget the song that broke Con Funk Shun on the national scene. This was their first big hit and they're still one of my favorite bands. Of course, their sound progressed a lot later but the horns were always a staple. I miss horns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOOKBGujOI
Cameo's first big record was "Rigor Mortis". Their sound also changed a lot but this was the cut. I wasn't old enough to go out when it broke but my big brother used to play it at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY1jCbrC2k
And wrapping up with "soul bands beginning with 'C'", here's the Commodores first hit. This song will be playing on a loop in my head until I go to bed tonight. The guitar and the keyboard solo are some of the best from that era. In my opinion, at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sLIX95ka4
JAI, I wasn't sure, but is the one you meant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YUYcYJ1Wh0
Another from one of the very best years for recorded music.......1978! Third World and "Now That We Found " You better get ready to dance !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXeY74ttezU
Jerry, speaking of the Bar-Kays. This the one that was slammin' again during my senior year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rUavPsOC1o
It won't hurt-the o'jays
This will always be THE O'Jays record for me. They peaked at about the time this one jumped. And they rode that peak for years afterward. If I had to jump into a space ship that was leaving an exploding Earth and told to take the collective works of one soul group to listen to, I would be torn between the Four Tops, Spinners, and O'Jays. I probably wouldn't leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZmWwDKwrU
Like sister and brother-the drifters
There will be love-lou rawls
Cameo will always be one of my favorite bands. This is from my favorite Cameo album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhV1eG1kcxQ
And this is one of my favorite songs from the '80s by Cameo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIuldTX19M
Finally, this is where they caught their true groove. They had this sound until they pared the group down to three members a few years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDOWiArmWsY
I hope this qualifies as a Classic Soul Jam as I don't think this song ever charted but I know I have heard it on the radio to this day.
What 'cha come out here for....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIuLNvhkQQ
Enchantment had a run of two fantastic albums in the late '70s. When you talk about smooth soul singing, it doesn't not come better than this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgF7Q48Kn9M
Great one! how I remember when, in 1978, I purchased my vynil copy of "Life Is A Song Worth Singing"... what a collection of SOUL GEMPS, EVERY TRACK... the mellow all time favorite of mine "Cold Cold World"... In fact, I think the "trilogy" Teddy Pendergrass self titled album, this second and the third, "Teddy" are FULL of "album tracks" and not "charted" numbers [["Easy, Easy, I Should Take It Easy", "Be Sure", "Do Me", "Life Is A Circle", "Set Me Free"... or the one included in "Let's Clean Up The Ghetto", the "raw soul" flavored "This Is The Time To Do It"... after this trilogy, IMHO, Teddy's music becomes more and more "smooth" and "corny"...
Forever-major lance
Memories from the Summer of 1970!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4BwSIYPhUo
A single I played thousands of times in my teens is by The Floaters and I think is not good that they are remembered only for "Float On" as they were a "one hit wonder artist"
I refer to the dynamic and well orchestrated mid - up - tempo "I JUST WANNA BE WITH YOU":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzL30RtHTGI
After I purchased two albums at the same time and the same store "Floaters" and "Magic" [[this song belongs to the second)
Song for our times - 'The Rich Get Richer' from the O'Jays Survival album [[Philadelphia International, 1975).
Many soul artists accurately chronicled the black condition, but I'm not sure that even Curtis Mayfield pointed the finger with such unerring accuracy as the O'Jays did here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDpS6Aaks9k
I know it's Samba, but it's Brazilian Soul to me........................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=BrZBiqK0p9E
Ok, remember.........................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1fpEKIcDc
The long version........LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLydq310_C4