What Song R U Listening To Right Now?

[westgrandboulevard]

Seven Day Fool -Etta James [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 25th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

Blue Christmas - Wynonna

[144man]

I Love The Life I Live - Tony Michaels [[Vocal to San Remo Strings' "Hungry for Love")

To Win Your Heart - Laura Lee [[Vocal to San Remo Strings' "Festival Time")

[sophisticated_soul]

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams

[westgrandboulevard]

You Got Me Hurtin' All Over - Barbara Randolph [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 25th, 2016) -

[westgrandboulevard]

One More Chance - The Masqueraders [[La Beat Records, Detroit - You Tube) -

[sophisticated_soul]

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Tammy Wynette

[westgrandboulevard]

Poor Side Of Town - The Monitors [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016)

[manny]

"Silvia's Picture" - Bebbu Silvetti

[sophisticated_soul]

Marshmallow World - Darlene Love

[westgrandboulevard]

You Never Miss A Good Thing - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
[[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

[westgrandboulevard]

My Baby - The Freeman Brothers [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016) -

[wonder_woman]

The Time Is Right For Love - Bobby Reed
Can't Stay Away - Leroy Hutson
Will We Ever Come Together - Black Ivory

[sophisticated_soul]

Away In A Manger/Coventry Carol - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

[westgrandboulevard]

I Should Be Your Lover - The O'Jays [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

Silent Night - Mahalia Jackson

[westgrandboulevard]

Believe Me - Linda and the Pretenders [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016) -

[manny]

"Miracle Man" - Mighty Clouds Of Joy

[westgrandboulevard]

in remembrance.....

Trapped - Colonel Abrams [[You Tube)

[westgrandboulevard]

Always And Forever - Maxine Brown [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[theboyfromxtown]

Contours - First I Look At The Purse

[sophisticated_soul]

My Christmas Tree [[mono) = Diana Ross & The Andantes

[westgrandboulevard]

[[ I can tell you're hoping Santa will show up early this year....)

Gotta Find A New Love - The Inspirations [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

[[In my house Christmas music, starts the day after Thanksgiving and goes to Dec. 30)

Carol Of The Bells - David Foster

[westgrandboulevard]

[[I had a neighbour who kept her Christmas door decoration up until Easter had long gone...)

There Is No Cure For L'Amour - Eartha Kitt [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox; November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

O' Holy Night - Michael Crawford

[westgrandboulevard]

My Girl - Jackie Wilson and Count Basie [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

What Child Is This? - Vanessa Williams

[westgrandboulevard]

Love Story - Nino Tempo & April Stevens [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

The Little Drummer Boy - Peggy Lee

[westgrandboulevard]

Soup For One - Chic [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

I'd Like You For Christmas - Julie London

[westgrandboulevard]

Dreams Of Contentment - The Dells [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 27th, 2016) -

[sophisticated_soul]

Warm December - Julie London

[theboyfromxtown]

Never Give You Up - Blinky Williams

[westgrandboulevard]

Oh I Wonder Why - The Gypsies [[Soulful Detroit Jukebox, November 26th, 2016) -

[manny]

I wanna to fight against my scepticism and some irrational dislike about the 80's, so I'm hearding some pop-rock-soul-disco compilations from this decade:

- "Breakout" - Swing Out Sister
- "Do Waht You Wanna Do" - The Cage [[featuring LaBelle's Nona Hendryx!!)

[[The two tracks between dozens and dozens on wich I found "something"...!)

[westgrandboulevard]

Hmmm. Yes, the 80s. Those synthesised drum sounds.. sometimes poor, and sometimes quite effective, when skilfully blended.

I love Swing Out Sister.....so you do have me going now.....

Now playing from Disc 3, 'Swing Out Sister - The Ultimate Collection' :

Breakout [[1992 Remix) - just short of 7 mins, and it ROCKS!!

[manny]

Hmmm. Yes, the 80s. Those synthesised drum sounds.. sometimes poor, and sometimes quite effective, when skilfully blended.

I love Swing Out Sister.....so you do have me going now.....

Now playing from Disc 3, 'Swing Out Sister - The Ultimate Collection' :

Breakout [[1992 Remix) - just short of 7 mins, and it ROCKS!!

I'm working with the Mac and keep on herading those CD's [[are from my wife!... a fan of John Denver, Cat Stevens and a lot of many others 70's, 80's, 90's and present days music, specially spanish and catalonian artists as La Oreja de Van Gogh, Sopa de Cabra, Sergio Dalma,...)

Lots of tracks by Talk Talk, Modern Talking, Art Of Noise, The Cure, Culture Club,... I don't knows if some tracks touch my soul for the evocative power of music, remembering the 80's or because its intrinsically quality [[???)... another two tracks that "touch" my soul:

"Guilty" - Barbra Streisand & Robbin Gibb
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell [[a "pop" cover of Maxine Brown's 60's soul tune)

[westgrandboulevard]

'Tainted Love' - now, wasn't that Gloria Jones, not Maxine Brown? Very, very popular on the UK Northern Soul scene.

Whenever it is played, it is still a tradition for all the dancers in the whole place to loudly 'clap clap' in complete unison on the beat [[as featured more strongly on the later Soft Cell version), as follows...

"......I've got to [[dancers: Clap, clap) run away,
I've got to [[dancers: Clap, clap) get away.."


Marc Almond [[Soft Cell) still, of course, performs the song as part of his repertoire - particularly when touring as a guest vocalist with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra [[check them out, if not already familiar). Jools and the R&B Orchestra sell out their theatre and outdoor concerts, performing at full blast. The audiences have only to hear the intro to 'Tainted Love' to put their arms up in the air, in readiness for those 'clap clap' moments...

[sophisticated_soul]

We Three Kings - Dolly Parton

[westgrandboulevard]

Jailer, Bring Me Water - Johnny Thunder [[Diamond Records, NYC, You Tube) -

[TomatoTom123]

I Got A Feeling - The Four Tops

[sophisticated_soul]

O' Come All Ye Faithful - Nat King Cole

[manny]

'Tainted Love' - now, wasn't that Gloria Jones, not Maxine Brown? Very, very popular on the UK Northern Soul scene.

Whenever it is played, it is still a tradition for all the dancers in the whole place to loudly 'clap clap' in complete unison on the beat [[as featured more strongly on the later Soft Cell version), as follows...

"......I've got to [[dancers: Clap, clap) run away,
I've got to [[dancers: Clap, clap) get away.."


Marc Almond [[Soft Cell) still, of course, performs the song as part of his repertoire - particularly when touring as a guest vocalist with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra [[check them out, if not already familiar). Jools and the R&B Orchestra sell out their theatre and outdoor concerts, performing at full blast. The audiences have only to hear the intro to 'Tainted Love' to put their arms up in the air, in readiness for those 'clap clap' moments...

You're so right, Westgrandboulevard!... my bad memory, I'm getting old.
You have made me to check my domestically tapes from the 70's - 80's searching this track!... and remembering my favorite Gloria Jone's one, "Tin Can People"... I likes these kind of "rock - soul" tunes.

Some others 80's tracks I have been hearding:
- "Me paso el día bailando" - Alaska & Dynarama [[spanish group with Pedro Almodóvar's muse actress Alaska as lead singer)
- "Get Up Off Your Lazzy Bed" - Matt Bianco [[very jazzy!... I hated it when I worked at my student years as barman in a discotheque and played it every session.. and now i found it with "something")
- "Pop Muzik" - M [[another track overplayed on those disk years that I hated and now i heard with another ears...)

[sophisticated_soul]

This Christmas - Diana Ross

[westgrandboulevard]

[[Manny, if you played Matt Bianco every session as a barman, that has to be around 1984-1985 at the earliest. If those were your student years, then you must be 10--15 years younger than me. And you say you're getting old....)


True - Spandau Ballet [[You Tube) -

[manny]

[[Manny, if you played Matt Bianco every session as a barman, that has to be around 1984-1985 at the earliest. If those were your student years, then you must be 10--15 years younger than me. And you say you're getting old....)


True - Spandau Ballet [[You Tube) -

No, I don't played nothing. I only worked as barman. There were a group by three DJ's who worked exclusively as DJ's. Some times I comes to the DJ's booth before the session started and dig in the crates to see the vynils [[some funk and soul from that era, as "Mestizo" by Joe bataan or "Mixin' It Up" by The Trammps,... among tons of "brain-less" disco and pop-disco music). This was between 1981 and 1986, my latest teens - first twenties. Today I'm aged 54 years old! :-[[ ... A track I likes a lot, "Beyond" by Herb Alpert they used as the sintony at the end of the session. I likes it musically and also because signified the session ended [[ we were very tired after 6 or 7 hours of hard work, this was a macro-discotheque and the costumers were hound reds or sometimes more than a thousand!)

"True" by Spandau Ballet is one of the few UK pop tunes from this era jointly with some others by the same group [["Chant # 1", "Gold",...) and some by F.R. David, Boy George or Brian Ferry that I liked at the time and today also.

It's 24:00 h here in Spain and I keep on exploring those compilations in the computer. At this moments sounds [[another usual from these discotheque days!):

- "Let's Funk Tonight" - Blue Feather [[how I hated it and how I ear now with "sympathy"...!)

[sophisticated_soul]

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes