Records released during a particular year that sounded like they were much older

[Kamasu_Jr]

I can think of two: Nothing Takes The Place of You - Toussaint McCall ; Dry Your Eyes by forum favorites Brenda & the Tabulations. BOTH records sounded completely different or out of place from other popular records out at the same time. I think the year was 1967, which was a progressive year for soul thanks to records like Respect, I Heard Through The Grapevine and Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher. Can we think of others?

[theboyfromxtown]

"I Gotta Let You Go"-Martha & Vandellas

But I found out later that it was a track recorded years earlier but at the time, it sounded out of sync to me. In contract to "Jimmy Mack" which when released in 1967 didn't sound like a track recorded in 1964.

Another one was "You Got The Love I Need - Undisputed Truth. It was completely different in sound to "Smiling Faces Sometimes"

[Ngroove]

Jermaine Jackson's "Daddy's Home" - nothing wrong about it, or that it sounds like the late fifties - early sixties whatsoever, it's probably the smoothest, most soulful, classiest performance ever sung by a Jackson, EVER, and understandable since it is a cover of a doo-wop standard.

[Ngroove]

Marvin Gaye - "Come Get to This". Again, nothing wrong with it - in fact, ever since first listen, it's still my favorite track of his seventies input - with swingin' vocals over what feels more like a "jam session" - rather than his standard overly done, overly orchestrated, overly perfected, and often overly personal productions by that time.

[marv2]

Here's an example that immediately sprung to mind, "Call Me The Traveling Man" came out in 1975-76 but sounded like something out of the 40's or 50's to me.

[milven]

First that came to my mind when I read the title of thread was Dr Buzzard. They recorded in the seventies disco era, but their sound was the big band sound of the forties. The video is great too - vintage forties.

[thomas96]

Luther Vandross' "Dance With My Father" released in 2003, sounds like an early 80's or late 70's R&B song.

[no_place_like_motown]

"Eighteen With A Bullet" by Pete Wingfield released in 1975 sounds like an early-mid 60's song.

[Soul Sister]

Marvin & Mary ~ "I Love You For Sentimental Reasons".


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[Jerry Oz]

"Cuddly Toy" by Roachford was released in 1988 but had a funky late '60s vibe to it. I absolutely love this song.

[paladin]

This song by The Futures was simply a jam, thought of it immediately when I saw the thread.....released in 1980 but sounds like a throwback....subtle and sweet......


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JthoX4trZg4">

[robb_k]

All those songs above sound WAY too "modern" for my taste. I would have guessed accurately, that they were released in the '70s and early '80s, based on the instrumentals and acoustics.

In the '70s song, the vocals sound to me like The '70s.
In the 1980s cut, he vocals sound possibly '70s style [[not at all before that).
The 1980 song sounds NOTHING to me like anything before the mid 1970s.

The "retro' 1940s song is sung in the 1940s style. But the instrumentation is VERY modern, and makes it sound like post 1980s for me. I'd rather hear 1940s music played using 1940s instruments and 1940s acoustics, and recorded on 1940s equipment.

I guess it's IMPOSSIBLE to make music now that really sounds like the 1930s through early 1960s.

All the modern music makers can do is mimic the style, and produce a faint "idea" of it.

[robb_k]

"United" by The Jive Five, from 1964, sounded much older [[say, like the late 1950s). The same was true for "My True Story" by them from 1961, and "What Time Is It?" from 1962. Some of the A Capella "Doo Wop" from the mid 1960s sounds like 1957.

[Kamasu_Jr]

Good point about Doo Wop records, Rob. Doo Wop was popular in the 1950s and had a revival in the early 1960s. But my dad says he definitely remembers first hearing Dry Your Eyes in 1967 coming on after records like Respect and Cold Sweat and thinking someone had sneaked something really old on.

[alanh]

I always thought 'Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye' by the Casinos was out of place in 1967 [[although recorded in 1966 I guess, the song itself was older). In 1966 Tommy James' 'Hanky Panky' didn't sound right either, although of course it was recorded in 1964 and not released til '66.

PS I second Rob's comment about 'My True Story' too

[robb_k]

I always thought 'Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye' by the Casinos was out of place in 1967 [[although recorded in 1966 I guess, the song itself was older). In 1966 Tommy James' 'Hanky Panky' didn't sound right either, although of course it was recorded in 1964 and not released til '66.

PS I second Rob's comment about 'My True Story' too

MOST of The Jive Five's ballads were '50s sounding, while their fast sides modernised, moving with the times. Interesting combination.

[motony]

"Let Me In" by the Sensations always sounded older then 1962 to me.

[robb_k]

This was released by Clifton Records in 1985 , by The velours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=L4Pr-AsYCSU
It sounds like 1957!

[robb_k]

This was recorded in 1962, but sounds like 1956 or 1957:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...auj7zOR8#t=11s

[robb_k]

This was recorded in late 1963, but sounds like 1957:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=aloLDYkMG44

[robb_k]

This is from Detroit, recorded in 1960, but sounds like 1956:https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=x385ULlwgUg