A much needed Black Music thread.
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x...with respect to Jubee and Whitney Houston, who, by the way DOES have an incredible singing voice....but songs just have to give me some Soul, Emotion, and Feeling
Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector has it for me...........Whitney ? not as much....but the immense talent is there. but for me there was just that something missing....only one man,s opinion
Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector has it for me...........Whitney ? not as much....but the immense talent is there. but for me there was just that something missing....only one man,s opinion
when im on my death bed and i know the end is coming...i just want an hour of Ronnie, Darlene.Otis Redding Wilson Pickett and i will throw in a white guy...Roy Orbison....let me go out listening to their music
Dee Dee Sharpe,s follow up to Mash Potatoes
the song is pop fluff,,,nothing much to to it....not really a trained voice that hits all the right notes.......BUT....its got an earthy feel to it that gets to me..cant explain my ears... lol...i just know a good song when i hear it lol
That's why I prefer 50's, 60's, and 70's r&b to today's. Something raw and elemental to the songs and productions of that era as opposed to much of the smooth over-processed, over-orchestrated r&b I hear today.
To certain extent, especially with "Southern Soul", I sense a similarity in its feel to the country music of those years in its clarity, rawness, and musical honesty.
That said I do like 80's and 90's hip hop, and whatever current hip hop my daughter is playing when she is in my car and takes over the Bluetooth.
im with you x....here is a country standard done by Percy Sledge.....Soloman Burke also covered it
Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms) (youtube.com)
I will respectfully disagree with you on Whitney. I find that several of her ballads evoke incredible emotion from "The Greatest Love of All" to "Count on Me" from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack to of course "I Will Always Love You" from The Bodyguard soundtrack. That is spine tingling vocals. That all being said she was a pop/r&b-soul singer more so than Darlene or Ronnie and I think that's where you're coming from.
I'm the same. I've already got my funeral music lineup prepared. Hopefully won't have to use it for a while
Dougie...........share some examplesI'm the same. I've already got my funeral music lineup prepared. Hopefully won't have to use it for a while
