A much needed Black Music thread.

[K Douglas]

We never give her love on here so its only appropriate that we do so on her 78th birthday. One of the great voices in soul music history. Gladys Knight.

I really dig this rendition of 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'. She was pretty damn fine in her younger days too.

Shout out to the PIps as well, superb backup vocalists.

 

[ogibowt]

We never give her love on here so its only appropriate that we do so on her 78th birthday. One of the great voices in soul music history. Gladys Knight.

I really dig this rendition of 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'. She was pretty damn fine in her younger days too.

Shout out to the PIps as well, superb backup vocalists.

i agree......If I Was Your Woman would be on my top 50 Favourites list...a song that never gets old...a classic Soul song...

 

[K Douglas]

i agree......If I Was Your Woman would be on my top 50 Favourites list...a song that never gets old...a classic Soul song...

Magnificent vocals on this one supported by a simple, but sweet, bass line.

 

[K Douglas]

What a great song by Smokey. I'm sure this has been sung at many a funeral over the years

 

[K Douglas]

Some great Philly soul on this sunny Sunday morning

 

[K Douglas]

One of the first songs I can distinctly remember being played on the radio. I was 5 in 1978.

 

[K Douglas]

I was surprised Al Wilson didn't have a more prolific singing career. He had such a great soulful voice. In 1973 this masterpiece was released. Its one of my ATF songs

 

[K Douglas]

This under the radar gem was recorded in 1978 but wasn't released until after Marvin's death. Its got a distinctive west coast sound which is where it was recorded (Los Angeles)

What put me on to this song originally was rapper/producer Erick Sermon's remake in 2001

 

[K Douglas]

Jamaica funk, that's what it is...

 

[K Douglas]

This always makes me want to go find a used 98 Oldsmobile. The ultimate homeboy car

 

[ogibowt]

Dougie what a lineup you posted.................effing awesome....

 

[K Douglas]

Dougie what a lineup you posted.................effing awesome....

I was in my Sunday feels.

 

[ogibowt]

an unheralded soul singer from the 60,s

 

[ogibowt]

another Steal Away song.... Wilson Pickett singing Gospel

 

[trm]

 

[xmontrealer]

 

[ogibowt]

X...you are going way back....i talk about my late father sometimes here....this is the kind of stuff he listened to....and obviously as a small child and even toward my teen years i could never understand or appreciate this type of music..but i as i grew older....i came to like this type of music and why my late father played this music constantly..to my mother,s chagrin lol..

 

[ogibowt]

im a big fan of Muddy Waters....much of what he recorded was sexual in nature...always earthy and suggestive but never dirty, filthy, offensive or cringe worthy

 

[ogibowt]

 

[ogibowt]

a great cover of the Slim Harpo classic.......covered by The Rolling Stones among others