A much needed Black Music thread.

[K Douglas]

So I've been searching Google and YouTube for the past hour or so trying to find a song I've heard last night on Soul Town and the artist and song title has completely slipped my mind.
What I do know it was a female singer and the song had love in the title. It was my first time hearing the song since my teens. It had a sound like mid to late 60's. For a second I thought it was a song by the Lovelites but I went through their discog and its not them. It has a slow to mid tempo and it reminds me of Its Gonna Take a Miracle by Deniece Williams.

In the meantime I came across this song from 1965, I'm pretty sure it hasn't been posted here before. Really diggin' it

 

[K Douglas]

Another great song written by Curtis Mayfield. This dude is ridiculously underrated for his contributions to black music.

 

[K Douglas]

I think I'm falling down the 60's soul music rabbit hole

 

[K Douglas]

Woke up to the terrible news of Trugoy the Dove aka Plug Two aka David Jolicoeur's passing yesterday at the age of 54. He was 1/3 of the hip hop group De La Soul. Listened to them so much growing up its part of the soundtrack of my youth. This one hurts. In honor of Dave's passing a trio of my favorite De La tracks

Keepin the Faith (remix)

Trugoy's got the 1st verse starting at about 1:35

Ego Trippin (Part Two)

1st & 3rd verses are Trugoy

Potholes in my Lawn

This was the first record I bought from them back in 1989. It made me a Da La Fan for life

 

[K Douglas]

The two main samples to Potholes in my Lawn. Prince Paul a genius on the production

Magic Mountain - War feat. Eric Bourdon

Synthetic Substitution - Melvin Bliss (the piano kicks in at 0:06)

 

[ogibowt]

Ronnie died a little over a year ago....but her voice has never left me............the quality of this vid is not great, but hearing Ronnie sing brings unequalled joy to me...

 

[trm]

 

[ogibowt]

some Gospel right there............nice change of pace

 

[K Douglas]

some Gospel right there............nice change of pace

Many singers honed their voices in the church choir before going onto greatness. The Hutchinson sisters (aka The Emotions) come to mind .

 

[K Douglas]

I love the elements of this song. The guitar right off the bat (see sampled song below) and the drums. Oh the drums. Ahead of its time.

 

[K Douglas]

My goodness this is so funky

 

[K Douglas]

'Love Saw It' by Karyn White feat. Babyface. Written and produced by Babyface and L.A. Reid. From her debut album which I've been listening to this morning, its a gem.

 

[K Douglas]

This song came thru my feed yesterday. I'm blown away it sounds like it came out of the late 80's/early 90's but was released last year. I'm likin' it.

 

[K Douglas]

Smokey still had it in '87. Love this tune

 

[K Douglas]

Freddie had a great voice, so did Melba. R&B duets were so big in the 80's.

 

[K Douglas]

Gerald Levert wow. Almost as big a voice as his father. Sadly he left us far too soon. This was produced by David Foster, you can tell.

 

[K Douglas]

Here's one from a ridiculously underrated vocalist, Keith Washington. He reminds me a bit of Luther Vandross in his cadence.

The first time I ever heard Keith Washington sing was on the Boomerang soundtrack which is amazing btw. The movie is pretty good too starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens and Halle Berry.

 

[K Douglas]

As I've said many times before After 7 is my ATF r&b group. This song right here appeared on the Beverly Hills 90210 soundtrack. It was produced by Keith Andes, who was a protégé of Babyface. We follow each other on twitter which is amazing.

 

[K Douglas]

No song is ever perfection but this one is a contender. Why I don't post more Anita on here is puzzling. An epic r&b/soul artist.

 

[K Douglas]

Heatwave's 'The Star of a Story'. Written by the one and only Rod Temperton who was the band's keyboardist. Rod infamously wrote Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall', 'Rock With You' and 'Thriller'. He also wrote several hit songs for artists Brothers Johnson (Stomp!), George Benson (Give Me the Night), Patti Austin & James Ingram (Baby Come To Me), Kool & the Gang (Ladies Night) and of course most of Heatwave's hit songs (Always and Forever, The Groove Line & Boogie Nights)

Rod also wrote and produced this lovely gem for singer Mica Paris in 1993

Canadian singer Tamia covered this song on her self title debut album a few years later. This version was produced by Quincy Jones.