A much needed Black Music thread.

[ogibowt]

a great tune famously covered by The Rolling Stones

 

[ogibowt]

the original that was a big hit for The Moody Blues

 

[K Douglas]

as a teen i first heard this song on my transister radio at WUFO, a black radio station in Buffalo....and i thought good god , this is great stuff....i thought to myself "all you others can listen to the white bread stuff" but im gonna listen to this.....i even managed to find the single right here in TO and bought it...what an enterprising 15 year old i was lol...a few years later i came to realize what this song was really about.....sex, but not the pornography that masquerades as music these days.......anyway.............

Cool story. I often ask myself how does a kid who grew up in the burbs with parents who listened to the Irish Rovers, Nana Mouskouri, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley etc. ever get so into hip hop and r&b/soul music. I don't have an explanation other than its somehow in my natural chemistry. We listen to what we love to hear. And we've been doing it for a long time, one of us a bit longer than the other

 

[Fun For All]

 

[xmontrealer]

Found in my Hasidic dancing search on YouTube tonight. Obviously a mash-up, but well done

 

[xmontrealer]

And one more...

 

[Akila Besos]

 

[Akila Besos]

 

[harryass]

 

[ogibowt]

what a wonderful voice she had..RIP Donna

 

[onomatopoeia]

This is the best live version I've heard of I Can't Turn You Loose by Otis Redding, with the Bar-Kays at a Chitlin' Circuit nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama, 1967. It's from a bootleg named A Soupcan of Soul, Big Fro Discs (BF-007). Bassist James Alexander, eighteen years old at the time, was not in the plane that crashed into Lake Monona in Wisconsin on December 10, 1967, killing Redding and four members of the band.

320 kbs .mp3 download link.

DON'T try to play it online. I kept being redirected to some song from Southeast Asia.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra performing When It's Sleepy Town Down South, for an all-White audience at The University of North Carolina Memorial Hall - Chapel Hill, NC, May 8, 1954, (soundboard).

320 kbs .mp3 download link.

Click the Like button if you want more .mp3s from this show posted in this thread.

 

[K Douglas]

Gonna share some of my favorite female R&B artists today. Let's start with a couple Canadian ladies

Tamia- So Into You (1998)

Deborah Cox - Sentimental (1995)

 

[K Douglas]

Toni Braxton-Let It Flow (1996). She was a Babyface protege.

 

[K Douglas]

Chante Moore - Old School Lovin (1994)

 

[K Douglas]

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - I'm in Love (1981)

Big shout out to producer Kashif he laced Evelyn with some killer instrumentals.

 

[K Douglas]

Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (2005)

 

[K Douglas]

Amerie - All I Have (2002)

I had a Love Jones for Amerie back in the day. She should be a household name. Stupid talented with an exotic look.

 

[K Douglas]

Mary J. Blige - Be Happy (1994)

This one should come as no surprise to all of you that are familiar with my musical tastes. My fave MJB song right here.

 

[K Douglas]

Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love (1985)

Wow what a debut this was. The greatest female vocalist ever. Brings a tear to my eye every time I think of her downfall and eventual death.