A much needed Black Music thread.

[ogibowt]

The artists credited on the single were Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans. As per his style, Phil Spector decided to use Darlene Love as the lead vocalist, uncredited of course, until much later...

the song..meh....the voice ? a different story

 

[CGR45]

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[ogibowt]

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a while back i posted here my female Mt Rushmore soul sisters
male?..Otis Redding .Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge and of course this guy Sam Cooke

 

[K Douglas]

a while back i posted here my female Mt Rushmore soul sisters
male?..Otis Redding .Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge and of course this guy Sam Cooke

Please remind me of your female Mount Rushmore again. I figure you've got Candi Staton on there.
Not at all a surprise to see Otis and Wilson on your male Mount Rushmore. I know your tastes well enough.

 

[ogibowt]

Please remind me of your female Mount Rushmore again. I figure you've got Candi Staton on there.
Not at all a surprise to see Otis and Wilson on your male Mount Rushmore. I know your tastes well enough.

you definetly know my tastes and i know yours.....sometimes our tastes converge, and sometimes they dont.........but i never question your love for Black music
for the record....female Mt Rushmore...Candi Staton, Ronnie Spector,,Darlene Love and Etta James......but Dougie share with us your female and male Mt Rushmore.....you have a wide variety of musical tastes..so it may be tough to narrow things down....

 

[ogibowt]

 

[ogibowt]

 

[K Douglas]

you definetly know my tastes and i know yours.....sometimes our tastes converge, and sometimes they dont.........but i never question your love for Black music
for the record....female Mt Rushmore...Candi Staton, Ronnie Spector,,Darlene Love and Etta James......but Dougie share with us your female and male Mt Rushmore.....you have a wide variety of musical tastes..so it may be tough to narrow things down....

There's so much great black music to appeal to many tastes. And we both have love and passion for it no doubt. From a young age. I will credit you for broadening my horizons to include 50s/60s into my listening repertoire. This is my favorite thread on the forum.
Here's my soul/r&b Mount Rushmores:

Male - Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jackson
Female - Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Roberta Flack*

*I really wanted to put Mary J. Blige there her discog is right up there with the best. But Roberta's got one of the loveliest sounding voices I've ever heard

 

[ogibowt]

There's so much great black music to appeal to many tastes. And we both have love and passion for it no doubt. From a young age. I will credit you for broadening my horizons to include 50s/60s into my listening repertoire. This is my favorite thread on the forum.
Here's my soul/r&b Mount Rushmores:

Male - Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jackson
Female - Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Roberta Flack*

*I really wanted to put Mary J. Blige there her discog is right up there with the best. But Roberta's got one of the loveliest sounding voices I've ever heard

if there was a 5th head...it would be Marvin and Aretha

 

[ogibowt]

hey Xmontrealer.....its your turn,,,,,i would love to know your male and female soul/r&b Mt Rushmore

 

[xmontrealer]

Ok. Difficult to narrow things down like that, but...

Male: David Ruffin, both with the Tempts and to a lesser degree solo, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett

5th & 6th heads: James Brown, Sam Cooke

Female: Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector, Martha Reeves of Martha & The Vandellas, Aretha Franklin

5th & 6th heads: Sharon Jones, Carla Thomas

 

[ogibowt]

Martha,s soul came through on this one.................side note....her song Nowhere To Run was used as the title of a book about the history of Soul,,,,,long out of print i suppose but i bought the book way back when......still have it somewhere in the Condo..lol...

 

[ogibowt]

and Carla....i never did buy this single....but i own a single of B A B Y......and i have the Album King And Queen of Soul.........duets with the Big O...........Yep Carla is way up there

 

[xmontrealer]

Heat Wave

 

[xmontrealer]

with a tip 'o the hat to Steve for the tasty guitar...

 

[xmontrealer]

 

[xmontrealer]

 

[xmontrealer]

The Falcons, with Wilson Pickett on lead...

And another tip o' the hat to Robert Ward for his tremolo guitar...

 

[xmontrealer]

 

[xmontrealer]