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I thought this fit better in this thread than the old school thread. What are your all time favourite 50s-80s soul tracks?

There are way too many for me but some i can think of now....

Marvin Gaye - Mercy mercy me
Temptations - Ain’t too proud to beg
Barry White - You see the trouble with me
Staple Singers - I’ll take you there
Bobby Caldwell - Open your eyes
Chicago - Street Player (might not classify as soul)
Sam Cooke - Cupid, You Send Me, Bring it On home to me
Bill Withers - Just the two of us
Randy Crawford - Street life

al green - lets stay together
the temptations - lady soul
sunfire - young, free and single
marvin gaye - distant lover
luther vandross - neva too much
so many to name but theres a few

is it safe in this thread to mention Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up

lmfao arent they ninetys bro

Cool i was just listening ot my soul music playlist today:

Billy Paul - Me and Mrs Jones
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - I Miss You
The Impression - People Get Ready
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Stevie Wonder - Blowing in the Wind
Smokey Robinson - Cruisin’
Smokey Robinson - Tracks of my Tears
OJays - Used Ta Be My Girl
The Meters - Out in the Country
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
The Emotions - Flowers

The question is too open ended and my list will change 30 seconds after I hit the submit button - but here are some I’m feeling now…

I wish - Stevie Wonder
Jeffry Osborne - New Love
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Sam Coke - Don’t know much about history
Crusadors - Street Life
Rose Royce - Love don’t live here any more
M-Tume - Juicy Fruit
Cheryl Pepsi Riley - Thanks for my child
Roger Troutman - Computer Love
Shirley Murdoch - Tonight (Awesome Awesome track!!!!!!)
Al Green - Lets stay together
Arethra Franklin - Chain of fools
Smokey Robinson - Tracks of my tears
Rockmelons - Ain’t no sunshine (yeah I said it!!!)
Phil Perry - Forever
The Doobie Brothers - What a fool believes
Ambrosia - Baby come back

I could go on all day.....

B-Love

This is probably overlapping a lot of what is already here

Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
Jermaine Stewart - We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off
George Benson - Give Me the Night
George Benson - Turn Your Love Around
George Benson - Lady Love Me (One More Time)
Rick James - Give it to me Baby
Rick James - Mary Jane
Rick James - Superfreak
Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
Lionel Richie - You Are
Commodores - Brick House
Carl Carlton - She’s a Bad Mama Jama
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
Ardijah - Watching You
Nina Simone - Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Dusty Springfield - Son of A Preacher Man
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - We’re Having a Party
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Stevie Wonder - As
Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
Stevie Wonder - For Once in My Life
LETS SAY ALL STEVIE…
Marvin Gaye - Mercy, mercy me
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell - Ain’t Nothing like the real thing
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell - Your Precious Love
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell - You’re All I Need to Get By
Marvin Gaye/Diana Ross - You Are Everything
Temptations - Treat her like a Lady
Kool and the Gang - Cherish
Kool and the Gang - Fresh
The Gap Band - Outstanding
Shalamar - Night to Remember
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
Bootsy Collins - I’d Rather Be With You
Temptations - My Girl
Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
O’Jays - She Used to Be My Girl
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
Cheryl Lynn - Got to Be Real
Smokey Robinson - Tears of a Clown
Donna Summer - Love to Love You baby
Michael Jackson - PYT

AND anything by Prince

I’m stopping now because I could go on and on.

I’ve got this awesome track by Kool and the Gang - not strictly soul, more like funk/disco to me - it a live version of Get Down On It which switches mid song intp Celebration - much better than those poppy remakes!

And You to Me Are Everything by the Tavares.  That was pretty cool.

Bobby Hebb - Sunny
Bill Withers - Use Me

jayme - 28 September 2008 01:22 PM

And You to Me Are Everything by the Tavares.  That was pretty cool.

Isnt that The Real Thing? Speaking of Tavares.

Tavares - It Only Takes a Minute Girl

Did I get it wrong?  I’m hopeless remembering the names of songs - I just sing along to them…

dont want to write a list so here are the ones i always listen too:

Lenny Williams 10 ways of loving you
GQ - i do love you (the last song in the movie babyboy)
Ardijah - Watching You
Grayson hughs - talk it over
Temptations - Paradise
Pretenders - thin line between love and hate

jayme - 28 September 2008 07:39 PM

Did I get it wrong?  I’m hopeless remembering the names of songs - I just sing along to them…

Nah the Real Thing is the name of the group if im thinking of the same song:

You to me are everything the sweetest song that i can sing oh baby
to you i guess im just a clown that picks you up each time youre down oh baby

Some other classics, some more funk/disco than soul....

Unlimited Touch - I hear music in the streets
Alicia Myers - I just wanna thank you
Ashford and Simpson - Bourgie Bourgie
Chic - A lover’s holiday
Chaka Khan - Tell me something good
Teddy Pendergrass - Close the door
Hues Corporation - Rock the boat
Roy Ayers - Love will keep us together

I wish people at clubs these days appreciated this stuff

“Well Id like to know if you got the notion...”

Ahh that goes down well at 50th bdays haha. Same with George McCrae ‘Rock Your Baby’.

lol those two songs are almost interchangeable. Love em!

Hey i cut Gregory Abbott “Shake You Down” up on the weekend, and sampled it for a beat. The accappella at the end of the track is gold!

Another great 50th/60th birthday party song - Lou Rawls - You’ll never find another love like mine