Could anyone suggest some popular 70s soul songs. I'm just wondering to see which I have and don't, the ones I heard of and haven't etc.

So if you could list some popular 70s soul tunes that would be great!

Ian Stewart is your man...

Please share with us Ian

dont forget eskie or run a search on the forum for your question im sure it has been covered before

here we go,

"Soul" means differant things to differant people, I and of course Eskie will be able to give you lists of 100's if not 1000's of tunes.

Do you mean the sort of soul music that Joe Average wil know?

Or do you mean the type of Soul that a hardened soul music fan will like?

Joe Public soul is Barry White, candi Staton, Gloria Gaynor, Odyssey, Kool & The Gang etc

If you mean hardened soul music, these days they use the term, check out any of the soul togetherness albums for some essential tunes.

Or if you are in striking distance of Essex on August Bank Holiday Sunday then I am playing a soul gig in Wickford.

Oh and then don't forget the Funk & Jazz Funk tunes of the 70's

let me know and I will supply some sort of difinitive list

well i was after 70s soul tunes but NOT joe public ones. I don't want really really unknown stuff just sort of common 70s souls tracks whether it be jazz funk one etc but not Joe Public style.

Just came across this CD - could be useful

http://www5.cd-wow.com/detail_results.php?...duct_code=12843

here we go detroit spinners working my way back to you ,temptations treat her like a lady, sos band ,fatback band, michael walden shoulda loved ya ,sylvia tella ,lisa lisa take you home and for my final ar$e kicker wayne marshall g spot you come and see me when it comes to soul i am the daddy .

....and Ian and Eskie are the GRAND-daddys!

Don't blame me!

In the words of Shaggy "It wasn't me"!

And further to Paula's post:

Oops Sorry Daz it was JohnnyK that posted, I seem to have copyied your name in by mistake! Sorry

JohnyK
see me when it comes to soul i am the daddy . [QUOTE]

Sorry but you were just asking to be flamed there.
Ian and Eskie will not allow any pretenders to the throne.

Here we go with a list of 70's SOUL FUNK JAZZ DISCO & JAZZ FUNK tunes that I do and have played, it will be the specialist & cheesy ones as well

Ace Spectrum - Don't Send Nobody Else
B Baker & The Chocolate Factory - Snowblower
David Bendeth - Feel The Real
Dave Benoit - Life Is Like A samba
Arnold Blair - Trying To Get Next To You
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
The Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm
Johnny Bristol - Love No Longer Has A Hold On me
AJ Brown - Making Love
Donald Byrd - (Falling Like) Dominoes
Willie Bobo - Always There
Gene Chandler - Let Me Make Love To You
Chic - C'est Chi
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Too Late To Turn Back Now
Detroit Spinners - Could It be I'm Falling In Love
Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
Lamont Dozier - Why can't We Be Lovers
Coke Escovado - I Wouldn't Change A Thing
Fabulous Playmates - Ain't Gonna Be No Fool
Faith Hope & Charity - To Each His Own
Rodney Franklin - The Groove
Al Green - Keep On Pushin
Leroy Hutson - Lucky Fellow
The Impressions - First Impressions
Jesse James - I Want A Love Affair
Jones Girls - You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
Herman Kelly - Dance To The Drummers Beat
Bo Kirkland & Ruth Davies - You're Gonna Get Next To Me
Wilbert Longmire - Black Is The Colour
Carrie Lucas - Dance With Me
Madagascar - Rainbow
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davies Jnr - You Don't Have To Be A Star
Jack McDuff - Ju Ju
Odyssey - Native New Yorker
O'Jays - Used To Be My Girl
The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
Philadelphia All-Stars - Let's Clean Up The Ghetto
Lou Rawls - Lady Love
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find
Raydio - Jack & Jill
Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You
Rhythm Makers - Zone
Eddie Russ - Zaius
Rufus - Tell Me Something Good
Gil Scott-Heron - Johanesbourg
Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
Seawind - He Loves You
Special Delivery - This Kind Of Love
Barret Strong - Is It True
Candi Staton - Nights On Broadway
Benny Troy - I Wanna Give You Tomorrow
Dexter wansel - Life On mars
War - Me & baby Brother
Dionne Warwick & The Detroit Spinners - Then Came You
Barry White - Playing Your Game


I hope this is enough for now, perhaps I'll post a few more later

Paula

I meant further to what you were saying, rather than the post!

This is getting awfully confusing

Just like to say a massive thanks to Ian!! Thanks!!!

nice list Ian, dont think i have any of them

WOW

What a great list Ian, thanks, will try and source some and have a quick listen to, must be better than S Club Juniors.
Listen to Jazz FM whenever I am in London way, I know it's 'lounge jazz' but still fantastic

Thats not the first excellent list you have supplied Ian.I am still looking for most of the other ones.
I would imagine that the chances of getting many of these is fairly remote too.
I know this goes against the grain on this site but me thinks that Kazaa will be working overtime. Unfortunately I dont have that facility anymore- my PC had heart failure and I lost lots of stuff during the ensueing(?) surgery.

Trev
Easy peazey!
Gracenote/CDBB

One other place to hear some great soul is Solar radio, although it's only available at the moment on Sky or on the web http://www.solarradio.com/
The great thing about Solar is that unlike most stations they don't use Playlists, so you don't hear the same songs over and over again.

Bimey Ian, what a list!

if looking for 70's soul stuff, try Gary at Crazybeat Records, as most of this stuff has been released on CD

Paula you are a little treasure.Just had a look at Gracenote and tried the demo.It might be just what I am looking for.Made one or two cock ups on the way but got there in the end.

Me!!! A little treasure! Some people would really doubt that!

I have recently bought yet another 70's soul CD, with some raremodern soul clasics on, ie from the 70's great tracks from warner record
Mary Wells
Gerals Sims
Jean Battle
Ben E King

to name a few

Its called "you better believe it"

Jazz Fm do play some great bits, I definately don't listen to the radio enough!

Ian, don't know if you've spotted these on a CD comp anywhere: Reuben Wilson 'Gotta get you Own' and Johhny Hammond 'Shifting gears'?

I've got Hammond on Vinyl (somewhere) and I've tacked Wilson down on Vinyl, but would prefer just to nab 'em on CD.

You can find the Hammond track on the Sampled series; it's on vol 4.
'Sampled' is a series of albums which has originals of tracks, loops, songs used in ads from recent years. Most of the originals are old soul tracks from the 60's & 70's and they sometimes have some classic stuff. As far as I know vol 4 is the latest album.

and you can get Reuben on Street Jazz vol 1 which is a comp that was released about 3 years ago, I would lend you mine, but I feel you've got to get your own

Thanks mate spot on and already tracked on Amazon.

While I wondering round Amazon, anyone care to name some decent Jazz funk comps?

just try the Mastercuts Jazz Funk Series the 6 CD's pretty much cover everything

Such good advice, Ian felt he could say it twice

I'll second that..... the Mastercuts Jazz Funk range are excellent CDs

Good quality, solid tracks from the genre without being too elitist or too commercial, as is the case with just about all of the Mastercuts range in my opinion (I especially like the house range at the moment).

Intelligently compiled collections overall

The Master cuts are decent, got one of the 80s groove ones the other day.

I'd been after Rose Royce 'Magic Touch' fro a while, my copy of Streetsounds had seen better days!

Also had Cash Flow 'Mine all Mine' on. Ah, the songs of my youth

Picked up one of the House ones a while back. Primarily because it had Mac thornhill 'Whose gonna ease the pressure' on, tune!

The Hed Kandis are also pretty good for older house/dance bits.

hi guys not been active lately but came back to the site as have been asked to do a soul/mowtown gig 12th sep, now i know there are some soul/mowtown specialists out there and the debate bout what is/isnt, soul/mowtown could prob rage forever but i just need too know that if u got the general spread of top 20 hits from 70's/80's even some 90's approx dozen soul/mowtown cds, would this satisfy the general soul loving community, and lastly is there any tracks that are must haves oh and def lastly would i get lynched if i played northern soul or is this something completely different, i know it is different, but is it acceptable. thankin u all in advance

How well Northern Soul will go down depends on the crowd you have and the area of the country you're in and the age group.
So it's extremely difficult to answer how well it would go down.

As for the must have's to

thanks eskie much appreiciated, only been dj'ing less than a yr and still not sure bout music styles and genres etc, so any info is always welcome, infact gonna print your reply, laminate it, stick on front of desk and if any1 says "hey thats not soul/motown" will direct them to notice, to which i will reply "must be cos eskie says so?!" , but seriously thanx again m8 will let u all know how i get on with my first soul gig

Eskie again

What a great selection of tunes, I need to come to one of your gigs

PM sent Eskie