12/29/2008
12/06/2008
The Who
I Can't Explain
Happy Jack
My Generation
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Baba O'Riley
Won't Get Fooled Again
Behind Blue Eyes
Who Are You
A Quick One was followed by The Who Sell Out in 1967, a concept album which played like an offshore radio station, complete with humorous jingles and commercials, and which also included a mini rock opera, called "Rael" (whose closing theme ended up on "Tommy"), as well as The Who's biggest USA single, "I Can See for Miles".
In 1968, Pete Townshend became the subject of the first Rolling Stone interview. Townshend revealed in that interview that he was working on a full-length rock opera. This was Tommy, the first work billed as a rock opera and a major landmark in modern music.
In addition to its commercial success, Tommy also became a critical smash, with Life Magazine saying, "...for sheer power, invention and brilliance of performance, Tommy outstrips anything which has ever come out of a recording studio," and Melody Maker declaring, "Surely The Who are now the band against which all others are to be judged."
In 1976 The Who played a concert at Charlton Athletic Football Ground which was listed for over a decade in the Guiness Book of World Records as the loudest concert ever.
In 1978, the release of the album (Who Are You) was overshadowed by the death of Keith Moon in his sleep after an overdose of Heminevrin - a medication prescribed to him to combat alcohol withdrawal symptoms - only a few hours after a party held by Paul McCartney.
By late autumn (1979), the band had agreed to undertake a small tour of the United States. This tour was marred by tragedy: on 3 December 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, a crush at Riverfront Coliseum before The Who's concert resulted in the deaths of eleven fans. The band was not told of the deaths until after the show because civic authorities feared more crowd control problems would arise if the concert was cancelled. The band members were reportedly devastated by this event.
The Who became only the third band, after the Beatles and The Band, to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
All three versions of the American forensic drama CSI (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY) feature songs written and performed by The Who as their theme songs, "Who Are You", "Won't Get Fooled Again " and "Baba O'Riley" respectively.
The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and won the first annual Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement in Live Music Award in 2006. They received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1988, and from the Grammy Foundation in 2001, for creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. Tommy was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, "My Generation" in 1999 and Who's Next in 2007.
Full bio
Happy Jack
My Generation
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Baba O'Riley
Won't Get Fooled Again
Behind Blue Eyes
Who Are You
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltry, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon. They became known for their energetic live performances, are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and '70s and recognized as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, their first year of eligibility. According to the New York Times, The Who are estimated to have sold 100 million records worldwide.
The Who rose to fame in the United Kingdom with a pioneering instrument destruction stage show, as well as a series of top ten hit singles (including the celebrated "My Generation") and top five albums, beginning in 1965 with "My Generation". They first hit the top ten in the USA in 1967 with "I Can See for Miles". The 1969 release of Tommy was the first in a series of top five albums for the group in the USA, followed by Live at Leeds (1970), Who's Next (1971), Quadrophenia (1973), and Who Are You (1978) among others.
Keith Moon died in 1978, after which the band released two more studio albums, the top five Face Dances (1981) and the top ten It's Hard (1982), with drummer Kenney Jones, before officially disbanding in 1983. They re-formed on several occasions to perform at special events such as Live Aid and for reunion tours such as their 25th anniversary tour (1989) and the Quadrophenia revival tours of 1996 and 1997. In 2000, the three surviving original members began to discuss the possibility of recording an album of new material. These plans were delayed following the death of John Entwistle in 2002. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey continue to perform as The Who. In 2006 they released the studio album Endless Wire, which reached the top ten in the UK and US.
FYI
In September 1964, at the Railway Tavern in Harrow and Wealdstone, England, Pete Townshend smashed his first guitar. Playing on a high stage, Townshend's physical style of performance resulted in him accidentally breaking off the head of his guitar when it broke through the ceiling. Angered by snickers from the audience, he proceeded to smash the instrument to pieces on the stage. He then picked up a Rickenbacker twelve-string guitar and continued the concert. A large crowd attended their next concert, but Townshend declined to smash another guitar. Instead, Keith Moon wrecked his drumkit. Instrument destruction became a staple of The Who's live shows for the next several years. The incident at the Railway Tavern is one of Rolling Stone magazine's "50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock 'n' Roll".
Although they had success as a singles band, Townshend had more ambitious goals. He wanted to treat The Who's albums as unified works, rather than collections of unconnected songs. Although Townshend later said that the song "I'm A Boy" was from a projected opus, the first sign of this ambition came in their 1966 album A Quick One, which included the storytelling medley "A Quick One While He's Away", which they later referred to as a "mini opera", and which has been called the first progressive epic.A Quick One was followed by The Who Sell Out in 1967, a concept album which played like an offshore radio station, complete with humorous jingles and commercials, and which also included a mini rock opera, called "Rael" (whose closing theme ended up on "Tommy"), as well as The Who's biggest USA single, "I Can See for Miles".
In 1968, Pete Townshend became the subject of the first Rolling Stone interview. Townshend revealed in that interview that he was working on a full-length rock opera. This was Tommy, the first work billed as a rock opera and a major landmark in modern music.
In addition to its commercial success, Tommy also became a critical smash, with Life Magazine saying, "...for sheer power, invention and brilliance of performance, Tommy outstrips anything which has ever come out of a recording studio," and Melody Maker declaring, "Surely The Who are now the band against which all others are to be judged."
The Who performed much of Tommy at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival later that year (1969). That performance, and the ensuing film, catapulted The Who to superstar status in the USA. It's also worth noting that even though the festival became a free concert, the Who demanded to be paid before performing (despite both banks and roads being closed 2-3am on Sunday morning) and only agreed to play when one of the promoters, Joel Rosenman, came up with a certified check for $11,200 (the manager of the White Lake branch of Sullivan County National Bank had opened the bank so that performers could be paid).
In February 1970 The Who recorded Live at Leeds, which is thought by many to be the best live rock album of all time. The album, originally relatively short and containing mostly the show's hard rock songs, has been re-released in several expanded and remastered versions over the years, remedying technical problems with the original recording and adding portions of the performance of Tommy, as well as versions of numerous earlier singles and interstitial stage banter. A double-disc version contains the entire performance of 'Tommy.' The Leeds University gig was part of the Tommy tour, which not only included gigs in European opera houses, but also saw The Who become the first rock act to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
A movie version of Tommy was released that year (1975). It was directed by Ken Russell, starred Roger Daltrey in the title role and earned Pete Townshend an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.In 1976 The Who played a concert at Charlton Athletic Football Ground which was listed for over a decade in the Guiness Book of World Records as the loudest concert ever.
In 1978, the release of the album (Who Are You) was overshadowed by the death of Keith Moon in his sleep after an overdose of Heminevrin - a medication prescribed to him to combat alcohol withdrawal symptoms - only a few hours after a party held by Paul McCartney.
By late autumn (1979), the band had agreed to undertake a small tour of the United States. This tour was marred by tragedy: on 3 December 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, a crush at Riverfront Coliseum before The Who's concert resulted in the deaths of eleven fans. The band was not told of the deaths until after the show because civic authorities feared more crowd control problems would arise if the concert was cancelled. The band members were reportedly devastated by this event.
The Who became only the third band, after the Beatles and The Band, to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
All three versions of the American forensic drama CSI (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY) feature songs written and performed by The Who as their theme songs, "Who Are You", "Won't Get Fooled Again " and "Baba O'Riley" respectively.
The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and won the first annual Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement in Live Music Award in 2006. They received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1988, and from the Grammy Foundation in 2001, for creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. Tommy was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, "My Generation" in 1999 and Who's Next in 2007.
Full bio
11/08/2008
More 60s
ANDY WILLIAMS
Moon River
BEE GEES
Massachusetts
BOX TOPS
The Letter
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Fortunate Son
Bad Moon Rising
I Put a Spell on You
Down on the Corner
DANCE
Goin' Out of My Head
HERMAN'S HERMITS
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
I'm Into Something Good
There's a Kind of Hush
JACK JONES
The Impossible Dream
Call Me
w/Joanie Sommers
Dear Heart
Once Upon a Time
Wives and Lovers
Girl Talk
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
White Rabbit (1969 Woodstock)
JOE COCKER
With a Little Help From My Friends (1969 Woodstock)
NINA SIMONE
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
PROCOL HARUM
A Whiter Shade of a Pale
SAM COOKE
Chain Gang
SANDY SHAW
Those Were the Days
SIMON & GARFUNKLE
The Sounds of Silence
Homeward Bound
I Am a Rock
SKEETER DAVIS
The End of the World
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Dance to the Music
Everyday People
I Want to Take You Higher (1969 Woodstock)
Thank You
Hot Fun in the Summertime
THE ANIMALS
House of the Rising Sun
THE HOLLIES
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Bus Stop
THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
California Dreamin'
Monday Monday
THE MOODY BLUES
Nights in White Satin
Tuesday Afternoon
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Unchained Melody
THE ROYALETTES
It's Gonna Take a Miracle
THE SHANGRI-LAS
The Leader of the Pack
Moon River
BEE GEES
Massachusetts
BOX TOPS
The Letter
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Fortunate Son
Bad Moon Rising
I Put a Spell on You
Down on the Corner
DANCE
Goin' Out of My Head
HERMAN'S HERMITS
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
I'm Into Something Good
There's a Kind of Hush
JACK JONES
The Impossible Dream
Call Me
w/Joanie Sommers
Dear Heart
Once Upon a Time
Wives and Lovers
Girl Talk
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
White Rabbit (1969 Woodstock)
JOE COCKER
With a Little Help From My Friends (1969 Woodstock)
NINA SIMONE
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
PROCOL HARUM
A Whiter Shade of a Pale
SAM COOKE
Chain Gang
SANDY SHAW
Those Were the Days
SIMON & GARFUNKLE
The Sounds of Silence
Homeward Bound
I Am a Rock
SKEETER DAVIS
The End of the World
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Dance to the Music
Everyday People
I Want to Take You Higher (1969 Woodstock)
Thank You
Hot Fun in the Summertime
THE ANIMALS
House of the Rising Sun
THE HOLLIES
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Bus Stop
THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
California Dreamin'
Monday Monday
THE MOODY BLUES
Nights in White Satin
Tuesday Afternoon
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Unchained Melody
THE ROYALETTES
It's Gonna Take a Miracle
THE SHANGRI-LAS
The Leader of the Pack
10/26/2008
More 70s
ABBA
Voulez Vous
The Name of the Game
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
S.O.S.
Fernando
Take a Chance on Me
Dancing Queen
ALBERT HAMMOND
It Never Rains in Southern California
ANDY GIBB
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything
Don't Throw it All Away (Our Love)
ANITA WARD
Ring My Bell
BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
BEE GEES
How Deep is Your Love
Night Fever
BILLY PAUL
Me and Mrs. Jones
BLONDIE
Heart of Glass
BREAD
Make it With You
If
Baby I'm-a Want You
Everything I Own
Guitar Man
Aubrey
CAT STEVENS
Father & Son
Wild World
Moon Shadow
Peace Train
Oh Very Young
Sad Lisa
Lady d'Arbanville
CHICAGO
25 or 6 to 4
Saturday in the Park
Feelin' Stronger Every Day
Just You 'n' Me
If You Leave Me Now
Baby, What a Big Surprise
No Tell Lover
CREAM
White Room
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Up Around the Bend
Who'll Stop the Rain
Lookin' Out My Back Door
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
Teach Your Children
DENIECE WILLIAMS
Free
DENIECE WILLIAMS & JOHNNY MATHIS
Too Much Too Little Too Late
DONNA SUMMER
Love to Love You Baby
I Feel Love
Last Dance
MacArthur Park
Heaven Knows
w/Brooklyn Dreams
Hot Stuff
No More Tears (Enough is Enough)
w/Barbra Streisand
On the Radio
EAGLES
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Best of My Love
One of These Nights
Lyin' Eyes
Take it to the Limit
Hotel California
The Long Run
I Can't Tell You Why
Rocky Mountain Way
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Boogie Wonderland
September
Let's Groove
FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way
Sara
Dreams
GILBERT O'SULLIVAN
Alone Again
Claire
GLORIA GAYNOR
I Will Survive
GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
The Message
HALL & OATES
Sarah Smile
Rich Girl
HARRY CHAPIN
Cat's in the Cradle
HUES CORPORATION
Rock the Boat
JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Miracles
KANSAS
Dust in the Wind
KOOL & THE GANG
Jungle Boogie
Hollywood Swinging
Ladie's Night
Too Hot
LED ZEPPELIN
Stairway to Heaven
LINDA RONSTADT
Blue Bayou
Long Long Time
LIPPS INC.
Funkytown
MARY MACGREGOR
Torn Between Two Lovers
MUSICALS
Life is a Cabaret
Mein Herr
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
Have You Ever Been Mellow
Hopelessy Devoted to You
PATRICK HERNANDEZ
Born to Be Alive
RARE EARTH
Get Ready
ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY
Where is the Love
SANTA ESMERALDA
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Family Affair
Sly on Dick Cavett
STEVIE WONDER
Superstition on Sesame Street
SUGARHILL GANG
Rapper's Delight
TAVARES
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel
It Only Takes a Minute
She's Gone
Never Had a Love Like This Before
TERRY JACKS
Seasons in the Sun
THE BAND
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
THE BEATLES
The Long & Winding Road
Let it Be
THE BROTHERS JOHNSON
I'll Be Good to You
Strawberry Letter 23
Stomp
THE CRUSADERS
Street Life
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
What a Fool Believes
Minute by Minute
Long Train Running
Listen to the Music
Black Water
THE FOUR SEASONS
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
THE HOLLIES
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
The Air That I Breathe
THE PERSUADERS
Thin Line Between Love & Hate
THE ROLLING STONES
Angie
THE TRAMMPS
Disco Inferno
TODD RUNDGREN
Hello It's Me
VAN McCOY
Do the Hustle
Voulez Vous
The Name of the Game
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
S.O.S.
Fernando
Take a Chance on Me
Dancing Queen
ALBERT HAMMOND
It Never Rains in Southern California
ANDY GIBB
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything
Don't Throw it All Away (Our Love)
ANITA WARD
Ring My Bell
BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
BEE GEES
How Deep is Your Love
Night Fever
BILLY PAUL
Me and Mrs. Jones
BLONDIE
Heart of Glass
BREAD
Make it With You
If
Baby I'm-a Want You
Everything I Own
Guitar Man
Aubrey
CAT STEVENS
Father & Son
Wild World
Moon Shadow
Peace Train
Oh Very Young
Sad Lisa
Lady d'Arbanville
CHICAGO
25 or 6 to 4
Saturday in the Park
Feelin' Stronger Every Day
Just You 'n' Me
If You Leave Me Now
Baby, What a Big Surprise
No Tell Lover
CREAM
White Room
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Up Around the Bend
Who'll Stop the Rain
Lookin' Out My Back Door
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
Teach Your Children
DENIECE WILLIAMS
Free
DENIECE WILLIAMS & JOHNNY MATHIS
Too Much Too Little Too Late
DONNA SUMMER
Love to Love You Baby
I Feel Love
Last Dance
MacArthur Park
Heaven Knows
w/Brooklyn Dreams
Hot Stuff
No More Tears (Enough is Enough)
w/Barbra Streisand
On the Radio
EAGLES
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Best of My Love
One of These Nights
Lyin' Eyes
Take it to the Limit
Hotel California
The Long Run
I Can't Tell You Why
Rocky Mountain Way
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Boogie Wonderland
September
Let's Groove
FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way
Sara
Dreams
GILBERT O'SULLIVAN
Alone Again
Claire
GLORIA GAYNOR
I Will Survive
GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
The Message
HALL & OATES
Sarah Smile
Rich Girl
HARRY CHAPIN
Cat's in the Cradle
HUES CORPORATION
Rock the Boat
JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Miracles
KANSAS
Dust in the Wind
KOOL & THE GANG
Jungle Boogie
Hollywood Swinging
Ladie's Night
Too Hot
LED ZEPPELIN
Stairway to Heaven
LINDA RONSTADT
Blue Bayou
Long Long Time
LIPPS INC.
Funkytown
MARY MACGREGOR
Torn Between Two Lovers
MUSICALS
Life is a Cabaret
Mein Herr
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
Have You Ever Been Mellow
Hopelessy Devoted to You
PATRICK HERNANDEZ
Born to Be Alive
RARE EARTH
Get Ready
ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY
Where is the Love
SANTA ESMERALDA
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Family Affair
Sly on Dick Cavett
STEVIE WONDER
Superstition on Sesame Street
SUGARHILL GANG
Rapper's Delight
TAVARES
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel
It Only Takes a Minute
She's Gone
Never Had a Love Like This Before
TERRY JACKS
Seasons in the Sun
THE BAND
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
THE BEATLES
The Long & Winding Road
Let it Be
THE BROTHERS JOHNSON
I'll Be Good to You
Strawberry Letter 23
Stomp
THE CRUSADERS
Street Life
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
What a Fool Believes
Minute by Minute
Long Train Running
Listen to the Music
Black Water
THE FOUR SEASONS
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
THE HOLLIES
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
The Air That I Breathe
THE PERSUADERS
Thin Line Between Love & Hate
THE ROLLING STONES
Angie
THE TRAMMPS
Disco Inferno
TODD RUNDGREN
Hello It's Me
VAN McCOY
Do the Hustle
10/20/2008
Commodores
Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-I9eD2jQQ
Just to Be Close to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6A9VtT2Cg
Sweet Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbtmvgc2rqE
Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHbGuSRAwg
Brick House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48
Three Times a Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7C_ocGy5tE
Sail On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE
Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgsIkL6ink
Lady (You Bring Me Up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4
Oh No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAbVzPiwZs
Nightshift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlsfYDj2HWA
FYI
The Commodores were a highly successful funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
The Commodores originally called themselves the Jays, but had to change their name because of the similarly named O'Jays. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People Weekly Magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"
Lionel Richie was an original member of the group.
"Nightshift" (a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson) won the Commodores their only Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.
For more on the Commodores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-I9eD2jQQ
Just to Be Close to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6A9VtT2Cg
Sweet Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbtmvgc2rqE
Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHbGuSRAwg
Brick House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48
Three Times a Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7C_ocGy5tE
Sail On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE
Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgsIkL6ink
Lady (You Bring Me Up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4
Oh No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAbVzPiwZs
Nightshift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlsfYDj2HWA
FYI
The Commodores were a highly successful funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
The Commodores originally called themselves the Jays, but had to change their name because of the similarly named O'Jays. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People Weekly Magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"
Lionel Richie was an original member of the group.
"Nightshift" (a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson) won the Commodores their only Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.
For more on the Commodores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodores
10/08/2008
Chaka Khan
Tell Me Something Good
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23WCKgZGgo
Sweet Thing
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzIArLPDDA
Do You Love What You Feel?
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1OSK1nXDc
Hollywood
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vrcrbPm7Q
Once You Get Started
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldRl9UqJEV8
Little Boy Blue
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4n8QLXOBUc
I'm Every Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXRI1Ce19Q
Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTf8OAZqv8
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLCJkmgOp4
Night In Tunisia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emR8gVhntEI
Ain't Nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeKFA-IWTp0
I Feel For You
no audio avail. on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4qOxW8kU
Through The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLQ_hvWQh4
I'll Be Good To You
w/Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDHFXdUPLQ
Love You All My Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZR5Vw-okk&feature=related
It Ain't All Good
w/De La Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhFHn5wB3s
What's Going On
w/The Funk Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTRUpALajc
The National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSfff2H-jY8&feature=related
Walk With Me Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICxKhtC_TY
I'm Still Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsndnHTixM&feature=related
The End of a Love Affair
w/Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9PSpZOnXTo&feature=related
Hey Big Spender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3FWJCgWGk
Reading Rainbow theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOVPcTMrWQ
FYI
Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel For You" and "Through the Fire". She also sung the theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow.
She was first featured as a member of the funk band Rufus before beginning her solo career.
Though regarded as an R&B singer, she has performed numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, pop and blues standards.
Her contributions to funk and soul music in her early career earned her the title of the "Queen of Funk Soul"
Kahn is known for her perfectly pitched contralto vocals.
Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens. She adopted the African name "Chaka" while working as a volunteer on the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program in Chicago.
At the age of 11 she formed her first group, the Crystalettes.
Chaka's fortunes changed when she teamed with ex-American Breed member Kevin Murphy and Andre Fischer to form Rufus. In the meantime, she married bass guitarist Hassan Khan.
By decade's (70s) end, Rufus was among the most successful funk groups, rivaling the popularity of Earth Wind & Fire & The Commodores, among others.
With the help of Stevie Wonder, Rufus broke into both the pop music and R&B charts in 1974 with the gold-selling hit "Tell Me Something Good".
Rufus earned eight platinum albums and three gold singles before Khan went solo full time in 1980.
On December 3, 2004, Chaka Khan received an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. She is also active in the autism community, as she has family members who have been diagnosed with this condition.
For more on Chaka Khan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23WCKgZGgo
Sweet Thing
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzIArLPDDA
Do You Love What You Feel?
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1OSK1nXDc
Hollywood
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vrcrbPm7Q
Once You Get Started
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldRl9UqJEV8
Little Boy Blue
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4n8QLXOBUc
I'm Every Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXRI1Ce19Q
Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTf8OAZqv8
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLCJkmgOp4
Night In Tunisia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emR8gVhntEI
Ain't Nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeKFA-IWTp0
I Feel For You
no audio avail. on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4qOxW8kU
Through The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLQ_hvWQh4
I'll Be Good To You
w/Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDHFXdUPLQ
Love You All My Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZR5Vw-okk&feature=related
It Ain't All Good
w/De La Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhFHn5wB3s
What's Going On
w/The Funk Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTRUpALajc
The National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSfff2H-jY8&feature=related
Walk With Me Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICxKhtC_TY
I'm Still Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsndnHTixM&feature=related
The End of a Love Affair
w/Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9PSpZOnXTo&feature=related
Hey Big Spender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3FWJCgWGk
Reading Rainbow theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOVPcTMrWQ
FYI
Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel For You" and "Through the Fire". She also sung the theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow.
She was first featured as a member of the funk band Rufus before beginning her solo career.
Though regarded as an R&B singer, she has performed numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, pop and blues standards.
Her contributions to funk and soul music in her early career earned her the title of the "Queen of Funk Soul"
Kahn is known for her perfectly pitched contralto vocals.
Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens. She adopted the African name "Chaka" while working as a volunteer on the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program in Chicago.
At the age of 11 she formed her first group, the Crystalettes.
Chaka's fortunes changed when she teamed with ex-American Breed member Kevin Murphy and Andre Fischer to form Rufus. In the meantime, she married bass guitarist Hassan Khan.
By decade's (70s) end, Rufus was among the most successful funk groups, rivaling the popularity of Earth Wind & Fire & The Commodores, among others.
With the help of Stevie Wonder, Rufus broke into both the pop music and R&B charts in 1974 with the gold-selling hit "Tell Me Something Good".
Rufus earned eight platinum albums and three gold singles before Khan went solo full time in 1980.
On December 3, 2004, Chaka Khan received an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. She is also active in the autism community, as she has family members who have been diagnosed with this condition.
For more on Chaka Khan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan
9/28/2008
Barry White
Walkin' In the Rain With the One I Love
Love Unlimited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtQbajGElk
Love's Theme
Love Unlimited Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3S6UVS2JDE&feature=related
I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN38uI2oKkA
I've Got So Much To Give
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXur958KRAQ
Can't Get Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvHRnGe940
You're the First, the Last, My Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS2Fve72AZg
Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_M5PcJQmU
The Secret Garden
various artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE0WmzYjchs
All Around the World
w/Lisa Stansfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_kO6gbIMo
Practice What You Preach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIp-KO11QE
Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer, songwriter and singer.
A multiple Grammy Award-winner known for his deep bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul and disco songs. Worldwide, White had many gold and platinum albums and singles, with combined sales of over 100 million, according to critics Ed Hogan and Wade Kergan.
White was born in Galveston, Texas and grew up in the high-crime areas of South Central Los Angeles, where he joined a gang at the age of 10. At 17, he was jailed for four months for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires.
While in prison, White listened to Elvis Presley singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.
After his release, he left gang life and began a musical career at the dawn of the 1960s in singing groups before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.
He was responsible in 1963 for arranging "Harlem Shuffle" for Bob & Earl, which became a hit in the UK in 1969.
In August 1969, he got his break producing a girl group called Love Unlimited. Formed in imitation of the legendary Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members honed their talents with White for the next two years until they all signed contracts with 20th Century Records.
White produced, wrote and arranged the classic soul ballad "Walking in the Rain (With The One I Love)", which hit the Top 20 of the pop charts. The group would score more hits throughout the '70s and White eventually married the lead singer of the group, Glodean James.
While working on a few demos for a male singer, the record label suggested White step out in front of the microphone, to which he reluctantly agreed.
His first solo chart hit, 1973's "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby", rose to #1 R&B and #3 Pop. That same year, the Love Unlimited Orchestra's recording of White's composition "Love's Theme" reached #1 Pop in 1974, one of only two instrumental recordings ever to do so. Some regard "Love's Theme" as the first disco hit ever.
Other chart hits by White include "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (1973), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (1974) and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974).
Although White's success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era came to an end, he maintained a loyal following throughout his career. In the 1990s, he mounted an effective comeback with the albums The Icon Is Love (1994), whose biggest hit, "Practice What You Preach" reached the top of the charts.
In addition, his music was often featured on the sitcom Ally McBeal and he appeared on the show twice.
Barry White had been ill with chronically high blood pressure for some time, which resulted in kidney failure in the autumn of 2002. He suffered a stroke in May 2003, after which he was forced to retire from public life.
On 4 July, 2003, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from renal failure. White was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by his family off the California coast.
On 20 September, 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York.
White's recordings featured a distinctive sound that combined orchestral instrumentation (string section, woodwinds, horns, harpsichords, etc.) with a steady drumbeat and as many as five electric guitars. His arrangements were influential on the emerging sound of disco music in the early 1970s.
A distinctive feature of White's music was the steamy spoken introductions and interludes that appeared in many of his songs.
Over the course of his career White occasionally did work as a voice actor.
He was featured in several episodes of The Simpsons.
White had been offered the chance to play the voice of Chef in the cartoon series South Park (who had been modeled after White), but declined; as a devout Christian, White was uncomfortable with South Park's often irreverent humor. The part was eventually played by Isaac Hayes.
(Wikipedia)
Love Unlimited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtQbajGElk
Love's Theme
Love Unlimited Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3S6UVS2JDE&feature=related
I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN38uI2oKkA
I've Got So Much To Give
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXur958KRAQ
Can't Get Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvHRnGe940
You're the First, the Last, My Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS2Fve72AZg
Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_M5PcJQmU
The Secret Garden
various artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE0WmzYjchs
All Around the World
w/Lisa Stansfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_kO6gbIMo
Practice What You Preach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIp-KO11QE
Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer, songwriter and singer.
A multiple Grammy Award-winner known for his deep bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul and disco songs. Worldwide, White had many gold and platinum albums and singles, with combined sales of over 100 million, according to critics Ed Hogan and Wade Kergan.
White was born in Galveston, Texas and grew up in the high-crime areas of South Central Los Angeles, where he joined a gang at the age of 10. At 17, he was jailed for four months for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires.
While in prison, White listened to Elvis Presley singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.
After his release, he left gang life and began a musical career at the dawn of the 1960s in singing groups before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.
He was responsible in 1963 for arranging "Harlem Shuffle" for Bob & Earl, which became a hit in the UK in 1969.
In August 1969, he got his break producing a girl group called Love Unlimited. Formed in imitation of the legendary Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members honed their talents with White for the next two years until they all signed contracts with 20th Century Records.
White produced, wrote and arranged the classic soul ballad "Walking in the Rain (With The One I Love)", which hit the Top 20 of the pop charts. The group would score more hits throughout the '70s and White eventually married the lead singer of the group, Glodean James.
While working on a few demos for a male singer, the record label suggested White step out in front of the microphone, to which he reluctantly agreed.
His first solo chart hit, 1973's "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby", rose to #1 R&B and #3 Pop. That same year, the Love Unlimited Orchestra's recording of White's composition "Love's Theme" reached #1 Pop in 1974, one of only two instrumental recordings ever to do so. Some regard "Love's Theme" as the first disco hit ever.
Other chart hits by White include "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (1973), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (1974) and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974).
Although White's success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era came to an end, he maintained a loyal following throughout his career. In the 1990s, he mounted an effective comeback with the albums The Icon Is Love (1994), whose biggest hit, "Practice What You Preach" reached the top of the charts.
In addition, his music was often featured on the sitcom Ally McBeal and he appeared on the show twice.
Barry White had been ill with chronically high blood pressure for some time, which resulted in kidney failure in the autumn of 2002. He suffered a stroke in May 2003, after which he was forced to retire from public life.
On 4 July, 2003, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from renal failure. White was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by his family off the California coast.
On 20 September, 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York.
White's recordings featured a distinctive sound that combined orchestral instrumentation (string section, woodwinds, horns, harpsichords, etc.) with a steady drumbeat and as many as five electric guitars. His arrangements were influential on the emerging sound of disco music in the early 1970s.
A distinctive feature of White's music was the steamy spoken introductions and interludes that appeared in many of his songs.
Over the course of his career White occasionally did work as a voice actor.
He was featured in several episodes of The Simpsons.
White had been offered the chance to play the voice of Chef in the cartoon series South Park (who had been modeled after White), but declined; as a devout Christian, White was uncomfortable with South Park's often irreverent humor. The part was eventually played by Isaac Hayes.
(Wikipedia)
Disco
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music whose origins are hard to define.
In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs in February 1970 New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home.
Most agree that the first disco songs were released in 1973, though some claim Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa to be the first disco record.
The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone Magazine.
In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.
Musical influences include funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa. The disco sound has a soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and prominent, syncopated electric bass line. Strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and unlike in rock, lead guitar is rarely used.
Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Bee Gees, Donna Summer and The Jacksons. Summer would become the first well-known and most popular female disco artist, and also played a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a part of disco.
While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the "disco sound".
Disco was very important in the development of Hip hop music (especially the subgenres of crunk, snap, and hyphy), British New Wave, and disco's direct descendants: the 1980s and 1990s dance music genres of house music and its harder-driving offshoot, techno.
(Wikipedia)
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music whose origins are hard to define.
In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs in February 1970 New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home.
Most agree that the first disco songs were released in 1973, though some claim Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa to be the first disco record.
The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone Magazine.
In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.
Musical influences include funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa. The disco sound has a soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and prominent, syncopated electric bass line. Strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and unlike in rock, lead guitar is rarely used.
Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Bee Gees, Donna Summer and The Jacksons. Summer would become the first well-known and most popular female disco artist, and also played a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a part of disco.
While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the "disco sound".
Disco was very important in the development of Hip hop music (especially the subgenres of crunk, snap, and hyphy), British New Wave, and disco's direct descendants: the 1980s and 1990s dance music genres of house music and its harder-driving offshoot, techno.
(Wikipedia)
9/17/2008
More 70s Soul Singers
DONNY HATHAWAY
Song For You (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnkl-YQ-XWU&feature=related
This Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJO_kdkrj1g
Someday We'll All Be Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t__T_b3_ro
Donny Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto, Part I" (1970), Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."
His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the duet "Where Is the Love" in 1973.
On January 13, 1979, his body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled a suicide.
CURTIS MAYFIELD
Move On Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTY6Nbl12ek
Freddie's Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbogJVKyo8
Superfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYnn5B0C68
Give Me Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxOCoJeqB-Q
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly. From these works and others, he was highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums.
BOBBY WOMACK
Woman's Gotta Have It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_TRdqTij8
That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYNWSyti6o
Across 110th Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4&feature=related
If You Think You're Lonely Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRIH5F9sz0
Bobby Womack (born Robert Dwayne Womack, March 4, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Working in the soul and R&B genres, he achieved his greatest success in the 1970s and 1980s.
Taking after their father, who sang gospel music, Bobby Womack and his brothers formed their own group. Sam Cooke took an interest in the Womack Brothers, and they recorded for Cooke's SAR record label in the early 1960s. Renamed the Valentinos, and encouraged by Cooke to go in a more secular and commercial direction, they scored a hit with Womack's "It's All Over Now" in 1964; the Rolling Stones' version of the song became a major hit, earning Womack generous royalty payments.
He was a session guitarist in the 60s and began to record a string of classic soul-music singles all of which featured his elegant, understated rhythm-guitar work and his impassioned vocals. During this period he became known as a songwriter, contributing many songs to the repertoire of Wilson Pickett.
After moving to the United Artists label in the early '70s, he introduced his song "Breezin'," which later became a hit for George Benson. He also became known for his interesting taste in cover versions, including James Taylor's "Fire and Rain'" and "California Dreamin'."
Among his most well-known works from this period, his appearance as guitarist on Sly & the Family Stone's 1971 There's a Riot Goin' On and on Janis Joplin's Pearl, which features a song by Womack and poet Michael McClure, Trust Me.
He continued to have hits into the '70s; all are excellent examples of burnished yet gritty 1970s soul music, and reveal a pop-music sensibility akin to that of Marvin Gaye or Curtis Mayfield.
Bobby Womack's 1981 album The Poet was a surprise hit and contained the hit single "If You Think You're Lonely Now."
Film director Quentin Tarantino used Across 110th Street (which, in a different version, had been the title song of the 1972 movie) in the opening and closing sequences of his 1997 film Jackie Brown. His work has been used in several other popular films including Meet the Parents (2000), Ali (2001) and American Gangster (2007).
A 2003 Saab commercial used Womack’s interpretation of "California Dreamin'".
As of 2006, Womack continues to record and to make live appearances.
(Wikipedia)
Song For You (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnkl-YQ-XWU&feature=related
This Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJO_kdkrj1g
Someday We'll All Be Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t__T_b3_ro
Donny Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto, Part I" (1970), Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."
His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the duet "Where Is the Love" in 1973.
On January 13, 1979, his body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled a suicide.
CURTIS MAYFIELD
Move On Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTY6Nbl12ek
Freddie's Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbogJVKyo8
Superfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYnn5B0C68
Give Me Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxOCoJeqB-Q
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly. From these works and others, he was highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums.
BOBBY WOMACK
Woman's Gotta Have It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_TRdqTij8
That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYNWSyti6o
Across 110th Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4&feature=related
If You Think You're Lonely Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRIH5F9sz0
Bobby Womack (born Robert Dwayne Womack, March 4, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Working in the soul and R&B genres, he achieved his greatest success in the 1970s and 1980s.
Taking after their father, who sang gospel music, Bobby Womack and his brothers formed their own group. Sam Cooke took an interest in the Womack Brothers, and they recorded for Cooke's SAR record label in the early 1960s. Renamed the Valentinos, and encouraged by Cooke to go in a more secular and commercial direction, they scored a hit with Womack's "It's All Over Now" in 1964; the Rolling Stones' version of the song became a major hit, earning Womack generous royalty payments.
He was a session guitarist in the 60s and began to record a string of classic soul-music singles all of which featured his elegant, understated rhythm-guitar work and his impassioned vocals. During this period he became known as a songwriter, contributing many songs to the repertoire of Wilson Pickett.
After moving to the United Artists label in the early '70s, he introduced his song "Breezin'," which later became a hit for George Benson. He also became known for his interesting taste in cover versions, including James Taylor's "Fire and Rain'" and "California Dreamin'."
Among his most well-known works from this period, his appearance as guitarist on Sly & the Family Stone's 1971 There's a Riot Goin' On and on Janis Joplin's Pearl, which features a song by Womack and poet Michael McClure, Trust Me.
He continued to have hits into the '70s; all are excellent examples of burnished yet gritty 1970s soul music, and reveal a pop-music sensibility akin to that of Marvin Gaye or Curtis Mayfield.
Bobby Womack's 1981 album The Poet was a surprise hit and contained the hit single "If You Think You're Lonely Now."
Film director Quentin Tarantino used Across 110th Street (which, in a different version, had been the title song of the 1972 movie) in the opening and closing sequences of his 1997 film Jackie Brown. His work has been used in several other popular films including Meet the Parents (2000), Ali (2001) and American Gangster (2007).
A 2003 Saab commercial used Womack’s interpretation of "California Dreamin'".
As of 2006, Womack continues to record and to make live appearances.
(Wikipedia)
9/10/2008
More 70s Soul Groups
THE DELFONICS
La La Means I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUX_D1UZtY
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZtHehptprc
Hey Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXt47-XRB5I
The Delfonics are a Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their most notable hits include "La-La (Means I Love You)", "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," "Break Your Promise," "I'm Sorry," and "Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)".
Their songs are written by lead vocalist and founder William Hart and have been used extensively in numerous film soundtracks, the most notable being Quentin Tarantino's movie, "Jackie Brown" in which their music ("La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I Blow Your Mind") are used as a pivotal part of the plot to underscore the relationship between Robert De Niro, Pam Grier & Robert Forster. The film helped create a border-line cult following for the songs and this group.
Their songs have been sampled extensively by various Hip-Hop & Rap artists including: The Fugees (Ready Or Not), Lauryn Hill (for which she won a '97 Grammy), Nas, Boyz II Men, Missy Elliott and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
William Hart songs have been recorded by numerous performers including: Aretha Franklin, The Jackson 5, Patti LaBelle, New Kids on the Block, Todd Rundgren, Prince and Manhattan Transfer, among others.
THE CHI-LITES
Oh Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCT0VHdlc5g
Have You Seen Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTKRTO1BSeQ
The Chi-Lites (pronounced "SHY-lights") are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal group, best known for their early 1970s hits, "Oh Girl" and "Have You Seen Her".
The Chi-Lites were from Chicago, a town better known for its gritty urban blues and driving R&B.
Led by vocalist Eugene Record, the Chi-Lites had a lush, creamy sound distinguished by their four-part harmonies and layered productions. During the early 1970s, they racked up 11 Top Ten R&B singles. All the songs featured Record's warm, pleading tenor and falsetto, and the majority of the group's hits were written by Record, often in collaboration with other songwriters like Barbara Acklin.
The Chi-Lites were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2005.
BLUE MAGIC
Sideshow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERtwe8iU-Jo
Spell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZx4yrkAl-s
Stop to Start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KP0cFHwdU8
Blue Magic is an American R&B soul vocal quintet best known for their 1974 hit song, "Sideshow."
Blue Magic was formed in Philadelphia in 1972 when former member of The Delfonics, Randy Cain brought singer-songwriter Ted Mills in to do some writing with the Philly-based WMOT production company.
The Group became popular in 1974 with their first million-selling US Top 10 hit single Sideshow, co-written by guitarist Bobby Eli. They became known mostly for their smooth ballads.
With the rise of disco and the group making the mistake of changing their style for the Halloween-oriented album 'Mystic Dragons', which was centered around the single 'Freak-N-Stein,' the group became less popular.
THE MAIN INGREDIENT
Everybody Plays The Fool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvHogknHyI
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpmB2dPlq4
The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1972 hit song, "Everybody Plays the Fool".
The group was formed in Harlem, NY in 1964 as a trio called the Poets. After a couple of singles, they changed their name once again in 1966, this time permanently to the Main Ingredient.
Nothing much happened until the Main Ingredient hooked up with producer Bert DeCoteaux, who had an excellent sense of the lush, orchestrated direction soul music would take in the early '70s. Under his direction, the Main Ingredient reached the R&B Top 30 for the first time in 1970 with "You've Been My Inspiration." Things grew steadily from there; a cover of the Impressions' "I'm So Proud" broke the Top 20, and "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)" went Top Ten. They scored again with the Donald McPherson-penned black power anthem "Black Seeds Keep on Growing," but tragedy struck in 1971: McPherson, who had suddenly taken ill with leukemia, died unexpectedly. Stunned, Silvester and Simmons regrouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, Sr., who'd served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson's brief illness.
The Gooding era began auspiciously enough with the million-selling smash "Everybody Plays the Fool," which hit number two R&B and number three pop to become the group's biggest hit ever.
They peaked at number eight on the R&B chart in 1974 with "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely," which sold over a million copies and also reached number ten on the pop chart.
Gooding's son is, of course, Cuba Gooding, Jr., the actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in Jerry Maguire.
THE MANHATTANS
Kiss and Say Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1e6RK4aMWI
Shining Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VpjSv_4QM&feature=related
The Manhattans are a popular R&B vocal group with a string of hit records over three decades, but best known for their million-selling songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star" in 1976 and 1980, respectively.
The Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 1962.
They hit it big in 1976 with "Kiss and Say Goodbye". The song, with an impassioned vocal by Gerald Alston and a memorable opening rap by Winfred Lovett, quickly became a #1 chart-topper on both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts. It also became only the second single ever to go platinum.
The group hit it big again in March of 1980, with the release of "Shining Star", which reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts and #4 on the R&B chart; it received a Grammy award the following year.
HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES
If You Don't Know Me by Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Kf1ATjl9A
The Love I Lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2axbXDjYqA
I Miss You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8fZLjt5Uc
Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
w/Sharon Paige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4E-k09o2eg
Don't Leave Me This Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5tqAIY-TzA
Wake Up Everybody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVKP3Gh8CI
Bad Luck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8KfMTmPRQ
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the success years at Philadelphia International.
The group formerly known as The Charlemagnes took on the name "The Blue Notes" in 1954.
In 1970, the group recruited drummer Teddy Pendergrass as the drummer for their backing band. Pendergrass had been a former member of The Cadillacs, and was promoted to lead singer.
Among the Blue Notes' most important and successful recordings are love songs such as "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (1972, their breakout single), "I Miss You" (1972), "The Love I Lost" (1973), and "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1975), and socially conscious songs such as "Wake Up Everybody" and "Bad Luck" (both 1975).
"Bad Luck" holds the record for longest-running number-one hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: eleven weeks.
A 1976 cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Motown artist Thelma Houston was a number-one hit on the US pop chart; both it and the Blue Notes' originals are considered defining recordings of the disco era.
While at the top of their success in 1976, Pendergrass quit the Blue Notes, after unsuccessfully lobbying to have Melvin rename the act "Teddy Pendergrass & the Blue Notes".
Pendergrass went on to a successful solo career, cut short by a paralyzing 1982 car accident, although he made a brief comeback at the historic Live Aid concert in 1985.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes are arguably the most-covered Philly soul group in history: many of their hits have been re-recorded by other artists, including Simply Red, David Ruffin, Jimmy Somerville and Sybil, while dance music DJ Danny Rampling cites "Wake Up Everybody" as his favorite song of all time.
For his album This Note's for You, singer Neil Young named his back-up band The Blue Notes without permission from name rights holder Harold Melvin. Melvin took legal action against Young over use of the Blue Notes name, forcing the singer to change the name of the back-up band to "Ten Men Workin'" during the balance of the tour that promoted the This Note's for You album.
(Wikipedia)
La La Means I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUX_D1UZtY
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZtHehptprc
Hey Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXt47-XRB5I
The Delfonics are a Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their most notable hits include "La-La (Means I Love You)", "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," "Break Your Promise," "I'm Sorry," and "Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)".
Their songs are written by lead vocalist and founder William Hart and have been used extensively in numerous film soundtracks, the most notable being Quentin Tarantino's movie, "Jackie Brown" in which their music ("La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I Blow Your Mind") are used as a pivotal part of the plot to underscore the relationship between Robert De Niro, Pam Grier & Robert Forster. The film helped create a border-line cult following for the songs and this group.
Their songs have been sampled extensively by various Hip-Hop & Rap artists including: The Fugees (Ready Or Not), Lauryn Hill (for which she won a '97 Grammy), Nas, Boyz II Men, Missy Elliott and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
William Hart songs have been recorded by numerous performers including: Aretha Franklin, The Jackson 5, Patti LaBelle, New Kids on the Block, Todd Rundgren, Prince and Manhattan Transfer, among others.
THE CHI-LITES
Oh Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCT0VHdlc5g
Have You Seen Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTKRTO1BSeQ
The Chi-Lites (pronounced "SHY-lights") are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal group, best known for their early 1970s hits, "Oh Girl" and "Have You Seen Her".
The Chi-Lites were from Chicago, a town better known for its gritty urban blues and driving R&B.
Led by vocalist Eugene Record, the Chi-Lites had a lush, creamy sound distinguished by their four-part harmonies and layered productions. During the early 1970s, they racked up 11 Top Ten R&B singles. All the songs featured Record's warm, pleading tenor and falsetto, and the majority of the group's hits were written by Record, often in collaboration with other songwriters like Barbara Acklin.
The Chi-Lites were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2005.
BLUE MAGIC
Sideshow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERtwe8iU-Jo
Spell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZx4yrkAl-s
Stop to Start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KP0cFHwdU8
Blue Magic is an American R&B soul vocal quintet best known for their 1974 hit song, "Sideshow."
Blue Magic was formed in Philadelphia in 1972 when former member of The Delfonics, Randy Cain brought singer-songwriter Ted Mills in to do some writing with the Philly-based WMOT production company.
The Group became popular in 1974 with their first million-selling US Top 10 hit single Sideshow, co-written by guitarist Bobby Eli. They became known mostly for their smooth ballads.
With the rise of disco and the group making the mistake of changing their style for the Halloween-oriented album 'Mystic Dragons', which was centered around the single 'Freak-N-Stein,' the group became less popular.
THE MAIN INGREDIENT
Everybody Plays The Fool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvHogknHyI
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpmB2dPlq4
The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1972 hit song, "Everybody Plays the Fool".
The group was formed in Harlem, NY in 1964 as a trio called the Poets. After a couple of singles, they changed their name once again in 1966, this time permanently to the Main Ingredient.
Nothing much happened until the Main Ingredient hooked up with producer Bert DeCoteaux, who had an excellent sense of the lush, orchestrated direction soul music would take in the early '70s. Under his direction, the Main Ingredient reached the R&B Top 30 for the first time in 1970 with "You've Been My Inspiration." Things grew steadily from there; a cover of the Impressions' "I'm So Proud" broke the Top 20, and "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)" went Top Ten. They scored again with the Donald McPherson-penned black power anthem "Black Seeds Keep on Growing," but tragedy struck in 1971: McPherson, who had suddenly taken ill with leukemia, died unexpectedly. Stunned, Silvester and Simmons regrouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, Sr., who'd served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson's brief illness.
The Gooding era began auspiciously enough with the million-selling smash "Everybody Plays the Fool," which hit number two R&B and number three pop to become the group's biggest hit ever.
They peaked at number eight on the R&B chart in 1974 with "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely," which sold over a million copies and also reached number ten on the pop chart.
Gooding's son is, of course, Cuba Gooding, Jr., the actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in Jerry Maguire.
THE MANHATTANS
Kiss and Say Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1e6RK4aMWI
Shining Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VpjSv_4QM&feature=related
The Manhattans are a popular R&B vocal group with a string of hit records over three decades, but best known for their million-selling songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star" in 1976 and 1980, respectively.
The Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 1962.
They hit it big in 1976 with "Kiss and Say Goodbye". The song, with an impassioned vocal by Gerald Alston and a memorable opening rap by Winfred Lovett, quickly became a #1 chart-topper on both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts. It also became only the second single ever to go platinum.
The group hit it big again in March of 1980, with the release of "Shining Star", which reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts and #4 on the R&B chart; it received a Grammy award the following year.
HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES
If You Don't Know Me by Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Kf1ATjl9A
The Love I Lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2axbXDjYqA
I Miss You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8fZLjt5Uc
Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
w/Sharon Paige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4E-k09o2eg
Don't Leave Me This Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5tqAIY-TzA
Wake Up Everybody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVKP3Gh8CI
Bad Luck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8KfMTmPRQ
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the success years at Philadelphia International.
The group formerly known as The Charlemagnes took on the name "The Blue Notes" in 1954.
In 1970, the group recruited drummer Teddy Pendergrass as the drummer for their backing band. Pendergrass had been a former member of The Cadillacs, and was promoted to lead singer.
Among the Blue Notes' most important and successful recordings are love songs such as "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (1972, their breakout single), "I Miss You" (1972), "The Love I Lost" (1973), and "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1975), and socially conscious songs such as "Wake Up Everybody" and "Bad Luck" (both 1975).
"Bad Luck" holds the record for longest-running number-one hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: eleven weeks.
A 1976 cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Motown artist Thelma Houston was a number-one hit on the US pop chart; both it and the Blue Notes' originals are considered defining recordings of the disco era.
While at the top of their success in 1976, Pendergrass quit the Blue Notes, after unsuccessfully lobbying to have Melvin rename the act "Teddy Pendergrass & the Blue Notes".
Pendergrass went on to a successful solo career, cut short by a paralyzing 1982 car accident, although he made a brief comeback at the historic Live Aid concert in 1985.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes are arguably the most-covered Philly soul group in history: many of their hits have been re-recorded by other artists, including Simply Red, David Ruffin, Jimmy Somerville and Sybil, while dance music DJ Danny Rampling cites "Wake Up Everybody" as his favorite song of all time.
For his album This Note's for You, singer Neil Young named his back-up band The Blue Notes without permission from name rights holder Harold Melvin. Melvin took legal action against Young over use of the Blue Notes name, forcing the singer to change the name of the back-up band to "Ten Men Workin'" during the balance of the tour that promoted the This Note's for You album.
(Wikipedia)
8/30/2008
The Stylistics
Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixidAT5yklk
You Are Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewY8gApLsg
Betcha by Golly Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktP4NZf8488
I'm Stone In Love With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RpINklQg4
People Make The World Go Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWtwDYwOQU
Break Up to Make Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hXwtgxvxuY
You'll Never Get to Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoB9vX9vms
You Make Me Feel Brand New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTaBxW_JgjA
Let's Put It All Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6OR_hJzRbA
I Can't Give You Anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca9HI66ROHY&feature=related
Hurry Up This Way Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrV0HNKEQpE
Gatsby ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrmceKkXjo
The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn.
Signing to Avco Records, The Stylistics began working with producer Thom Bell, who had already produced a catalogue of hits for The Delfonics, and songwriter Linda Creed. Bell imported the sweet soul techniques he had perfected with The Delfonics, and his arrangements worked perfectly with Thompkins' falsetto. The bittersweet lyrics from Creed were a key factor in creating hugely memorable music. They had their first U.S. hit in 1971 with "You're a Big Girl Now".
You Make Me Feel Brand New" was the group's biggest U.S. hit, holding at #2 for two weeks in the spring of 1974, and was one of five U.S. gold singles the Stylistics collected.
Commercial success was not confined only to the U.S., with the band also having big hits with this material throughout Europe.
The group split with Thom Bell in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U.S. Just as with The Delfonics, The Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity. They struggled hard to find producers who could come up with the right material.
As success in the U.S. began to wane, their popularity in Europe, and especially the United Kingdom, increased.
The Stylistics began to struggle with what many saw as increasingly weak material after 1976; chart success vanished. This decline also coincided with the rise of New Wave in Europe around this time. It was also stated by Russell Thompkins Jr. that the band began to feel that the music they were recording was becoming increasingly dated, and not in keeping with the emerging disco sound of the late 1970s.
In 2006, their single "I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" was used as the base for a Japanese advertisement campaign by Gatsby to launch their new male hair styling product "Moving Rubber". The campaign was highly successful due in no small part to the catchy nature of the tune and that the commercial featured one of Japan's most popular celebrities Takuya Kimura of the pop group SMAP.
(Wikipedia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixidAT5yklk
You Are Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewY8gApLsg
Betcha by Golly Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktP4NZf8488
I'm Stone In Love With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RpINklQg4
People Make The World Go Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWtwDYwOQU
Break Up to Make Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hXwtgxvxuY
You'll Never Get to Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoB9vX9vms
You Make Me Feel Brand New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTaBxW_JgjA
Let's Put It All Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6OR_hJzRbA
I Can't Give You Anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca9HI66ROHY&feature=related
Hurry Up This Way Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrV0HNKEQpE
Gatsby ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrmceKkXjo
The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn.
Signing to Avco Records, The Stylistics began working with producer Thom Bell, who had already produced a catalogue of hits for The Delfonics, and songwriter Linda Creed. Bell imported the sweet soul techniques he had perfected with The Delfonics, and his arrangements worked perfectly with Thompkins' falsetto. The bittersweet lyrics from Creed were a key factor in creating hugely memorable music. They had their first U.S. hit in 1971 with "You're a Big Girl Now".
You Make Me Feel Brand New" was the group's biggest U.S. hit, holding at #2 for two weeks in the spring of 1974, and was one of five U.S. gold singles the Stylistics collected.
Commercial success was not confined only to the U.S., with the band also having big hits with this material throughout Europe.
The group split with Thom Bell in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U.S. Just as with The Delfonics, The Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity. They struggled hard to find producers who could come up with the right material.
As success in the U.S. began to wane, their popularity in Europe, and especially the United Kingdom, increased.
The Stylistics began to struggle with what many saw as increasingly weak material after 1976; chart success vanished. This decline also coincided with the rise of New Wave in Europe around this time. It was also stated by Russell Thompkins Jr. that the band began to feel that the music they were recording was becoming increasingly dated, and not in keeping with the emerging disco sound of the late 1970s.
In 2006, their single "I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" was used as the base for a Japanese advertisement campaign by Gatsby to launch their new male hair styling product "Moving Rubber". The campaign was highly successful due in no small part to the catchy nature of the tune and that the commercial featured one of Japan's most popular celebrities Takuya Kimura of the pop group SMAP.
(Wikipedia)
8/21/2008
Al Green
Look What You Done For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlOE1XX3Gc
I'm Still in Love With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJerMmmX8Y
Simply Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1i69D7cRI
Tired of Being Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg4dnFx6JW0
Here I Am (Come & Take Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahWZ8T0xsc
Love & Happiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsU6_eSG4k4
For the Good Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmhokPDZik
For the Good Times (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybh_qmve968
Livin' For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKR7Rm9Wz6s
People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
God Blessed Our Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwT7rKTqQbk
Let's Stay Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOOFk549fw
Let's Stay Together (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knw4wsp-NF8
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzitOsxKJNY
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
w/Annie Lennox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHuGyuwvPLg
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s.
The LP, Al Green Gets Next to You (1970), was a massive success that included four gold singles as Green developed his vocal and songwriting talents. Let's Stay Together (1972) was an even bigger success, as was I'm Still In Love With You (1972). Call Me was a critical sensation and just as popular at the time; it is one of his most fondly remembered albums today. Al Green Explores Your Mind (1974) contained the song "Take Me to the River", later covered by the Talking Heads on their second album.
On October 18, 1974, Mary Woodson, a girlfriend of Green's, assaulted him before killing herself at his Memphis home. Although she was already married, Woodson reportedly became upset when Green refused to marry her. At some point during the evening, Woodson doused Green with a pan of boiling hot grits while he was showering causing third-degree burns on Green's back, stomach and arms. Woodson then shot herself with Green's gun.
Green cited the incident as a wake-up call to change his life. He became an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis in 1976. Continuing to record R&B, Green saw his sales start to slip and drew mixed reviews from critics.
In 1979, Green was injured while performing, and interpreted this accident as a message from God. He then concentrated his energies towards pastoring his church and gospel singing.
His first gospel album was The Lord Will Make a Way. From 1981 to 1989 Green recorded a series of gospel recordings, garnering eight "soul gospel performance" Grammys in that period.
In 1984, director Robert Mugge released a documentary film, Gospel According to Al Green, including interviews about his life and footage from his church.
After spending several years exclusively performing gospel, Green began to return to R&B. He released a duet with Annie Lennox, "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" for Scrooged, a 1988 Bill Murray film.
His 1994 duet with country music singer Lyle Lovett blended country with R&B, garnering him his ninth Grammy, this time in a pop music category. Green's first secular album in some time was Your Heart's In Good Hands (1995), released to positive reviews but disappointing sales, the same year Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2000, Green published Take Me to the River, a book discussing his career. Green received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
In 2004, Green was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #65 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 BET Awards on June 24, 2008.
Green still continues to tour, and to preach at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006, Green worked on his latest studio album for Blue Note Records with The Roots' Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson. The album, Lay It Down, was released May 27, 2008 and includes tracks featuring John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae and Anthony Hamilton.
(Wikipedia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlOE1XX3Gc
I'm Still in Love With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJerMmmX8Y
Simply Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1i69D7cRI
Tired of Being Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg4dnFx6JW0
Here I Am (Come & Take Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahWZ8T0xsc
Love & Happiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsU6_eSG4k4
For the Good Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmhokPDZik
For the Good Times (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybh_qmve968
Livin' For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKR7Rm9Wz6s
People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
God Blessed Our Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwT7rKTqQbk
Let's Stay Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOOFk549fw
Let's Stay Together (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knw4wsp-NF8
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzitOsxKJNY
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
w/Annie Lennox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHuGyuwvPLg
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s.
The LP, Al Green Gets Next to You (1970), was a massive success that included four gold singles as Green developed his vocal and songwriting talents. Let's Stay Together (1972) was an even bigger success, as was I'm Still In Love With You (1972). Call Me was a critical sensation and just as popular at the time; it is one of his most fondly remembered albums today. Al Green Explores Your Mind (1974) contained the song "Take Me to the River", later covered by the Talking Heads on their second album.
On October 18, 1974, Mary Woodson, a girlfriend of Green's, assaulted him before killing herself at his Memphis home. Although she was already married, Woodson reportedly became upset when Green refused to marry her. At some point during the evening, Woodson doused Green with a pan of boiling hot grits while he was showering causing third-degree burns on Green's back, stomach and arms. Woodson then shot herself with Green's gun.
Green cited the incident as a wake-up call to change his life. He became an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis in 1976. Continuing to record R&B, Green saw his sales start to slip and drew mixed reviews from critics.
In 1979, Green was injured while performing, and interpreted this accident as a message from God. He then concentrated his energies towards pastoring his church and gospel singing.
His first gospel album was The Lord Will Make a Way. From 1981 to 1989 Green recorded a series of gospel recordings, garnering eight "soul gospel performance" Grammys in that period.
In 1984, director Robert Mugge released a documentary film, Gospel According to Al Green, including interviews about his life and footage from his church.
After spending several years exclusively performing gospel, Green began to return to R&B. He released a duet with Annie Lennox, "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" for Scrooged, a 1988 Bill Murray film.
His 1994 duet with country music singer Lyle Lovett blended country with R&B, garnering him his ninth Grammy, this time in a pop music category. Green's first secular album in some time was Your Heart's In Good Hands (1995), released to positive reviews but disappointing sales, the same year Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2000, Green published Take Me to the River, a book discussing his career. Green received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
In 2004, Green was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #65 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 BET Awards on June 24, 2008.
Green still continues to tour, and to preach at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006, Green worked on his latest studio album for Blue Note Records with The Roots' Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson. The album, Lay It Down, was released May 27, 2008 and includes tracks featuring John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae and Anthony Hamilton.
(Wikipedia)
Rock and Roll
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_n_roll
Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the world.
Classic rock and roll is played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a boogie woogie blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum.
The massive popularity and eventual worldwide view of rock and roll gave it an unprecedented social impact. Far beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and in the new medium of television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn various sub-genres, often without the characteristic backbeat, that are more properly called simply 'rock music'.
Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the world.
Classic rock and roll is played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a boogie woogie blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum.
The massive popularity and eventual worldwide view of rock and roll gave it an unprecedented social impact. Far beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and in the new medium of television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn various sub-genres, often without the characteristic backbeat, that are more properly called simply 'rock music'.
Doo-Wop
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_wop
Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which was started in the black community and became popular in the 1950s to the early 1960s.
Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which was started in the black community and became popular in the 1950s to the early 1960s.
8/15/2008
The Isley Brothers
Shout!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9xOLpwI0I
Twist & Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPivnegGtgg
This Old Heart of Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyszX-Hs30
It's Your Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2-DSKx3Eg
Love the One You're With
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y4OatoR6s
Pop That Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UemPDkGww
I'll Always Come Back to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ66GVuIPc4
That Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84
Hello It's Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHp1Tr_4_A8
Summer Breeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0g1y7irKk
Fight the Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAkHRK2pI8
For the Love of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2sOqbIcaM
Harvest for the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_OsEISBGo
Footsteps in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLnUwUpnb8
It's a Disco Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLptdeApq8
I Wanna Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8KsX5fqiI
Don't Say Goodnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2v9GrU35U
Between the Sheets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhdcJ7K3XM
Smooth Sailin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFW3TtBh6kE
Caravan of Love
(by Isley-Jasper-Isley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc
The Isley Brothers are a Grammy-winning American R&B/soul group who are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul in the last six decades with a variation of lineups ranging from a quartet to a trio to a sextet to finally a duo.
Originally raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the original group consisted of the four elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Mae Isley: Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon Isley originally singing nothing but gospel music starting in 1954.
The group disbanded in 1955 shortly after a road accident claimed the life of Vernon Isley and reformed in 1957 with Kelly, Rudy and Ronnie, who recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll.
After modest success with singles such as "Shout", "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", and a brief tenure with Jimi Hendrix as a background guitar player, the group settled on a brand of gritty soul and funk defined by the Grammy-winning smash "It's Your Thing", in 1969.
After reforming the group as a six-member lineup in 1973 featuring younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper, they became known to fans as 3 + 3 and charted gold and platinum success with albums such as 3 + 3, The Heat Is On, Go For Your Guns and Between the Sheets, while charting a succession of hit singles such as "That Lady", "Fight the Power", "For the Love of You", "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" and "Between the Sheets", between 1973 and 1983.
After the younger brothers splintered from the group in 1984, the remaining trio continued recording until Kelly's death from a cancer-related heart attack in 1986.
Rudy left the group for a career in the ministry in 1989 disbanding the group once again with Ron releasing solo records, sometimes performing under the Isley Brothers name.
In 1991, Ron reformed the group with Ernie and Marvin returning to the lineup.
In 1992, the group was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Since 1997, after diabetes forced Marvin into retirement, the lineup has been Ron and Ernie, now on hiatus due to Ron's current prison sentence after a tax evasion conviction in 2006.
During his court case, it was revealed Ron Isley, now 66, has kidney cancer and failing organs. Isley's lawyers have tried pleading with the judge to give leniency to the singer, who was sentenced to serve 37 months (at least three years) in prison but have been denied. Isley is currently serving his sentence and will be released on a tentative date of April 2010.
In 2000 Michael Bolton unsuccessfully tried to buy the Isley Brothers' catalogue after the Isleys won a lawsuit alleging that Bolton's song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their 1966 Motown track of the same title.
The Isley Brothers were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.
Much like The JB's, Parliament-Funkadelic, DeBarge and Zapp, the Isleys are among one of the most sampled groups in hip-hop history with their recordings sampled by the likes of 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G.,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg among others.
(Wikipedia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9xOLpwI0I
Twist & Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPivnegGtgg
This Old Heart of Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyszX-Hs30
It's Your Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2-DSKx3Eg
Love the One You're With
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y4OatoR6s
Pop That Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UemPDkGww
I'll Always Come Back to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ66GVuIPc4
That Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84
Hello It's Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHp1Tr_4_A8
Summer Breeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0g1y7irKk
Fight the Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAkHRK2pI8
For the Love of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2sOqbIcaM
Harvest for the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_OsEISBGo
Footsteps in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLnUwUpnb8
It's a Disco Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLptdeApq8
I Wanna Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8KsX5fqiI
Don't Say Goodnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2v9GrU35U
Between the Sheets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhdcJ7K3XM
Smooth Sailin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFW3TtBh6kE
Caravan of Love
(by Isley-Jasper-Isley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc
The Isley Brothers are a Grammy-winning American R&B/soul group who are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul in the last six decades with a variation of lineups ranging from a quartet to a trio to a sextet to finally a duo.
Originally raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the original group consisted of the four elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Mae Isley: Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon Isley originally singing nothing but gospel music starting in 1954.
The group disbanded in 1955 shortly after a road accident claimed the life of Vernon Isley and reformed in 1957 with Kelly, Rudy and Ronnie, who recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll.
After modest success with singles such as "Shout", "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", and a brief tenure with Jimi Hendrix as a background guitar player, the group settled on a brand of gritty soul and funk defined by the Grammy-winning smash "It's Your Thing", in 1969.
After reforming the group as a six-member lineup in 1973 featuring younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper, they became known to fans as 3 + 3 and charted gold and platinum success with albums such as 3 + 3, The Heat Is On, Go For Your Guns and Between the Sheets, while charting a succession of hit singles such as "That Lady", "Fight the Power", "For the Love of You", "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" and "Between the Sheets", between 1973 and 1983.
After the younger brothers splintered from the group in 1984, the remaining trio continued recording until Kelly's death from a cancer-related heart attack in 1986.
Rudy left the group for a career in the ministry in 1989 disbanding the group once again with Ron releasing solo records, sometimes performing under the Isley Brothers name.
In 1991, Ron reformed the group with Ernie and Marvin returning to the lineup.
In 1992, the group was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Since 1997, after diabetes forced Marvin into retirement, the lineup has been Ron and Ernie, now on hiatus due to Ron's current prison sentence after a tax evasion conviction in 2006.
During his court case, it was revealed Ron Isley, now 66, has kidney cancer and failing organs. Isley's lawyers have tried pleading with the judge to give leniency to the singer, who was sentenced to serve 37 months (at least three years) in prison but have been denied. Isley is currently serving his sentence and will be released on a tentative date of April 2010.
In 2000 Michael Bolton unsuccessfully tried to buy the Isley Brothers' catalogue after the Isleys won a lawsuit alleging that Bolton's song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their 1966 Motown track of the same title.
The Isley Brothers were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.
Much like The JB's, Parliament-Funkadelic, DeBarge and Zapp, the Isleys are among one of the most sampled groups in hip-hop history with their recordings sampled by the likes of 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G.,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg among others.
(Wikipedia)
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