Why Don't You?

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Philadelphia Soul

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_soul

Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound or Sweet Philly, is a style of soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns. The subtle sound of a glockenspiel can often be heard in the background of philly soul songs. The genre laid the groundwork for what are now considered Adult contemporary and smooth jazz by fusing the R & B rhythm sections of the 1960s with the Pop Vocal tradition, and featuring a slightly more pronounced Jazz influence in its melodic structures and arrangements.

Notable Philadelphia soul artists include:
The Delfonics
The Intruders
Patti LaBelle
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
MFSB
The O'Jays
Billy Paul
Teddy Pendergrass
The Spinners
The Stylistics
The Three Degrees
The Trammps
Blue Magic
The Soul Survivors
Dexter Wansel
Gamble and Huff - Notable Songwriters and Producers
Thom Bell - Notable Songwriter and Producer
Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Ethics
Jerry Butler - Some Notable Songs with Gamble and Huff
Charles M. Mann - Singer/Songwriter

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