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)