Catherine Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Some of the best R&B artists came out of the late 60's and 70's. What are your favorites? Which ones do your remember? Some of my favorties are: Supremes - Love Child Al Green - Let's Stay Together Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine Commodores - Brick House Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On O'Jays - Love Train Spinners - I'll Be Around Stevie Wonder - Superstition Temptations - Reach Out Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 I live about a 20 minute across-the-bridge-or-tunnel drive away from "HitsVille USA" where most of those songs were recorded. If you ever happen to get the chance to see the documentary film "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown", oh, brothers 'n sisters, see it. One song in particular. Me'shell N'Degeocello (I think I spelled that right) knocks the living HELL out of Smokey Robinson's "You've Really Got A Hold On Me". I ain't lyin'. Backed by the Funk Brothers (the original session musicians), every single second of that song is a musical orgasm. Right down to the piano in the background. The background singers are not of this Earth. And I LOVE Smokey Robinson, but her version gives me goosebumps. "Don't wanna kiss you, but I need to". Indeed. Ken (with goosebumps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 I love, love, love Motown! When people think R&B they think of only black musicians, but other bands or songs from other bands are actually considered R&B or funk, like Spirit's "I Got a Line on You"...one of my all time favorites. KC & the Sunshine Band was considered funk - love them! Okay, I'll sing the first line of this and I know everyone knows the rest, "Do a little dance..." Ken, you and me...we're goin' dancin'! LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slothchild64 Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 I absolutely LOVE this genre! All the ones mentioned are wonderful! One of my all time favorites that I'll add to this list is Rufus & Chaka Khan -- in particular "Tell Me Something Good!" Love me some Chaka! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Ken, you and me...we're goin' dancin'! LOL! Darlin', count on it. (In my best cheesy Puerto Rican accent), "My love, you and I, we dance the Lambada, no? The dance of love...." Ole! Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 I'm a huge fan of '70s era funk/soul. Here are some of my favorites: James Brown - "Cold Sweat" LTD - "Back In Love Again" The Spinners - "Working My Way Back To You" The Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster" There's something about this stuff that can't be duplicated now. It has a genuine quality that can get lost with modern recording technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Some of the best R&B artists came out of the late 60's and 70's. What are your favorites? Which ones do your remember? Some of my favorties are: Supremes - Love Child Al Green - Let's Stay Together Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine Commodores - Brick House Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On O'Jays - Love Train Spinners - I'll Be Around Stevie Wonder - Superstition Temptations - Reach Out Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World Stevie Wonder! Yeah!! Some of my fav's from this genre How about- Everybody Is A Star - Sly & The Family Stone Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone O-O-H Child - The 5 Stairsteps I Love You For All Seasons - The Fuzz Let's Stay Together - Al Green Lean On Me - Bill Withers Everybody Plays The Fool - The Main Ingredient Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - The Temptations Love Train - O'Jays The World Is A Ghetto - War Reasons - Earth, Wind & Fire Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windy1 Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 Everything song and artist mentioned above-Fantastic! I have but two additions I think have to be mentioned. Aretha Franklin-The Queen herself, and Otis Redding. You can pick just about any song, it'll be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 you and I, we dance the Lambada, no? Esta noche bailamos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 More R&B, Funk and Soul songs! Al Wilson - Show And Tell Aretha Franklin - Respect Barry White - Never Never Gonna Give You Up Commodores - Sail On George Benson - On Broadway Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Manhattens - Let's Just Kiss and Say Goodbye Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me O'Jays - Used To Be My Girl Robert Flack & Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy Ben E King - Stand By Me Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Heatwave Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman Supremes - Reflections Stevie Wonder - Living for the City Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (1980's) Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine Chi-Lites - Oh Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 4, 2004 Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 Si!, Esta noche bailamos. Umm, voolay voo a cooshay avec moi, er, um, well, something like that, anyhow. Well done. Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 Ken: Now that was funny! Wir werden tanzen, bis die Sterne ermüdet sind (we will dance until the stars get tired)! Somehow it doesn't sound too sexy in German! LMAO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted April 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 You won't believe what I found in my MP3 directory. Remember that song from Chuck Berry "My Ding-A-Ling-A-Ling"? that was out when we were little kids? I didn't even know I had this tune, but played it and I laughed so hard I cried! When I was a little bitty boy My grandmother bought me a cute little toy. Silver bells hanging on a string, She told me it was my ding a ling a ling. Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. My ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. And then mama took me took me to grammar school, But I stopped off in the vestibule. Every time that bell would ring, They?d catch me playing with my ding a ling a ling. Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. My ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. Once I was climbing the garden wall. I slipped and had a terrible fall. I fell so hard I heard bells ring, But I held on to my ding a ling. Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. My ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. Once I was swimming across turtle creek, Man, them snappers all around my feet. Sure was hard swimmin' across that thing With both hands holding my ding a ling. Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. My ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. This here song, it ain't so sad. The cutest little song you ever had. Those of you who will not sing, You must be playing with your own ding a ling. Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. My ding a ling, my ding a ling, I want you to play with my ding a ling. Your ding a ling, your ding a ling, We saw you playing with your ding a ling. My ding a ling, everybody sing, I want to play with my ding, Everybody, my ding a ling, Oh my ding a ling, I want to play with my ding a ling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 This will be long. If you've got something to do, do it, it will be better than reading this. A couple of years ago, Kelly wanted us to start camping. I positively, absolutely, totally hate camping. We've been married almost 17 years, and after that long, we have accumulated some reasonable creature comforts. I have a king-sized Sealy Posturepaedic pillowtop mattress. A swimming pool. A hot tub, a refrigerator that spits ice at you when you want it, satellite tv, cd, mp3 and DVD. I've got a stainless steel barbecue big enough to cook a whole cow on. High speed internet, hot 'n cold running water and a bathroom that is clean and comfortable, WITH cable tv in there, too. And yet...... 6, maybe 7 times a summer, we........ leave all that stuff behind. And go to the happiest place on earth. Jellystone Park. I forgoe all the creature comforts to live in an 8'X12' aluminum box. The pop up camper. The Jayco. Dear God in Heaven, how I hate that thing. I leave my bed to sleep on 1/2" plywood under 2" of foam rubber. As, my wife prefers the side of the bed closest to the door (in case she can get out before me if the damn thing catches fire? Her concern for me is overwhelming), I have to straddle her just to get out and pee in the middle of the night, stumbling almost into a still-hot campfire. The public showers at Jellystone (which, by the way, is a 25 minute drive from our house, so much for 'getting away from it all'), the public showers smell like the monkey house at the Detroit Zoo in the high of summer. She packs all my stuff in a hermetically sealed Tupperware bin. This is great when you have soap in your eyes. You DON'T wanna set the soap down in the dish to get the shampoo outta the Tupperware bin, because there is a little curly hair in the dish, and I know it ain't mine, or any member of my families, so you gotta hold your soap in your teeth and balance on one foot being careful not to lean on the wall to get the shampoo. Showering there is hell. You have to cook on a little tiny hibachi. With coals that take forever to ignite. No TV, and a bazillion kids running everywhere. Jellystone is graced with a swimming pool I suspect they flush at night, so I don't go in there, either. You wind up 'camping' next to people you wouldn't turn around and talk to if you were in front of them in a bank-line. You usually get your pre-requisite frazzled mother weighing about as much as my refrigerator at home wearing a stained t-shirt 2 sizes too small for her, and it's got a picture of kittens on it. But the shirt is so stretched, the kittens look Asian. Eventually, you'll hear my son, "Daaaaad, the portable-toilet is full, y'gotta empty it.." Usually, at that point, a big fat guy with a hairy back wearing a Speedo will come trundling past with a Weight-Watchers mug as big as your head full of beer and say "Ahhh, nothing like getting away from it all, is there?". I want to punch that guy in the face. Hard. It was there last summer when I believe I had an Epiphany. We were setting up the aluminum torture chamber (er, camper). It was late summer and there wasn't many people in the park on that early Friday afternoon. I'm cranking up the camper and heard a rhythmic bass thump coming from down the laneway from us. Another campsite. I wasn't paying too much attention, trying to ignore the sweat in my eyes and the rusty squeal from my back. But the bass thump was.... catchy. And then the wind drifted the lyrics down to me that are now burned indelibly into my brain. "My neck, my back, my (I can't spell the word, rhymes with 'wussy' ) AND my crack." The artist's name is Khia. The key to good writing is to be specific, and Khia pretty much had THAT nailed down. I looked at kelly, and asked her "didjoo hear THAT?" She shrugged, nonplussed. "What are you gonna do? Your in a public place, you're gonna get stuff like that." That's when the Epiphany happened. When I was a kid, we'd go out with Ma and Dad on Friday nights for dinner. We'd beg for quarters for the jukebox, Ma would dole them out with stern directions at me NOT to play THAT song. THAT song was "My Ding-A-Ling". Invariably, my traitorous fingers would punch up B14 or whatever number the song was listed under, Ma would get mad, and Dad would laugh. I downloaded Khia's little ditty to yodelling in the gully, and played it for my Mom with a big grin. "Whattya think of THAT, Ma?" She shrugged and said, "It's the year 2003. What do you want me to say?" I wanted to hit her over the head with a burned chicken off the hibachi. My ding-a-ling indeed. G'night all. Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 hahahaha, y'know Ken in about 20 years (ok maybe 30 years) you'll cherish these memories (or not) buddy life is filled with this shi---taki--mushrooms... but the kids love it! you're a good dad! and an awesome story teller. you can grace my campfire anytime!! (bring your own beer ya sponge) lol Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 you're a good dad! and an awesome story teller. you can grace my campfire anytime!! (bring your own beer ya sponge) lol Mike If I made you laugh. the lottery is won. That's what its all about. As for the beer, well, I forgot mine back at my campsite. Can I get one from you? Kenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 You need to come with me to a remote camping site in the middle of the woods to experience true camping-you will love it. Ditch the KOAs! LOL. (Ken, arching eyebrow slyly....) Really..... I bet I would..... BWAHAHAHAHA.... Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Who are some of your favorite R&B acts (any era)? Some of mine are (in no particular order)... Stevie Wonder Chaka Khan Aretha Franklin Al Green Marvin Gaye Tina Turner Luther Vandross Alicia Keys I apologize in advance for the great ones I've forgotten! :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Got your bases covered, aye Peachy? I'm sure bluesboy will be around shortly to mention the ones you missed. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 The Stax / Volt record label had many of the big names of '50 and '60s r&b : Otis Redding Sam & Dave Carla Thomas Booker T & the MG's William Bell the Bar-Kays plus They had great in house back-up musicians: Steve Cropper Donald 'Duck' Dunn the Memphis Horns... The Complete Stax Volt Singles 9cd box set '59-'68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 I've always wondered, what does R&B stand for? I heard it was Rythym&Blues but I've also heard Rythym&Bass. The first one makes more sense. What does it stand for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 yes, rhythm and blues :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Yes, we have R-n-R, R-n-B, then, C-n-R. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawnfreak Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Anyone for R. Kelly ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Another record label with a stable of stars back in the golden age of R&B was Motown. They also had an in house songwriting factory that wrote hit after hit. some artists include - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Four Tops Temptations Martha and the Vandellas Marvin Gaye Jackson 5 Mary Wells the Supremes among others... Hitsville USA: the Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (4cd box) Here's more info... allmusic.com/hitsvilleusa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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