Foxy Posted April 8, 2005 Report Posted April 8, 2005 I'm feeling in a slightly funky mood tonight and would like some ideas of what to listen to, what are your favourite Soul Hits from the 70's? The more obscure the better
Ken Posted April 8, 2005 Report Posted April 8, 2005 Hmmmm. Funky.... Stevie Wonder - Superstitious Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing. B-52's - "Planet Claire" and "Good Stuff" (Shake yer arse) Fred Schneider - "Monster (in my pants)" Talking Heads "Take Me To The River" Anything by Al Greene Hope that helped you getcher groove on! Ken.
Steel2Velvet Posted April 9, 2005 Report Posted April 9, 2005 Actually "Soul" music metamorphised toward R&B then disco starting in the early 70's. I feel the best pure soul peaked in the late 60's. Wilson Pickett - Land of a Thousand Dances Rascals - People Got To Be Free OJs - Love Train Aretha Franklin - Respect Three Dog Night - Shambala Sonny Charles - Black Pearl Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby James Brown - I Feel Good Mitch Ryder - Devil With the Blue Dress On About the best pure soul act to survive from the 70's until now is Hall and Oats
RonJonSurfer Posted April 9, 2005 Report Posted April 9, 2005 You only need one tonight Foxy....Tell Me Something Good, by Rufus, with Chaka Khan...that'll get you where you need to be.
edna Posted April 9, 2005 Report Posted April 9, 2005 Otis Redding. Sam Cooke. Motown, Motown and Motown... ... and two whities: Janis Joplin and Eric Burdon. I know, it´s mostly 60´s...
Batman Posted April 10, 2005 Report Posted April 10, 2005 Funkadelic - Hit it and Quit it it's more souly than most of funkadelic's stuff
bluesboy Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Rhino Records puts out a good series (Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!) that you can probably get the individual volumes or the box set. ::
katie_sane Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 I think Wilson Pickett has some of the funkiest songs ever, especially 'In The Midnight Hour'. Marvin Gaye's version of 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' is great too. Another song that me and my friends like grooving to is 'Saturday Night At The Movies' by The Drifters. You just can't not like that song.
Mike Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Hmmmm. Funky.... Stevie Wonder - Superstitious Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing. B-52's - "Planet Claire" and "Good Stuff" (Shake yer arse) Fred Schneider - "Monster (in my pants)" Talking Heads "Take Me To The River" Anything by Al Greene Hope that helped you getcher groove on! Ken. I'm actually surprised you forgot a real classic here Ken, Otis day and the knights-Shout from the movie Animal House(toga party scene), can't get any funker than that!
Earth-Angel Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Hmmmm. Funky.... Stevie Wonder - Superstitious Most definitely! :happybanana:
Tenacious_Peaches Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Foxy, this is up my alley. I love this particular genre of music. It is impossible to list them all, but here are some great ones... Stevie Wonder! Any uptempo Al Green Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone Back Stabbers - O'Jays Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - The Temptations The Payback Part I - James Brown Brick House - The Commodores Pick Up the Pieces and Cut the Cake- The Average White Band Shining Star or just about anything by - Earth, Wind & Fire Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang Lady Marmalade - LaBelle (not the sacrilegious hoochified new one) Car Wash - Rose Royce Tell Me Something Good - Rufus & Chaka Khan Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes Fire - The Ohio Players Flash Light and Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) - Parliament (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - L.T.D. Love Rollercoaster - The Ohio Players You Dropped a Bomb on Me and Oops Upside Your Head - The Gap Band
RonJonSurfer Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Most definitely! :happybanana: If you listen to Stevie Wonders "Superstitious", "Higher Ground" and "Living For The City"...You're done. Ok add in Signed, Sealed, Delivered, then you're done.
Tenacious_Peaches Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 If you listen to Stevie Wonders "Superstitious", "Higher Ground" and "Living For The City"...You're done. Ok add in Signed, Sealed, Delivered, then you're done. Add in "I Wish" and then you're done. No, add in "Sir Duke" and then you're done. "Boogie on Reggae Woman"...done. "Masterblaster"...done. "Do I Do"..done. Foxy, go get your hands on everything Stevie has ever done. STAT! ::
Foxy Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Posted April 11, 2005 I have a few Stevie Wonder albums :: Love him!!
RonJonSurfer Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 I forgot about Boogie On Reggae Woman...that may be funkier than all of them. Good call.
Uncle Joe Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Stevie Wonder is certainly well represented in this thread, as he should be. Here are some other 70's Soul artists worth mentioning: Eddie Floyd-(Knock On Wood) Sam and Dave Johnny Taylor-Who's Makin' Love (To Your Old Lady While You've Been Out Makin' Love) The Staple Singers The Delfonics The Intruders The Stylistics The Ojays The Spinners Lou Rawls Al Green Jerry Butler Blue Magic Carla Thomas Little Milton Jeannie Knight (Mr. Big Stuff) The Dramatics The Emotions Frederick Knight Isaac Hayes The Temprees Teddy Pendergrast Brenton Wood The Capitols (Cool Jerk) Clarence Carter Donnie Elbert The Embers The Flaming Embers The Poets The Ribbons The Versatones Taj Mahal I know i've omitted many, but I may return to list them as well. Trying to stay with 70's artists. Not all funky but all very soulful. I leave you with this salutation a la my good friend, Don Corneliussssssssssss..."Peace, love and soooooooooulllll"!"
Tybalt Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 From just past the 70s. Jack Mack & the Heart Attack's Cardiac Party is arguably the best original Soul music ever created by white folks. This album from 1982 is on CD, but hard to find -- it's not currently available from Amazon but read the rave reviews.
Jimmy1104 Posted April 11, 2005 Report Posted April 11, 2005 Hey Uncle Joe....throw the Chi-Lites and Manhattans on your list.
Uncle Joe Posted April 12, 2005 Report Posted April 12, 2005 Gladly Jimmy. Great choices. Ironically the lead singer of the Chi-Lites was the late Eugene Record. Apt name, wouldn't you say? "Tell me, have you seen her?"
Uncle Joe Posted April 13, 2005 Report Posted April 13, 2005 What? No Tower of Power? Great band. Then of course we have to add AWB and The Magnificent Men. Blue eyed soulllllllllllllllll.
_jr_ Posted April 13, 2005 Report Posted April 13, 2005 Somehow this thread went from soul to funk. Yet another sabotaged SF thread.
Uncle Joe Posted April 13, 2005 Report Posted April 13, 2005 Somehow this thread went from soul to funk. Yet another sabotaged SF thread. That depends upon how you interpret Foxy's opening post.
Foxy Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Posted April 13, 2005 That depends upon how you interpret Foxy's opening post.
Batman Posted April 14, 2005 Report Posted April 14, 2005 If that comment had anything at all to do with my Funkadelic suggestion, just listen to the song, it sounds pretty soul-ish I'd say.
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now