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darkstar

(5,646 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 03:26 PM Jan 13

On a bit of a 60s/70s soul and R&B jag here lately

so, if you would be so kind, please post your favorites here for me, esp if you have some lesser known gems.

Mine is not that obscure, but I had not heard or thought about it for quite some time. Great throughout, but the ending just slays me.

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And truly live version:

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On a bit of a 60s/70s soul and R&B jag here lately (Original Post) darkstar Jan 13 OP
Soul Train, 1970 SARose Jan 13 #1
Guess I'm that old too! darkstar Jan 13 #2
Plus, do you have a gem darkstar Jan 13 #3
Why yes! SARose Jan 13 #4
I'm digging your list. darkstar Jan 13 #5
Oh yes SARose Jan 13 #8
when I was a kid dad played this to get me to sleep Skittles Jan 13 #6
Didn't know this one darkstar Jan 13 #7
he was amazing Skittles Jan 13 #9
James Brown's alternate take of "I Feel Good". LudwigPastorius Jan 13 #10
Hey Ludwig P: darkstar Jan 14 #11
Glad you dug that. LudwigPastorius Jan 14 #12
Who's Gonna Take the Weight? JoseBalow Jan 14 #13
Hell yeah! darkstar Jan 14 #14
Them Two and a slow boiler. darkstar Jan 14 #15
Heres a bunch Figarosmom Jan 15 #16

SARose

(1,105 posts)
1. Soul Train, 1970
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:39 PM
Jan 13

Yes I am that old!🤣

Great song and a great slow dance!

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter


Just what I needed to hear today. Thanks!

SARose

(1,105 posts)
4. Why yes!
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jan 13

In no particular order

Try a little tenderness Otis Redding

My girl The Temptations

At last Etta James

Lean on me Bill Withers

A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke

When a man loves a woman - Percy Sledge


Ohhh my goodness! So many good slow dancing songs!😉

Anybody else?






darkstar

(5,646 posts)
5. I'm digging your list.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:29 PM
Jan 13

Thought I knew all of them except At Last. Looked it up, but it turns out I knew it too. But what a song. Listened to the whole thing. Those silky strings! That voice! Thanks for the reminder!

darkstar

(5,646 posts)
7. Didn't know this one
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:24 PM
Jan 13

so thanks for the share. I just love how his voice breaks and get raspy along the way. And then the bluesy gospel-tinged inflections towards the end. He was practically a force of nature, wasn’t he?

Skittles

(161,633 posts)
9. he was amazing
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:40 PM
Jan 13

my dad was a huge fan.....we were living in Madison when the plane crashed into the lake......gone way too soon

darkstar

(5,646 posts)
11. Hey Ludwig P:
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 12:15 AM
Jan 14

I will have my attorneys contacting you bc I threw my back out—while laying down, mind you—to that JB tune. Holy crap, pure dynamite. I mean just too, too good. Good God y’all.

Now, if you had led w the Sly tune, it might have warmed things up first and we wouldn’t be in this situation. Seriously funky. I think of myself as knowing lot of SatFS tunes, but I guess its largely the hits. So much of what he did after the first wave of hits was so slinky and sexy at its core. Plus, I had a bit of a crush on Cynthia to begin with, so there’s a multiplying factor for ya.

Anyway, two great ones so thanks so much for the turn ons!

LudwigPastorius

(11,556 posts)
12. Glad you dug that.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 12:58 AM
Jan 14


A bit of connecting trivia: The bass player in the 5 Stairsteps (the third singer in your videos) is also playing bass on that Sly Stone tune I posted.

His name is Keni Burke, and he went on to become a session player and producer. After the 5 Stairsteps, he played with Billy Preston, Mavis Staples, Gladys Knight, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, and on and on.

JoseBalow

(6,430 posts)
13. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 01:46 AM
Jan 14

One of my favorite classics, live from 1974

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Their epic appearance that night on The Midnight Special is worth checking out in it's entirety.

darkstar

(5,646 posts)
14. Hell yeah!
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jan 14

Didn’t know they were like this live. Wow. Those “bit ragged but right” horns are devine. Thanks for hipping me, my friend.

darkstar

(5,646 posts)
15. Them Two and a slow boiler.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 01:23 PM
Jan 14

Criminal that I’ve not heard this, much less of the group, before now.

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