itt: we list slow-burning 70s funk/soul epics

i am thinking songs like:

war - "four cornered room"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmCCxMp7BE

funkadelic - "i'll stay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IodGZAx7FRs

and of course isaac hayes' "walk on by" and "by the time i got to phoenix" are classics of the mold. can you guys help me find more?

one of the truly great UK soul tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhyVNwIiek
The Real Thing - Children of the Ghetto

vc knows how to coax me out of exile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLefc10kkMc

cymande - "dove" 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEfXefmrkE
Gloria Ann Taylor - Love is a Hurtin' Thing (12'')

And I'll get this one out of the way too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JNwqRF32ZI
Syl Johnson - Is it because I'm black

all good picks, thanks. hadn't heard "children of the ghetto," that's great.

i'm ideally looking for something longer than 7 mins and a bit slower than "dove," but i won't be too strict haha

Although I don't know if you intended to be strict about "70s soul"

The Temptations - Zoom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63IZkgN_zc

this is only six and a half but god i love this one so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNwpCnraIc

oh yeah that temptations song is a true classic. i guess "papa was a rolling stone" is the ur-example of this kind of thing

Fantastic Four - My Love Won't Stop At Nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlzGVS42FpI

The Ebonys - It's Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW1RINUeNOQ

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - I Miss You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnnvRMSMWaI

Maceo - The Soul Of A Black Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDU_LlOMK0k

Joe Bataan - What Good Is A Castle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g72YVG5CH9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPCLnzp3QsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YWDsZrIV_A

Sorry - track IDs for the last two: The Chi-Lites - The Coldest Days of My Life & Eddie Harris - I Don't Want Nobody.

Terry Callier - Alley-Wind Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FTzWZP1Cs

Builds to such a cathartic climax! Super underrated, one of Callier's best songs imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LStcQJpdH3w
Willie Hutch - California My Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1PyzEVPdg
Donald Byrd - (Fallin' Like) Dominoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QpMEgBp8Y
James Mason - I Want Your Love

also sry for potentially anti-answer but the 24 carat black album kinda sorta defines this for me. impossible to pick a single track. it is also very dour at times.

maybe the david porter stuff? "i'm afraid the masquerade is over" fits the requirements on length alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6qOvfgDJI
The Isley Brothers - Ohio / Machine Gun

sorry about posting the donald byrd btw - too fast and too short! and yet it my mind its different somehow

Roberta flack - I can see the sun in late December - 12:44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDBwb296ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3tMq6K5SGQ

Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight

^^ was just thinking of that one hah

It was your Flack post that triggered it!

Lowrell - Mellow Mellow Right On

"ohio / machine gun," that's a good one. my kingdom for a 12" extended version of "voyage to atlantis"

Al Green Jesus Is Waiting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmI8-A27agU

Tim Maia's Racional Culture might fit the brief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlIU_3y1gpE

The Stylistics, "Children of the Night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz0pynI3M9I

(... which I like to think is about vampires)

That Tim Maia jam is FONKY...

A pastiche of slow 70s soul but a great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIwtqGy6ww

I got one... "Ike's Mood" by Isaac Hayes...

Also, pretty sure that Isley Bros have a couple that'd slide in here...

Things I knew and had forgotten about that Roberta Flack song: it's a Stevie Wonder cover; Idris Muhammad is on drums; the bass playing fucking rules.

yeah, i know its 1982 and so not totally within the defined boundaries.

but this is 10 mins of soul/funk perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzetG-rucGs

listening to the war album again and realizing that the title track absolute fits in here, along with “four-cornered room”