Favourite soul song.

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"If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" by The Staple Singers. Fucking loveloveloveloveLOVE it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Take What I Want" by Sam & Dave

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 09:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The Isley Brothers: "Get Into Something"

That Staple Singers song is also great.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is a great idea!

Marvin Gaye - tie: "I'll be Doggone" & "How sweet it is to be loved by you"

James Carr - "Dark End of the Street"

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Erma Franklin - Piece Of My Heart

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You (especially the version on Curtis/Live!)

― Jonathan, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"i'm gonna make you love me" the temptations

runners up:

"you really got a hold on me" & "oo baby baby" smokey robinson;
"uptight" stevie wonder;
"a change gonna come" sam cooke; and
"what becomes of the broken hearted" jimmy ruffin

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite soul song is "Baby I Need Your Loving" by The Four Tops. One of the reasons I love it is that it's one of the few Tops songs where Levi Stubbs sounds defeated, and that can't help but humble you too.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

A very tough question, liable to change daily. Jonathan's suggestion would come close (as I was listening to Curtis Live just the other day).

So if I can name a few:
Al Green - How can you mend a broken heart
Marvin & Tammi - You're all I need to get by
Charlie Rich - When something is wrong with my baby

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God, far too many but hello to "Belle" by Al Green also "In Your Power" by Joe Odom for the obscurantists among you.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

sooooooo many...

"A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
"Just My Imagination" Temptations
"Dark End of the Street" James Carr (uh, anything by Penn and Oldham)
"Hiding in Shadows" "I'm Going for Myself" Eddie & Ernie (almost anything on Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, really)
"Go Now" Bessie Banks
"Ain't No Way" Aretha Franklin
"Cigarettes and Coffee" Otis Redding
"When a Man Loves a Woman" Percy Sledge

etc.

― abeta, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Outcast, Eddie & Ernie

― rumple, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tell it like it is"-Aaron Neville

― Michael B, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Irma Thomas - These Four Walls
Aretha Franklin - Angel
Al Green - Belle
The Bell Brothers - Throw Away The Key
Loretta Williams - I'm Missing You
Art Neville - All These Things

etc etc, yeah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Otis Redding: "You Left the Water Running"

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

dudes, "have you seen her"
by the chi-lites from chi-town:
greatest song ever

― Haikunym, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

actually no--
ms. ann peebles wins the prize:
"i can't stand the rain"

― Haikunym, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Tina Turner - "River Deep Mountain High"
Bobby Hebb - "Love, love, love"
Doris Troy - "Anything he wants me to do"
Etta James - "Seven Day Fool"
Jimmy "Soul" Clark - "(Come on be my)Sweet Darlin'"
Edwin Starr - "S.O.S (stop her on sight)"

Mmm, soul music. The list is endless...

― beatbox, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes, add "I only get this feeling" - Chuck Jackson

― beatbox, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment I like 'Some Day We'll Be Together' by the Supremes a lot.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

the magnificent seven (the supremes + the temptations) - 'river deep mountain high'

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Home is Where the Hatred Is" by Gil Scot-Heron

runnuz up:

"Move On Up" by Curtis Mayfield
"Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes
"Give Me the Reason" by Luther Vandross
"Lovely Day" by Bill Withers

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

gil scott-heron is that avant-soul artist you were looking for in the other meta soul thread.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Booker T. Jones/ Eddie Floyd: "Big Bird."

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

This is an impossible question. But right now, today (and I'm sticking fingers in my ears to drown out Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stevie, Curtis, Irma Thomas etcetcetcetc.)

Baby Huey and The Babysitters: "Runnin'"

(Which I guess I could write off as my favorite "psychedelic soul" song and choose again, but to what end?)

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

your all forgetting Sam Cooke.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

avril - sk8r boi

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Sam & Dave-"Hold On, I'm Comin'"
Otis Redding-"Try A Little Tenderness" (live @ Monterey)
Sam Cooke-"Bring It On Home To Me"
Gladys Knight-"Neither One of Us"
Aretha Franklin-"I Never Loved A Man"
James Carr-"Pouring Water (On A Drowning Man)"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"a change gonna come" -- Most definitely the Otis Redding version. In fact, almost every time Otis covered Sam, his version was better.

And this is the best.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"People Get Ready" by Curtis + Impressions is always kicking around my "favorite song ever" space

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sixty Minute Man" by Rufus Thomas

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

“Chained and Bound,” Otis Redding
“Don’t Fight It,” Wilson Pickett
“I Don’t Know What You’ve Got (But It’s Got Me),” Little Richard
“The Love You Save,” Joe Tex
“Out of Left Field,” Percy Sledge
“Rainbow “65,” Gene Chandler
“Sweet Soul Music,” Arthur Conley
“That’s How Strong My Love Is,” O.V. Wright
“That’s Where It’s At,” Sam Cooke

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I was trying to pick a Sam Cooke one earlier. 'That's Where It's At' is a good choice.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

someday we'll all be free donny hathaway

― sonic, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Do R&B tracks count? Eddie Fowlkes with "Knock on Wood"

or something by Sam Cooke.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

does "sherry" by the four seasons count? because i love that song
myabe "mercy me" by marvin gaye, too, i love it to death

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

SON OF A PREACHAH MANG!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"You Can't Hurry Love"
"Don't Play That Song for Me"
"Tracks of My Tears"
"Cry to Me"

― Ess, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Otis Redding, "That's How Strong My Love Is"

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

This is too hard. I'm picking a bunch.

"Cruisin'" - Smokey Robinson
"I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)" - Stevie Wonder
"When Something is Wrong With My Baby" - Sam & Dave
"Stagger Lee" - Lloyd Price
"At Last" - Etta James
"Giving Him Something He Can Feel" - Aretha Franklin
"Gypsy Woman" - The Impressions
"The Monkey Time" - Major Lance
"I Hear a Symphony" - The Supremes
"Bernadette" - The Four Tops
"You're All I Need to Get By" - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
"Nutbush City Limits" - Ike & Tina Turner
"Backstabbers" - The O-Jays
"Father Figure" - George Michael
"Such a Night" - The Drifters
"Maybe Tommorrow" - Jackson Five
"I Adore Mi Amor" - Color Me Badd
"I Second That Emotion" - The Miracles

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

In fact, almost every time Otis covered Sam, his version was better.

This is crazy talk!

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

the first song that came to mind was "baby i need your lovin'" which i downloaded ages ago after reading tom being similarly enthusiastic about it somewhere

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been obsessed w/ Gene Chandler's "Rainbow '65" as of late.

― Will (will), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"me and mrs. jones"--billy paul
"you really got a hold on me"--the miracles
"blowin' up my mind"--the exciters

and...

"i have seniority over your love" by bobby kimble. the best thing ever. always brings tears to my eyes. contact me on aim (themadcapcracks) if you want to hear it, 'cos baby, it's worth it.

― call mr. lee (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

"I Have Seniority Over Your Love" ?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Ike & Tina Turner - I Idolize You
Charles Wright - Express Yourself
Martha & the Vandellas - I Promise To Wait My love
Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts
The Velvelettes - He Was Really Sayin Somethin'
Solomon Burke - Got To Get You Off My Mind
Blue Magic - Sideshow

I want to start collecting older r&b and soul. I wish I knew some of the better obscure stuff. The radio seems to only play the all-time classics.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

You want to start with Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures. Four volumes, 100 songs, some of the greatest music you'll ever hear in your life.

My vote goes to the final track on volume one: "You Got Me" by Jaibi. Listen to that, swim in it and then talk to me about Mariah bloody Carey...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

today : a nickel and a nail - -ov wright

― molly (bulbs), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the Dave Godin recommendation! That does look pretty awesome. It also looks like the late Mr Godin left behind a very informative website.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Two current favourites:

James Carr, Love Turned Her That Way
Bessie Banks, Try To Leave Me If You Can

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

As of recent:

Baby Huey & the Babysitters "A Change is Gonna Come"
The Four Tops "Baby I Need Your Loving"
Archie Bell & the Drells "Here I Go Again" & "Soul City Walkin'"
The Chi-Lites "Stoned Out of My Mind"

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Lately it's "Can You Dig It?" by King Floyd, from The Dial Records Southern Soul Story comp. So good!

― todd (todd), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Shirley Ellis - The Nitty Gritty

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOTZr_NNbA&playnext=1&list=PLE3F7AB43DD03E4AA

My favourite song.

― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Friday, 13 May 2011 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

Probably Little Child Running Wild.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 13 May 2011 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

spinners - i'll be around

i think

― mookieproof, Friday, 13 May 2011 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 May 2011 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

You'll Lose a Good Thing -Barbara Lynn

― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Saturday, 14 May 2011 09:20 (fifteen years ago)

Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 May 2011 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMKyz7OX18g&feature=related

More funk, but still good.

― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Saturday, 14 May 2011 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)

― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 14 May 2011 11:44 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4xk-15ttQ

― meisenfek, Saturday, 14 May 2011 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

Most recently, Terry Callier's Ordinary Joe, although its more held back than most.
And this is pretty wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zz_wrBSvz8

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 14 May 2011 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

I like all kinds of soul music, but "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" will always be my favorite.

― Sebastian Cabinet (u s steel), Saturday, 14 May 2011 15:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coh7n6dYj5Y&feature=related

A mix-tape essential.

― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Saturday, 14 May 2011 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

This thread was crying out for a collaborative playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/4qufr9hphxgCH9UonQlAqM

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 09:37 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hE4dIQqI8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aEDC5XLBE

― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 09:41 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzlzH5wymc

― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:20 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUb0bMGM8zc

― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Thursday, 19 May 2011 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

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