Stax 50th: A 50th Anniversary Celebration DISC 1 POLL

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding 7
Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays 4
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - Otis Redding 3
Hold On! I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave 3
Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes) - Carla Thomas 1
Soul Man - Sam & Dave 1
Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd 1
Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King 1
Last Night - The Mar-Kays 1
You Don't Miss Your Water - William Bell 1
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's 1
What a Man - Linda Lyndell 0
I Forgot to Be Your Lover - William Bell 0
I Got a Sure Thing - Ollie & The Nightengales 0
Soul Limbo - Booker T. & The MG's 0
Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor 0
Private Number - William Bell/Judy Clay 0
I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) - Eddie Floyd 0
Tramp - Otis & Carla 0
Walking the Dog - Rufus Thomas 0
Candy - The Astors 0
Respect - Otis Redding 0
You Don't Know Like I Know - Sam & Dave 0
I Want Someone - The Mad Lads 0
Let Me Be Good to You - Carla Thomas 0
Your Good Thing (Is About to End) - Mable John 0
B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas 0
I Like What You're Doing (To Me) - Carla Thomas 0


kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

Dock Of The Bay.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

I Forgot to Be Your Lover - William Bell

dat dude delmar (and what), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Good lord. So hard to choose. But I finally went with the Bar-Kays' "Soul Finger," which never fails to make me very happy.

deusner, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

ha, so did I

Mark G, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Green Onions

also, it's the mar-kEys

gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

33 Bar-Kays Soul Finger Aug 1967

Mark G, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

mar-kEys-Mith.

Mark G, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

also, it's the mar-kEys

Knew this. C&P'd the track list.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

sam & dave are pretty much my favorite, so despite it being played to death, for me it's hold on im comin'. this was not easy.

my inbox so hot (will), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

Dock of the Bay

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

"Soul Finger". Like the guys in Spies Like Us, I will play this at the end.

Euler, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)

2for25, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

I'm voting for Gee Whiz because no one else will

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

"Dock Of The Bay" is probably the best Atlantic soul track ever.

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

bump

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 29 November 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

I let Sammy vote on this one and he picked "Soul Man." Can't argue too much really.

Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 29 November 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

"Dock Of The Bay" is probably the best Atlantic soul track ever.

I'll take it over anything by Motown, too.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 00:07 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

William Bell made an unnanounced appearance with the Stax Music Academy on the mall in Washington DC at the free Smithsonian Folklife Festival the other day. He shares "Dock of the Bay" with the group, is lead on "Any Other Way," does a duet on "You can Have My Private Number," and is lead on "Forgot to be Your Lover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyec1k10Trg

curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:22 (fourteen years ago)

He does Sam Cooke "You Send Me" too, at the end

curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

Forgot to be Your Lover is one of my favorite soul songs by Bell. His record 'Relenting' is worth getting, very nice late Stax era soul.

JacobSanders, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:55 (fourteen years ago)

This is the best William Bell jam, so smooth!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1jdmGgyHU

JacobSanders, Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:02 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

It makes me ;_; that no-one voted for Otis & Carla's 'Tramp' - I love that groove so much

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:19 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

Just saw William Bell live last night and he and the Total Package Band were great. Most of the old hits plus songs from the very nice new album "This Is Where I Live."

curmudgeon, Monday, 8 August 2016 14:17 (nine years ago)

Charismatic with a still powerful voice at age 77

curmudgeon, Monday, 8 August 2016 17:32 (nine years ago)

William Bell still hit the notes so well on "You can Have My Private Number," and "Forgot to be Your Lover" and "You Don't Miss Your Water"

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 15:52 (nine years ago)

wow that sounds like a real treat

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 15:53 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

Need to check out that new William Bell record, sorry I missed him when he was in New York.

Meantime this never gets old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImzAr6a5iQ

Put Out More Flag Posts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:25 (nine years ago)

Came across this link whilst reading Robert Gordon's Respect Yourself and placing it here for future reference: http://www.sl-prokeys.com/stax/stax-story.htm

Hop on Pop. 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)

Oooh that looks interesting. Keyboardist Steve Sandy Leigh is also mentioned in Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South By Charles L. Hughes. I have the book butr haven't read it yet. Google books shows the guy's name...

curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:12 (nine years ago)

Yeah, I read that book last summer after you alerted me go its existence. Don't remember seeing the guy's name though.

Hop on Pop. 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:25 (nine years ago)

Hidden in the footnotes. In the Stax later years, he was supposedly pistol-whipped by security guy(called a thug elsewhere) Dino Woodard.

curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 15:35 (nine years ago)

Boom!

Hop on Pop. 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 August 2016 16:18 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/01/25/marvell-thomas-stax-soul-musician-dies-memphis/97064840/

Rufus' son, Carla's brother who played a big role on Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul and other Stax efforts

curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 January 2017 18:14 (nine years ago)

Marvell co-produced the album with Hayes.

curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 January 2017 18:22 (nine years ago)

RIP. Great body of work

Οὖτις, Saturday, 28 January 2017 18:26 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

I bought a sealed copy of this comp yesterday at a record show for $5, and when I got home, I attempted to remove the second disc (which we never polled, btw) and it quickly broke--a straight fracture from the the center to the edge. That's never happened to me before! And I wasn't being rough or anything. Quite disappointed as I'd been looking forward to listening since 3/4 or so of the tracklist on said disc was new to me.

Disc 1 survived, but I already have a bunch of those songs on other collections. Still, What a Man - Linda Lyndell was a great discovery. I didn't know it was the basis for the Salt'n'Peppa track of the same name. Certainly deserved a vote in this poll.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:33 (eight years ago)

Oh no. Yes.

I'm gonna go visit the Stax Museum that was built on the site of the knocked down studio in about 10 days.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:39 (eight years ago)

The museum is definitely worth visiting. There's a map in there of where everyone lived in the Stax heyday, all pretty much within walking distance of the studio.

Eazy, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:40 (eight years ago)


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