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

Dock Of The Bay.

I Forgot to Be Your Lover - William Bell

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

ha, so did I

Green Onions

also, it's the mar-kEys

33 Bar-Kays Soul Finger Aug 1967

mar-kEys-Mith.

also, it's the mar-kEys

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

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.

Dock of the Bay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

Charismatic with a still powerful voice at age 77

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"

wow that sounds like a real treat

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

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

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...

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

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

Boom!

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

Marvell co-produced the album with Hayes.

RIP. Great body of work

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.

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.

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.