i mean this is possibly the best song ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixy7uxMjbDs
― Heez, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 04:52 (eight years ago) link
yessss eddie is the best
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUVS1yiGCc
― dc, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
Great thread idea. I love Eddie Kendricks and I'm delighted to see Please Don't Go Away picked as the first song. Such an underrated singer.
I was buying a few Barry White records at a record fair a few years ago and the guy selling them turned me on to Greg Perry. He only has two albums which are both brilliant. The two songs that end his second album, Smokin' might fit in here. Amazing backing vocals and some of the best production I've ever heard.
https://youtu.be/1ZtQivd797k
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
This is another great Greg Perry song from his first album. When the bass properly comes in at 1.40 is one of my favourite moments in music ever.
https://youtu.be/V-FJ1F3r9mI
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
More incredible production from The Stairsteps (formally The Five Stairsteps who did Ooh Child). The whole album is so lush and perfect.
https://youtu.be/i92iSGMCQhE
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Another favourite of mine from Milton Wright's excellent second album, Spaced from 77. This is as beautiful as music gets for me.
https://youtu.be/AFcyG7kNa8s
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Nice KP! Found the Greg Perry on Spotify and I'm digging it
― Heez, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
A great live album on Spotify that fits this somewhat is Gladys knight and the pips live at the roxy from 1980. It has Gladys wading out into the crowd only to run into Stevie wonder and Dionne Warwick for guest vocals
― Heez, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Vince Aletti gave it a name in a Rolling Stone review at the time (can't remember who--Al Green, maybe): neoclassical soul. My favourite music in the world for a long time (drifted away the past few years).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
I have the Philadelphia International 10CD box set (and the 3CD Tom Moulton mixes accompaniment) and there's some smooth and lovely stuff on those.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
this could just become an eddie kendricks appreciation thread. "Any Day Now" is such a well made song. how do they make this shit so perfect?!?!
― Heez, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
― Heez,
So glad you're enjoying it. I love this kind of stuff and will be following the thread, even if does turn into nothing but talk about how amazing Eddie Kendricks is.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
bump
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 April 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Would you consider Barry White to fall into this category or are you drawing a line between soul and smooth R&B?
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Friday, 1 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Useful thread this.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 1 April 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Yeah i don't know much about Barry White so I'm not sure how he fits! I guess what I was trying to go for with this thread was to find more stuff from this period of Soul/R&B where you had these labels that were generally doing these <4:00 pop songs start stretching out and really pushing into this new creative territory. It seemed to happen around the same time as some of the bigger name talents like Smokey and the Miracles and the Temptations were breaking up and trying something new - https://youtu.be/f1fRlHSA3bw. I curious about what was fueling this. Was it internal? I mean Marvin and Stevie are clearly trailblazing in a lot of ways. Also I think I'm more interested in the period right before the Quiet Storm era when they were still going for POP and less vibing out, but I love that stuff immensely too and it's hard to draw a line there. Anyway I've been obsessed with this recently and want to know more.
― Heez, Friday, 1 April 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
gonna drive around and blast this all summer with my windows down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bctA5oPNj4Y
― Heez, Friday, 1 April 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Didn't realize that it's DC's own the Young Senators backing Kendricks on "Keep on Truckin'"
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
Heez, would this qualify as what you're talking about, for example?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kochGJdqvcg&list=RDkochGJdqvcg
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
speaking of DC's own, picked this record up at the friendly CDepot just this morning:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sk-Mn0C_bxE
― dc, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
oh god yeah! never heard this. only heard later period barry white maybe.
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah that record is prob my favorite barry white
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
he had a 40-piece orchestra called the love unlimited orchestra. yes that definitely qualifies
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2QTgehWkM
― larry appleton, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
dc, i found a record store in district heights, md called memory lane records and it's basically heaven for this type of shit
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
Heez you might also like early Hall & Oates (h/t sund4r for this vid):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si03zdG6Twk
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
There goes all my money. Thanks!
― dc, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
whoa who is 21st century? that's great
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 03:59 (eight years ago) link
Actually the album version might be closer to the sound you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-msVGwWIh8U
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
nice i've always wondered about hall & oates but never dug in.
I got 3 eddie kendricks albums, blue lights in the basement, the isaac hayes movement, pure smokey, and fullfillingness' first finale in like 5 minutes at this record store and had to make myself leave
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Also you may find some overlap with the stuff recommended in this thread that I started a while back:Recommend me some simmering soul tracks like "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" and "Walk on By"
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Somehow I manage to do damage even at cdepot, which is kind of a mess. Mostly jazz today, though.
That 21st Century is great.
― dc, Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
nice. i was having a hard time finding threads on this. this gladys knight and the pips live album is really worth checking out
https://open.spotify.com/track/78jtejv9Uic44cE2ndNBhb
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
How did we get so deep into this thread without someone mentioning The O'Jays?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
And the chi-lites!
― dc, Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfQpzzTfio
here's another good one from 21st Century
― larry appleton, Sunday, 3 April 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah o'jays are one i've been meaning to check out. for some reason i associate them with the psychedelic side of this stuff
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 05:53 (eight years ago) link
chi-lites a letter to myself album sounds perfect!
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 05:56 (eight years ago) link
jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPdOxUBGwU
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 05:59 (eight years ago) link
^great track
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 06:06 (eight years ago) link
I got to think that getting to 16 track recording is a big part of this type sound. You have a similar thread of strings being used on classic blues artists like BB King and Bobby Blue Bland along with the 'countrypolitan' productions of Billy Sherrill for Charlie Rich and George Jones.
― earlnash, Sunday, 3 April 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKfUfB3GEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJe8Q6912NM
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 April 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
best listening to that album all week. lots of gwen guthrie songs. every motown and philly soul trick in the book.
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 April 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, speaking of Philly soul, I thought of it while listening to the new Bonnie Raitt---she still sometimes seems like she's assimilated elements Ganble-Huff's approach over the years---and thinking I still need to check out albums by MFSB, who were pretty much the house band on a lot of G-H productions right? Also thinking about psychedelic Soul, what a 70s Creem reviewer dubbed the Norman Whitfield Experience. A lot of hits and deep album excursions on this 2-CD set:http://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Soul-CD-The-Temptations/dp/B00009V7U8
― dow, Sunday, 3 April 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
Dunno why it won't let me post the righteous cover, but here's the tracklist etc.http://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Soul-2-CD-Temptations/dp/B00009V7U8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1459710067&sr=1-1&keywords=psychedelic+soul
― dow, Sunday, 3 April 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah the sister sledge is nice. phily soul is probably what first hooked me on the stuff. i remember the arrangement to "ready or not" flooring me when i first heard it.
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
and yes charlie rich and a lot of the pre-outlaw stuff hit's the same vein for me. in fact, wasn't it this stuff that inspired the stripped down outlaw period?
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
this is my fave rich/sherrill jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Azui-cs9DQ
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
wow, Kendricks is great (I also love how it rhymes with Hendrix)
I could listen to the beat on this one for days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg48iWKKC0s
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
That album is probably the best of his, but they're all so good.
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BJmtHCyc8
― larry appleton, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
wow, that's beautiful
― calstars, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
This track by Buddy Miles is one I recently came across. It's lush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwBhbhbok8
― earlnash, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Dunno if these fit entirely (too gospel? too disco?) but they are 1970s and they are lush and I love them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKEdTikamG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1HdiRGA7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcz_TG-qY_8
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
niiiiiiice. i totally support disco era lushness here. it gives me an excuse to post one of my favorite songs ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_0sof4kLE
― Heez, Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
That Caston & Majors track is stunning.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
The Caston & Majors album is great all the way through. Think it got reissued a couple of years ago.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Not on Spotify or iTunes.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it was buried by Motown first time round and the reissue is kind of hidden too (insofar as not releasing it digitally counts as hiding).
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Thanks guys, especially Heez, and speaking of Charlie Rich, and what Elvis, Jimmy Webb (incl. songs for Glenn Campbell), Dusty Springfield and Van Morrison, for that matter, were getting to or toward in that era, maybe try Sturgill Simpson's new A Sailor's Guide To Earth: he's been listening deep, for his own purposes, which ain't just retro.
― dow, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Also, of course, if nobody's mentioned it yet, Isaac Hayes's epic reverie re "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."
― dow, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
this is the best thread thank you all
― marcos, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
im going through and listening to every tune itt and they are all good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOgNWZspl6U
― Heez, Thursday, 7 July 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link
wow now i'm on "a friends place" and damn i didn't know the shaft soundtrack had so many dope mellow tunes
― Heez, Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
Bookmarkers: have you noticed that we have a poll going on about all this stuff and much more?
LET'S GET IT ON! It's the ~~~ 1970s SOUL ALBUMS POLL ~~~ NOMINATIONS AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 September 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
Voting thread:
~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
So much funk, so little time
― calstars, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
plus soul and disco, with nominations due by March 27
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
Props to this thread for making me aware of the brilliance of Eddie Kendricks.
This is beautiful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdAuxmohv8
― chap, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
It's a shame most of these links are dead. I heard an Eddie Hendricks tune I liked a few months ago and was hoping for some help navigating his very large catalog. All I know is "Keep on Truckin'"
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link
people...hold on is a classic, i'd start there. if you haven't heard 'girl, you need a change of mind' before, i'm jealous.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
if you haven't heard 'girl, you need a change of mind' before, i'm jealous.
This is what I posted before the time jump. I'm also very fond of Date With the Rain and Goin Up in Smoke.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAjNgDt-10s
― seandalai, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
Let the beat build
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
Smokey duet with Claudette Robinson - Wine, Women and Song
https://youtu.be/_iRiGqYeoQ4
― Heez, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
The Main Ingredient - "Euphrates"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXB1Ys7367M
― enochroot, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Stylistics haven't been mentioned, do they count? I don't think I'd heard the long version of "People Make the World Go Round" before, and I'm now listening to it for the third time today.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
these are some of the finest lyrics to a quiet storm sex jam i've ever heard
smokey robinson "travelin through"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFs1WSN5ro
― Heez, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
pleased to see love for mid-late 70s smokey here. those albums are so underrated.
really like smokey's family robinson. the first cut finds smokey deep in the funk. flute solo!
his first proper solo album still hangs high as my favorite though. not least of all for this amazing medley.
also: inventor of quiet storm whose forgotten deep cuts blow away most of the competition. hell yes.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 30 September 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
I've started cross-reading Tim Lawrence's massive Love Will Save The Day---A History of New York dance Culture: 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-1978: New York's underground, week by week: so far, a lot of what yall are talking about here is just now being or about to be recorded, but right from the beginning, the writers and their DJ and dancing colleagues/interviewees are zooming in on album tracks re length, flow and sonic depth, with 12" singles still several years away. And yeah, Philadelphia International, Eddie Kendricks, Barry White are def seized on right away.From the Aretha Franklin in the 1970s thread:Let Me In Your Life was really striking, w variety unified by dynamics, detail, atmosphere: title track by Bill Withers, incl. the suddenly quiet, dead-on bridge before the resurge---will she scare him away? "Every Natural Thing" by Eddie Hinton, couple originals, with "If You Don't Think" especially appealing, rhythmically suave and flirtatious (confident!) xpost "Til You Come Back To Me" by Stevie (and others), country soul "With Pen In Hand," rocking 60s Aretha "Eight Days On The Road," rippling, hovering "A Song For You"(prob. overrecorded, but her version is the keeper)---smoking the 70s with Cornell Dupree, Pretty Purdie, Deodato, Donnie Hathaway, Joe Farrell, many others,
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:53 (one year ago) link
xgau's take, from Rock Records of the 70s or whatever:
Aretha Franklin: Let Me in Your Life [Atlantic, 1974]Welcome Tom and Jerry (Dowd and Wexler) back--this isn't great Aretha, but it rocks steady even on the ballads. If she doesn't get away with "The Masquerade Is Over," she does renew "A Song for You" with a fresh electric piano part and a good helping of indiscreet interpretation. Guided indiscretion, that's the key--her great gift is her voice, but her genius is her bad taste. B+ ****Fuck the grade, but he's not entirely wrong, like she does justify "What A Fool Believes" and a number of other kitschy choices over the years.
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:58 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black is an astonishing album. Daydreaming! All The Kings Horses!
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:59 (one year ago) link
oooh I haven't heard "If You Don't Think" in ages
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:14 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black, Spirit In The Dark and Sparkle are the only 70s albums I have of hers. They're all fantastic. I need to check out some of the others.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:21 (one year ago) link
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Let Me In Your Life has the same appeal to me as Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes when Teddy Pendergrass was in there: the rowdy voice driving through/grooving with the lush layers
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Austin, those are some of my favorite Smokey tracks
― Heez, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
dow, have you seen James Hamilton's Disco Page? It's maintained by ILXor Mike-t-Diva, and it's the perfect companion to the books you're reading when you get to 1975.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link
This is lush. One of the lost Hot Wax releases that are currently getting re-released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pRF-sdaEc
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Saturday, 30 November 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
minnie ripperton w/ rotary connection -- silent night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjBbn5BjE0
― Heez, Thursday, 26 December 2019 05:12 (four years ago) link