lush post-1970 soul music from motown / tamala / atlantic is the best shit ever

How did we get so deep into this thread without someone mentioning The O'Jays?

And the chi-lites!

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

here's another good one from 21st Century

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

chi-lites a letter to myself album sounds perfect!

jesus

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

^great track

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKfUfB3GEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJe8Q6912NM

best listening to that album all week. lots of gwen guthrie songs. every motown and philly soul trick in the book.

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

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

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.

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?

this is my fave rich/sherrill jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Azui-cs9DQ

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

That album is probably the best of his, but they're all so good.

Heez blowing my mind with this thread. CHI-LITES

http://youtu.be/EqMk57Scxu0

want to play bass like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iOr49DJ8U

and this one's a beauty. the drums!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ9jgvcCqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23t2MCZsHE

mandrill doing some good shit around this time

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

i swear someone sampled this but i'm not finding anything. maybe the beginning just sounds like a portishead song or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8F51cIFn8

This is a good retrospective of Kendricks's solo career: http://soultrain.com/2015/12/22/soul-retrospective-eddie-kendricks/

Sounds like co-producers Leonard Caston and Frank Wilson played a big part on his better early material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BJmtHCyc8

wow, that's beautiful

This track by Buddy Miles is one I recently came across. It's lush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwBhbhbok8

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

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

That Caston & Majors track is stunning.

The Caston & Majors album is great all the way through. Think it got reissued a couple of years ago.

Not on Spotify or iTunes.

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).

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.

Also, of course, if nobody's mentioned it yet, Isaac Hayes's epic reverie re "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."

this is the best thread thank you all

im going through and listening to every tune itt and they are all good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOgNWZspl6U

wow now i'm on "a friends place" and damn i didn't know the shaft soundtrack had so many dope mellow tunes

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

Voting thread:

~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~

Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL

So much funk, so little time

plus soul and disco, with nominations due by March 27

Props to this thread for making me aware of the brilliance of Eddie Kendricks.

This is beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdAuxmohv8

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'"

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.

Thanks!

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.

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

Austin, those are some of my favorite Smokey tracks

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.

This is lush. One of the lost Hot Wax releases that are currently getting re-released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pRF-sdaEc

minnie ripperton w/ rotary connection -- silent night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjBbn5BjE0