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
Heez blowing my mind with this thread. CHI-LITES
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
http://youtu.be/EqMk57Scxu0
― sciatica, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
want to play bass like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iOr49DJ8U
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
and this one's a beauty. the drums!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ9jgvcCqo
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23t2MCZsHE
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
mandrill doing some good shit around this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIoQDDoVElg
― Heez, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― Heez, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Heez, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:27 (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 (seven 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 (seven 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
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