― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"Trying To Get Over You" - Today (early 90s New Jack R&B, but VERY heart-felt)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dark Horse, Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
so many more, but i'll have to rummage through my collection
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
too bad you don't have a dusty groove near you, though you can always browse their web site for ideas: www.dustygroove.com
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
-- adam. (adamr...) (webmail), September 18th, 2004 2:32 PM. (nordicskilla) (later) (link)------------------------------------------------------------------------
:-(
the ones i have are those "hi records 45s" cds. i think they're out of print though.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I forgot GAZ!
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Bobby Womack's "I'm in Love" is another great one. As is his "Somebody Special" and the later "If You Think You're Lonely Now." I love Bobby Womack.
Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can" is of course essential--I've been listening to Tate a lot lately, went out and duplicated my old Verve/Mercury CD of Tate's classic sides by getting the new Hip-O collection of same, which includes the singles A/B in mono.
Sam and Dave's "I Can't Stand Up" is fantastic too.
Percy Sledge, "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road." And it's not exactly a "ballad" but George Perkins and the Silver Stars' "Crying in the Streets" is very fine in the 12/8 soul vein. Arthur Alexander's "Rainbow Road." All found on the "Sweet Soul Music" comp which I recommend heartily, also includes Otis Clay doing Doug Sahm's "She's About a Mover."
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I could pick a zillion more
― rumple., Saturday, 18 September 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Doris Allen - A Shell of a WomanRance Allen - See What You Done DoneLittle Anthony & the Imperials - Goin' Out Of My Head (proto-soul!)Solomon Burke - Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms) or Sidewalks, Fences And WallsJames Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (greatest adultery record ever)Clarence Carter - Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street) (it's hard to go wrong with this song, unless you're Michael Bolton)Otis Clay - I Die A Little Each Day or Tying To Live My Life Without YouGeater Davis - For Your Precious Love (maybe my second favourite version of my favourite song)Doris Duke - He's Everything I NeedEddie & Ernie - I'm Going For MyselfLorraine Ellison - Stay With Me BabyErma Franklin - Piece of My HeartEddie Giles - Losing BoyJames Govan - Jealous KindClay Hammond - You Got Me TamedCharles Hodges (not the Hi organist) - Easier To Say Than DoBrenda Holloway - You've Made Me So Very HappyClaude Huey - DriftingGeorge Jackson - Aretha, Sing One For MeEtta James - All I Could Do Was CryJesse James - Ain't Much of a HomeSyl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black?Lynda Jones - Your Precious Love (an astounding record, my favourite version - if you have any interest at all in overwrought soul ballads, you MUST hear this)Stacy Lane - The Lifetime of a ManBetty Lavette - He Made a Woman Out of MeBarbara Lewis - Baby, I'm YoursGarnet Mimms - I'll Make It Up To YouMirettes - To Love Somebody (I'm writing an article for Freaky Trigger on another great soul cover of a Bee Gees song, as it happens)Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It IsArt Neville - I'm Just A Fool To CarePersuasions - Building A Home (more an acapella gospel number, but I think it fits)Pic and Bill - Moments Like TheseJames & Bobby Purify - I'm Your PuppetSam & Dave - When Something Is Wrong With My BabyMighty Sam - I (Who Have Nothing)Moody Scott - A Woman's TouchAnne Sexton - I'm His Wife, You're Just A FriendJoe Simon - The Chokin' KindCharles Smith - I'm UselessStairsteps - Tell Me WhyJean Stanback - If I Ever Needed LoveSwamp Dogg - Sam StoneSweet Inspirations - Try A Little TendernessJoe Tex - Buying A Book (if only for the bit where he reports an old woman saying "Ain't nuthin' an old man can do for me 'cept show me which way a young man is")Irma Thomas - Let's Do It OverKim Tolliver - Standing Room OnlyOscar Toney Jr - For Your Precious Love (frankly if you start collecting old versions of this and Dark End Of The Street you won't go far wrong)Willie Walker - From Warm To Cool To ColdElla Washington - He Called Me BabySpencer Wiggins - That's How Strong My Love IsOtis Williams & the Charms - Your Sweet Love Rained All Over MeChuck Willis - What Am I Living For?Stanley Winston - No More Ghettos In America (no one seems to know anything about him beyond his making this: which alone is enough to rank it as one of the great musical careers, since it's one of the greatest records ever made)Jerry Woodward - Somethin' I Ain't Never Had (a rare great white soul singer)O.V. Wright - I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy
Top priorities, in my opinion: Stanley Winston, Linda Jones, James Carr, Eddie Giles, Swamp Dogg.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
did you see my thread about this?
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
(that said just looking at Martin's list is making me cry)
― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
70s soul samplesBobby Blue Bland - Ain't no love in the heart of the cityGeorge McCrae - I Get LiftedLabi Sifre - I got theSyl Johnson - I hate i walked awayTom Brock - There's Nothing in this world that can't stop me from loving youOutlaw Blues Band - Deep GullyWilliam Bell - I forgot to be your lover (really one of my fave songs ever!)Johnnie Taylor - Love in the Streets (Ain't good as the love at home)Glady Knight & the pips - The way we were (try to remember)Five Stairsteps - Ooh ChildCurtis Mayfield & The Impressions - Let's do it again
80s soul samplesCat Stevens - Was Dog a DoughnutDon Blackman - Holding you, loving youThe Deele - Shoot 'em up moviesSOS Band - The FinestTeddy Pendergrass - Love TKOPatrice Rushen - Remind MeRose Royce - Love Don't live here anymoreNOrman Connors - You are my starshipQuincy Jones & James Ingram - One hundred waysThe Gap Band - Yearning for your lovePatrice Rushen - Forget me nots
― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 20 September 2004 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 20 September 2004 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― wtin, Monday, 20 September 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a lot of competition, but I'm inclined to say that overall James Carr owns this thread...?
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― jon pruett (jon pruett), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
"Mimi," Al Green, found on his essential "Listen--The Rarities" collection.
Cheatin' ballad: Don Covay's "I Was Checkin' Out."
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
otis clay, "if i could reach out"so many more, but i'll have to rummage through my collection
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, September 18, 2004
RIP Otis Clay
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2016/01/09/Soul-legend-Otis-Clay-dies-at-73/stories/201601090143
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 January 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Seeing a co-bill of Otis and Ann Peebles was one of my best heaven on earth soul music experiences ever. RIP.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 9 January 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Saw Otis Clay, never saw Ann P... That would have been great
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
saw otis make an unannounced appearance at a tribute concert to curtis mayfield that was hastily organized in early 2000, a few weeks after mayfield's death. he did "people get ready" and a few others, and even though the other acts (rebecca gates, etc.) were great, the phrase that comes to mind in re. clay's performance was "that's how it's done."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
it's not a ballad, but i think irma thomas' "two winters long" should have been an absolute smash hit record. this was recorded in 1962 (!!!!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avfBh4Xv7tQ
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
for me it is in the pantheon of stone cold classics
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
That is nice. Love the interplay between Irma and the background vocalists
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
very good indeed, the sound is perfect
― niels, Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Mentioned upthread, but linking here for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjhmwzf_mh0
George Jackson — "Aretha, Sing One for Me" (1972): https://www.discogs.com/George-Jackson-Aretha-Sing-One-For-MeIm-Gonna-Wait/release/2583751
First song I thought of when I saw the thread title.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link