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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAjNgDt-10s

Let the beat build

Smokey duet with Claudette Robinson - Wine, Women and Song

https://youtu.be/_iRiGqYeoQ4

The Main Ingredient - "Euphrates"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXB1Ys7367M

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.

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

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.

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

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