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

oh - sorry for Margie duplicate

Bohannon - Summertime Groove
Sister Sledge - He's the Greatest Dancer
MFSB - Love is the Message
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
Gary Bartz - Music Is My Sanctuary
First Choice - Dr. Love
Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star
The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me
Marlena Shaw - Pictures and Memories
Minnie Riperton - Stick Together
Kellee Patterson - Turn On The Lights
Ashford and Simpson - Stay Free
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Al Wilson - Earthquake
Cheryl Lynn - Keep It Hot
Tamiko Jones - Let It Flow
Teddy Predergrass - Only You
Phyllis Hyman - Loving You, Losing You
Busta Jones - (You) Keep On Making Me Hot
The Jackson 5 - Forever Came Today
Thelma Houston - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Carol Douglas - Midnight Love Affair
Moment of Truth - So Much For Love
Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life
Evelyn "Champagne" King - I Don't Know If It's Right
Gwen McCrae - All This Love That I'm Giving
Bill Brandon - We Fell In Love While Dancing
Archie Bell and the Drells - Strategy
Angela Bofill - Angel of the Night
Joe Simon - Love Vibration

My inclination would be to count "I Want You Back" as 1969. Even though it didn't hit #1 until 1970, it had already entered the Top 10 on the last Hot 100 of 1969 (I checked). When you add in dyl's point about the two-week lag time, it was definitely ubiquitous before 1970 had begun--which wasn't true of "Rainy Night in Georgia" or "Didn't I." Agree with JF's general point that the charts should be the arbiter, not release dates (much less the release date of whatever album the song is on).

Al Green - Belle
Aretha Franklin - Angel
Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
Bobby Womack - Daylight
Candi Staton - Too Hurt to Cry
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
Chic - At Last I Am Free
Don Covay - I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In
Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto
Donny Hathaway - To Be Young, Gifted And Black
Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Esther Phillips - Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Frederick Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long
Isaac Hayes – Never Can Say Goodbye
The Isley Brothers – Lay-Away
Lamont Dozier - Going Back to My Roots
Lou Bond - Come On Snob
Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are
The Miracles - Love Machine
Otis Clay - If I Could Reach Out
Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
Swamp Dogg - Sam Stone
Syreeta - Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Valerie Simpson - I Just Wanna Be There
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You've Got
Wilson Pickett - Get Me Me Back On Time, Engine No. 9

The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You
Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You
Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
Luther Ingram - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
The Temprees - Dedicated To The One I Love
David Porter - Can't See You When I Want To
Caston & Majors - No One Will Know
Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love

I'll also fully disclose that I'm one of the few tortured souls who is not moved by "I Want You Back" (even right now as caught up in a real-life "I want you back" moment) so that factors into my date-of-release pedantry.

Archie Bell - I Could Dance All Night
People's Choice - Do It Anyway You Wanna
The O'Jays - One Night Affair
Laura Nyro - The Bells
MSFB - Love is the Message
MSFB - Philadelphia Freedom
Hall & Oates - She's Gone
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl

Van McCoy - The Hustle
MSFB - TSOP (The Sound of Philly)
Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat

The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Goodbye

OK, I'll do the Spotify playlist. There's an element of self-interest; most of my nominations aren't so well known, and I'd like them to be heard.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/4fbHM5lddc22EYO7JT1a8D
YouTubes of tracks that aren't on UK Spotify: https://troubled-diva.com/ilm-soulfunkdisco-poll-nominations-tracks-not-on-uk-spotify/

Footnotes:
1) Loleatta Holloway - Runaway is credited to The Salsoul Orchestra, but it's the same track
2) Witch Queen - Witch Queen has been mis-labelled on Spotify as "Bang A Gong"

Awesome, Mike! I don't use Spotify myself, but I bet lots of people will be very happy with that playlist.

You did a very good thing, mike t.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - The Night
Milton Wright - Magic Music
Reggie Garner - Hotline
Rodger Collins - You Sexy Sugar Plumb
Syreeta - I'm Goin' Left
Brick - Happy
Commodores - The Zoo (Human Zoo)
Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild
Minnie Riperton - Reasons
War - Deliver The Word
Labelle - Phoenix (The Amazing Flight Of A Lone Star)
Donna Summer - Sunset People
Greg Perry - I'll Be Comin' Back
Love Unlimited - I'm So Glad That I'm A Woman
Barry White - Let The Music Play
Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9 - On A Day Like Today
Leroy Hutson - Love Oh Love
Ace Spectrum - Moving On
The Isley Brothers - What It Comes Down To
Rufus ft. Chaka Khan - Once You Get Started
Betty Wright - Show Your Girl
Rasputin's Stash - Mr Cool
Vibes Of Truth - I Need You Girl
Jean Knight - One-Way Ticket To Nowhere
The Meters - Loving You Is On My Mind
Shirley Brown - Passion
Bill Withers - The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
Four Tops - Nature Planned It
Bobby Womack - Woman's Gotta Have It
Bloodstone - You Know We've Learned
The Natural Four - Baby Come On
Brenda Russell - Way Back When
Dionne Warwick - You're Gonna Need Me
Hot Chocolate - Put Your Love In Me
Michael Henderson - Whisper In My Ear
Gladys Knight & the Pips - I've Got Too Use My Imagination
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Tear It On Down
The Spinners - Games people Play
Lamont Dozier - Fish Ain't Bitin
Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight
Millie Jackson - Summer (The First Time)
Heatwave - The Groove Line
Candi Staton - Summer Time
Brainstorm - Lovin' Is Really My Game
Billy Woods - Let Me Make You Happy
Norma Jean - Saturday
Cameo - Find My Way
Kleeer - Keeep Your Body Workin'
Margie Joseph - I Love You Too Much To Say Goodbye
Barbara Mason - Give Me Your Love
Black Ivory - Surrender
The Temptations - Mother nature
Cerrone - Supernature
Eloise Laws - Love Factory
Mandrill - Never Die
Spirit Of Atlanta - Hunter Street
Syl Johnson - I Hate I Walked Away
The Voices Of East Harlem - Cashing In
Cymande - Brothers On The Slide
Larry Saunders - On The Real Side
Brass Construction - Love
Sam Dees - What's It Gonna Be
Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles
Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
Mother Freedom Band - Beautiful Summer Day
Mandre - Freakin's Fine

This playlist sounds particularly fine when played back through the free Pyro beat-mixing iOS app, using the Mix Up function. https://seratopyro.com/

Vibes Of Truth - I Need You Girl

This is actually by The 3 Pieces. Vibes Of Truth is the name of the parent album.

Cerrone - Supernature

I know it's nigh impossible to genre-police this poll, but really?

Might it be a good idea to exclude tracks which have already made the Disco Poll Top 100 in 2013? (This would also remove "Supernature", FWIW.)

Meh, some people's ballots are going to be heavy on rock-funk, others' on quiet soul, others' on yowsah yowsah yowsah. The fun will be in seeing how they all balance out.

Minnie Riperton - Simple Things
Impact - Happy Man
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle
James Brown - Mind Power
The Undisputed Truth - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Bee Gees - Nights On Broadway
Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
Ashford & Simpson - By Way Of Love's Express
Skull Snaps - My Hang Up is You
Al Green - Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
Gloria Gaynor - Reach Out I'll Be There
Ike & Tina Turner - Chopper
The Isley Brothers - The Pride (Parts 1 & 2)
Syl Johnson - Watch What You Do to Me
Bobby Womack - I Can Understand It
Andy Bey - Celestial Blues
Margie Joseph - Punish Me
The Dramatics - Thank You For Your Love
The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can
Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free
Billy Paul - Your Song
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
Ike & Tina Turner - Feel Good
Stairsteps - From Us to You
Eddie Kendricks - Darling Come Back Home
The Chi-lites - We Are Neighbors
Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out
Caston & Majors - Let There Be Love
Joe Simon & The Mainstreeters - Theme From Cleopatra Jones
The Spinners - I Don't Want To Lose You
Esther Phillips - Baby, I'm for Real
Marie 'Queenie' Lyons - See and Don't See

We're up to 615 tracks now.

If there's a huge overlap with the disco poll I might set some rules, but I think it will work out fine.
In the albums poll, most of the funk ended up in the lower half because not enough people voted for it. I don't think Cerrone has a big chance of getting anywhere near the top, but good for them if they manage to.

Couple more:

Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother for Ya
The Isley Brothers - Love the One You're With
The Intruders - (Win, Place, Or Show) She's a Winner
Diana Ross - Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going to)
The Wiz Stars - A Brand New Day

The Wiz Stars - A Brand New Day

Which version is this? The Broadway or movie one? (I'm in the camp that actually prefers Quincy's full torpedoes ahead approach.)

This is the one I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0mQhp1q8o

Interesting, and never heard it. That's the movie version, only reversing the second and third verses so that it ends with the choir-backed one. I like it!

I suspect it might be some fan edit, but the single version is obviously great too.

i srsly have a ton of stuff to nom but first I just wanna say this

Inner Life - I'm Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)

If there's a huge overlap with the disco poll I might set some rules, but I think it will work out fine.

OK, but 15 of the top 20 tracks from the Disco Poll have already been nominated, which looks like quite an overlap!

You cannot talk about even just "1970s SOUL/FUNK" without including disco, it doesn't make sense. I would be happy to exclude Eurodisco and other flavours that aren't part of the story but I don't think you can ban all overlap with the other poll.

Yeah, banning disco is crazytalk. NickB thanks for remembering Inner Life. That's a top 10 candidate for me and it completely slipped my mind.

Another vote-for-whatever-you-want vote. This one should be all-encompassing. Exceptionally dicey interpretations of what qualifies won't get enough votes to disrupt anything anyway (and if the votes are there, then it's automatically no longer dicey, it belongs*).

*does not apply to President of the United States

You don't have to ban disco... just be reasonable and anti-completist

In this context, I'm far less likely to vote for anything remotely Eurodisco, which even in the context of the disco poll was already a pretty distant threat.

In other words ... no bassline, no vote.

clemenza otm. Of course disco won't be banned.

James Brown – The Boss
Cymande – Bra
Billy Paul – Am I Black Enough For You
Barry White – I’ve Got So Much to Give
Bettye Swann – Kiss My Love Goodbye
Stevie Wonder – He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Sons of Robin Stone – Got to Get You Back
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye – Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
Bill Withers – Make a Smile for Me
Ashford & Simpson – Main Line
The O’Jays – Now That We Found Love
Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights
The Stylistics – I Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love)
Bill Withers – I Wish You Well
The Trammps – Hooked for Life
David Bowie – Golden Years
David Ruffin – Walk Away From Love
Dexter Wansel – One Million Miles from the Ground
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Vanish in Our Sleep
Hot Chocolate – Heaven Is in the Back Seat of My Cadillac
The Whispers – And the Beat Goes On

This is actually by The 3 Pieces. Vibes Of Truth is the name of the parent album.

― mike t-diva

Oh yeah, you're absolutely right. I was typing that list out really quickly. I was bound to make a few mistakes.

Eddy Grant ‎– Walking On Sunshine
Al Hudson & The Partners ‎– You Can Do It
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Atmosfear - Dancing In Outer Space
Candido - Jingo
Jackie Moore - This Time Baby
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Musique - Keep On Jumpin'
Peter Brown ‎– Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me
Phyllis Hyman ‎– You Know How To Love Me
Curtis ‎– How Can I Tell Her

Eddie Kendricks - Something's Burning
Eddie Kendricks - My People...Hold On
The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People
Lee Moses - Time And Place
Lee Moses - Bad Girl
Wilson Pickett - Get Me Back On Time, Engine No. 9
Wilson Pickett - Run Joey Run
Wilson Pickett - Bumble Bee (Sting Me)
Wilson Pickett - International Playboy
Etta James - All The Way Down
Etta James - Sail Away
Etta James - Losers Weepers
Etta James - Just One More Day
Ann Peebles - Slipped Tripped and Fell in Love
The Staple Singers - Washington We’re Watching You
The Staple Singers - Back Road Into Town
Billy Paul - Magic Carpet Ride
Billy Paul - War Of The Gods
Sam Dees - Troubled Child
Sam Dees - Child Of The Streets
The Miracles - City Of Angels
Curtis Mayfield - Billy Jack
Curtis Mayfield - Love Me (Right In The Pocket)
Curtis Mayfield - Power To The People
Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist
Curits Mayfield - So In Love
The Impressions - Check Out Your Mind
The Temptations - Friendship Train
The Temptations - Law Of The Land
The Temptations - Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love
The Temptations - 1990
The Temptations - Masterpiece
Al Green - God Blessed Our Love
Al Green - Simply Beautiful
Al Green - Old Time Lovin'
Al Green - Love Ritual
Al Green - Loving You
Al Green - Right On Time
Aretha Franklin - The Dark End Of The Street
Parliament - I Call My Baby Pussycat
Funkadelic - I'll Stay
Funkadelic - Good To Your Earhole
Funkadelic - I'll Bet You
Funkadelic - Music For My Mother
Funkadelic - I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
Funkadelic - Hit It And Quit It
Funkadelic - Loose Booty
Funkadelic - Let's Make It Last
Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass And Jam
Funkadelic - Stuffs And Things
Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep

Bobby Womack - Ruby Dean
Bobby Womack - All Along The Watchtower
O.V. Wright - Eight Men, Four Women
O.V. Wright - I'd Rather Be (Blind Cripple and Crazy)
O.V. Wright - Please Forgive Me

Terry Callier - You Goin' Miss Your Candyman
Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe
Donny Hathaway - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Esther Phillips - From A Whisper To A Scream
Esther Phillips - I Can Stand A Little Rain
Esther Phillips - Use Me
Esther Phillips - Black-Eyed Blues
Esther Phillips - Performance

All those Funkadelic tracks remind me: is Cosmic Slop gone, or is he posting under a different user name now? I liked his posts on the album poll.

Also, where is Tuomas?

Brain dump:

The Beginning Of The End ‎– Funky Nassau
Fatback - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop
La Belle - Lady Marmalade
Chic - Everybody Dance
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
T-Connection ‎– Do What You Wanna Do
Bettye Lavette ‎– Doin' The Best That I Can (Remix)
Karen Young ‎– Hot Shot
Bombers ‎– (Everybody) Get Dancin'
The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head
G.Q. ‎– Disco Nights (Rock Freak)
Fern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You
Fern Kinney - Groove Me
Azymuth ‎– Jazz Carnival
Gary's Gang ‎– Let's Lovedance Tonight
Barbra Streisand / Donna Summer ‎– No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
Shalamar ‎– Right In The Socket
The Players Association ‎– Turn The Music Up!
Harry Thumann ‎– Underwater
Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie
Labi Siffre - I Got The
The Dells - No Way Back
Claudja Barry ‎– Love For The Sake Of Love
Osibisa ‎– Sunshine Day
Disco Warriors ‎– Cumbaya Disco
Linda Hopkins ‎– It's In Your Blood
Celi Bee & The Buzzy Bunch ‎– Superman
Esther Williams ‎– You Gotta Let Me Show You
Caroline Crawford ‎– Coming On Strong
Dee Dee Bridgewater ‎– Bad For Me
Suzi Lane ‎– Harmony
Gibson Brothers ‎– Ooh! What A Life
Chicago ‎– Street Player
Positive Force ‎– We Got The Funk

actually please strike 'street player' from the record, i'd forgotten it goes on for about seven years too long

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

Donna Summer - Our Love

Thanks a lot Mike for doing the spotify playlist, i am going to listen the heck out of that this week

Could I just make one humble request please? can you swap that godawful new version of 'let's lovedance tonight' with the original as found on the Keep On Dancin' album? Thanks!

'Tis done. I thought I'd been thwarted, but it's on as "Let's Love Dance Tonight".

I was dying to nom "I'll Bet You," but it originally came out as a single in 1969. Did we decide the rules about records like that?

Al Green - L-O-V-E
Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark
Isley Brothers - Live It Up
Pleasure - Glide
Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People
Stevie Wonder - All In Love Is Fair
Stevie Wonder - Visions
Stevie Wonder - Too High