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

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

If it came out late in 1969 and charted in 1970 it's fine by me. I can't check every single release date, though, so let me know if something has slipped through.

off-topic: what's a good site for chart statistics?

song-database.com is good and accurate for billboard charts (tho not complete for all charts). if you view too many chart trajectories, tho, it'll start asking you to register and pay lol. to avoid that i usually just search for the artist or song i wanna look up and just look at the peak or debut date/peak date that i'm seeking out (w/o clicking on the chart trajectory). for example typing "i'll bet you" into the songs search bar tells me that it entered the chart in the oct. 4, 1969 issue and peaked at #63 in the nov. 1 issue.

for approximate 45rpm single release date estimates i usually look at 45cat.com since the ppl entering info there seem to know their shit and like to quibble over totally trivial shit like months of release, matrix numbers, when it was reviewed in trade journals and other things i don't care about. anyway that site sez the 45 for "i'll bet you" was issued in august '69.

Thanks, dyl! Those look really useful.

Hamilton Bohannon - Lets Start The Dance

War ‎– Low Rider

xxp - It also means that 'I'll bet you' isn't eligible for this poll. Save it for the 60s poll, which I'm sure will happen in the near future.

Camille Yarbrough ‎- Take Yo' Praise
Diana Ross - No One Gets The Prize
Diana Ross - The Boss
Donald Byrd - Change (Makes You Want To Hustle)
Donald Byrd - (Fallin' Like) Dominoes
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
The Futures - Ain't No Time Fa Nothing
Jean Terrell - How Can You Live Without Love
Johnny Mathis - Life Is A Song Worth Singing
Labelle - Moonshadow
Martha Reeves - I Should Be Proud
Millie Jackson - If You're Not Back In Love By Monday
Millie Jackson - Go Out And Get Some
Natalie Cole - Annie Mae
Ned Doheny - To Prove My Love
Pleasure - Joyous
The Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff
Samuel Jonathan Johnson - Reason For The Reason
Samuel Jonathan Johnson - Sweet Love
Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
Stanley Winston - No More Ghettos In America
Sweet Charles - Yes It's You

N.B. I'm still adding non-Spotify tracks to a YouTube page at https://troubled-diva.com/ilm-soulfunkdisco-poll-nominations-tracks-not-on-uk-spotify/ - which has had the grand total of ONE visitor so far!

A few more good ones. Exactly 800 tracks now.

Millie Jackson - Hurts So Good
Pointer Sisters - Fire
The O'Jays - 992 Arguments
Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love
The Originals - The Bells
The Friends of Distinction - Grazing in the Grass
Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
Stoney & Meatloaf - It Takes All Kinds of People
Flaming Ember - Mind Body and Soul
Chuck Brooks - Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Pts 1 & 2
The Soul Children - I'll Be the Other Woman
King Floyd - Groove Me
The Tymes - You Little Trustmaker
Commodores - Slippery When Wet
100 Proof (Aged in Soul) - Somebody's Been Sleeping
Sylvia - Pillow Talk
New York City - I'm Doin' Fine Now

Chuck Brooks - Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Pts 1 & 2

TEMPORARY NOMINATIONS LIST HERE:

http://pastebin.com/raw/R5ka3KNG

(Note that I removed the articles in front of band names for easy sorting and dupe-checking.)

The J.B.'s - Givin' Up Food For Funk

Ohio Players - Heaven Must Be Like This

Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose – Don’t Ever Be Lonely (Poor Little Fool Like Me)
Laura Lee – Rip Off
Curtis Mayfield – Doo Doo Wap Is Strong in Here

Labelle - Going Down Makes Me Shiver

is missing from the pastebin list.

Some favorites of mine that haven't been nominated yet...

Al Green – You Say It
Gene Chandler – Groovy Situation
James Brown – Make it Funky
Marvin Gaye – Is That Enough
Funkadelic – Red Hot Momma
Funkadelic – Sexy Ways
Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Parliament – Up For The Down Stroke
Parliament – Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
Sly & The Family Stone – Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa
Stevie Wonder – Don’t You Worry ‘bout a Thing
Wild Tchoupitoulas – Brother John

Genie Brown - Can't Stop Talking
Crown Heights Affair - Say A Prayer For Two
Taana Gardner - When You Touch Me
The Supremes - I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
The Supremes - Stoned Love
The Supremes - High Energy
The Undisputed Truth - Down By The River
The Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love
Phreek - Weekend
First Choice - Armed and Extremely Dangerous
BT Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)
Bunny Sigler - Great Big Liar
The Fantastic Johnny C - Waitin' For The Rain

I can't believe I forgot to nominate one of my favorite Supremes singles, their first one without Diana Ross:

The Supremes - Up the ladder through the roof

Raydio - You Can't Change That

Very glad you caught the Raydio song--one of my favourites (and so poppy, I can see why it was overlooked).

I don't know how much it matters, but I just wanted to note the spelling error in one of my noms:

Curtis Mayfield – Doo Doo Wap Is Strong in Here

should be...

Curtis Mayfield - Do Do Wap Is Strong in Here

Aretha Franklin - Call Me
Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
AWB - If I Ever Lose This Heaven
Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul
Lee Sain - Them Hot Pants
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Little Beaver - Party Down
Supremes - Bad Weather
Jackson 5 - Lookin' Through The Windows
Stevie Wonder - Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
5th Dimension - Feelin' Alright
Eddie Kendricks - Keep on Truckin' Pts 1 & 2
Doris Duke - He's Gone (I'm A Loser)
Brenda and the Tabulations - One Girl Too Late

Thanks! We're at 852 tracks now with a little more than 48 hours to go.

Um, for the third time...

Labelle - Going Down Makes Me Shiver

The Rose Royce track should be "I Wanna Get Next to You," not "I Wanna Get to You."

I got the Labelle the second time, don't worry!