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

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!

btw, that pastebin link is read only, it was just a temp list of the nominations up to that point.

I just discovered that the chorus of 'Hard to Handle' is not "let me light your chemicals" but "let me light your candle 'cause". Took me about twenty years... O_O

Of course HtH isn't nominated, but I just heard it in Etta James' live medley with 'Just One More Day', which is.

Johnnie Taylor: Hijackin' Love

Three big ones, that shouldn't be left out:
James Brown - Funky President
Maceo & The Macks - Cross The Tracks
Shirley & Company - Shame Shame Shame

And also my find of the week:
Don Thomas - Come On Train

Haven't really got time to think about this, but thread needs more First Choice for starters.

First Choice - Smarty Pants
First Choice - Newsy Neighbors
First Choice - Yes, Maybe No
First Choice - Gotta Get Away (From You Baby)

Earth Wind and Fire - Evil
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
TJM - I Don't Need No Music
Marvin Gaye - A Funky Space Reincarnation
Rufus Thomas - The Breakdown
The Soul Children - It's Out Of My Hands

Akim and the Teddy Vann Production Company - Santa Claus Is A Black Man
The O'Jays ‎– Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love
Margie Joseph - Christmas Gift
The Staple Singers - Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas
Rufus Thomas - I'll Be Your Santa Baby

El Chicano - Tell Her She's Lovely
Independents - Leaving Me
Chairmen of the Board - Chairman of the Board
Blackbyrds - Happy Music
Blue Magic - Three Ring Circus
Tower of Power - You're Still a Young Man
Bar‐Kays - Shake Your Rump to the Funk
Joe Simon - Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)
O'Jays - I Love Music
Free Movement - I've Found Someone of My Own
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Bobby Womack - That's the Way I Feel About You
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
Four Tops - Keeper of the Castle
8th Day - You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk)
Chairmen of the Board - (You've Got Me) Dangling on a String
Honey Cone - Girls It Ain't Easy
Friends of Distinction - Love or Let Me Be Lonely
Norman Connors - You Are My Starship
Diana Ross - Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)
Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging
Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists - Cool Aid
B.B. King - Ain't Nobody Home
Brass Construction - Movin'
Clarence Carter - Patches
Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
Freda Payne - Deeper and Deeper
Tower of Power - So Very Hard to Go
Bell and James - Livin' It Up (Friday Night)
Impressions - Finally Got Myself Together (I'm a Changed Man)
Lost Generation - The Sly, Slick, and the Wicked
Heatwave - Always and Forever
Chi‐Lites - Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)
Staple Singers - Touch a Hand, Make a Friend
Honey Cone - While You're Out Looking for Sugar
R.B. Greaves - Take a Letter Maria
Ben E. King - Supernatural Thing
Johnny Nash - Stir It Up
Average White Band - Cut the Cake
Ohio Players - Who'd She Coo?
Hues Corporation - Rockin' Soul
Donnie Elbert - Where Did Our Love Go
Dells - The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)
Joe Simon - Power of Love
B.T. Express - Give It What You Got
Jackie Moore - Precious Precious
Winstons - Color Him Father
Rick James - You and I
Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared to What
Latimore - Let's Straighten It Out
Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl
Staple Singers - Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)
Ike & Tina Turner - I Want to Take You Higher
Foster Sylvers - Misdemeanor
Glass House - Crumbs Off the Table
Jimmy Castor Bunch - The Bertha Butt Boogie
El Chicano - Viva Tirado
Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager - Ain't Understanding Mellow
Lou Rawls - A Natural Man
GQ - I Do Love You
Miracles - Do It Baby
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Love Land
Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is a Star
Three Degrees - Maybe
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
Pacific Gas & Electric - Are You Ready
Chairmen of the Board - Everything's Tuesday
Stoney & Meatloaf - What You See Is What You Get
Main Ingredient - Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love
O'Jays - Use ta Be My Girl
Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte (Cave Man)
Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing
Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down
Lamont Dozier - Trying to Hold On to My Woman
Enchantment - Gloria
Rose Royce - Golden Touch
Lou Rawls - Lady Love
William Bell - Tryin' to Love Two
Kool & The Gang - Higher Plane
Johnny Bristol - Hang on in There Baby
Soul Children - Hearsay
Marvelettes - Marionette
Presidents - 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)
Honey Cone - Stick-Up
Chi‐Lites - A Lonely Man
8th Day - She's Not Just Another Woman
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like a Lady
Little Sister - Somebody's Watching You
Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper to Keep Her
Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair
O'Jays - Put Your Hands Together
Honey Cone - The Day I Found Myself
Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing
B.T. Express - Express
Jerry Butler - One Night Affair
Dells - Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation
Hollywood Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love & Hate
Malo - Suavecito
Al Green - Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles
King Floyd - Baby Let Me Kiss You
Ronnie Dyson - (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
Peter Brown - Dance With Me
High Inergy - You Can't Turn Me Off (in the Middle of Turning Me On)
Chairmen of the Board - Pay to the Piper
Freda Payne - You Brought the Joy
Friends of Distinction - Going in Circles
Bobby Womack - Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out

About 12 more hours, 981 tracks.

I will come up with nominations before I go to bed tonight!

Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song
Bee Gees - Night Fever
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
David Bowie - Station to Station
David Bowie - Stay
Eagles - One Of These Nights
Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day and John Coltrane
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Where Are All My Friends
Johnny Bristol - You and I
O.V. Wright - Are You Going Where I'm Coming From
Spinners - He'll Never Love You Like I Do
Steely Dan - Peg
Stylistics - You'll Never Get To Heaven
Tavares - Fool's Hall Of Fame
Teddy Pendergrass: The Whole Town's Laughing at Me

I want to push the list to 1,000.

5th Dimension - (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
Dynamic Superiors - Shoe Shoe Shine

Eagles - One Of These Nights

I consider Wishbone Ash's "Blowin' Free" kind of soulful. I understand.

That's more the CSNY type of soul. One of These Nights IS a disco song. At least as much as Hotel California is a reggae song. Which might mean not enough for this poll but whatever.

Syreeta and Billy Preston - Go For It
North End - Kind of Life (Kind of Love)
Carrie Lucas - I Gotta Keep Dancin' (Keep Smiling)
Alice Clark - Never Did I Stop Loving You
The Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
Jean Carn - If You Wanna Go Back

Don Covay - It's Better To Have (And Don't Need)
Gwen McCrae - Lead Me On
Betty Wright - Shoorah Shoorah
Hamilton Bohannon - South African Man
Denise LaSalle - Trapped By A Thing Called Love
Labelle - Something In The Air/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Jackie Moore - Personally
Bobby 'Blue" Bland - Ain't No Love in the Heart of The City
ike and Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
Whispers - A Mother For My Children
Slave - Slide
King Floyd - Can You Dig It

Thanks Mike T-Diva for the playlists. The Spotify one has been soundtracking my day since I awoke this morning, with many new discoveries.

Just a few under the wire nominations:

Linda Clifford - You Are, You Are
Sharon Ridley - Changin'
Earth, Wind & Fire - Can't Let Go
Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together
Curtis Mayfield - You're So Good To Me
Eddie Kendricks - Goin' Up In Smoke
Marvin Gaye - Come Live With Me Angel
Isley Brothers - Fight the Power
Patrice Rushen - Keeping Faith in Love
Rufus feat. Chaka Khan - Everlasting Love
High Fidelity - Magic Carpet
Ish - Don't Stop
Donald Byrd - Think Twice
War - Galaxy

Oh, and ...

The Gap Band - You Are My High

Plus ...

Syreeta - I'm Going Left

Swamp Dogg - Synthetic World
Syreeta - Just a little piece of you
Bill Withers - You got the stuff
Roberta Flack - After You
Eddie Kendricks - please don't go away
Isaac Hayes- going in circles
Smokey Robinson- just my soul responding
Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You are everything
Mandrill - house of wood
The Supreme Jubilees - It’ll all be over
Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover
Nina Simone - Obeah Woman
The Isley Brothers - The Highways of my Life
Curtis Mayfield - Think
Isaac Hayes - Sunday Morning
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - Hard Times

The Equals - Funky Like A Train

=== Nominations are closed now ===

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