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

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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