Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Love Break (1982) They don’t Stop. Love those choruses on this track by the Salsoul Orchestra -a really smooth Soulful piece of funk. The Salsoul Orchestra were the session band for the New York City record label Salsoul Records. Presumably the name came from the combination of Salsa and Soul. They were formed in 1974 … Read more
Who Is He (and What Is He To You) 1974 Written and first recorded by Bill Withers. This is a great instrumental disco version by Creative Source with the girls singing just the chorus line, before the male voice kicks in after a rather long, long intro. Great stuff.
I Never Can Say Goodbye I Will Survive I Am What I Am Gloria Gaynor Became the Queen of Gay Disco, but it’s still Soul anyway you wanna…Funnily enough, I Will Survive was originally a ‘B’ side (what record company executive made THAT decision?) but a Boston D.J. Jack King had the sense to realize … Read more
The Ghetto Let’s Clean Up The Ghetto with disco from Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Archie Bell, Teddy Pendergrass, O’Jays, Dee Dee Sharp – collectively The Philadelphia International All Stars. Well its better, better, better than, better than that – than Hip Hop.
Don’t Tell Her Tell Me (1980) Going Back To My Roots Inside Out Native New Yorker Disco Soul by Odyssey and pretty good too. The group began life as The Lopez Sisters,Lillian, Louise and Carmen, although these three are no longer with us. After various changes of lineup, the group became Odyssey. They had more success … Read more
Are You Ready For This (1977) This was a disco instrumental by The Brothers featuring George Young. They were genuine brothers from Sydney in Australia. George Young – Celebrity Mirror George Young – Wikipedia
What’Cha Tryin’ To Do To Me Disco Soul by Margie Alexander SirShambling – knows about this gal.
Rock The Boat A big Soul/disco hit by Hues Corporation. Obviously snubbed by the Northern Soul Crowd to whom, disco, so prevalent at the time, was anathema. Some of it, however, was barely distinguishable from what they thought was the real thing.
Serving A Sentence Of Life (1968) This song by Carl Douglas is placed at 247 on Kev Roberts Top 500. It came back into popularity after it’s original playing at The Wheel in 1968 when it was rediscovered by Richard Searling (DJ). Later Carl Douglas became the Kung Fu Fighting man and it’s this track … Read more
FLY ROBIN FLY (1975) Mostly an instrumental by Silver Convention with the girls adding a chorus line and they looked damn good too; really a sexy dance group. Disco Soul. A German Group. After putting a sexy poster in their LP cover their sales rocketed ending up as number one in the USA. They don’t … Read more