Don Blackman
Heart's Desire (1982) Jazzy Funky Soul Wikipedia: Don Blackman
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Earl Curry
One Whole Year Baby A song that Georgie Fame had in his repertoire, when he played at the Twisted Wheel.
Continue reading →Sonny Stitt
The Double O Soul Of Sonny Stitt The great Jazz artist does his version of the Edwin Starr song. With the same orchestration and same backing voval girls – well it was recoded at ED Wingate's New World Studios at … Continue reading →
Slim Moore and the Mar-Kays
Cool Breeze – Great Jazzy Soul instrumental. HOW LONG – Single
Continue reading →Al Jerreau
Moonlighting Al Jerreau, well a great musician, but most famous for the TV theme “Moonlighting” (1985-89). Worked with Deodato on Double Face. Wikipedia: Al Jerreau
Continue reading →Eumir Diodato
Double Face With Al Jerreau on this great track. Diodato’s version of Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” was a big instrumental hit in 1973 Wikipedia: Eumir Diodato
Continue reading →Sarah Vaughan
SMOOTH OPERATOR (1958) She likes it like that and so do we. Sarah was a fantastic singer. Great voce and vocalisation. Of course regarded as a great Jazz artist, this ones certainly got Soul. Wikipedia: Sarah Vaughan
Continue reading →Jo Ann Henderson
BABY PLEASE DON’T GO Jo Ann Henderson a Jazz Blues singer from the late 1940’s early fifties. This record was copied by the Northern Ireland group Them in 1965 with Van Morrison singing lead vocals. It reached number ten in … Continue reading →
Eddie Bishop
Call Me The weird, weird strange world of Northern Soul: Kev Roberts is puzzled as to why this was/is popular on the Northern Soul scene. Well, even so I guess for accuracy of the 45’s that influenced and made that … Continue reading →
Derek and Ray
Interplay Harpsichord sounding instrumental but is this Soul? Even Kev Roberts is not too sure, but due to its ‘strange’ popularity on that strange Northern Soul scene, he puts it at 212: enough said.
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