Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
SHO NUFF (GOT A GOOD THING GOING) – Warner Bros WB2082 – UK 1967 / LOMA RECORDS USABUT IT’S ALRIGHT – (Calla USA) 1967 Too Late Down, But Not Out Oo-Ma-Liddi Big J. J. Jackson had two great big hits at the soul clubs in Manchester in 1967 as a result he appeared Live at the … Read more
Jerry Ragovoy was a soul music writer, started by writing hits for The Majors. He also wrote some of the best soul songs released in the 1960s such as: Stay With Me Baby – Lorraine Ellison Erma Franklin – Piece Of My heart – with Bert Burns. Time Is On My Side – Irma Thomas … Read more
Jackie DeShannon wrote Needles and Pins and When You Walk in the Room, hits for the sixties band The Searchers in the UK but not for her. In the true tradition of the DJ at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester Jackie DeShannon’s version of When You Walk in the Room was played a few times … Read more
Fool In Love- London 1960It’s Gonna Work Out Fine – London 1961I Can’t Believe What You Say – Sue 1964OOH – POO – PAH – DOO – SueFinger Poppin – (Loma USA 1964)My Baby Now 1964SOMEBODY (NEEDS YOU) (Loma 1965 USA, Warner Bros UK)Poor Fool – Sue 1965FingerPoppin – Warner Bros 1965BEAUTY IS JUST SKIN DEEP – HMV 1965Please … Read more
Oh No Not My Baby (By Maxine Brown covered by Manfred Mann) One Fine Day – The Chiffons Chains – The Cookies Goffin And King – Gerry Goffin and Carol King – Song Writers. They were married in their teens and can only be described as a phenomenon. Their first break came due to their school … Read more
Just Ain’t Enough Love Eddie Holland’s JAMIE (1961) became the favourite of Northern Soul (1973 onwards variety) but in the early and mid 1960s it was Eddie Holland’s JUST AIN’T ENOUGH LOVE (1964 Released on the Stateside Label), that got everyone up dancing and especially so at the Blue Note club, as by 1968 the … Read more
Dan Penn is a song writer from Vernon, Alabama. He worked With Rick Hall at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama. He wrote numerous hits including Do Right Woman Do Right Man written with Chips Moman for Aretha Franklin. He also wrote I’m Your Puppet. Dan Penn Wikipedia
Paul Clarence – Motown Producer and Song Writer, co-wrote Fingertips by Little Stevie Wonder Paul Clarence was a Motown producer and song writer. He was the co-writer on many early Stevie Wonder hits including the fabulous Fingertips when Stevie was still Little Stevie Wonder. Paul started out as a singer, first in a gospel group … Read more
Norman Whitfield was an in-house song writer for Motown who either wrote or collaborated (often with Barrett Strong) on some of the finest tracks the label released. He later became an arranger and producer at Motown and was one of those people who helped to push the label to international success. Born: 12th May 1941, … Read more
Kenny Gamble And Leon Huff – the men behind the Philly Sound Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were almost solely responsible for the Philly Sound – a more seductive version of soul music. If you think of songs such as Me and Mrs Jones, Billy Paul and If You Don’t Know Me By Now, Harold … Read more