Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Walking In The Rain (1972) Great arrangement and production and written by the big man himself Mr Barry White, performed by Love Unlimited. Barry White Saved My Life And Got Me Back With My Ex-Wife – from Fun Lovin’ Criminals, sums it all up regarding the sexy voice and style of Barry’s music. Its GREAT … Read more
Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby – re- issue UK 2002 No it’s not the Stevie Wonder song, this by The Springers is quite different and not as good. Apparently this is a very rare thus expensive ’45 on the original Wall label. Sounds like blue eyed Soul to me.
The CD called Modernists has a picture of some ‘Mods’outside the Cona Coffee Bar on Tib Street Manchester. Whether this is a spontaneous photograph or (as we suspect) a posed ‘scene’, is open to debate. The Cona Coffee Bar was a Mod hangout for Manchester Soul Mods. My one recollection concerning the Cona was going … Read more
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
Supertime This track by Golden World Strings is pretty obscure and with some periodic underlying and distinctive Arabic style sounding themes at the beginning. Then this instrumental heads of beating out its rhythm, with some strange organ sounds, but a good dance tune. Written by Ed Wingate – an early recording pre dating the Golden … Read more
Special Kind Of Woman Bouncy Soul style by Paul Thompson, very much unlike a normal Stax track but it is and also very rare. The Sound is not from the studio on East McLemore Avenue in Memphis – no, this one was done at Muscle Shoals in Colbert County, Alabama. (1970)
It’s Just Gotta Be That Way Just a classic Soul record from Mr Bobby Angelle on that graphic label: Money. Entirely missed on the first Soul scene in the UK, well in the sixties there was just a massive outpouring of releases, each fighting against the main artists output and the main distribution record companies … Read more
Advertising Using Soul Music: The advertising industry, for many, many years have been using Soul music songs as part of their advertising campaign, its theme, or just as a great sound to underpin the advertising message. Soul Music Adverts have become increasingly common. The 60’s Mods featured in a Lucozade advertisement is a good example. … 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.
Money Honey Queen Esther Marrow has performed with all the greats, including BB King, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Money Honey is a distinctly funky sounding song – she has the right voice for the track. She has gone back to her gospel roots, forming the Harlem Gospel choir. Queen Esther Marrow – Wikipedia