I’ve tried listening to some of the songs posted on the 90’s RnB thread, but find each one worse than the last! It’s surprised me a lot to find that there’s a whole genre of music that the AW likes and I don’t. I feel like Margot in The Good Life when she couldn’t understand why everyone else found something funny. I can’t understand why anyone thinks those songs are good, yet you all do! Golly! I don’t know what it is I hate about them (although the programmed beats don’t help). Perhaps I’m just stuck in the 70’s. (When RnB/Soul was GOOD! Oh yes.)
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Gary says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE&list=PLO1SedQfmMOOI3wgYGca6fgT196yeM42D&index=22
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Fin59 says
Oh man.
That song, in that version, is like a vintage Ferrari, kept under special dust wraps in a sealed garage, only to be wheeled out for a run, gone past the midnight hour, on special occasions.
Too much use in its early days saw the paintwork chipped, the chrome dulled and the engine note deadened.
But, just now and then. It can work special magic.
Fin59 says
Talking of midnight. Something in a similar vein
Midnight Train To Georgia
Gladys Knight & The Pips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meaVNHch96o
Gary says
Spotcheck Billy says
Oh yes, the Car Wash soundtrack. Need to dig that out
Gary says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-WQrB6EUE&list=RDVn47xg17Ev4&index=20
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MC Escher says
I think what we you are feeling is a natural phenomenon whereby the further away in time you get the classics or the big sellers remain in the consciousness and a lot of the dross is forgotten. Those 90’s songs are still relatively new and so the cream has not yet risen to the top quite so much.
That or you just don’t like 90’s “RnB”!
Gary says
I strongly suspect the latter, MC. I wasn’t even aware of its existence until yesterday. Life was better then.
ivylander says
Can’t find the exact date when this was recorded, but almost certain it was at some point in the ’70s. Certainly has the right feel….
Gary says
Superb! Never heard that before.
Spotcheck Billy says
I remember when this, Barry White’s breakthrough hit, was first released, the soul boys behind the counter at my local record shop in Rayners Lane worshipped it. That groove, it’s still one of the funkiest things I’ve ever heard.
Kaisfatdad says
Record shop in Rayners Lane? Where was it Spotcheck? I have no memory of that all.
Spotcheck Billy says
Opposite the station on the point where Rayners alone and Imperial Drive converge
Spotcheck Billy says
Opposite the station on the point where Rayners Lane and Imperial Drive converge
davebigpicture says
Was that the tiny half shop? I remember it from the late 60s and early 70s (I was born in 64). In the late 70s the Record and Disco Centre further down was the place to go.
Spotcheck Billy says
Yes it was the half shop. For a while early 70s there was a second hand record shop next door, the Bop Shop. It was the same people that moved down the hill later on
Kid Dynamite says
One of the greatest albums ever made
Rigid Digit says
The term RnB is a confusing one for my brain.
It seems to be originally a very broad church encompassing Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Sam Cooke, anything on Stax or Chess labels. Even (arguably?) early Motown.
Latterly it became a generic term for Soul, Funk, Disco etc.
So, in the spirit of confused terminology, here is some 1970s RnB (or R&B – is there a difference?)
Rigid Digit says
(B*gger – that’s in the wrong place – I was intending to offer support to Hot Buttered Soul in a reply, and then be slightly devillish with the genre in a new post))
BigJimBob says
From the soundtrack of Black Caesar, Mr Brown at his baddest:
BigJimBob says
Stay Comatose
BigJimBob says
woops that should be on 1990s!
Gary says
You’re darn tootin’ it should! Geddaht da house!
Alias says
War – The World Is A Ghetto
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O’Jays = For The Love Of Money
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Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Mood
Alias says
Post Stax Booker T & The MGs and one of their best – Melting Pot
Kaisfatdad says
Some great stuff on this thread, Gary.
The Whispers – And the beat goes on
Kaisfatdad says
Ooops!
gunsofbrixton says
the funkiest of the funky
Fin59 says
Lamont Dozier
Why Can’t We Be Lovers?
Diddley Farquar says
Donna Summer – Sunset People: glittery, modernist, Moroder-produced disco. Bad Girls appears here as well.
Rigid Digit says
Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Mike_H says
Sam Dees – “Child Of the Streets”
from a truly outstanding album “The Show Must Go On”
Alias says
That is great, I will have to check the album out. Do you know this album, and if so can you recommend it?
http://acerecords.co.uk/one-in-a-million-the-songs-of-sam-dees
Mike_H says
Aretha Franklin – “Don’t Play That Song” 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVUVNJwQKI
Cookieboy says
Never heard this song until it was used on an advertisement fairly recently. It’s from 1974
Tell Me Something Good
Morrison says
Leroy Hutson – All Because of you…all about the strings from 4.20
J R Bailey – After Hours – more sublime arrangements.
Bamber says
The grooviest groove from the often underestimated Ben E King…
…and a lesser known gem from the king of 70s R&B (IMHO) Bill Withers…