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Who is your favourite soul man/woman/group
marianna01
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I love the 60's American soul music and top of my list are the Drifters, Temptations and Four Tops plus many others - who are at the top of your list of great singers?
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Alton Ellis
Ken Boothe
The Techniques
The Heptones
Delroy Wilson
I am not a fan of any of the above. (In fact I only know of two of them!!_)
[URL=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUMzccTiAZY[/URL]
The Detroit Spinners - a big thank you for that great soul music
Eddie Floyd.............Knock on Wood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57mde018sA
Otis Redding
Atlantic was the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwaklOkoTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVGFfj7POA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e8A9LunXRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwjLGqQYBBk
Bill Withers - Harlem
Ike and Tina Turner - Black Coffee
Donny Hathaway - Voices Inside
Diana Ross and The Supremes - Reflections
Smokey Robinson - Tracks of my Tears
Some of the high points of popular music really.
I too love Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, but I don't think they count as they're Jazz rather than Soul.
Can't stand Diana Ross.
Women
Etta James
Aretha Franklin
Martha Reeves
Dionne Warwicke
Dusty Springfield (controversial choice perhaps - white and British, but very soulful)
Ruth Brown (50's R&B rather than Soul, but near enough)
Lavern Baker (ditto)
Men
Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Sam and Dave
Jackie Wilson
Ray Charles
Solomon Burke
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Wilson Pickett
dont think i have a favourite artist, i have favoured tracks from a variety of artists..
'nowhere to run (nowhere to hide)' - martha reeves & the vandellas
'i was made to love her' - stevie wonder
'if i were a carpenter' - four tops
'put yourself in my place' - isely bros
'where did our love go' - supremes
otis, wilson, arthur... etc so many great tracks.
A couple of fantastic Soul instrumental groups to add to my previous choices:-
Booker T and the MGs
Junior Walker and the All Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKJCnCajB0
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
Curtis Mayfield
Luther
Dusty
Marlena Shaw (Go Away Little Boy is a classic)
En Vogue
The System
Anita Baker
Erykah Badu
Mary J. Blige
Platters (Twilight Time is great record)
special mention for:
Scritti Politti
Lisa Stansfield
Young Americans Bowie
I so agree with you on today's music but I guess that most of today's music fans will vote for the music they listened to in their youth. It's always a generational thing.
Being in my 60's now I love to listen to all the names you have listed plus some more and have great memories of the Hollies and Animals and lots more live on stage. We have been lucky enough to have been young at a time of great music!