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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:53 pm Post subject: THE old motown/jazz/soul/blues thread |
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| Ain't nothing like the good ol'days. So many great people! Sam Cooke. Cab Calloway. They could all sing and dance it up. |
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Fat_Elvis
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Cab Calloway is going back a bit too far for me, but 60s motown and 70s jazz funk definitely ... Aretha ... Stevie Wonder ... Herbie Hancock ... Miles Davis ... Gil Scott Heron ... I could go on. Emotive, funky music. |
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Old Gil
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banjois
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Oh yes, Sam Cooke, sing it. Loves it, I do. And Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse certainly both hold their own (they might owe a LOT of it to their shared back-up band.
I stumbled on this great series of re-releases from small labels across the States, mostly from the early 70s, I think, called Eccentric Soul. Well worth checking out. And, if I can plug a friend, there's a great singer from Toronto named Treasa Levasseur who taps into a bit of a Stax vibe. |
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Deep Thirteen
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| That Betty Boop cartoon with Cab in it always stuck in my head as a kid. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. My goodness, talk about some beauty.
Motown was pop to perfection. Good music, Superlative vocals, style, beauty, performance.
Todays R&B stars have nothing on the Motown girls, save Monica circa 'Angel of Mine' and 'Street Symphony'. |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| banjois wrote: |
Oh yes, Sam Cooke, sing it. Loves it, I do. And Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse certainly both hold their own (they might owe a LOT of it to their shared back-up band.
I stumbled on this great series of re-releases from small labels across the States, mostly from the early 70s, I think, called Eccentric Soul. Well worth checking out. And, if I can plug a friend, there's a great singer from Toronto named Treasa Levasseur who taps into a bit of a Stax vibe. |
The Eccentric Soul stuff is just amazing, it's like motown but more interesting to listen to. The guru turned me on to Louis Prima a while back, and he's worth checking out, especially if you already like Cab Calloway. |
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banjois
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| Methinks we're getting our hot tips from the same place. |
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Brooksmatic
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Aformentioned Herbie Hancock. Love that Headhunters album.
Roy Ayers is a favorite of mine too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c0AEh6K7g <<<<------That's a track. |
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banjois
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