Silver Rider Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ruDqdZn_s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ally Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 http://youtu.be/pktyD1dhJ4U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 ally, the AVB song above from 1975 reminds me of another great band from the same period............. And this one, also from 1975............. 1975 was an excellent year for Soul and R&B! .............. missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Another fabulous band, The Fifth Dimension from the Golden Sixties! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_pRKSCDxo&feature=related .............................................. missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZNbfKibFLE&feature=related Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell........they were magical singing together imo. missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Wilson Pickett charted 16 hits on Billboard's Top 40, but I think these are his two best! ............. missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 ally, the AVB song above from 1975 reminds me of another great band from the same period............. And this one, also from 1975............. 1975 was an excellent year for Soul and R&B! .............. missy It was a great year Missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 It was a great year Missy ally, I don't recall that one from the Average White Band in 1975, but I like it! Thanks for giving me a new tune. And plus, I can use this post to put up another 1975 EW&F song (probably my all time ewf favorite, not that anyone cares, lol.). .... missy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhCtwr6W2U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I can use this post to put up another 1975 EW&F song (probably my all time ewf favorite, not that anyone cares, lol.). .... missy Feels like we're doing the drive at five show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Feels like we're doing the drive at five show So be it ally. I'm in a mood, might as well run with it! Now why hasn't anyone mentioned the Stylistics yet? Great Soul and R&B from this group! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnp-nfXQ9I0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Rider Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn43AMvvZKY&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 http://youtu.be/pktyD1dhJ4U Saw these guys perform at Music In the Park during Artsplosure in Raleigh, NC yesterday. Can't say I was ever a fan of theirs back in the day but they certainly brought it last night. This is a fan shot video from 2008 of the version of the band I saw last night: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Rider Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GMitCVO3d4&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Saw these guys perform at Music In the Park during Artsplosure in Raleigh, NC yesterday. Can't say I was ever a fan of theirs back in the day but they certainly brought it last night. This is a fan shot video from 2008 of the version of the band I saw last night: Would like to see Hamish back in the band but yeah, they can still bring it alright ! Glad you enjoyed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missytootsweet Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3A4-yWOg8&feature=related Here's hoping everyone has a supreme weekend with some supreme music, by The Supremes naturally! ...... missy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Rider Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbf2C39kNs0&feature=list_related Edited June 4, 2011 by Silver Rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Would like to see Hamish back in the band but yeah, they can still bring it alright ! Glad you enjoyed It was free and a nice night for music in the park so it was very hard to turn down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ally Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 It was free and a nice night for music in the park so it was very hard to turn down. Nice way to spend an evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Nice way to spend an evening. Spyra Gyra were there the next day. I caught part of their set as well. That also made for a near perfect day in the park on a Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3yQpzdIw5I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bong-Man Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 New book unlocks the music and mystery of Detroiter Willie John Michael H. Hodges/ Detroit News Arts Writer His was one of the last great, untold stories in Detroit music and the mystery at the heart of "Fever: Little Willie John's Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul" (2011, Titan Books) by Susan Whitall (with Kevin John, Willie's elder son). Little Willie John — aka William Edward John — sang like a dream, wrote songs like a wiz, and by all accounts was poised to be as huge as one of the first singers to mix gospel cadence with rhythm-and-blues, the marriage that produced soul music. It was a radical fusion in the mid-1950s, but would later power the careers of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, James Brown and countless others who followed in Little Willie's wake. Small wonder Marvin Gaye called Willie a "soul-singer's soul singer." Yet for all the promise, Little Willie never got his chance. The youngster who first recorded "Fever," the song that made Peggy Lee a superstar, was convicted of manslaughter in 1964 under murky circumstances. Four years later the 30-year-old, who wrote and recorded enduring classics like "Need Your Love So Bad" and "Leave My Kitten Alone," turned up dead on a prison floor — another act of violence never adequately explained. Sometimes death at an early age guarantees lasting fame. In Little Willie's case, it reduced him to a musical footnote. "Over the decades," writes Whitall in an apt metaphor, "Willie's life and career have been boiled down to a shallow, sordid haiku: Great talent, a violent assault in Seattle, prison and then death." In music, particularly in the 1960s, timing is everything. "Because Willie died in 1968," says Whitall, a Detroit News reporter who also wrote "Women of Motown: An Oral History," "he missed the explosion of 1960s soul that made stars of Aretha Franklin, the Motown stable and the Stax stable of stars. Yet it was Willie who enabled all that — a transitional figure with a voice on the divide between 1940s crooners and R&B." The gifted crooner behind "Fever" was born in Arkansas, but his family moved to Detroit when he was 3 years old. They settled in public housing on the city's northeast side, and his dad went to work at the Dodge Main plant. He was a childhood friend of Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops, and attended Pershing High School before he dropped out to tour with bandleader Paul Williams. Music was a family affair, so Little Willie's indoctrination started early. As a child, he sang in church with The United Five, comprised of three of his brothers and their sister Mabel, who would later have her own career with Motown, and then Stax Records. But Willie was a willful child, and while very young took to sneaking out of the house to sing with the likes of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. "His father would whip him," Whitall says, "but he'd still sneak out. Finally his dad said he could sing in a nice theater like the Paradise (now Orchestra Hall), but not in nightclubs like the ones on Hastings Street." Whitall spent five years, off and on, probing Willie's life for the book, written in collaboration with the singer's son, Kevin, interviewing his family, as well as Willie's peers such as B.B. King, Solomon Burke, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Norman Thrasher of the Midnighters, Joe Hunter of the Funk Brothers and many more. She tracked down the former Seattle prosecutor who convicted Willie in 1964. ("Anyone in that house," he told her, could have committed that murder.) She obtained access to Willie's prison medical records after his suspicious death (Although the family was told that he died of pneumonia, the official line was "heart attack.") Whitall confesses that the whole pre-Motown musical era in Detroit has always fascinated her. It was a lucky confluence of events that planted this particular book in her mind. "Like a lot of things," she says, "it started with the Funk Brothers." Six years ago, accompanying musicians Joe Hunter and Joe Messina to a gig at Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, she ran into Willie's son Kevin John. "Kevin saw me and we spoke," Whitall recalls, "and he asked if I'd ever consider doing a biography on his dad. And I said, 'Hey — that's a great idea!'" About the book What: "Fever: Little Willie John's Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul" (Titan Books, $25.99) by Susan Whitall with Kevin John, is out today. Radio appearance : Susan Whitall will be interviewed on Ann Delisi's Essential Music at noon Saturday on Detroit Public Radio WDET-FM (101.9). Reading/signing appearances : Susan Whitall will do a reading at 6:45 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday at Temporary Insanity IV, "Two days of art, poetry and performance," located south of Mack Avenue (SOMA) at The Bankle Building, 2944 Woodward Ave., Detroit. mhodges@detnews.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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