5 soul 45s you're currently feeling?

GamleOle

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Is it me or is this board more concentrated about LPs? thinking back to the modern soul threads it's mostly LPs that was mentioned.

5 tunes that's rocking my house currently.


  1. Softouch "After You Give Your All" Prodigal
    C.C. Neal "All I Want From You Is Your Love" Soul Craft
    The Exceptionals "Unlucky Girl" GRT
    Karen Pree "Make Love Last Forever" Casablanca
    Albert Jones "You And Your Love" Candy Apple
 
the moovers - i love you, baby/one little dance (brent)
billy butler - come over to my side/love grows bitter (brunswick)
the eight minutes - take my love don't set me free/let's sign a peace treaty (jay pee)
the de vons - someone to treat me (the way you use to)/never find a love like mine (king)
the fantaisions - unnecessary tears/that's where the action is (satellite)
 
the de vons - someone to treat me (the way you use to)/never find a love like mine (king)
this is a personal favorite of mine for years. great 45!
 

Mandells - Now I know (I really love you)
-- gorgeous mid-tempo beat ballad

Lou Ragland - I Can't Take It
-- smooth funky soul, totally room filling sound

Abraham & His Sons - I Can't Do Without You
-- aching beat ballad

Alvin Christy - I Don't Know What You've Got
-- good funk

The Determinations - Love, Respect, & Understanding
-- nice, non-wimpy sounding northern... excellent sweet soul flip

bonus:

The Incredibles - Standing Here Crying
-- intense deepy in 3/4
 
that devons is great, here's a couple i'm always listening to

david dee - this would mean so much - vanessa
gino washington - what can a man do - washpan
caesars - (la la) i love you - lanie
soul senders - why did i let you go - anla
fred moss - i'll always love you - vanessa
 
lately:

little ann&tarheel slim - much too late
bobby day - just a feeling (in the ghetto)
james brown - it's a man's man's man's world
flirtations - nothing but a heartache
wanda jackson - whirlpool
 
Five midtempo soul 45's I'm liking;

Fontella Bass - 'Talkin' bout freedom' on Paula
Sly, Slick & Wicked - 'Love's gonna pack up' on Bad Boys
The 21st - 'I just can't forget your name' on Joy
Steve Mancha - 'Hate yourself in the morning' on Groove City
The After Hours - 'Love affair' on Condor

Marvellous, back to back.
 
The last 5 Soul 45s that I really dug:

Joe Diamond - Gossip Gossip/It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Inez & Charlie Foxx - (1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The Days/A Stranger I Don't Know
Jean Wells - Have A Little Mercy/With My Love And What You've Got
Betty Wright - Is It You Girl/Crying In My Sleep
O.V. Wright - With A Nickle And A Nail/Pledging My Love
 
7's
public school 13 -recess/'help[kick the habit] juggernaut
christine cooper-sos/say what you feel -parkway
norma jenkins-puzzle man-jean/althia-englewood local inspiration maestro george kerr strikes again
dionne warwick-you can have him-sceptor
rhetta hughes-light my fire on tetragrammaton
 
Popular Five - Baby I Got It - Mister Chand

Mighty Hannibal - Shame Shame - Josie

Five Stairsteps - Bad News - Buddah

Billy Butler - Sweet Darling - Brunswick

Johnny Copeland - It's My Own Tears That's Being Wasted - Atlantic
 
Lezli Valentine - I Won't Do Anything
The Robins - Truble
Judy White - Save Me/Vacuum Cleaner
Edwin Starr- Running Back & Forth
James Booker - Big Nick
 
The Exits - You Got To Have Money
Brothers Of Soul - Dream
Rou Rawls - For What Its Worth
Nancy Wilson - Ode To Billy Joe
Ann Robinson - You Did It
 
Deep/Sweet Soul 45s
The Grooms 'I Deserve A Little Bit More' (Shiptown)
Sherman Willis 'Darling I Love You' (Soul Beat)
Sweet & Innocent 'Express Your Love' (Active)
Marvelle Hampton 'I Know How It Feel' (Piggylo)
Gloria Taylor 'World That's Not Real' (Selector Sound)

Funk 45s
Jimmy Lynch 'Notions Of Mr Motion' (La Val)
Grooms 'Slow Down' (Shiptown)
Community Effort 'Ali's Electric Trance' (Grand Prix)
Downbeats 'Pick Up The Pieces' (PPX)
King Roosevelt 'I Don't Care What You Do' (Krass)

Other 45s
Apostles Of Music 'Look What He Brought Us From' (Revival)
Orrielle Smith 'Winds Of Space'(Tudor)
Expressway 'Blue Evening' (Expressway)
Burning Spear 'New Civilization' (Iron Side)
Susan King 'Morning' (Toy)
 
piney brown - everything but you (deep groove)
jim jones & the chaunteys - baby may i love you (sunglow)
prince brownell - new breed from a soul seed (bem sole)
mckinley sandifer - get up (usa)
unknown - tall paul theme (paul)
 
Dyke and the Blazers - you are my sunshine / City dump
The Peoples Choice - let me do my thing / on a cloudy day
Bobby Bland - i'm so tired / if you could read my mind
Lou Pride - i'm com'un home in the morn'un
James Brown - sometime / let a man come in and do the popcorn
 
unknown - tall paul theme (paul)

tall paul hankins perhaps?
dont think so ... it's sung by a girl group (but there's absolutely no infos on the label), and it's about tall paul white who was a radio dj in Birmingham Alabama during the 60s and 70s ...

very nice catchy tune