“People Get Ready” is special for three reasons. First, simply is that it is a terrific song. The second is that it’s deeply universal...
Category - Soul
The Queen of Soul was born on this day in 1942. Here is more on Ms. Franklin. The great clip above is from the show “The Midnight Special.” It...
Odd photo and, again, no live video. In any case, this is Audra Mae singing the Nina Simone song “Feeling Good.” I found it through a Volvo...
Both the lyrics and delivery of this song are intense. From Wikipedia: Joseph Arrington, Jr. (August 8, 1935[1]–August 13, 1982), better known as Joe Tex, was...
Tony! Toni! Toné! was a pretty big R&B band back in the 1990s. I hadn’t paid much attention, except for thinking that it seemed to be a pretty bad...
The Box Tops, when it comes right down to it, are remembered for “The Letter,” which was a hit for them and for Joe Cocker and Leon Russell. The band...
This Day in Music reports that The Prince of Motown would have turned 76 today. It also says that on this day in 2006, Watts Branch Park in Washington, DC, was...
Louis Allen Rawls was born in Chicago in 1933. He was friends with Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke, who would play a significant role in his life. Rawls was in...
[column size=one_half position=first]Sam Cooke was among the most important musicians of the middle part of the twentieth century. Cooke – originally Cook –...
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