Dave Godin
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David Edward Godin was an English fan of American soul music
, who made a major contribution internationally in spreading awareness and understanding of the genre, and by extension African-American culture.
, Kent
, where he won a scholarship to Dartford Grammar School
. Godin began collecting American R&B records when at school, where he encouraged the younger Mick Jagger
's interest in black American music. He said: "..It was at Dartford Grammar School that I met Mick Jagger and introduced him to black music, I'm ashamed to say. It's ironic that as a result of meeting me he's where he is today." Godin played a minor role in the early jam sessions out of which the Rolling Stones emerged, but resented Jagger for what he saw as the Stones' exploitation of black music.
After working at an advertising agency and as an hospital porter in place of national service (he was a conscientious objector), Godin founded the Tamla Motown Appreciation Society, and in time was recruited by Berry Gordy
to become Motown's consultant in the UK, setting up its distribution through EMI
. At a recording of Ready Steady Go!
in 1964, Jagger asked Godin to introduce him to Marvin Gaye
. "I told him to fuck off and introduce himself", Godin recalled.
In 1966, he founded Soul City, a record shop and label on which he released such then-obscure soul classics as "Go Now
" by Bessie Banks
, with colleague David Nathan and friend Robert Blackmore. It was in their shop that Godin coined the term 'northern soul
', a description that he would popularise through his work as a music journalist. In a 2002 interview with Chris Hunt
of Mojo
, he explained that he had first come up with the term in 1968 as a sales reference to help staff in his shop differentiate the more modern funk
ier sounds from the smoother, Motown-influenced soul of a few years earlier:
In his career he also coined the term Deep Soul and he promoted the interests of a large number of American musicians whose work had fallen out of favour in their home country.
His second career was in cinema exhibition. Having studied art, design and film course at Sheffield Polytechnic
, he became a senior film officer for the British Film Institute
and helped found and was the manager of the Anvil Cinema, Sheffield (1983-90), the only cinema in the UK to be funded by a local authority.
In the mid 1990s he started to compile a series of CDs of rare (and some not so rare) recordings - Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures - for Ace Records
, which featured such artists as Loretta Williams, Eddie and Ernie
, Jaibi
, Ruby Johnson
and Jimmy and Louise Tig. The albums were greeted with universal critical acclaim, and Godin described the series as the proudest achievement of his life.
Godin, a vegan, was an advocate of animal rights
and Esperanto
. He was also known for his involvement in anarchist and anti-capitalist organizations, including the Freedom Newspaper
and Class War
. He was the only atheist in his local pro-life organisation. Towards the end of his life he developed an interest in Jainism
.
- I'm Never Gonna Live It Down
2.Timmy Willis - Easy As Saying 1 2 3
3.Zerben R Hicks & the Dynamics - Lights Out
4.Irma Thomas
- Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
5.Jean Wells - Have A Little Mercy
6.Dori Grayson - Try Love
7.Brendetta Davis - I Can't Make It Without Him
8.Kenny Carter
- Showdown
9.Larry Banks
- I'm Not The One
10.Jimmy Holiday – The Turning Point
11.The Incredibles - Standing Here Crying
12.The Just Brothers - She Broke His Heart
13.The Untouchables - You're On Top
14.Reuben Bell & the Casanovas
- It's Not That Easy
15.Van & Titus - Cry Baby Cry
16.Jean Stanback - I Still Love You
17.Bessie Banks
- Try To Leave Me If You Can (I Bet You Can't Do It)
18.Raw Spitt - Songs To Sing
19.Lee Moses
- How Much Longer (Must I Wait)
20.Billy Young
- Nothing's Too Much (Nothing's Too Good)
21.Sam & Bill - I Feel Like Crying
22.Eddie & Ernie
- I'm Goin' For Myself
23.The Knight Brothers
- Tried So Hard To Please Her
24.Pearlean Gray & the Passengers - Love Of My Man
25.Jaibi
- You Got Me
- How Was I To Know You Cared
2.Eddie Holman
- I'm Not Going To Give Up
3.The Soul Children
– The Sweeter He Is
4.Tony Owens - I Don't Want Nobody But My Baby
5.Bobby Moore & the Formosts - It Was A Lie
6.Jimmy & Louise Tig and Company - A Love That Never Grows Cold
7.Ben E. King
- It's All Over
8.Nat Phillips - I'm Sorry I Hurt You
9.Wendy Rene
- What Will Tomorrow Bring
10.Arthur Conley
- Let Nothing Separate Us
11.Irma Thomas
- These Four Walls
12.Johnny Adams
- If I Could See You One More Time
13.Ruby Johnson
- I'll Run Your Hurt Away
14.The Premiers - Make It Me
15.Eddie Giles - Losing Boy
16.Doris Allen – A Shell Of A Woman
17.Otis Redding
- Just One More Day
18.Bessie Banks
- Go Now
19.George Perkins & the Silver Stars - Cryin' In The Streets
20.Big John Hamilton - How Much Can A Man Take
21.Barbara West - Anyone But You
22.Carla Thomas
– Stop! Look What You're Doing
23.Toussaint McCall
- Nothing Takes The Place Of You
24.Eddie & Ernie
- Hiding In Shadows
25.Lisa Richards - Let's Take A Chance
- I'm Undecided
2.Baby Washington - Breakfast In Bed
3.Dee Clark
- In These Very Tender Moments
4.Jean Plum - Look At The Boy
5.James Brown
- Lost Someone
6.Eddie & Ernie
- Thanks For Yesterday
7.Bessie Banks
- It Sounds Like My Baby
8.Bobby Womack
- Baby I Can't Stand It
9.Etta James
- I'd Rather Go Blind
10.Syl Johnson
- Is It Because I'm Black
11.Maxine Brown
- All In My Mind
12.Robert Ramsey - Like It Stands
13.Irma Thomas
- Wish Someone Would Care
14.Ray Gant & the Arabian Knights - Don't Leave Me Baby
15.Carla Thomas
- I Can't Take It
16.J R Bailey - Too Far Gone To Turn Around
17.Bettye LaVette
- Let Me Down Easy
18.Bobby Bland
- I'm Too Far Gone To Turn Around
19.Barbara & the Browns - I Don't Want To Have To Wait
20.The Enchanters - I Paid For The Party
21.Rozetta Johnson - Who Are You Gonna Love (Your Woman Or Your Wife)
22.Rick James
& Friend
- Ebony Eyes
23.Doris Duke
- He's Gone
24.The Impressions - My Deceiving Heart
25.Loretta Williams - I'm Missing You
- Temptation 'Bout To Get Me
2.Eddie & Ernie
- I Believe She Will
3.Matilda Jones - I've Been Wrong Too Long
4.Bobby Bland
- I Pity The Fool
5.Chuck Edwards - I Need You
6.Ruby Andrews
- Just Loving You
7.Clarence Carter
- Slip Away
8.Black Velvet - Is It Me You Really Love
9.Paul Kelly - The Day After Forever
10.Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Giving Up
11.Arthur Conley
- I'm A Lonely Stranger
12.Jackie Lee
- I Love You
13.The Miracles
- The Tracks Of My Tears
14.Roosevelt Matthews - You Got Me Diggin' You
15.Doris Duke
- I Don't Care Anymore
16.Lawrence & Jaibi
- You Make Me Feel Good
17.Barbara Brown - Can't Find No Happiness
18.Garnet Mimms
- My Baby
19.The Webs - It's So Hard To Break A Habit
20.Irma Thomas
- Time Is on My Side
21.Tony Owens - This Heart Can't Take No More
22.Jaibi
- It Was Like A Nightmare
23.Roy Hamilton
- The Dark End Of The Street
24.Jimmy Robins - I Made It Over
25.Bob & Earl
- Don't Ever Leave Me
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, who made a major contribution internationally in spreading awareness and understanding of the genre, and by extension African-American culture.
Biography
The son of a milkman, Dave Godin spent his early childhood in Peckham before bombing forced the family to move to BexleyheathBexleyheath
Bexleyheath is a main suburban district of Southeast London, England, in the London Borough of Bexley with a small percentage of the district itself being in the London Borough of Greenwich. Bexleyheath is located on the border of Inner London and Outer London. It is east south-east of Charing Cross...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, where he won a scholarship to Dartford Grammar School
Dartford Grammar School
Dartford Grammar School is a selective secondary foundation school for boys in Dartford, Kent, England, which admits girls to its sixth form . All of the students joining the school are from the top 25% of the ability range...
. Godin began collecting American R&B records when at school, where he encouraged the younger Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
's interest in black American music. He said: "..It was at Dartford Grammar School that I met Mick Jagger and introduced him to black music, I'm ashamed to say. It's ironic that as a result of meeting me he's where he is today." Godin played a minor role in the early jam sessions out of which the Rolling Stones emerged, but resented Jagger for what he saw as the Stones' exploitation of black music.
After working at an advertising agency and as an hospital porter in place of national service (he was a conscientious objector), Godin founded the Tamla Motown Appreciation Society, and in time was recruited by Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy, Jr. is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries.-Early years:...
to become Motown's consultant in the UK, setting up its distribution through EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
. At a recording of Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...
in 1964, Jagger asked Godin to introduce him to Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
. "I told him to fuck off and introduce himself", Godin recalled.
In 1966, he founded Soul City, a record shop and label on which he released such then-obscure soul classics as "Go Now
Go Now (song)
"Go Now" is a 1964 song composed by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett. It was first recorded by Bessie Banks, and most successfully by The Moody Blues.-Bessie Banks:The song was first recorded by Larry Banks' former wife, Bessie Banks...
" by Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
, with colleague David Nathan and friend Robert Blackmore. It was in their shop that Godin coined the term 'northern soul
Northern soul
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound...
', a description that he would popularise through his work as a music journalist. In a 2002 interview with Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt is a magazine editor, journalist and author. He has worked in journalism for over twenty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was managing editor of Match from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine...
of Mojo
Mojo (magazine)
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...
, he explained that he had first come up with the term in 1968 as a sales reference to help staff in his shop differentiate the more modern funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
ier sounds from the smoother, Motown-influenced soul of a few years earlier:
"I had started to notice that northern footballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
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to follow their team were coming into the store to buy records, but they weren’t interested in the latest developments in the black American chart. I devised the name as a shorthand sales term. It was just to say ‘if you’ve got customers from the north, don’t waste time playing them records currently in the US black chart, just play them what they like - ‘Northern Soul’."
In his career he also coined the term Deep Soul and he promoted the interests of a large number of American musicians whose work had fallen out of favour in their home country.
His second career was in cinema exhibition. Having studied art, design and film course at Sheffield Polytechnic
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University is a higher education institution in South Yorkshire, England, based on two sites in Sheffield. City Campus is located in the city centre, close to Sheffield railway station, and Collegiate Crescent Campus is about two miles away, adjacent to Ecclesall Road in...
, he became a senior film officer for the British Film Institute
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
and helped found and was the manager of the Anvil Cinema, Sheffield (1983-90), the only cinema in the UK to be funded by a local authority.
In the mid 1990s he started to compile a series of CDs of rare (and some not so rare) recordings - Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures - for Ace Records
Ace Records (UK)
Ace Records Ltd. was started in 1978. Initially the company only gained permission from the label based in Mississippi to use the name in the UK, but eventually also acquired the rights to publish their recordings. When Chiswick's pop side was licensed to EMI in 1984, Ace switched to more licensing...
, which featured such artists as Loretta Williams, Eddie and Ernie
Eddie & Ernie
Eddie and Ernie were an American soul music duo in the 1960s, comprising Eddie Campbell and Ernie Johnson Jnr. They sang in gospel groups before working as backing vocalists from the...
, Jaibi
Jaibi
Jaibi was the stage name of the American soul singer Joan Banks .-Life and career:Born Joan Pulliam, and later known as Joan Bates after her marriage to her first husband Anthony Bates Sr., she first recorded with a group, the Pleasures, in 1964-65...
, Ruby Johnson
Ruby Johnson
Ruby Johnson was an American soul singer best known for her recordings on the Volt label in the late 1960s.-Life and career:...
and Jimmy and Louise Tig. The albums were greeted with universal critical acclaim, and Godin described the series as the proudest achievement of his life.
Godin, a vegan, was an advocate of animal rights
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
and Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
. He was also known for his involvement in anarchist and anti-capitalist organizations, including the Freedom Newspaper
Freedom newspaper
Freedom is a London-based anarchist newspaper published fortnightly by Freedom Press.The paper was started in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson and continues to this day as an unpaid project. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism." The title...
and Class War
Class War
Class War is a UK class struggle based group and newspaper originally set up by Ian Bone and others in 1983. It subsequently mutated various forms, becoming specifically anarchist....
. He was the only atheist in his local pro-life organisation. Towards the end of his life he developed an interest in Jainism
Jainism
Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...
.
Volume 1
1.The Knight BrothersKnight Brothers
The Knight Brothers were a soul music duo, comprising Richard Dunbar and Jimmy Diggs ....
- I'm Never Gonna Live It Down
2.Timmy Willis - Easy As Saying 1 2 3
3.Zerben R Hicks & the Dynamics - Lights Out
4.Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas is an American Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans"....
- Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
5.Jean Wells - Have A Little Mercy
6.Dori Grayson - Try Love
7.Brendetta Davis - I Can't Make It Without Him
8.Kenny Carter
Kenny Carter
Kenneth 'Kenny' Malcolm Carter , was a world class speedway rider. He rode for Newcastle Diamonds , Halifax Dukes and Bradford Dukes ....
- Showdown
9.Larry Banks
Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
- I'm Not The One
10.Jimmy Holiday – The Turning Point
11.The Incredibles - Standing Here Crying
12.The Just Brothers - She Broke His Heart
13.The Untouchables - You're On Top
14.Reuben Bell & the Casanovas
Reuben Bell
Reuben Bell was an African American soul singer who recorded from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, and is best known for his emotional tenor vocals on the songs "It's Not That Easy" and "I Hear You Knocking "....
- It's Not That Easy
15.Van & Titus - Cry Baby Cry
16.Jean Stanback - I Still Love You
17.Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
- Try To Leave Me If You Can (I Bet You Can't Do It)
18.Raw Spitt - Songs To Sing
19.Lee Moses
Lee Moses
Lee Moses was an American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, whose recordings in the late 1960s, and his 1971 LP Time and Place, are highly regarded by fans of the deep soul genre....
- How Much Longer (Must I Wait)
20.Billy Young
Billy Young
Billy Young is an Irish soccer player who was born in Dublin. He represented Bohemian F.C. with distinction for nearly 30 years as player, coach and manager and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in November 2007.-Playing career:...
- Nothing's Too Much (Nothing's Too Good)
21.Sam & Bill - I Feel Like Crying
22.Eddie & Ernie
Eddie & Ernie
Eddie and Ernie were an American soul music duo in the 1960s, comprising Eddie Campbell and Ernie Johnson Jnr. They sang in gospel groups before working as backing vocalists from the...
- I'm Goin' For Myself
23.The Knight Brothers
Knight Brothers
The Knight Brothers were a soul music duo, comprising Richard Dunbar and Jimmy Diggs ....
- Tried So Hard To Please Her
24.Pearlean Gray & the Passengers - Love Of My Man
25.Jaibi
Jaibi
Jaibi was the stage name of the American soul singer Joan Banks .-Life and career:Born Joan Pulliam, and later known as Joan Bates after her marriage to her first husband Anthony Bates Sr., she first recorded with a group, the Pleasures, in 1964-65...
- You Got Me
Volume 2
1.Doris DukeDoris Duke (soul singer)
Doris Duke is an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album I'm A Loser.-Biography:She was born as Doris Curry in Sandersville, Georgia, and reportedly started singing with gospel groups including the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and Caravans, though this has been questioned...
- How Was I To Know You Cared
2.Eddie Holman
Eddie Holman
Eddie Holman is an American singer and recording artist. He is best known for his 1970 hit song "Hey There Lonely Girl".-Biography:...
- I'm Not Going To Give Up
3.The Soul Children
The Soul Children
The Soul Children was an American vocal group who recorded soul music for Stax Records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They had three top ten hits on the Billboard R&B chart – "The Sweeter He Is" , "Hearsay" , and "I'll Be The Other Woman" – all of which crossed over to the Hot...
– The Sweeter He Is
4.Tony Owens - I Don't Want Nobody But My Baby
5.Bobby Moore & the Formosts - It Was A Lie
6.Jimmy & Louise Tig and Company - A Love That Never Grows Cold
7.Ben E. King
Ben E. King
Benjamin Earl King , better known as Ben E. King, is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", a U.S...
- It's All Over
8.Nat Phillips - I'm Sorry I Hurt You
9.Wendy Rene
Wendy Rene
Wendy Rene is a soul/R&B singer and songwriter. In her early teens, she was a member of the singing group The Drapels and was signed with Stax Records...
- What Will Tomorrow Bring
10.Arthur Conley
Arthur Conley
Arthur Lee Conley was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".-Career:...
- Let Nothing Separate Us
11.Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas is an American Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans"....
- These Four Walls
12.Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams
Laten John Adams , known as Johnny Adams, was an American blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary" for the multi-octave range of his singing voice, his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto...
- If I Could See You One More Time
13.Ruby Johnson
Ruby Johnson
Ruby Johnson was an American soul singer best known for her recordings on the Volt label in the late 1960s.-Life and career:...
- I'll Run Your Hurt Away
14.The Premiers - Make It Me
15.Eddie Giles - Losing Boy
16.Doris Allen – A Shell Of A Woman
17.Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
- Just One More Day
18.Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
- Go Now
19.George Perkins & the Silver Stars - Cryin' In The Streets
20.Big John Hamilton - How Much Can A Man Take
21.Barbara West - Anyone But You
22.Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of Rufus Thomas.-Childhood:...
– Stop! Look What You're Doing
23.Toussaint McCall
Toussaint McCall
Toussaint McCall is an American R&B singer and organist.His one major success was with "Nothing Takes the Place of You", which reached #5 in the US R&B chart, issued on Ronn Records in 1967...
- Nothing Takes The Place Of You
24.Eddie & Ernie
Eddie & Ernie
Eddie and Ernie were an American soul music duo in the 1960s, comprising Eddie Campbell and Ernie Johnson Jnr. They sang in gospel groups before working as backing vocalists from the...
- Hiding In Shadows
25.Lisa Richards - Let's Take A Chance
Volume 3
1.Toussaint McCallToussaint McCall
Toussaint McCall is an American R&B singer and organist.His one major success was with "Nothing Takes the Place of You", which reached #5 in the US R&B chart, issued on Ronn Records in 1967...
- I'm Undecided
2.Baby Washington - Breakfast In Bed
3.Dee Clark
Dee Clark
Dee Clark was an African-American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the ballad "Raindrops," which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961....
- In These Very Tender Moments
4.Jean Plum - Look At The Boy
5.James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
- Lost Someone
6.Eddie & Ernie
Eddie & Ernie
Eddie and Ernie were an American soul music duo in the 1960s, comprising Eddie Campbell and Ernie Johnson Jnr. They sang in gospel groups before working as backing vocalists from the...
- Thanks For Yesterday
7.Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks
Bessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
- It Sounds Like My Baby
8.Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack
Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
- Baby I Can't Stand It
9.Etta James
Etta James
Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...
- I'd Rather Go Blind
10.Syl Johnson
Syl Johnson
Syl Johnson is an American blues and soul singer and record producer.-Biography:Born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed...
- Is It Because I'm Black
11.Maxine Brown
Maxine Brown (soul singer)
Maxine Ella Brown is an American soul and R&B singer.-Background and career:Maxine Brown began singing as a child, performing with two New York based gospel groups called the Angelairs and the Royaltones when she was a teenager...
- All In My Mind
12.Robert Ramsey - Like It Stands
13.Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas is an American Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans"....
- Wish Someone Would Care
14.Ray Gant & the Arabian Knights - Don't Leave Me Baby
15.Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of Rufus Thomas.-Childhood:...
- I Can't Take It
16.J R Bailey - Too Far Gone To Turn Around
17.Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...
- Let Me Down Easy
18.Bobby Bland
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues"...
- I'm Too Far Gone To Turn Around
19.Barbara & the Browns - I Don't Want To Have To Wait
20.The Enchanters - I Paid For The Party
21.Rozetta Johnson - Who Are You Gonna Love (Your Woman Or Your Wife)
22.Rick James
Rick James
James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...
& Friend
Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
- Ebony Eyes
23.Doris Duke
Doris Duke (soul singer)
Doris Duke is an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album I'm A Loser.-Biography:She was born as Doris Curry in Sandersville, Georgia, and reportedly started singing with gospel groups including the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and Caravans, though this has been questioned...
- He's Gone
24.The Impressions - My Deceiving Heart
25.Loretta Williams - I'm Missing You
Volume 4
1.The Knight BrothersKnight Brothers
The Knight Brothers were a soul music duo, comprising Richard Dunbar and Jimmy Diggs ....
- Temptation 'Bout To Get Me
2.Eddie & Ernie
Eddie & Ernie
Eddie and Ernie were an American soul music duo in the 1960s, comprising Eddie Campbell and Ernie Johnson Jnr. They sang in gospel groups before working as backing vocalists from the...
- I Believe She Will
3.Matilda Jones - I've Been Wrong Too Long
4.Bobby Bland
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues"...
- I Pity The Fool
5.Chuck Edwards - I Need You
6.Ruby Andrews
Ruby Andrews
Ruby Andrews is a Chicago-based American soul singer.Her best known songs include "Casonova " , "You Made A Believer " , and "Everybody Saw You" .-Biography:...
- Just Loving You
7.Clarence Carter
Clarence Carter
Clarence Carter is a blind American soul singer and musician.-Life and career:Born in Montgomery, Alabama on 14 January 1936, Carter attended the Alabama School for the Blind in Talladega, Alabama, and Alabama State College in Montgomery, graduating in August 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree...
- Slip Away
8.Black Velvet - Is It Me You Really Love
9.Paul Kelly - The Day After Forever
10.Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
- Giving Up
11.Arthur Conley
Arthur Conley
Arthur Lee Conley was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".-Career:...
- I'm A Lonely Stranger
12.Jackie Lee
Bob & Earl
Bob & Earl were an American soul music singing duo in the 1960s, best known for writing and recording the original version of "Harlem Shuffle".-Career:...
- I Love You
13.The Miracles
The Miracles
The Miracles are an American rhythm and blues group from Detroit, Michigan, notable as the first successful group act for Berry Gordy's Motown Record Corporation . Their single "Shop Around" was Motown's first million-selling hit record, and the group went on to become one of Motown's signature...
- The Tracks Of My Tears
The Tracks of My Tears
"The Tracks of My Tears" is a much recorded love ballad introduced in 1965 by The Miracles on Motown's' Tamla label. This song is considered to be among the finest recordings of The Miracles, and it sold over one million records within two years, making it The Miracles' fourth million-selling...
14.Roosevelt Matthews - You Got Me Diggin' You
15.Doris Duke
Doris Duke (soul singer)
Doris Duke is an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album I'm A Loser.-Biography:She was born as Doris Curry in Sandersville, Georgia, and reportedly started singing with gospel groups including the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and Caravans, though this has been questioned...
- I Don't Care Anymore
16.Lawrence & Jaibi
Jaibi
Jaibi was the stage name of the American soul singer Joan Banks .-Life and career:Born Joan Pulliam, and later known as Joan Bates after her marriage to her first husband Anthony Bates Sr., she first recorded with a group, the Pleasures, in 1964-65...
- You Make Me Feel Good
17.Barbara Brown - Can't Find No Happiness
18.Garnet Mimms
Garnet Mimms
Garnet Mimms is an American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues...
- My Baby
19.The Webs - It's So Hard To Break A Habit
20.Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas is an American Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans"....
- Time Is on My Side
Time Is on My Side
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy . First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his Orchestra in 1963, it was covered by both soul singer Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones in 1964.-History:Winding session arranger Garry Sherman "Time Is on My Side" is a song written by...
21.Tony Owens - This Heart Can't Take No More
22.Jaibi
Jaibi
Jaibi was the stage name of the American soul singer Joan Banks .-Life and career:Born Joan Pulliam, and later known as Joan Bates after her marriage to her first husband Anthony Bates Sr., she first recorded with a group, the Pleasures, in 1964-65...
- It Was Like A Nightmare
23.Roy Hamilton
Roy Hamilton
Roy Hamilton was an American singer, who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s...
- The Dark End Of The Street
24.Jimmy Robins - I Made It Over
25.Bob & Earl
Bob & Earl
Bob & Earl were an American soul music singing duo in the 1960s, best known for writing and recording the original version of "Harlem Shuffle".-Career:...
- Don't Ever Leave Me