Pandora's Groove Box

Artist Song
Al Green  Here I Am 
Angie Stone  U-Haul 
The O'Jays  Backstabbers 
Ike & Tina Turner  I Can't Believe What You Say 
Marvin Gaye  Baby Don't You Do It 
Irma Thomas  Hittin' on Nothin' 
Benny Sings  We'll Make Lovesongs 
Todd Rundgren  Mighty Love 
Isaac Hayes  Shaft 
Sam Cooke  Wonderful World 
Little Milton  That's What Love'll Make You Do 
Otis Redding  That's How Strong My Love Is 
Aretha Franklin  You Se nd Me 
The Righteous Brothers  You're My Soul and Inspiration 
Sugar Simone  I Want To Know 
The Chi-Lites  Have You Seen Her 
The 5th Dimension  Stoned Soul Picnic 
Xscape  In The Rain 
Deetah  Relax 
Chocolate Genius  Love 
Prince  Pop Life 
Huck Daniels  Foolish Man 
The Meters  Cabbage Alley 
William Bell  I Forgot To Be Your Lover 

Comment:

When sammyg123 and avocado rabbit made their first mix together, the finished product was woefully lacking in the affirmative action, equal opportunity department. It was too damn white, we said. So the two intrepid mixers agreed to do a follow-up mix with songs that would probably be classified as rhythm and blues, a category near and dear to my heart.

Of course, just because a song has soul doesn't mean it has to be sung by black singers just as the President of the United States doesn't necessarily have to be a white person, so I slipped in tunes by Todd Rundgren (a cover) and The Righteous Brothers.

Anybody can have a little soul and here's a mix that brings it out. It also comes with a quiz,of course. One of the songs on the mix was sampled for the Dilated Peoples track "Worst Comes To Worst." Which one?



Feedback:

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njr
Date: 1/26/2009
Nuthin' wrong with a bit of blue-eyed soul the mix, guys!
Quiz answer: Wm. Bell's I Forgot to Be Your Lover. Groove on!
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Mr. Mirage
Date: 1/26/2009
LOL!! Miomi! (my oh my)Well, my favorite Chi-Lites song, Prince, The Queen Of Soul, and o mi Todd...
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avocado rabbit
Date: 1/26/2009
NJR is knocking the quizzes off right and left. She scores again.
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RetroJoe
Date: 1/26/2009
Not bad for a warm up (look forward to future installments in what I hope this to be a series)... I particularly like the tracks 12-14 run (and with a name like The Righteous Brothers they just had to show up in the R&B cha_rts).
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Johnny Dark
Date: 1/27/2009
Fine work guys. Looking forward to reacquainting myself with track 14.
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doowad
Date: 1/27/2009
I'm with Joe, on all points, the blue-eyed soul works great with the other classic artists.Nice, er, cover too.
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freemethodist
Date: 1/27/2009
I once listened to "Pop Life" for an entire dryer's cycle at the laundermat. Nice to see it on a mix as fine as this one. Cheers.
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g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 1/27/2009
Excellent work, fellas!
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tornadoZ
Date: 1/28/2009
whoo-whee! the ones I know here are some of the best. I've clicked my ass off, but can't seem to light this stick of dynamite. fellas?