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Member Since: 7/1/2004
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Cassette | Blues - Classic Blues
Cassette | Blues - Classic Blues
Cassette | Blues - Classic Blues
Cassette | Blues - Classic Blues

Love Hard, Dance Hard

Side A
Artist Song
Honey Cone  Want Ads 
The Four Tops  I'll Turn to Stone 
Gene Chandler  A Song Called Soul 
Bob and Earl  Harlem Shuffle 
Bobby Angelle  Too Much For You 
Syl Johnson  Come On Sock It to Me 
Al Wilson  The Snake 
Bob Kuban and The In-Men  The Cheater 
Jackie Wilson  This Love Is For Real (I Can Feel Those Vibrations) 
The Supremes  Bill, When Are You Coming Back 
Walter Jackson  Lee Cross 
Dyke and The Blazers  Shotgun Slim 
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles  Special Occasion 
Betty Everett  I Got to Tell Somebody 
Martha and The Vandellas  I'm Ready For Love 
Arthur Conley  Funky Street 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Curtis Mayfield  Wild and Free 
Patti LaBelle and The Bluebells  You Forgot How to Love 
Major Lance  The Matador 
Darrell Banks  Our Love (Is In the Pocket) 
Chuck Jackson  Girls, Girls, Girls 
Maxine Brown  You Upset My Soul 
Archie Bell and The Drells  Do the Choo Choo 
The Chi-Lites  Stoned Out of My Mind 
The Contours  Move Mr. Man 
Joe Tex  If Sugar Was as Sweet as You 
Marvin Gaye  Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) 
James Carr  A Losing Game 
Eddie Floyd  Hey Now 
Wilson Pickett  Barefootin' 
The Staple Singers  If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) 
Jimmy Radcliffe  Long After Tonight is All Over 

Comment:

I've always loved soul music. But it was a party just this past April that turned that love into a full-on obsession. My frie_nds and I had gone to The Green Eye, a bar in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, for drinks when one of them said she knew of a party that happened to be in an apartment directly above the bar. So we went upstairs, and I knew as soon as I walked in the door it was going to be a good night. The DJ (well, the guy with the iPod) was playing soul. Good stuff. Uptempo stuff. Northern stuff. We danced in the living room into the wee hours of the morning while Blue Line trains rattled right past the window. Since then, I've been buying almost nothing but soul 45s, enhancing a collection heavy on Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. Like I said, I'm hooked, I'm obsessed. I feel good. I feel like dancing.

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SteveRaglin
Date: 5/17/2009
Always nice to see soul represented at AOTM... good range of lesser-known tracks.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 5/27/2009
Lesser known I guess but some great singers.