I really enjoyed Marvin Gaye's songs Blindpig and Tinoire posted in the other thread. Actually i realized i have already listen to "Heard it through the Grapevine" and "aint no mountain high enough", i just didnt know these were his songs! Very nice! So, if you have any great suggestions like these, for a neophyte, bring it on!

Wish I could help but I'm white and thus have no soul. You should ask Anaxarchos..but be careful, he once admitted to listening to John Lennon. I figured phonetic error at first but apparently it was legit..

Haha, i think Anaxarchos's sin should be forgiven.

Haha, i think Anaxarchos's sin should be forgiven.

Are you sure because we're commies and we're not really known for absolutions..;)

But we are clever commies, we learn from our mistakes. :D

Here's another blast from the past, don't know that I'd call it 'soul', there was a good bit cross over back then. I was a hippie rock&roller and thought this was the bomb, still do.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=14yEO8nfqxE

how about nina simone?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZgCw9MU60

...which included elements of gospel, rock & roll, the blues, jazz, and more.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coh7n6dYj5Y&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lx52sBLtKI&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7T9HKmERv0&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhcflDSUMvc&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME6fNgyJzgM&feature=player_detailpage

Otis has got to be my personal favorite. He died young - his plane went down in Lake Monona
(Madison, Wisconsin).


http://youtu.be/8nA18g_PwG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otF5XwyVy2M


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVC2j_Kdw8c

That last one is like the distilled essence of 1970s for me.

i dont know if the elgins are the greatest motown group but there's something about a couple of their singles that sound so good they're all the music you want to hear for days at a time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8wYfb6cuk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BTCuXRquyc

So many great tunes, so many great stories...

It was exciting in Detroit in the 60's as local groups from the neighborhood would be playing at a high school dance one week, recording at Motown the next and then getting local airplay which would quickly lead to national airplay and appearance on national television.

When John Lennon first came to Detroit he met all of his musical idols and acknowledged in press conferences that Motown artists had been the primary influence on the Beatles music. Many white listeners still do not know that the Beatles phenomenon was in large part yet another example of the exploitation of the music of the Black community by white artists. Some of the videos posted below are tunes that the Beatles "covered." Not all of the R and B versions of those tunes are Motown artists. The Cookies were from New York City, for example, as were the Ronettes.

Barry Gordy was the man who started Motown studios. He auditioned every local act, and the decision about who to record and which cuts to release was done in an interesting way. Gordy would call the entire staff in - secretaries, receptionists, janitor - and often anyone who happened to be passing through or visiting the studio. If that ad hoc group of listeners liked the band or tune, they would be signed to Motown or their cut would be released.

Throughout the 60's Gordy packed the artists into busses every summer (sometimes the musicians were still in school) and went on tour. Playing throughout the South, the artists ran into intense racist hostility. Gordy is credited with integrating music audiences in the South.


The Motortown Revue was the name given to the package concert tours of Motown artists in the 1960s. Early tours featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Barrett Strong, and The Contours as headlining acts, and gave then-second-tier acts such as Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips and The Temptations the chances to improve their skills.

Motown's entire roster, and occasionally non-Motown performers such as Dusty Springfield, The Shirelles and Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, were featured on the tours. Most of the venues for the early Motortown Revue tours were along the "chitlin' circuit" in the eastern and southern United States. In the Deep South racism became an issue, as the mostly African American performers were sometimes attacked or threatened by local white residents. While in the north the Motown artists generally played to mixed audiences, in the South, white and black audiences either attended separate shows, or were allowed to attend the same show as long as each race stayed on either side of a police-guarded rope that divided the performance hall. Motown artists are credited with being among those who broke down these barriers so later audiences would no longer be separated by color.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motortown_Revue



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCg-NCajs8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n-TRWgcQbI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obvSFWvgBhg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhN-GhH5oxU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fnYpwrng


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGO5NRhzvk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EsZpobWJs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGpgkCE41x8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1M5eEJeT38


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuBGhiv6Hk


Born in Detroit, MI in 1943, James Jay Barnes recorded some great Soul and R & B music.

When Berry Gordy brought Ric Tic under the Motown umbrella, he would use Barnes more as a song writer than a singer. This would result JJ shifting to Groovesville and teaming up with Don Davis on this record, which is the flip side of "Baby Please Come Back Home". Examples of the A side are already on youtube.

This tune is a great piece of Soul, more raw sounding than the Northern Soul classics he is esteemed for. JJ Barnes is a great example of a hardworking singer, songwriter, and performer, who despite all his talents, had a hard time making it in the Soul scene of the United States. He was, however, embraced with open arms in the UK and Europe. Many of his songs are regarded as true gems, and are pivotal archetypes of Northern Soul music.

Everyone at Motown was excited about the Temptations, but they were unable to produce a successful record until Smokey Robinson wrote "The Way You Do the Things You Do" for them. The second video shows them on TV shortly after the record was released and it was clear that it would be a hit, and they are so giddy they can barely sing it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDakhsaPTE0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l_U8DQhYQA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMENbZXBTg


The group was founded in 1961 by Bertha Barbee McNeal and Mildred Gill Arbor, students at Western Michigan University. Mildred recruited her younger sister Carolyn (also known as Cal or Caldin), who was in 9th grade, and Cal's friend Betty Kelly, a junior in high school. Bertha recruited her cousin Norma Barbee, a freshman at Flint Junior College. Cal was chosen as the group's lead singer.

A classmate at Western Michigan University, Robert Bullock, was Berry Gordy's nephew, and he encouraged the group to audition for Motown Records. The group signed to Motown in late 1962 and started recording in January 1963. They recorded at the Hitsville USA studio and "There He Goes" and "That's The Reason Why" produced by William Stevenson was released as a single via the IPG label (Independent Producers Group). The recordings included a young Stevie Wonder playing harmonica. While the group awaited their chance at stardom, they recorded for many producers, some of which were re-recorded by other artists including fellow labelmates the Vandellas and the Supremes. The Velvelettes were not used to provide backing vocals since Motown already had its in-house backing group, the Andantes.

The Velvelettes got their break chartwise in the spring of 1964 thanks to young producer Norman Whitfield, who produced "Needle In A Haystack" as a single for the group, on Motown's VIP Records imprint. "Needle In A Haystack" peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid 1964. The group recorded its follow-up, "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'", with Whitfield again producing, and spent time on various Motown-sponsored tours as a support act. In September 1964, after recording "Dancing In The Street" earlier in June, Betty Kelly officially left the group to join Martha and the Vandellas, and the quintet became a quartet.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63cHLU1CV2U


Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown.

Some of Wonder's best known works include singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.

Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and while it may have been exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator, this was not the primary cause of his blindness.

When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved herself and her children to Detroit. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Morris has remained Stevie Wonder's legal name ever since. He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir.

By age 13, Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance, issued on the album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a #1 hit on the U.S. pop and R&B charts and launched him into the public consciousness.

I will try this one more time. I read TA's explanation on how to embed...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKMdmPBWRk


This may not be soul, per se, but...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHJsAXzrLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0GoX0cacs&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1odvp-_bhk&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxny2KMd0TI&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXwxM9WyZFc&feature=player_detailpage

...and my favorite:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVxmiiDJp1A&feature=player_detailpage

I will try this one more time. I read TA's explanation on how to embed...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKMdmPBWRk


This may not be soul, per se, but...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHJsAXzrLY

Dang, there isnt an [youtube] code on here? I assumed there would be.

Dang, there isnt an [youtube] code on here? I assumed there would be.

Use the "video" BB code tag - [video]

In the "go advanced" mode, there is a link that shows all of the BB code tags and what they do. Down at the bottom of the page you will see "BB code on" - that text is a link to a page that lists and explains usage for all BB code tags.

Wish I could help but I'm white and thus have no soul. You should ask Anaxarchos..but be careful, he once admitted to listening to John Lennon. I figured phonetic error at first but apparently it was legit..

(chortle...guffaw)

Use the "video" BB code tag - [video]

In the "go advanced" mode, there is a link that shows all of the BB code tags and what they do. Down at the bottom of the page you will see "BB code on" - that text is a link to a page that lists and explains usage for all BB code tags.

Right, but when I tried it to explain how simple it was to Dhal I found out that randomstringfromurl doesn't work

Right click directly on the YouTube video. Select "Copy Video URL". Go to theBell editor. Put your cursor in the text box where you want the video. Click on the filmstrip looking video icon. A box pops up. Paste in the video URL you got from YouTube...

Done...

Yeah, I figured it out by clicking EDIT on a post that had an embedded video..reverse engineering so to speak. I thought that you had to type out the whole thing at first.

Wow, I'm late to this party. You've gotten some great info and videos so far. I'm a big fan of Stevie Wonder and Sam Cooke.

I just heard this song yesterday morning and I freaking love it, so here it is...I don't know much about the artists though. First lyrics - 'Did you ever wonder why the boss's son don't have to try as hard as you do....'

Bob and Gene - It's Not What You Know (It's Who You Know)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8zor-_9M4

Thank you all guys! Very nice songs! And here is something i found from Marvin Gaye. I like it very much


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmZ03Q7AoaU


PS. So many songs with a big variety of sounds!