SOUNDS OF SOUL 24. August: 45rpm Soul brilliance through the decades

Last weeks show featured mainly so called Modern Soul recorded after the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s but also some nice Crossover Soul, a genre that covers roughly the era from 1967 to 1973. But let’s leave aside all this genre nonsense and simply call it what it is – brilliant Soul music from it’s most productive and innovative period. And here’s last weeks playlist as selected by DJ Burn Hard:
You Are, You Are/Curtis Mayfield/7″ Curtom

Coming Home/Truth/7″ Devaki

Don’t Burn No Bridges (instr.)/Jackie Wilson & The Chi-Lites/7″ Brunswick

It Really Hurts Me Girl/The Carstairs/7″ Red Coach

Oh Love/Smoke/7″ Mo-Soul Records

Waitin’ For The Rain/The Fantastic Johnny C/7″ Phil. L.A. of Soul

Always There/Side Effect/7″ Fantasy

Windy City Theme/Carl Davis & The Chi-Sound Orchestra/7″ Chi Sound

Where Are All My Friends/Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes/7″ Philadelphia International Rec.

I’ll Always Be Here/The Impressions/7″ Curtom

You’re Everything I Need/Major Lance/7″ Osiris

Ready, Willing and Able/General Johnson/7″ Arista

Groove On/Willie “Beaver” Hale/7″ Cat

Take Me Back/Otis Williams/7″ Soul Intention

People Wake Up And Live/James Brown And The J.B.’s/7″ Polydor

Cry Like A Baby/Dorothy Moore/7″ GSF

That’s All A Part Of Loving Him/Tommie Young/7″ Contempo

These Memories/Almeta Lattimore/7″ Mainstream Red Lion

When I’m Loving You/Jimmy Holiday/7″ Cossover

Ain’t Gonna Stop/Willie Hutch/7″ RCA Victor

Got To Be A Man/The Emotions/7″ Volt

Love Slave/Margie Alexander/7″ Future Stars

Keep Coming Back For More/Lorraine Rudolph/7″                  Jet Stream

Lovely Woman/Eldridge Holmes/7″ Desu Records Francaise

Giving Up/The Ad Libs/7″ Deep Soul