Youtube DJ?

Moods of Love: Soul'd out, Dissed, & Used


So if you follow the link above or just play from this screen, it should start a youtube playlist I created a little while back. Youtube is well on its way to being a proprietary giant of creative censorship and shitty advertisements, but many record enthusiasts have created an archive of music in the network that is vast and far reaching and sometimes unexplored. An excellent source for new inspiration.

I created this out of tracks I found largely by searching through the suggestions links.

Track
01. Disciples Of Soul - That's The Way Love Goes
02. The Nomads - Somethin's Bad
03. The Herbs - Put a hurting on my heart
04. The Montclairs - Hung up on your love
05. Lonnie Lester - You Can't Go
06. Barbara Jean & the Lyrics - Why Werent You There
07. Soul Crusaders - I Sit In My Room
08. The Radiants - Ain't No Big Thing
09. Little Nicky Soul - I Wanted To Tell You
10. New Yorkers - Dont Wanna Be Your Fool
11. Danny Moore - Somebody New
12. Districts - One Lover Just Wont Do
13. The Sonnettes - I've gotten over you
14. Marboo - What about love
15. M D L T Willis - Whats Your Game
16. Pages - Heartaches And Pain
17. Millionaires - And The Rains Came
18. Soul Brothers Six - You Better check yourself
19. Chosen Few - Birth of a Playboy

skippin ropes, tellin jokes

Not much information on this but it seems it came out around '76 or '77, sounds much older though. Totally bright on the highs, I always love the way these records sound and the equipment they were recorded with. Very hot and flowing rhythm guitar and snappy upbeat drums driven by the almost playful sounding organ (could be a Hammond?) wrapped up in the popping bass and surging horn section. Excellent hey hey heys and bye bye baby's + many breaks besides. I respond to this song because of the synthesis of structure and verse, its a mix of bright cheer and nostalgic melancholy that is punctuated by both the song structure and the vocal delivery. I love songs that unify the music and the content of the verses into one mood. Take a listen.

Billy Kennedy - If I Was A Kid on Silver Records, Highland Park Michigan.

I'm compiling a top ten list of reference-able music for the enjoyment or interest of no one in particular. This one will definitely fall somewhere...Del Larks 'Job Opening,' recorded in 1964 or so a site claims. Very possible but very rare as only 500 copies were pressed.

Top northern soul, very driving back beat & rhythm,
long flowing background vocals and strings, and
just listen to the lyrics...

Read more about Sammy Taylor by following this link: www.classicurbanharmony.net/Del%20Larks%20Story%20edit.pdf

just listen to the lyrics.



And since it's unlikely that you'll ever locate a copy you can at least download the mp3 HERE.

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This next one is inclusive of about everything thing I like; sweet harmonies & complex vocal arrangements, funky dancing, drum breaks, pastel jump suits, capes, audience participation, and lovely lovely song writing.

Originally the Nite-Lighters, Harvey Fuqua and Tony Churchill formed this group out of many different odds and ends from Detroit's amazing reportoire of abandoned Motown musicians in 1970 (Motown had begun to move from Detroit to LA in 1969 hoping to find better fortune following the 1968 riots).





An excellent book to read about Motown during this period is Arthur Kempton's 'Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music'