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Nice one Clive, certainly looking forward to seeing this one....
The only band that appeared at the Harlem Cultural Festival & Woodstock
I finally got around to seeing "Summer of Soul" last week. What a brilliant film it doesn't sensationalise in any way just presents the footage and describes the events of the time. Brilliant everyone should see it!
Sly and the family Stone were great in it and Stevie Wonder of course. The Fifth Dimension also but my favourite performance was by Pop's Staples and the Staple Singers. Completely unique sound they had in their live performances.
I haven't found any video footage quite like whats in the film but this is pretty good.
I'll give you my take on how I feel about how soul was taken away from its roots.
A 'soul boy' from the late sixties, start of my teen years, it just grew from there,seeked out clubs that played a fair few soul records. record shops that you could get imported discs from the States, some of them on relatively well known labels but then they were not released into the UK market or London anyway for a good few months, but also get some that maybe only had a few thousand pressings and were new groups etc from NY or East/West Coast, each had their own sound, found some really great discs that way.
Ran a mobile disco for a while, nothing big, youth clubs , private parties etc as long as made enough pound notes to buy discs and clothes ( essential) was a happy bunny.
It all changed around the mid seventies , this dirge of pop songs with a so called 'disco beat' started hitting the pop charts, and then the very worst 'Saturday Night Fever' completely fcucked the club scene for those of us that loved our soul.
Every where you went, shite 'John Travolta' imitators, and of course then got deluged with fake disco hits, hitting the main airwaves except for a few, Robbie Vincent for example,. a few hours a week on Radio London playing some faithful true soul tunes and not the garbage' that was masquerading as the latest 'in thing'
My example is a tribute to the record labels, producers who inflicted us with the 'disco scene' tunes.
Dont know if Im allowed to post this, so apologies if not. I do a soul and associated genres show on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland called Across the Tracks Soul & Blues Show for local radio called Moreton Bay Radio every Tuesday night 10 - 12pm local time. Podcast on Mixcloud with adverts taken out. This weeks show via the link below the playlist
Soulutions - All Your Love Bobby Lovett - All My Love Jewel - Paradise Flourescent Smogg - All my life Mickie Champion - What Good Am I (Without You) Jimmy James & the Vagabonds - Aint love good aint love proud Marc Staggers - Not Gonna Stop Till I Have You Alexander Morris - ISN'T SHE A PRETTY GIRL Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island Jimmy and David Ruffin - When My Love Hand Comes Down Hot Quisine - Whos Been Kissing You (1981) Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin Goin On But The Rent (1986) Magnetic Touch - Just in the nick of time Fresh Band - Come Back Lover The Terri Green Project - Dance tonight (Master Neu) JJ Barnes - Don't Bring Me No Bad News Little Johnny Taylor - looking at the future Holland Dozier Holland - Bump Your Lady, Pt. 2 Billy Prophet - Puppet On A String Bobby Womack - Home Is Where The Heart Is Odessey - Going back to my Roots Regi Myrix Presents Noel Gourdin - One Wish Lukas Setto - About Time Supremes - Stormy The Vonettes - Touch My Heart Sumy - Funkin In Your Mind Four80East - Step In It
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