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I think we should expand the thread on songs that everyone should hear to soul and motown
Here is my first contribution
YouTube - The Commodores - Machine Gun
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
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Tears Of A Clown................Smoky Robinson and The Miracles
YouTube - The Tears Of A Clown
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
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I used to live just down the road from this guy when I lived in England
Excellent Motown track:
YouTube - "War" by Edwin Starr (Original Video - 1969)
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
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One from Stax:
Otis Redding's gorgeous (Sittin' on) The Dock of The Bay
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After the success of the sixties , some of motown`s expertise( Holland Dozier Holland ) set up Invictus records and for some time had quite a bit of success
One Of The early ones was
Chairman Of The Board...........Give Me Just A Little More Time
YouTube - Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairman of the Board
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
Posts: 2,223
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Joined: Oct 2009
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
Posts: 2,223
Threads: 359
Joined: Oct 2009
14-03-2010, 21:49
(This post was last modified: 14-03-2010, 21:53 by gryphon.)
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
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If you lived in the UK this music means only one thing......................The Cricket
YouTube - Booker T & The M G 'S Soul Limbo
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
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gryphon Wrote:If you lived in the UK this music means only one thing......................The Cricket
YouTube - Booker T & The M G 'S Soul Limbo
explain please
What's The Cricket?
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For many years the BBC used Soul Limbo as the theme music to its coverage of cricket matches .....................So when ever it is heard in the UK it always is linked with Cricket !:biggrin:
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
