Our common ground in music is 50s & 60s oldies. The only Brubeck tune she will tolerate is Take 5. I have 30 versions of Take 5, ranging from 3 to over 16 minutes. I once burned an 80 minute CD of my favorite versions for a trip. By the end of the second one, she realized what I had done and ejected the CD.
Playlist for a 1970 High School Reunion?
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Our common ground in music is 50s & 60s oldies. The only Brubeck tune she will tolerate is Take 5. I have 30 versions of Take 5, ranging from 3 to over 16 minutes. I once burned an 80 minute CD of my favorite versions for a trip. By the end of the second one, she realized what I had done and ejected the CD.
Probably only if it's moving....oh, I thought we were talking about MY wife...
A lot of Stompin" Tom today. This song reminded me of a 60's folk duo I always enjoyed.
Sorry. Stompin Tom should have been in another thread. I doubt it's reunion music.
Don't play this one... 1971, anyways.
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I would think that most who graduated in 1970 would be familiar with songs from the early to late 60s, like the Motown groups, Gary U.S. Bonds, Chubby Checker, The Isley Brothers, CCR (Creedence), Chicago (25 or 6 to 4 was released in June 1970).
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Here's my list so far. Needs to be trimmed. I think I will create a background and a dance version. Reunion - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0JzlW4phYGju7vLIvm6EjI?si=ojb2fGhiQuCJZZWF7uifZA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
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All of these are good. I, myself, feel like some of the Motown stuff has been played to the point where I am tired of it. But I have included a fair amount of Motown. Gary US Bonds is an earlier but worthy artist. I have come to think of Chubby Checker as inauthentic. Hank Ballard would be an interesting substitute. I have the Isley's, for sure. I have some CCR, but I have come to not love CCR, I am not sure why. They were huge back in the day and seemed to have some hip cred. Terry Kath of Chicago was one of the greatest and most underrated guitar players ever. But I do not think I personally ever loved Chicago, except, perhaps, for the first album. I managed to become utterly sick of 25 or 6 to 4, for reasons not the fault of Chicago.
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+1Very complete and outstanding list, Phil! Well done!
I am not putting In A Gadda Da Vida on there because of length. Also, I think I could die at piece if I never hear it again, as important as it once was to me. Does everyone know what happened to the drummer? It is quite a story and I would say a fitting end of the 60s way to go out!
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Good list. I need to add The Foundations. Probably need more Carolina Beach music altogether.Here's 69
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Check out "northern soul".
Long story short, in the early 70s or thereabouts some folks in northern England started getting "into" Motown ... but not the standard stuff ... they were into the obscure stuff, and the more obscure the better. So the likely reaction from someone who isn't already into Northern Soul is to say "hey cool song ... why haven't I heard that before??"
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Wow, Ian, as is often the case, great minds think alike, and you and I think alike, too. I could have written your post almost verbatim, and I am surprised I did not mention Northern Soul earlier. I have quite a bit of Northern Soul in the playlist, much of it frontloaded, I like it so much, and I very much think folks are likely to say "hey cool song ... why haven't I heard that before??" which is a plus. The time frame is not bad either. Or they may say something like, "that sure is a familiar cut, but I cannot quite place it. I must not have heard that cut for 50 years!" When in fact they had never heard it at all.
Northern Soul has an amazing background and is apparently still going strong around places like Manchester. It is a scene with its own subculture, including sayings like "keeping the faith." Dance clubs that ran from 2 to 8 am, no alcohol sales but lots of leapers, wide legged trousers, and particular, rather fast dance moves, with a lot of foot and not so much arm action, a bit like the shag or Irish Riverdance-type dancing.
Although, folks do not seem to mind folks who cannot much dance gettin out on the floor as well.And not so much Motown, which was considered, among other things, to generally have too slow a beat, as other American soul music. You are right, the more obscure the better. The 2010 movie Blue Valentine got a a lot of press for including in its sound track "You and Me" by Penny and the Quarters, which was apparently found in a box of demos from a closed down recording studio, and for a long time no one could figure out who Penny and the Quarters were. However, DJs from the Northern Soul scene had been making trips to the US for decades by that point to go local soul music recording studios, often long closed, to dig through demos and records released to few sales to find true gems of soul music.
The You Tube link Doc4 provides has some great examples, including "Do I Love You" by Frank Wilson and "Out on the Floor" by Dobie Gray. "Heaven Must Have Sent You by The Elgins is another, although I think it is a Motown cut and was released commercially in the States to some small success. What I think of as Carolina Beach Music shows up a bit, too, in cuts such as The Tams "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy," and maybe The Foundations.
I only recently found out about Northern Soul. But it is a great music culture! Thanks, Ian.
@The Knize yes IIRC, northern soul isn't actually "Motown" but whatever the "off Broadway" version of soul music is.
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Maybe more like off off Broadway, although as I indicated, some Motown seems to sneak in there. I had not noticed that real Motown typically had a slow beat. It does not seem to be much in the way of STAX and Muscle Shoals stuff either. There must have been hundreds of R&B/soul record companies back in the day, under who knows what overlapping ownership. Have a look at the labels Hank Ballard songs were released under. Hank Ballard - https://www.discogs.com/artist/41418-Hank-Ballard (I do not seem HB as Northern Soul from what I have seen, but like I said earlier, some of those Beach Music groups seem to have been picked up on by the Northern Soul folks. You and Me was recorded at Harmonic Sounds Studio in Columbus, Ohio. It was not actually released until 25 to 30 years later after the demo was found in studio materials at the owners house after he passed away, long after the studio closed down. Absolutely, KTF.
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