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The Blue Boards / Main Forums / General R&B; Chat / Album tracks, B-sides, forgotten singles

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(Posted: 19 Jun 2005 02:38 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 5 Join Date: May 2005
Some of my favorite soul songs are album tracks, B-sides, or forgotten singles. For example, when people talk about great Temptations songs hardly anyone ever mentions "I Truly, Truly Believe." That song just blew me away and ranks with ANYTHING the Tempts ever did. Melvin Franklin handled lead vocals. Or, this one... the Supremes seldom let Mary Wilson lead but when she did the result one time was "Where Is It I Belong", just a gorgeous, gorgeous song. Hindsight's alway 20/20 but Mary Wilson should have led more. Or... why does "Man Oh Man" by the Impressions always linger on the back burner? And the song that I will always associate with Barbara Acklin is "Please Sunrise, Please." Or these... One Thing Wrong With My Woman - Johnnie Taylor Bed and Board - Barbara Mason One Girl Too Late - Brenda and the Tabulations (one of the great groups ever) Giving Up On Love - Jerry Butler Any Way Thay You Want Me - Walter Jackson The Loser - The Skyliners I could go on but the point is - some really great music was buried on an album or just lost to the listening public. Anyone else have any songs like this that meant (and still mean) the world to you? You know... the ones that got away... songs that when you mention them cause your friends to say "Who?"
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(Posted: 24 Jun 2005 20:03 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 20 Join Date: May 2005
How about : "If You Think Your Lonely Now" from Bobby Womack's Poet album "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" from Aretha's Never Loved A Man "Look At Granny Run Run" from Howard Tate's Get It While You Can (how many only know the Ry Cooder version) "I'm Not Ashamed" from Bobby Bland's Two Steps From The Blues (lauded album but this track hardly ever gets a mention) "Land Of Broken Hearts" from the Five Satins "Key To The Kingdom" from the Nutmegs (possibly was a single but still fairly obscure)...... And as for the one that got away - well, "Stay With Me Baby" has been recorded by many but no-one has even got close to Lorraine Ellison's tortured version, yet it rarely gets mentioned as one of THE great soul performances!!
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(Posted: 26 Jun 2005 16:18 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 5 Join Date: May 2005
Great choices. You are dead-on in mentioning Lorraine Ellison's classic version of ''Stay With Me." I couldn't listen to her sing that song enough. The closest thing to Lorraine Ellison singing "Stay With Me" for sheer vocal histrionics, I think, is Jennifer Holliday singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." Just as no one else could have sung "Stay With Me", no one else should ever attempt "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." The definitive version of those two songs has already been sung. Again, your choices are great.
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(Posted: 18 Jul 2005 09:48 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 2 Join Date: Jul 2005
YOUR ALL WEIRD!!!
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Guest (Posted: 19 Jul 2005 12:38 )
Take it you're not a big fan of "proper" R&B then Jennie!! Mind you, if you are going to insult us all, the least you could is get it gramatically correct
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Guest (Posted: 30 Sep 2005 13:31 )
....or grammatically correct...whatever...."Some Other Guy"Richie Barrett,"Cry Baby"Garnett Mimms,"Watch Your Step"+B.side "Steal Your Heart Away"Bobby Parker,"Scratchy"Travis Wammack,"At the Dark End of the Street"Bobby King & Terry Evans( with Ry Cooder)...I could go on........
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(Posted: 07 Feb 2006 17:57 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 13 Join Date: Feb 2006
yes i too love the b sides and album cuts,as for the temps there are many such as[i could never stop loving you-melvin on lead..read between the lines-otis on lead..from the impressions-little boy blue..how about the miracles-if your mother only knew..my love for you..steve mancha-i need to be needed..or the rolicking[hey mr. dj]from bobbymoore and the rhythm aces,love those b's!
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(Posted: 16 Jun 2006 02:13 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 1 Join Date: Jun 2006
who sings special kind of fool
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(Posted: 23 Jun 2006 14:08 ) Registered User Currently Offline	Posts: 13 Join Date: Feb 2006
bobby blue bland did a recording in the eighties with that title,i don't know if it's the one you seek.
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