The Style Council – in session at The BBC – May 5, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – The Style Council tonight. Their first session for the BBC (not John Peel, it appears). Fresh from the Mod trenches with The Jam, Paul Weller took a decided turn for the overtly
– 4 By Ike & Tina Turner – From the lp Don’t Play Me Cheap – Sue Records LP-2005 – Diving through vinyl this weekend. Coming up with early Ike & Tina Turner. During their stint with Sue Records, from the 1963 album Don’t Play Me Cheap – 4 tracks
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Stevie Wonder – Live in Bremen, West Germany – January 23, 1974 – Radio Bremen – Stevie Wonder this weekend. Recorded live at Radio Bremen Studio 3, West Germany on January 23, 1974. You cannot talk about the evolution of R&B and Soul without putting Stevie Wonder at the top,
The Supremes – KHJ 2nd Annual Appreciation Concert – April 29, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 2021 is offering no let-up in loss – and we thought 2020 was bad. The sad news just yesterday of the passing of Mary Wilson, founder and backbone of the Supremes offered
Something different this weekend – a rare appearance from the pre-PBS NET series Soul! hosted by Poet/Author Nikki Giovanni and featuring The Delfonics in a live set, as re-broadcast on April 21, 1972 (it originally aired on January 5th). Live Soul sessions, or even concerts by prominent Soul acts are
I ran a portion of this concert (the last half only) a few years ago. But I realized, the only way you could really appreciate this concert, and in fact the true magnitude of the talent of James Brown, was to listen to the entire concert; at almost three hours.
Most people recall Dexys Midnight Runners as the band who gave us Come On Eileen, one of the big pop hits that defined the 1980s. But they were a lot more than a one hit band (they had another big hit, Geno, which was big in the UK and not
The Spinners – in session on Soul! – NET-TV – January 13, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Spinners were a huge hit making machine all through the 1960s and 70s. Still together today, but with only one surviving original member, Henry Fambrough, The Spinners were finally inducted
