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"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords #soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "Soul Man" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords #soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "Soul Man" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords #soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "Soul Man" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords #soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "Soul Man" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords #soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "Soul Man" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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"I Could Not Ask for More" is a song by American singer-songwriter #EdwinMcCain for the soundtrack of the 1999 #romantic #drama film #MessageInABottle. It was also included in his third studio album #Messenger (1999), on which it would be released on May 25, 1999, via #AtlanticRecords to #contemporaryHitRadio, as the #leadSingle. Despite being a songwriter, this is one of two tracks featured on Messenger not written by McCain; instead.
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"Good Times" is a #disco #soul song by American R&B band #Chic, released in June 1979 by #AtlanticRecords as the first single from their third album, #Risqué (1979). It was both written and produced by #BernardEdwards and #NileRodgers, and peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on August 18, 1979. In Europe, the song peaked at number five on the #UKSinglesChart and was a top-20 hit in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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"Kings & Queens" is a song by American singer-songwriter #AvaMax, released on March 12, 2020, through #AtlanticRecords as the lead single from her debut studio album, #HeavenAndHell (2020). The song was written by Ava Max, #BrettMcLaughlin, #DesmondChild, Hillary Bernstein, Jakke Erixson, #MadisonLove, Mimoza Blinsson, and producers #Cirkut and #RedOne. It is a #powerPop song that consists of an #electricGuitar with #synthesizers.
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"In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by American singer Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on his 1965 album of the same name, also appearing on the 1966 album #TheExcitingWilsonPickett. The song was composed by Pickett and #SteveCropper at the historic #LorraineMotel in #Memphis, later (April 1968) the site of the #assassinationOfMartinLutherKingJr Pickett's first hit on #AtlanticRecords, it reached number one on the #RAndBCharts.
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"Kings & Queens" is a song by American singer-songwriter #AvaMax, released on March 12, 2020, through #AtlanticRecords as the lead single from her debut studio album, #HeavenAndHell (2020). The song was written by Ava Max, #BrettMcLaughlin, #DesmondChild, Hillary Bernstein, Jakke Erixson, #MadisonLove, Mimoza Blinsson, and producers #Cirkut and #RedOne. It is a #powerPop song that consists of an #electricGuitar with #synthesizers.
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"In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by American singer Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on his 1965 album of the same name, also appearing on the 1966 album #TheExcitingWilsonPickett. The song was composed by Pickett and #SteveCropper at the historic #LorraineMotel in #Memphis, later (April 1968) the site of the #assassinationOfMartinLutherKingJr Pickett's first hit on #AtlanticRecords, it reached number one on the #RAndBCharts.
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Joe Turner was the father figure for all of the 1940s and 1950s rhythm & blues shouters. He honed his craft in the bars and night clubs of Kansas City during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by the time he appeared in the 1938 "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall and made his first records with pianist Pete Johnson, he was already at the peak of his powers.
Turner achieved his greatest commercial success in the 1950s when he joined the roster of Atlantic Records and recorded a lot of contemporary material penned by writers like Jesse Stone, Doc Pomus and Leiber & Stoller. Although he was already in his forties, he became an unlikely rock'n'roll star and recorded a a few teen-oriented songs. But like just about all of his Atlantic releases, even these were excellent records.
Turner's wife, Lou Willie Turner (real name: Luella Brown) was credited as the writer of "Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop" (1953). As the song was released on the flip side of "TV Mama", one of Turner's major hits, it did not make the R&B charts on its own, but it is still a very entertaining record, with Turner fully in charge even in this live video version from 1954:
Joe Turner: "Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop" (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnytNEuw3VE#music #rhythmblues #joeturner #bigjoeturner #atlanticrecords #soundies #bluesshouters #bluesmusic #1950s
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Modern audiences may remember Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle in the original John Waters' version of "Hairspray" (1988). But she was also one of the biggest rhythm & blues stars of the 1950s, and the first major artist in the roster of the fledgling Atlantic Records, founded by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson in 1947.
By the time Brown recorded her #1 R&B hit "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" in 1952, Atlantic had become one of the leading record labels in the R&B market, to a large extent thanks to her record sales. In the UK, the future soul music guru Dave Godin found a bar which had a jukebox stocked with current American R&B singles (I wonder if they were still 78s?), and he later cited this Ruth Brown classic as the record that changed his life.
Amazingly enough, there is a great live video recorded in 1954, which captures Ruth Brown in her prime, performing this song.
Ruth Brown: "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmGZRGvKC8#music #rhythmblues #ruthbrown #atlanticrecords #femaleartists #davegodin #1950s
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Clifford Jordan - "These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly" (1965)
This was a Wax Trax find.
#CliffordJordan #CedarWalton #RichardDavis #AlbertHeath #TootieHeath #JulianPriester #AtlanticRecords #jazz #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nMZv1Y8IOAzwemu-MpzfUu4BiHG0zwrnc&si=TFxzdZkBtIzkjkAu
