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This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #SeeYouPeople. Lots of songs to choose from, but here's the sixties soul edition, with some of my all-time favorite records:
Bessie Banks: Go Now (1964, the original version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlWGe2EHroDanny White: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RtfRoQfbMSolomon Burke: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFawKuhQIpEWalter Jackson: It's All Over (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCt7BDzhB4Kenny Carter: How Can You Say Goodbye (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MLvVOwKuU#soulmusic #BessieBanks #LarryBanks #DannyWhite #SolomonBurke #BertBerns #WalterJackson #CurtisMayfield #KennyCarter #deepsoul
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This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #EndingCredits. Here's what I came up with:
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is? (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeSyb_ZEa8Sandra Barry: The End of the Line (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy7gxheL98Solomon Burke: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFawKuhQIpEO.V. Wright: When You Took Your Love From Me (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXCAyjFc3EThe Impressions: This Must End (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wx1rNws1aM#PeggyLee #SandraBarry #SolomonBurke #OVWright #Impressions #CurtisMayfield #JerryLeiber #MikeStoller #BertBerns #TonyHatch
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"Hang On Sloopy" (originally "My Girl Sloopy") is a 1964 song written by #WesFarrell and #BertBerns. #RhythmAndBlues vocal group #theVibrations were the first to record the tune in 1964. #AtlanticRecords released it as a single, which reached No. 26 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is associated with #OhioStateUniversity and is Ohio's official rock song. The song became standard fare for #garageBands and, in 1965.
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"Tell Him", originally "Tell Her", is a 1962 song that was written and composed by #BertBerns, using the pen name Bert Russell, and which was popularized through its recording by #theExciters. The song was recorded as "Tell Her" by #DeanParrish in 1966, and #KennyLoggins in 1989. Billboard named the Exciters version at No. 95 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. According to Jason Ankeny at #AllMusic.
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"Twist and Shout" is a 1961 song written by #PhilMedley and #BertBerns (later credited as "Bert Russell"). It was originally recorded by #TheTopNotes, but it did not become a hit in the record charts until it was reworked by #theIsleyBrothers for their album #TwistAndShout in 1962. The song has been covered by several artists, including #theBeatles, #SaltNPepa, and #ChakaDemusAndPliers, who experienced chart success with their versions.
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"A Little Bit of Soap" was written by #BertBerns (aka Bert Russell), and first sung in a bluesy soul style by #theJarmels, who reached number 12 with it in September 1961 and number 7 on the R&B charts. The song has been covered by many other artists.
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"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a song written by #BertBerns, #SolomonBurke, and #JerryWexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at #AtlanticRecords in 1964. Burke's version charted in 1964, but missed the US top 40, peaking at number 58. The song is ranked number 429 on the #RollingStone magazine's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
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‘Twist And Shout’ Songwriter Bert Berns Inducted Into Songwriters Hall Of Fame
#News #BertBerns #PieceOfMyHeart #SongwritersHallofFame #TwistAndShouthttps://deadline.com/2025/09/bert-berns-songwriters-hall-of-fame-1236529098/
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"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a song written by #BertBerns, #SolomonBurke, and #JerryWexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at #AtlanticRecords in 1964. Burke's version charted in 1964, but missed the US top 40, peaking at number 58. The song is ranked number 429 on the #RollingStone magazine's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
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"A Little Bit of Soap" was written by #BertBerns (aka Bert Russell), and first sung in a bluesy soul style by #theJarmels, who reached number 12 with it in September 1961 and number 7 on the R&B charts. The song has been covered by many other artists.
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@MamaLake "Twist and Shout" was actually first recorded for by a group called the Top Notes - although produced by the young Phil Spector, this version was somewhat disappointing:
The Top Notes: Twist and Shout (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmmap4L8-oMBert Berns, a co-writer of the song, was present at the studio, watching how Spector more or less ruined his song, and it was only in 1962 that he got to produce his own version with the Isley Brothers.
#music #twistandshout #bertberns #TheIsleyBrothers #philspector #topnotes
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"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a song written by #BertBerns, #SolomonBurke, and #JerryWexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at #AtlanticRecords in 1964. Burke's version charted in 1964, but missed the US top 40, peaking at number 58. The song is ranked number 429 on the #RollingStone magazine's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
https://youtu.be/a0_4zeMzbxk