Top 10(ish) Soul (60’s / Motown / Stax era)

[Corabar Steve]

Following from this thread (http://www.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=75390#post75390) What are your top tracks of the genre? (please only list tracks that are proven to actually work in a mobile disco situation & not just because they are of a certain genre. Also must be suitable for all ages)

It doesn't matter if you post a track that somebody else has, the idea is to find good useable tracks of the genre that are proven to work for mobile DJs

Please Stick to the specific genre in the thread title

Make the lists as long as you like as long as they are useable

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Aretha Franklin - Think
Supremes - Baby Love
Jackie Wilson - Higher and higher
Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 dances
Sam and Dave - Soul man
James Brown - I got you
Arthur Conley - Sweet soul music
Temptations - Get ready
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Jackson 5 - I want you back

[Danno13]

Martha Reeves and Vandellas - Dancing in the street
Mary Wells - My Guy
The Isley Brothers - This old heart of mine
Arethra Franklin - Respect
The four tops - I can't help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch)
Marvin Gaye / Junior Walker & All Stars - How sweet it is (to be loved by you)
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It takes two
Diana Ross & the supremes - You can't hurry love
The contours - Do you love me
The temptations - My girl

[axeman]

Dan and darren got them just about covered, most of my faves and deffo plays are in their lists but i thought up another 10 which i think are still playable

smokie robinson - tears of a clown
isley bros - behind the painted smile
curtis mayfield - move on up
d/ross supremes - why do fools fall in love
" " the happening
jackie wilson - rite petite
four tops - reach out
chairman of the board - danglin on a string
crystals - and then he kissed me

[Corabar Steve]

Dan and darren got them just about covered, most of my faves and deffo plays are in their lists but i thought up another 10 which i think are still playable
The idea is to post up Your top 10 that work in a mobile disco situation. It doesn't matter if you double up with another post, I am going to collate all the top 10 threads to compile the DJ Help Guide List for each genre.

[dj steady]

Ere goes In no particular order:

1) Ghost in my house - R.Dene Taylor
2) Shake ur Tailfeather - Ray Charles
3) Land of a thousand dance's - Wilson Picket
4) Give me just a little more time - Chairman of the board
5) Get Ready - Supremes (think so ?)
6) Do you love me - Contours
7) Rescue me - Fondella Bass
8) Hold Me - P.J. Proby
9) Band of gold - Freda Paine
!0) Baby love - Dianna Ross & Supremes

There You Av It........

[Shaun]

Ray Charles - Shake a tailfeather
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher
Jackson 5 - Want you back
Four Tops - I can't Help Myself
the Isley Bros - This Old Heart Of Mine
James Brown - Sex Machine
Diana Ross & the Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
Same & Dave - Soul Man
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered

[ian8limelight]

SOS - Edwin Starr
Baby Love - Diana Ross and Supremes
Shake your tailfeather - Ray Charles
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Soul Man - Sam & Save
Rockin Robin - MIchael Jackson
I want you back - Jackson 5
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
My Girl - Temptations
Tears of a clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles

[MickyP]

Difficult to pick out 10....

But in no particular order, this lot always did the biz
whenever I heard them played. :cool:

Temptations - Get Ready
Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the music
Martha Reeves - Heatwave
Drifters - Saturday night at the movies
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Chiffons - Sweet talkin guy
Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle
Edwin Starr - S.O.S
Elgins - Heaven must have sent you
Four Tops - I can't help myself

MickyP'

[soundtracker]

1. Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
2. Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine
3. D Ross & Supremes - You can't hurry love
4. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
5. Aretha Franklin - Respect
6. Otis Redding - Too Hard to Handle
7. Martha Reeves - Heatwave
8. Smokey Robinson - Tears of a Clown
9. Jackie Wilson - Higher & Higher
10. Wilson Picket- Land of a thousand dances


Tried to keep it 60's as some have gone a bit 70's!!!:)

[axeman]

1 Jackie Wilson - Higher and higher
2 contours - do you love me
3. Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine
4 Shake ur Tailfeather - Ray Charles
5 I want you back - Jackson 5
6 Drifters - Saturday night at the movies
7 Same & Dave - Soul Man
8 velvellettes - needle in a haystack
9 isley bros - behind the painted smile
10 Smokey Robinson - Tears of a Clown

[Corabar Steve]

Any more?

[robbiedj]

Soul Sister Brown Sugar - Sam & Dave
When She Was My Girl – Four Tops
Da Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Kissing In The Back Row – Drifters
Saturday Night At The Movies – Drifters
Come On Over To My Place - Drifters
Stop In The Name Of Love – Supremes
Be My Baby - Ronettes
I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
It Takes two – Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Picket

And a couple from a much under-rated artist

Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Cupid - Sam Cooke

[Corabar Steve]

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[PropellerHeadCase]

And a couple from a much under-rated artist

Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Cupid - Sam Cooke

Agreed on Cooke beng under-rated, also by Sam...

'You Send Me' for smoochies, and 'Twistin' the Night Away' for the dancin' :D

[Penfold42]

I have a first gig soon and I've decided to do 60's slot (there happy about this) and these are the ones i've picked - (in no real order)
1-Son of a preacher man-Dusty
2-I got you babe-Sonny & Cher
3-Needles & Pins-Seachers
4-Flowers in the rain-The Move
5-Itchycoo park-Small Faces
6-Apache-The Shawdows
7-Shakin all over-Johnny Kidd
8-Chain Gang-Sam Cooke (what a guy..love his music)
9-Pretty Woman-Roy Obison
10-Whiter Shade Of Pale-Procol Harum

I love the 60's, could go on but these are the ones that stand out for me.

[Corabar Steve]

Great for a 60s set, but only 2 of them are relevant to this thread :(

[CRAZY K]

I have a first gig soon and I've decided to do 60's slot (there happy about this) and these are the ones i've picked - (in no real order)
1-Son of a preacher man-Dusty
2-I got you babe-Sonny & Cher
3-Needles & Pins-Seachers
4-Flowers in the rain-The Move
5-Itchycoo park-Small Faces
6-Apache-The Shawdows
7-Shakin all over-Johnny Kidd
8-Chain Gang-Sam Cooke (what a guy..love his music)
9-Pretty Woman-Roy Obison
10-Whiter Shade Of Pale-Procol Harum

I love the 60's, could go on but these are the ones that stand out for me.

As this is off thread--ill carry on with my favourite subject:D

60s music and no Stones, Beatles or Beach Boys?

They were the giant supergroups of the 60s--


CRAZY K

[Corabar Steve]

Please don't take the Top 10(ish) threads off topic. I don't want to have to wade through irrelevant stuff when I collate the lists.

Neither do I want to start deleting off topic posts to save myself bother later when I start this task.

[Prefab Sprouter]

Frank Wilson - Do I love U (indeed I do)
Jackie Wilson - You're Love Lifting me Higher
The Four Tops - I Cant Help Myself
Otis Redding - Shake
Wilson Picket - Land of a thousand dances
Sam and Dave - Soul Man
Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night
The supremes - You Cant Hurry Love
Marvin Gaye- How Sweet it is
Ray charles - Hit the Road Jack

[Dazzler]

These work for me:

Aretha Franklin - Respect
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (possibly my 2nd favourite song of all time)
Ray Charles - Shake A Tail Feather
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears of a Clown
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance to the Music

And the 10th? When playing a 60s soul set I always include my all time favourite song and it has always gone down very well: Marlena Shaw - California Soul

[PropellerHeadCase]

Funny isn't it, the number of people who have listed Ray Charles 'Shake a Tail Feather' and I couldn't figure out why I didn't have it in my reasonably extensive Ray Charles back catalogue (65 tracks)?

Thanks to Wiki for pointing me to the Blues Brothers soundtrack, which I do, of course, have. Best actually put Mr Charles on the tag (as I'd already done for Ms. Franklin's performance of 'Think' on the same soundtrack).

[PropellerHeadCase]

Oh, and an addition...

Booker T & the MGs 'Green Onions'

[Corabar Steve]

Funny isn't it, the number of people who have listed Ray Charles 'Shake a Tail Feather' and I couldn't figure out why I didn't have it in my reasonably extensive Ray Charles back catalogue (65 tracks)?.
Even funnier when you actually read the thread title & note the bit that says 60s.

James & Bobby Purify did the version that qualifies for this thread

[Pe7e]

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - Temptations
Behind A Painted Smile - Isley Bros
Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Needle In A Haystack - The Velvelettes
Roadrunner - Jr Walker & the Allstars
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays
Ain't Nothing But a Houseparty - The Showstoppers
Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells

Everyone a winner, I think you should do a top 50 for this genre, there's just too much good stuff to only choose 10.

[PropellerHeadCase]

Even funnier when you actually read the thread title & note the bit that says 60s.

James & Bobby Purify did the version that qualifies for this thread

Fair enough, but I'd probably treat it the same way as I treat Aretha's rendition of 'Think' or Cab Calloway's 'Minnie the Moocher' from the Blues Brothers soundtrack and use it for preference unless specifically playing a 60s do.

Aaanway, back to topic...

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Even funnier when you actually read the thread title & note the bit that says 60s.

James & Bobby Purify did the version that qualifies for this thread

...and even more funny when the first posts states


good useable tracks of the genre that are proven to work for mobile DJs

which you probably couldn't say about the James and Bobby Purify version as not many would have heard of it.



Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells


60s soul - are you sure? :eek:

[Corabar Steve]

[quote=Solitaire Entertainments Ltd;361812which you probably couldn't say about the James and Bobby Purify version as not many would have heard of it.[/quote]

Until very recently, I used their version as a preference over BB/RC. Always went down well.

[Pe7e]

60s soul - are you sure? :eek:

My mistake :doh: it's certainly not soul, it is 60's though, and goes down a storm alongside the soul/northern soul/motown hits of the era, especially ghost in my house, houseparty etc.