What's Your Favorite Deep Soul Record?

[Dayo]

What's your current or all fave? (MP3's welcome and appreciated)

Currently for me it's Eddie Holman's I'm not gonna give up

Incidentally, I've never really been sure how to define deep soul. I know these genres are fluid and it's all a matter of taste, but any thoughts?

For example, would some of the Dells ballads do it for you? Always Together, for me, is a sublime piece of work with a gut wrenching vocal; deep enough to be labeled deep?

Best

Colin

[Guest Stuart T]

Timmy Shaw Thunder In My Heart on Bon (b side is passable dancer as well). Think it was a Johnnie Mae Matthews produced number. Love the Eddie Holman. The other one I really love is Shes Already Married by Bill Bland, wonderful vocal. Sod it, plenty more I love too, they make me all misty eyed. Little Hooks I Don't Want To Leave on the b side of some funk record is awesome too.

Deep soul is all about the emotion in the vocal, far as I'm concerned, not a particular style at all.

[Guest cC B]

This is a nice classic

Edited November 15, 2005 by cC B

[Eddie Hubbard]

What's your current or all fave? (MP3's welcome and appreciated)

Currently for me it's Eddie Holman's I'm not gonna give up

Incidentally, I've never really been sure how to define deep soul. I know these genres are fluid and it's all a matter of taste, but any thoughts?

For example, would some of the Dells ballads do it for you? Always Together, for me, is a sublime piece of work with a gut wrenching vocal; deep enough to be labeled deep?

Best

Colin

Hello Colin , Eddie Holman is a brilliant ballad , I've got loads of faves , but currently I'm still enjoying "Rainbow Road " - Bill Brandon , The Hard Tymes " I ask a question " , Aretha " Sweet bitter love " and George Jackson " Mackin' on you " .These type of records really blow my mind , and yes so many of The Dells records fit that bag , such as the one you've mentioned , or " The love we had stays on my mind " , " Love is missing from our lives " [ with The Dramatics - there's another ace group !! ] , " I wish it was me you loved " , I could go on and on......... Bobby womack is another fave artist on deep sides like " I'm through trying to prove my love for you " .As Dave Godin once said , you need to be a good actor as well as a great singer to make the listener believe you're really going through the pain portrayed in the lyrics of the best deep sides .Best Wishes ,Eddie

[Paul McKay]

Agreed with the Dells esp The love we had - fantastic deep soul. Stay in my corner is fabulous too, the goose pimples and hair standing up on end when Marvin Jr hits that real long "Stay" is a feeling that few records manage to match.

Here's a few more from me:

HOUSTON, EDDIE CAPITOL 2170 THAT'S HOW MUCH (I LOVE YOU)

GREEN BERETS UNI 55186 (LORD) SEND ME SOMEBODY

AL GREEN HI LP HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

WILLIAMS, LEE SHOT JEWEL 839 BABY, BABY

[Guest Richard Bergman]

Lee Jones & The Sounds Of Soul - This House is haunted -Amy

(Fantastic record, around £30 mark worth every penny)

Jimmy Lomax - Remember Me - Camille

(This is ace ! Picked up for peanuts about a year ago , soulful to the last , soundclip below.)

Walter Jackson - Suddenly I'm all alone - Okeh

(flip to 'special love', beautiful and haunting record)

Edited November 15, 2005 by Richard Bergman

[Eddie Hubbard]

This is a nice classic

Bloody hell !! that's the first issue I've ever seen , love Wilson Pickett's version too ,Best ,Eddie .

[Guest vinylvixen]

CARL HALL - What's come over you - Mercury

SAMMY WARD - Then you changed - Motown/ Soul Satisfaction 5 CD only

BETTY LAVETTE - Let me down easy - Calla

Heartbreakin' time Jo

Agreed with the Dells esp The love we had - fantastic deep soul. Stay in my corner is fabulous too, the goose pimples and hair standing up on end when Marvin Jr hits that real long "Stay" is a feeling that few records manage to match.

Here's a few more from me:

HOUSTON, EDDIE CAPITOL 2170 THAT'S HOW MUCH (I LOVE YOU)

GREEN BERETS UNI 55186 (LORD) SEND ME SOMEBODY

AL GREEN HI LP HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

WILLIAMS, LEE SHOT JEWEL 839 BABY, BABY

[Blake H]

Latimore "Lets straighten it out" Glades

Carl Weathers "You ought to be with me" Mirage

Floyd Smith "Getting nowhere fast" Dakar

Alton Jackson & Larry Bailey "Believe in me" J & Jackson 7"

Eddie Parker "If you must go" Miko (also on Black & blues lp)

Willie Hutch "Walking on my love" RCA

Good Thread, look forward to other choices

BH

[Guest Andy BB]

My ship is comin in - Anyone. I haven't heard a bad version yet.

Lorraine Ellison - Stay with me baby. How emotional is this vocal? Stunningly amazingly gorgeous, and £2!

Don & Juan - Heartbreaking Truth.

[Sweeney]

Please Take Me Back - The Masqueraders (Bell) (superior side of How Big is Big)

Mirror Mirror on the Wall - The Saints (Revue)

Mr Independent - The Soul Twins (Back Beat)

Gas & The Funk Factory - The Goodnight Song (Brunswick)

[Bitchdj]

at the moment for me it has to be .....bobo mr soul - shes my woman...flip of hitchhike to heartbreak fingy....makes me go all goosebumpy wen he sings

cookie

[Guest]

DEE DEE WARWICK - THAT'S NOT LOVE (MERCURY 45)

BARBARA HALL - DROP MY HEART OFF AT THE DOOR (INNERVISION II 45)

MARGIE JOSEPH - I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH TO SAY GOODBYE (VOLT LP TRACK)

BACK IN TO MY HOLE AGAIN EEEEK

Edited November 15, 2005 by Miles

[Guest miff]

BETTY LAVETTE - Let me down easy - Calla

Heartbreakin' time Jo

[Guest]

The other one I really love is Shes Already Married by Bill Bland, wonderful vocal. Sod it, plenty more I love too, they make me all misty eyed.

[Guest cC B]

Bloody hell !! that's the first issue I've ever seen , love Wilson Pickett's version too ,Best ,Eddie .

Don't think I've heard Wilson Pickett's version. Is it an album-only track?

Sound clip anyone? Fabulous Fiestas on RCA is solid deep soul sound as

well and quite cheap. Paid something like $20 from Craig Moerer on ebay.

Best,

Christian B

[Guest Coxy]

I got to do an hour in the downbeat lounge this year at Soul Essence weekender. Here`s a few off the top of me head that I remember playing:

Ruby Winters - living to give

Aretha Franklin - without love

Sam Dees - just out of my reach

Ed Townsend - how could you do it

Johnny Bristol - im just a loser ( what a title for a deep track eh)

Eleanor Mills - he said goodbye

Trev

[Guest Stuart T]

The other one I really love is Shes Already Married by Bill Bland, wonderful vocal. Sod it, plenty more I love too, they make me all misty eyed.

Only ever seen you misty eyed Stuart when they call last orders

Yeah yeah, saddest deep record would be called "Time Gentlement Please".

I don't even like beer.

[Guest noss]

Bessie Banks - Try To Leave Me If You Can (Volt)

Spencer Wiggins - I Can't Be Satisfied (MGM)

Melvin Van Peebles feat Jo Armstead - You Cut Up the Clothes (Stax)

Christian...check out the Wilson Pickett version of Thomas Bailey, much cheaper and in my opinion much better.

Edited November 16, 2005 by noss

[Geoff]

[Lorraine Ellison - Stay with me baby. How emotional is this vocal? Stunningly amazingly gorgeous, and £2!]

Still remember how this knocked me out when I first heard it. Great record.

My current favourite deep soul track is Benny Latimore's Rain From The Sky. Superb imo.

[Guest]

My ship is comin in - Anyone. I haven't heard a bad version yet.

That made me have a listen to the Walter Jackson version... that swiftly led on to It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom Beautiful track

[Guest Awake 502]

Latimore "Lets straighten it out" Glades

The remix version ??

Linda Jones "I can't make it alone"

Debbie Taylor "I don't want to leave you"

Soul Children "I can't let you go"

Tommy Tate "We don't"

Millie Jackson "If loving you is wrong"

Edited November 15, 2005 by Awake 502

[Gary]

My ship is comin in - Anyone. I haven't heard a bad version yet.

Lorraine Ellison - Stay with me baby. How emotional is this vocal? Stunningly amazingly gorgeous, and £2!

Agreed, 100%.

[Eamesy]

My ship is comin in - Anyone. I haven't heard a bad version yet.

Lorraine Ellison - Stay with me baby. How emotional is this vocal? Stunningly amazingly gorgeous, and £2!

Lorraine Ellison - 2nd favourite, 1st is Big Maybelle - Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me.

Also great - more bluesy - Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place of You.

Alan

[Codfromderby]

Lorraine Ellison - 2nd favourite, 1st is Big Maybelle - Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me.

Also great - more bluesy - Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place of You.

Alan

lorraine ellison deffo

if loving you is wrong- bobby bland

and the best dont leave me baby-ray gant

[Soulsmith]

Lorraine Ellison - 2nd favourite, 1st is Big Maybelle - Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me.

Also great - more bluesy - Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place of You.

Alan

All available from The Soul Mine!

p+p extra

ha ha!

[Eamesy]

All available from The Soul Mine!

p+p extra

ha ha!

Col,

Will give you your commission at Bisley Sat 19th Nov.

Alan

[Mandy]

What a brilliant thread ... cried just looking at the choices here

[Eamesy]

What a brilliant thread ... cried just looking at the choices here

Agree with that. Great choices!!

Alan

[Guest noss]

Don't think I've heard Wilson Pickett's version. Is it an album-only track?

Sound clip anyone? Fabulous Fiestas on RCA is solid deep soul sound as

well and quite cheap. Paid something like $20 from Craig Moerer on ebay.

Best,

Christian B

No its a single, "Back In Your Arms/Mini Skirt Minnie"Atlantic 45-2611, very easy to get. Also love Roy Lee Johnson's "Take Me Back & Try Me" on Philips

[Mandy]

Many years ago Micky Hodge did me a tape full of deep soul and slash your wrist tunes to .. one sticks in my mine "Darling take me back i'm sorry" was the chorus line, used to lie in the bath with a bottle of wine after a nighter and drown to this but being useless I can't remember who it was and can't find the tape listing

Edited November 15, 2005 by Mandy

[pikeys dog]

Sandra Phillips - She Didn't Know - Canyon / Soul Agent LP

Betty Lavette - Let Me Down Easy - Calla

Walter Jackson - It's an Uphill Climb To The Bottom - Okeh

All give me a lump in my throat...

[Craig W]

Dont really know how you define deep soul but as for Colins first suggestion of Eddie Holman flip this over and listen to the superb I'll cry 1000 tears. As good as a double sided gut wrencher gets. I think I read somewhere once that Eddie sings this with such feeling it leaves you in a physical emotional state after listening to it!

But for me it has to be Roy Hamilton - Reach out for me , if there is a better soul record than this I have yet to hear it.

[Craig W]

Many years ago Micky Hodge did me a tape full of deep soul and slash your wrist tunes to .. one sticks in my mine "Darling take me back i'm sorry" was the chorus line, used to lie in the bath with a bottle of wine after a nighter and drown to this but being useless I can't remember who it was and can't find the tape listing

I think this is Ray Pollard Mandy.

If you come to the 44 on Friday ask me nicely and I may play this for you.

[Guest]

For me it would be the following:

Marvin Gaye's Distant Lover, Sexual Healing and To Busy Thinking About My Baby

Barry White's Sho U Right and Practice What You Preach

Sam Cooke's You Send Me

It's very hard to pick just one

[Eddie Hubbard]

Don't think I've heard Wilson Pickett's version. Is it an album-only track?

Sound clip anyone? Fabulous Fiestas on RCA is solid deep soul sound as

well and quite cheap. Paid something like $20 from Craig Moerer on ebay.

Best,

Christian B

Wilson's is titled " Back in your arms " b side of " mini skirt mini " [ Atlantic ] Best ,Eddie

[Eddie Hubbard]

I think this is Ray Pollard Mandy.

If you come to the 44 on Friday ask me nicely and I may play this for you.

Also by Lenny Welch [Kapp ] Best ,Eddie

[Martint]

The following tracks come to mind -

I'm going for myself - Eddie&Ernie

How much longer must I wait - Lee Moses

Mr Independent - The Soul Twins

I made it over - Jimmy Robbins

Male vocalists and particularly Male duets just edge it for me in the deep soul genre

Chas

My faves are

Debbie Taylor- Check yourself (Decca)

Ann Peebles - I still love you (Hi)

and most of Dave Godin's volume 1 which is simply incredible, esp 'Try to leave me'

Martin

[Guest Goldwax]

Too Much Pain - Eugene Evans

We're Still Friends ( Live ) - Donny Hathaway

Anything James Carr sung / humned / whistled.

[Guest Awake 502]

A few more I just thought of,

Garnet Mimms "It was easier to hurt her"

Walter Jackson "Not you"

Lou Courtney "Since I first laid eyes on you"

Randy Brown "The next best thing"

Mavis Staples "Makes me wanna cry"

Edited November 16, 2005 by Awake 502

[Chalky]

Earl Gaines - Fruit From Another Mans Tree - Hollywood

Benny Latimore - I Can't Go On/Rain From The Sjy - Blade

Freeman Brothers - You Got Me On A String - Int. Allied

Jimmy Armstrong - Your Getting Next To Me Baby - Brothers 3

Jimmy Braswell - I Can't Give You My Heart - King

Ella Washington - Grass Always Seems Greener - Octavia

numerous from Eddie & Ernie

flip over those dancers, often find ballad or deep on the flip

[Guest Soultown andy]

Half a love,Barbara Mason

[soulAdequateNP]

Sandra Phillips - She Didn't Know - Canyon / Soul Agent LP

Is this the same song as Dee Dee Warwick (She Didn't Know, She Kept On Talking) on Atco?

and most of Dave Godin's volume 1 which is simply incredible, esp 'Try to leave me'

Truly awesome set of 4 albums, tho' the very best of all 100 tracks would IMO have to be Jean Wells "Have A Little Mercy"

[Guest Stuart T]

Is this the same song as Dee Dee Warwick (She Didn't Know, She Kept On Talking) on Atco?

Truly awesome set of 4 albums, tho' the very best of all 100 tracks would IMO have to be Jean Wells "Have A Little Mercy"

One of my all time favourites too. I have a great desire to own the Raw Spitt track on the first one as well. Can anyone help with that?

[Mandy]

I think this is Ray Pollard Mandy.

If you come to the 44 on Friday ask me nicely and I may play this for you.

Thanks for that Craig, ooh I can't believe I didn't know it was Mr Pollard

I'll be asking on Friday night then

[Guest Johnny One Trout]

Always been a big fan of Harry Melvin and the Bluenotes and to be honest in my humble "Yesterday I Had The Blues" and "Be For Real" take some beating.

Having said that I was playing an old CDR in the car today with no track listing and was completely bowled over by

Lolletta Holloway - Cry to me

Truth - Come back home

Windy City - I still love you

Creme de Cocoa - Mr Me & Mrs You

plus a few others that escape just now all in a row

Trouty

[Guest cC B]

Too Much Pain - Eugene Evans

We're Still Friends ( Live ) - Donny Hathaway

Anything James Carr sung / humned / whistled.

Eugene Evans is a great track! I know this is the wrong section,

but if anyone got a spare - please get in touch, ok

Best,

Christian B

[Guest Johnny One Trout]

Just thought of another

"Stop The Bells" - Members of the Staff - Evejim (certainly a big fave of the moment)

Edited November 17, 2005 by Johnny One Trout

[jocko]

Just been thinking of making a cd of stuff like this, not listened to many in years, off top of my head

Iceman - How Can I get Over A Fox Like You

Ben E King Its All Over

Bettye Lavvette - Your Turn To Cry

Banks And Hampton - Gonna Have To Tell Her

Walter Jackson Walls That Separate Us

And 47 million more that cant think of right now!!

Cheers

Jock

[Guest]

I know this topic has been done before...but Bobby Bland."Lead Me On"........never fails to get the hairs on the back of the neck up........