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Best-known for his massive 1972 hit "Me and Mrs. Jones," he had a long career going back to the 1950's. Here's a 10-minute psychedelic soul-prog track he did in 1973 called "War of the Gods":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3SSKjRtLI
lol this fucking year i swear to ged
>>64331738
Well to be fair, he WAS 81 years old. That's slightly past the normal life expectancy for a male in the US, so, we can't really say he expired before his time.
>>64331981
it doesn't matter how old he was
this is the year everybody dies
>>64332077
Celebrities die all the time. You've just become old enough to notice it now
>>64331694
I have that record and forgot all about it. Might have to give it a spin now.
I'm not going to pretend I listened to his work.
But man, I must've played Me and Mrs. Jones near a thousand times, shit's amazing.
Here's hoping he was Christian.
Death has became Oprah now
>>64332104
>You've just become old enough to notice it now
I don't think so buddy
>>64331738
He's just a one-hit-wonder who was old, not like him dying is some huge shock to the world.
>>64332104
>Bowie
>lemmy
>prince
Some seriously big artists have died this year and you can't deny it.
Was he black enough for you, /mu/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX6k5tRzDuU
>>64332641
I never heard that much media coverage about Lemmy compared with the other two though I guess he's not that well known outside the rock community while they had way more normalfag fans.
>>64332617
He's not REALLY a one-hit wonder. I think he put something like 15 songs into the Billboard R&B charts over the years, and he did have one more top-40 hit - this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEe6cMWJL9g
He's pretty cool. Any other Soul recommendations?
>>64332711
Lemmy never had top 40 hits and you didn't hear his stuff except on rock stations.
>>64332711
Lemmy died in December so it wasn't this year. And he's got a cult following but nowhere near the level of Bowie/Prince who are some of the biggest stars to ever exist.
I wish people would talk more about soul on /mu/.
>>64334373
Too many edgy white teens who only listen to it if it has guitars.
I'm not going to suddenly pretend like i was a super Billy Paul fan but Me and Mrs. Jones is an awesome song so thanks for that Billy. Rest in Peace.
>>64334057
>coming to /mu/ for recommendations
sadly it's not 2012 anymore
Check out
Al Williams- I am nothing
>>64334884
I don't think /mu/ knows too much about soul music other than the big classics, including me. I'm totally willing to get into it more though we should have more /soul/ threads or something
>It describes an extramarital affair between a man and his lover, Mrs. Jones.
wew
360 Degrees of Billy Paul [Philadelphia International, 1973]
At his worst, Paul is black naturalness at its most mannered--florid, hyped up, homiletic, sort of a Les McCann of small-time jazz singers. But Gamble and Huff have been making great music out of middlebrow jazz for years, and when they give Paul a good song--several of the black-consciousness riffs, which G&H seem to turn out as if they were so many follow-ups to "Tighten Up," are better than "Me and Mrs. Jones"--his overstatement is no more offensive than Ray Charles's. On stupid, unrealistic songs (e.g., "I'm Just a Prisoner") he sounds stupid and unrealistic, which figures. B-
>>64335069
be the change you wanna see on /mu, anon. I'm with you
>>64336352
Stop spamming yourself everywhere Robert
>>64336369
Okay anon i'll try my best!
>>64332104
Lemmy died in 2015 though
More like that guy from The Eagles
>>64331694
Kirk Douglas is still alive.
>>64332250
kek
>>64331694
>10-minute psychedelic soul-prog track
is it wrong to get a bit of a hard on while reading that?
literally who?
now you are just looking for dead people
>>64331694
>10-minute psychedelic soul-prog
That actually sounds pretty patrician
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