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Father Time
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10/3/2016 11:59:04 AM
magical soul music
For me this is about those great early 70s hits that used strings, that's what brought the magic.
When Will I See You Again, Could It Be I'm Falling In Love, Backstabbers and the like.
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Richard Scotti
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10/3/2016 2:01:42 PM
I second that emotion!
"La-La Means I Love You" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" by the Delphonics have that magic. A little grittier but equally soulful is Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street." All of these song figure prominently in Quentin Tarrentino's movie, "Jackie Brown".
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Shoe City Sound
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10/3/2016 4:21:39 PM
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Oh I know Richard - Jackie Brown is one of my favorite movies of all time and it's so much to do with the soundtrack - that scene when Max first sees Jackie getting out of jail haha and Natural High (Bloodstone) plays with no dialog - save me!
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Shoe City Sound
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10/3/2016 4:54:43 PM
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But I digress - the thread was about strings in soul ... Bernadette - the 4 Tops ... crazy use of strings, sort of power strings and really adds a magical dimension in my opinion
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Richard Scotti
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10/3/2016 5:26:43 PM
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I don't recall if Across 110th Street has strings but the other two songs by The Delphonics definitely have strings (produced by Thom Bell) ;-)
It's a shame that strings are no longer used with such passion and emotion. Today's synth strings suck and are rarely arranged or composed by human beings.
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JeffH
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10/3/2016 5:54:55 PM
No offense to the strings but I'll take a horn section every day if your talkin Soul Music!
Al Green "Love and Happiness"... sounds so f'ing good today like it did back in the 70's and that bass line was made to move your bottom!
And now... back to your regularly scheduled program.... ;-)
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Hop On Pop
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10/4/2016 6:12:38 AM
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Hop On Pop
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10/4/2016 6:14:08 AM
Oops no strings.
But, you know... any excuse to post this great song is okay.
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Father Time
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10/4/2016 2:29:03 PM
Some Al Green songs like I'm Still In Love With You featured both brass and strings.
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Stoneman
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10/7/2016 9:54:55 AM
Yes, that was the Golden Age of Soul. Today we are watching what use to be a great genre disappear and die. So sad for us oldies who remember what real soul shaking music was all about.
RIP Soul Music, I am praying for a resurrection!
Much Respect,
Stoneman
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Larree
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10/7/2016 10:10:23 AM
Here is a soulful blast from the past!
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10/11/2016 8:35:16 AM
Sometimes a thing you think to be dead either isn't, or was and comes back anyway.
Let's not write off Soul Music just yet...
Instead, We should make some.
The magic, is the message, the heart, the soul, the wit...
What instruments you score it up with, is just what instruments you
score it up with.
As I progress as an artist, I more and more realize,
the entire world of sound is my palette.
I am all for appreciating the past.
But the notion, that one is supposed to so compartmentalize things,
as to decide 'oh, I can't do this, this is too sixties, or seventies, or eighties,
or nineties, etc...'
I just think that's a trap that people fall into.
But okay, now ya'll got me in the mood to get into the Soul Music thing a bit.
Tell you what. Stoneman,
what say we Ping Pong some real good new Soul Music into existence?
I'm gonna hit one. Then you hit one. Then I hit one. Then you hit one.
We do that for a while, they'll be a nice new stack of 'em sitting there.
Don't nobody worry about following old paths.
You can use anything, you can quote anything,
and as some dead guy once said
"you can syndicate any boat you row"...
You get it?
Deciding that it's 'all over' is the only thing makin' it 'all over'.
So, instead,
decide "you know, I do have some skills, let's hit 'em with the thrills."
What's that mean in plain English?
You got this, and you got that.
You got Lament,
Lament how good it was, cry about now.
Or you got Try,
Try to make stuff, that really picks up where the other stuff left off.
It's a matter of deciding.
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