1973

I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby

I’ve Got So Much to Give

1974

Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Live in the Netherlands, 1974 (replaced 27 feb)

Can’t Get Enough of Your Love

a. on Soul Train

(below) b. live in Germany. Second song is Never, Never Gonna Give You Up

You’re My First, the Last, My Everything (Peter Radcliffe, Tony Sepe, Barry White)

Love’s Theme

1975

What Am I Going to Do With You

live at the Royal Albert Hall – 1975

Let the Music Play

Love Serenade Parts 1 & 2 (incomplete)

1976

You See the Trouble With Me

1977

It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me (Ekundayo Paris, Nelson Pigford)

12″ version

1978

Your Sweetness is My Weakness

1990 – from the album The Man is Back! (89)

I Wanna Do It Good to Ya – (writers unknown) Remix

1991

Put Me in Your Mix (writers unknown)

1994

Practice What You Preach (Gerald Levert, Barry White, and Tony Nicholas)

Cold Sweat, Maybe the Last Time, I Feel Good, Please, Please, Please, Cape Finale – at The Apollo – 1968

I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) – words and music by James Brown, 1968. The provider gives the year of the performance as ’73.

Just be thankful for what you’ve got
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin’ the scene
With a gangsta lean
Gangsta whitewalls
TV antennas in the back

Blood is Thicker Than Water - 3:23

From Look Out For #1 – 1976

I’ll Be Good To You

Land of Ladies – live (6:41)

Get the Funk Out My Face – live (5:31)

From Right On Time - 1977

Strawberry Letter 23

an appearance on Dutch television, lip-syncing to the single — 1977

live

From Blam! - 1978

Mista Cool (3:26)

Streetwave - (5:07)

From Light Up the Night – 1980

Stomp! - 4:00

x-tended version

on the Midnight Special – 1980

Treasure

from Winners – 1981

The Real Thing –  live in concert – 1981

1969 — Debut album Give it Away

• “Give It Away” (US Pop #88, US R&B #10)
• “Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was” (US Pop #94, US R&B #15)
• “24 Hours of Sadness” (US R&B #30)

Give it Away (Carl Davis, Eugene Record)

Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was (Barbara Acklin, Eugene Record)

24 Hours of Sadness (Davis, Record)

1971

Have You Seen Her (Eugene Record, Barbara Acklin)

(For God Sakes) Give More Power to the People (Eugene Record)

Yes I’m Ready (If I Don’t Get to Go) written by Reve Gipson – B side of Have You Seen Her

Oh Girl (Eugene Record)

I Wanna Pay You Back (For Loving Me) – written by lead singer Eugene Record

Love Uprising (Eugene Record)

1972

A Letter to Myself (Eugene Record, Sandra Drayton)

Sally (Eugene Record, Sandra Drayton) – B side of the single A Letter to Myself

A Lonely Man (Eugene Record)

Inner City Blues (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx, Jr)

The Coldest Days of My Life Parts 1 & 2 (Carl Davis)

1973

Stoned Out of My Mind (Barbara Acklin , Eugene Record)

Homely Girl (Eugene Record , Stan McKenny)

1974

To Good to Be Forgotten (Acklin, Record) – plays twice

You Got to Be the One (Record, Marshall Arrington)

1975

It’s Time For Love (Record)

1976

You Don’t Have to Go (Acklin, Record)

What they do?

Back Stabbers (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff)

a. 1972  on Soul Train

Sunshine – 1972

Now That We’ve Found Love (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 1973

Love Train (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 1973

For the Love of Money – 1974

I Love Music – 1975

Message in Our Music - 1976

Brandy – 1978

Used ta Be My Girl – 1978  This performance is at the Hammersmith Odeon, London – 1988

Aretha had recorded an album called Songs of Faith at the age of fourteen from which two singles were released, one in 1956 and the other in 1959. In 1960, she scored a top ten R&B hit with her debut single for Columbia, Today I Sing the Blues. In the following year, her second album and Columbia debut, Aretha: with the Ray Bryant Combo (aka Right Now It’s Aretha), was released.

1960

Today I Sing the Blues (Curtis Lewis)

1961

Won’t Be Long (J. Leslie Mcfarland) – Aretha’s second top ten R&B hit, peaking at #7. This performance is from 1964 or ’65 says the provider.

1964

Running Out of Fools (Richard Alhert, Kay Rogers)

1965

One Step Ahead (authorship unknown)

Cry Like a Baby (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) Another source gives the year of this single as 1966

I’m Losing You (No, No) – (authorship unknown)

1967

Chain of Fools (Don Covay)

A 1968 performance

LADY SOUL

The following five videos are segments of a 1968 TV Special in Stockholm, Sweden called Lady Soul. The year ahead of the songs are, as above, the year her single was released.

1967

Chain of Fools (Covay)

(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman (Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Jerry Wexler)

Come Back Baby (Ray Charles) – not a single

I Never Loved a Man (Like I Love You) -(Ronnie Shannon)

1968

(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone – (Jerry Wexler)

more 1968

I Say a Little Prayer (Bacharach/David)

b. On the Cliff Richard Show (UK) – 1970

1970

Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) – (Ahmet Ertegün and Betty Nelson)

Cliff Richard Show, 1970

1971

You’re All I Need to Get By (M=Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – A 1978 live performance

Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Paul Simon)

with King Curtis, live on TV – 1971

1972

Daydreaming (Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler) – Aretha’s twelfth #1 record on Billboard’s R&B chart.

1973

Angel (Carolyn Franklin*, Sonny Saunders) – *Aretha’s sister

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(below) live a Nassau Colliseum, 1973

After winning first prize in a talent contest at the Regal Theater, the Five Stairsteps were beset with recording contract offers. A close neighbor and family friend was Fred Cash of The Impressions, who introduced the group to Curtis Mayfield. Signed to Mayfield’s Windy City imprint, which was distributed by the Philadelphia based Cameo Parkway record label, their first single was Gregory Fowler’s penned ballad “You Waited Too Long” b/w “Don’t Waste Your Time,” a Mayfield song. A double-sided hit in Chicago, the A-side, “You Waited Too Long,” charted number 16 in the Billboard R&B chart in spring of 1966. Around the end of 1967, Cameo-Parkway folded and Windy C switched to Buddah Records through former Cameo-Parkway executive Neil Bogart, who joined the new label as co-president. The group’s second album, Family Portrait (complete with a montage of Burke family photos), was recorded and produced in Chicago by Clarence Jr. With the addition of their three-year-old brother, the group became the Five Stairsteps & Cubie. Family Portrait yielded two hit singles, “Something’s Missing” and a cover of Jimmy Charles and the Revelletts’ hit “A Million to One.” The group often toured with the Impressions. After signing with Buddah Records, the group was once again known as the Five Stairsteps.

In the spring of 1970, the group released their biggest hit, “O-o-h Child” (written by Stan Vincent), which hit number 14 R&B and number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. This disc sold over one million copies, and received a gold disc awarded by the R.I.A.A. on August 1970.^[1] The falsetto bridge and ending ad-libs of the song are sung by the Stairsteps’ cousin, Charles “Chaz” Simmons. The flip side of the single, a cover of Lennon/McCartney’s “Dear Prudence,” charted at number 49 R&B. The following year, the group resurfaced as the Stairsteps with two charting Buddah singles: “Didn’t It Look So Easy” and “I Love You-Stop.” – Extract from wikipedia

1966

You’ve Waited Too Long (C. N. Burke & G. K. Fowler)

World of Fantasy (C. N. Burke & G. K. Fowler)

Comeback (C. N. Burke, G. K. Fowler)

1967

Danger! She’s a Stranger  (C. N. Burke, G. K. Fowler, Curtis Mayfield)

Ooo, Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore)

1968

Something’s Missing

1969

Love’s Happening (Curtis Mayfield)

We Must Be In Love

Stay Close to Me

1970

O-o-h Child (Stan Vincent)

The single

Don’t know what show this is from. The band is expanded in this live version. It looks like at least nine members, with the perhaps the father conducting the band.

Soul Train, Saturday 27 November 1971

1971

Didn’t It Look So Easy

1976

Time