Hitting the highlights this week. (I even snuck in some Dusty Springfield, queen of the blue-eyed soul.)
No show next week (July 30), but I’ll be back Aug. 6!
“These Arms of Mine” by Otis Redding (Single, 1962, Stax/Volt)
“Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” by Aretha Franklin (Single, 1967, Atlantic)
“Ooh Baby Baby” by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (Going to a Go-Go, 1965, Tamla)
“I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Stereo)” by Marvin Gaye (In the Groove, 1968, Tamla)
“Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” by Solomon Burke (Single, 1964, Atlantic)
“I Got a Woman” by Ray Charles (Ray Charles, 1957, Atlantic)
“Love Man” by Otis Redding (Love Man, 1969, Atco)
“I Can’t Get Next to You” by The Temptations (Puzzle People, 1969, Gordy)
“L-O-V-E” by Al Green (Al Green is Love, 1975, Hi Records)
“The Love You Save May Be Your Own” by Joe Tex (The Love You Save, 1966, Dial/Atlantic)
“You’re The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” by Gladys Knight and the Pips (Imagination, 1973, Buddah)
“Good Love, Bad Love” by Eddie Floyd (Single (B-side of It Gets Better), 1966, Stax)
“That’s Where It’s At” by Sam Cooke (Single, 1964, RCA)
“Drown in My Own Tears” by Ray Charles (Single, 1958, Atlantic)
“Spanish Harlem” by Ben E. King (Spanish Harlem, 1961, Atco)
“Soul Man” by Sam and Dave (Soul Men, 1967, Stax/Atlantic)
“Shotgun” by Jr. Walker and the All Stars (Single, 1965, Soul Records (Motown))
“Another Saturday Night” by Sam Cooke (Ain’t That Good News, 1964, RCA Victor)
“You and Me” by Penny and The Quarters (Eccentric Soul, 2010, Numero Group)
“I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (With the Temptations)” by Diana Ross and the Supremes (Diana Ross & The Supremes Join the Temptations, 1968, Motown)
“(Night Time Is) The Right Time” by Ray Charles (The Genius Sings the Blues, 1961, Atlantic)
“Nowhere To Run” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (Dance Party, 1965, Gordy)
“I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” by Aretha Franklin (I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, 1967, Atlantic)
“Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers (Just As I Am, 1971, Sussex)
“Cry to Me” by Solomon Burke (Single, 1962, Atlantic)
“Please Please Please” by James Brown (Single, 1956, Federal)
“Tired of Being Alone” by Al Green (Al Green Gets Next to You, 1971, Hi Records)
“I Believe (When I Fall In Love With You it Will Be Forever)” by Stevie Wonder (Talking Book, 1972, Tamla)
“I Can’t Help Myself” by The Four Tops (Four Tops’ Second Album, 1965, Motown)
“There Goes My Baby” by The Drifters (Single, 1959, Atlantic)
“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” by Barry White (Can’t Get Enough, 1974, 20th Century)
“Treat Her Like a Lady” by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (Single, 1971, United Artists)
“Son of a Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield (Dusty in Memphis, 1969, Atlantic)
“Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha” by Sam Cooke (Single, 1959, Keen)
“Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs (Green Onions, 1962, Stax)