Son of y2funkysoultrainlive ( or... at least, lip synced ) 'n Stuff

February 6, 2022 1:06 PM

Marvin Gaye -- Got to Give It Up

The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child

Al Green -- I'm So Tired of Being Alone (10/30/71) 1st Soul Train Appearance: Yikes!!!

The Second Time Around due to link rot in the Previously

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See also

Al Green -- I'm So Tired of Being Alone 02/16/72 (Soul School)

Al Green -- I'm So Tired of Being Alone (live) 1973

And from the 1973 TV special Chicago in the Rocky Mountains, here are Al Green and Chicago -- I'm So Tired of Being Alone

Al Green -- I'm So Tired of Being Alone (Midnight Special 1974)

And then...

Alvin Cash & the Crawlers -- Twine Time

Shirley Brown - Woman to Woman

Joe Tex -- I Gotcha

Joe Tex -- Skinny Legs and All

A Taste of Honey -- Sukiyaki

Archie Bell & the Drells -- Tighten Up

Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Tighten Up

Five Star -- All Fall Down

Eddie Kendricks -- Keep On Truckin'

Aretha Franklin -- Rock Steady

Al Green -- Love and Happiness

Staples Singers -- I'll Take You There

Kool & the Gang -- Get Down On It

Kool & the Gang -- Celebremos

Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 1969 virus mix

Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) -- 1974 Midnight Special

Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Thank You for Talkin' To Me Africa (live in studio 2010)

King Floyd -- Groove Me

The Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love

Jean Knight -- Mr. Big Stuff (1971)

Professor Longhair -- Big Chief

Professor Longhair -- Big Chief (Part 2)

Of related interest:

The Temptations -- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
Soul Train line dance

And, oh, of Soul Train Line Dances
there is no end!

plus

Betty Wright -- Clean Up Woman & The Babysitter

Wardell Quezergue -- Oral History with Dr. John and Bob French

And last but not least despite their diminutive stature, the incredibly graceful, charming and distinctly endearing Norah, Yarah and Rosa aka Let It Happen

posted by y2karl (15 comments total)

The Second Time Around = Doubles Jubilee, of course...

Also, all the Al Greens are because a) I love the man and the song plus b) Well, Duh-h-h...
posted by y2karl at 1:27 PM on February 6, 2022 [2 favorites]

See also

Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth -- They Reminisce Over You

Let It Happen: Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth -- They Reminisce Over You
posted by y2karl at 1:47 PM on February 6, 2022

Um, I was kind of hoping for this Second Time Around (Shalamar w/ ex-Soul Train-dancer-future-solo-star Jody Watley)
posted by JoeZydeco at 1:47 PM on February 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

Not the lyric I had in mind: It was all about the sentiment thereof.
posted by y2karl at 1:50 PM on February 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

But thank you for the contribution! Those were a treat the last time around.
posted by y2karl at 1:58 PM on February 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

And sadly,

Syl Johnson -- Take Me to the River

...who, as I only just found out, died today. He was and is one of my favorites.

See also

Syl Johnson -- Take Me to the River (album version)

Syl Johnson -- I Only Have Love For You

Syl Johnson -- Give Me Miss Fine Brown Frame
posted by y2karl at 2:39 PM on February 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

These all make me so happy! This is a fantastic collection - thanks for putting it together.

Pretty sure this will be the soundtrack for my coming week.
posted by Silvery Fish at 2:47 PM on February 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

LIVE James Jamerson (oh and yes, Marvin Gaye too)
posted by superelastic at 3:31 PM on February 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

2nded on the Youtube Premier thing -- they finally got me since I watch several hours of yt a day after work and the ads are just so bad . . .

The Three Degrees have a connection to Soul Train of course, and seeing this clip in one of those 'here's 100 hits of the 1970s' compilations took me back to 1974 instantly.
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 4:28 PM on February 6, 2022

Three amply bewigged lovely young women in sexy sequined gowns sitting on revolving bar stools and singing in the center of a roofed amphitheater is certainly a novel concept for a dance pop video.
posted by y2karl at 11:31 PM on February 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

These all make me so happy!

I am wistful and nostalgic. It is not like the 70s was a golden age, but the future everyone saw coming seemed so much brighter.
posted by Meatbomb at 11:42 PM on February 6, 2022

It was Peak Peacock Consumption with backlit horizons.
posted by y2karl at 12:04 AM on February 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

Most of these songs were part of the soundtrack of my adolescence. The only thing missing is Gladys Knight.

Thanks y2karl!
posted by james33 at 3:52 AM on February 7, 2022

Y2Karl, you have compiled so many of my favourite FPPs but this one surpasses the lot.

That Al Green debut on Soul Train... the expression of disbelief on the faces of the couple behind him during the fade out, as they stare and stare at his hotpants...
posted by MinPin at 10:38 AM on February 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

It was an interesting event in music history.
posted by y2karl at 12:12 PM on February 7, 2022 [1 favorite]