American Songwriter

4 Songs From 1970 That Were Euphoric To Listen to for the First Time

I bet you'd give anything to go back to the year 1970 and hear these euphoric songs for the very first time again.

The northern soul obscurities that defied the odds to become chart hits

Northern Soul was a scene built upon obscure and forgotten soul singles, but the popularity of the scene soon rocketed those singles into the mainstream charts.
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The meaning of soul Black music and resilience since the 1960s Emily J. Lordi

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Pastor Mitty Collier spent the 1960s as one of the great voices in soul music

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...
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Subliminal Seduction: How Two Memphis Soul Men Defined R&B in the 1960s and Beyond

Isaac Hayes’ gold-plated Cadillac on display at the Stax Museum. Photo by Kate Cauthen. The long story is very long, but the short story goes something like this: Atlantic Records had been ...
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Thom Bell, an architect of 1970s Philadelphia soul, dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Bell, the Grammy-winning producer, writer and arranger who helped perfect the “Sound of Philadelphia” of the 1970s with the inventive, orchestral settings of such hits as the ...
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Thom Bell, an architect of 1970s Philadelphia soul, dies

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Bell, the ...