Give one or two of your favorite R and B/soul songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and today. And when I say r and B/ soul, I'll take anything that sounds even remotely close to R and B /soul songs, just NOT Rock!
Try to pick out a few songs from each decade,including today.
My list is comming soon!

Slip Away - Clarence Carter
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King

marvin gaye lets get it on. guy groove me.

I can't narrow it down to just one or two, nor can I ignore the '50s.

1950s:

Gee - The Crows
There's a Riot Goin' On (in cell block #9) - The Robins
Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston

More to come whenever I feel like it.

Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Boz Scaggs with Duane Allman.

I 2nd B.B. King's: The Thrill is Gone.

Sirius Ch. 74. Blues. I listened to it all the way back from Tacoma today.

I love Blues music!

Found these on YouTube. Not a bad rendition and the narrative is pretty good too (although you need to be a speed reader on a few of the slides!!)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPVJo7TawM

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmur8dCJLgc&feature=related

I like your list Randy! I would add:

At My Front Door-The El-Dorados
Money Honey-Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
One Mint Julep- The Clovers
It's a Man's World-James Brown
These Arms of Mine- Otis Redding
Just about anything with the name "Ray Charles" attached to it.

Natural Man- Lou Rawls
Whatcha see is Whatcha get- The Dramatics
Sex Machine- James Brown
Turn back the hands of time- Tyrone Davis
Mustang Sally- Wilson Pickett
I've been loving you too long- Otis Redding
Rock Steady- Aretha Franklin
Be thankful for what you got- William Devaughn
Rainy night in Georgia- Brooke Benton
....there was something very special about 60's and 70's Soul...from the slicked down polished sound of Motown to the raw sound of Stax and much more.

My incomplete list:

Ray Charles-I Can't Stop Loving You ('62)
Smokey/Miracles-I Second That Emotion ('67)
Intruders-Cowboys To Girls ('68)
Harold Melvin/Bluenotes-The Love I Lost ('73)
O'Jays- Love Train ('73)
Spinners-One of A Kind Love Affair ('73)
Ohio Players-Love Rollercoaster ('75)
Earth Wind & Fire-Getaway ('76)
Brothers Johnson-Stomp ('80)

I love this thread..here's a few to ponder
Jerry Butler Only the Strong Survive
Dells There is
Four Tops Ask the Lonely
Tyrone Davis Can I change my Mind
Sonny Charles/Checkmate LTD Black Pearl
Bobby Womack Lookin' for A Love
Smokey/Miracles OOH Baby Baby
Darell Banks Open the Door to your Heart
Temptations (I Know) I'm Losing You
Wow!! I'm just getting started

Madison Time - Ray Bryant Combo
I Do Love You - Billy Stewart
She Blew A Good Thing - The Poets
People Get Ready - Impressions
Love & Happiness - Al Green
Mr. Pitiful - Otis Redding
It's A Shame - Spinners
Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton
What Does It Take - Jr. Walker
Close The Door - Teddy Pendergrass
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
Jack & Jill - Ray Parker Jr
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Roger Trotman
Bustin' Loose - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

bossjock says "Jack & Jill" - Ray Parker Jr

You picked "jack and jill" over ghostbusters???

What can I say? Falls under "guilty pleasure"...plus a great ramp to talk up.

The song, Young Hearts Run Free was a very under rated hit, great song..Also Jr Walker, (I'm A) Roadrunner and Gotta Hold on to this Feeling
Marvellettes..The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game/ My Baby Must be a Magician..I'm sure there's more to come

TEVIN CAMPBELL BABY!!!!
Lets also not forget Boyz 2 Men. Trying to get laid was very easy in the 90's as long as you had "On bended Knee" playing in the bedroom.LOL!

Everything Smokey and the Miracles did except "Tears of a clown." Also Marvin Gaye on everything, especially "Whats' Going on." and the Four Tops "Ask the Lonely" "Shake me Wake me" and "Still Water Love."

Did anyone hear the story of the girl being murdered somewhere in the building during the recording of "Love Rollercoaster"? If you listen carefully, there's a distinct scream. Can anyone confirm the validity of the story?

This from Wikipedia:

Love Rollercoaster, Urban Legend

While the song is known within the music community for its distinctive and influential sound, within the popular imagination it remains best identified with a persistent urban legend. During an instrumental portion of the song, a high-pitched scream is heard (between 1:25 and 1:28 on the single version); according to the most common legend, this is the scream of Billy Beck, but the victim's identity varies greatly depending on the version. The supposed sources of the scream have included an individual who was killed at some prior time, his scream inexplicably recorded and looped into the track, or a rabbit being killed outside the studio whose scream was accidentally picked up by the band's recording equipment (of all the explanations, this is the least plausible — professional recording studios are soundproof).

The most widespread version of the myth, however, tells that Ester Cordet, who appeared nude on the Honey album cover, had suffered permanent disfigurement due to the substance used to replicate honey for the photo; she interrupted the band's recording session, so the story says, at which point she was stabbed to death. Another version is that she was in the booth next door doing the photo shoot for the cover and was on top of fibre glass, when she poured the honey on herself the honey fused with the fibre glass and her legs sticking her to the floor, as she tried to get up the skin got ripped off her legs, thus the scream, this put an end to her modeling career she then said that she would sue the band for everything they had, at this point the band manager stabbed her to death. However this is also highly improbable as Ester Cordet is still alive. Ester Cordet, however, did not make any answers about this.

Casey Kasem reported the urban myth of the girl being killed in the studio recording booth while the song was being reported on his radio show, American Top 40 when the song was on the charts in 1976.

Jimmy "Diamond" Williams explained that the scream was nothing eerie or disturbing:

“ There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Ripperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, 'Did you kill this girl in the studio?' The band took a vow of silence because that makes you sell more records. ”

Thanks Craig! Whatever the source, it's only a single blood-curdling scream in the background of the recording.

"Jesus is Waiting" ... Al Green
"Children of the Night" ... Stylistics
"Lady Day and John Coltrane" ... Gil Scott-Heron
"What is Hip" ... Tower of Power
"Eating in Kansas City" ... Hoodoo Rhythm Devils

Very difficult to keep the list to just two, but here are some of my favorites!

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – The Love I Lost
Isley Brothers – That Lady
Joe Tex – I Gotcha
Marvin Gaye – You’re The Man (parts 1 & 2)
O’Jays – Use Ta Be My Girl
Pointer Sisters – Yes, We Can Can
Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There, If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me), Let’s Do It Again, Respect Yourself

I cant leave your love alone...Clarence Carter

Let's Stay Together- Al Green
I Feel Good- James Brown
September- EWF (probably their entire catalogue)
Shot Gun- Jr. Walker
Respect-Aretha Franklin
Can't Get Enough of Your Love-Barry White (love his opening monologue on this one)

"Here Comes The Judge" Pigmeat Markham


Solid Gold, 1968

anything by Wilson Pickett

Ditto Chris on Al Green, but I'd pick "Tired of Being Alone".

"September" by EFW is a favorite for me, because our daughter's birthday is 9/21. And I also wore out a few EFW albums spinnin' and flippin' them endlessly. All their stuff, very listenable.

Al is just so smooth and soulful.

I never watch American Idol but I do hear the winners and finalists because of the internet. I'm attracted too the more soulful singers because of the way they can turn a phrase.

You just don't hear many of today's young artists that have soulfulness of an Al Green.

Edselehr-I have done many a cleaning of the kitchen to EWF's greatest hits. As a matter of fact all my wife has to say is ...put on some EWF and the kitchen is nearly spotless.

If there was a station in town that played classic R&B or a good mix of todays R&B and classic, I'd might even consider going "live" with a format like that.

Sam Cooke once said "sometimes the better singers aren't the ones with the better voices, they're the ones with the better stories to tell."

Al Green is now a minister and does gospel music now.

How about Sam Cooke? Now he was soul. I liked everything he did.

I gotta go with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7gjRBeIWU

Another version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NOlxhMkhs&NR=1

The first one looks like the guy who did the Beatles covers awhile back.

Yup. Same guy.

In case everyone's wondering, it's the Stylistics' "Stone In Love With you."

And here's an instrumental version I found just moments ago. I'm impressed, and I don't even like horns! Smooth Jazz PDs, click here (and send me a check):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUironR62Nk

"Quiet Storm"(Album version)- Smokey Robinson. Smokey may not even know that it was this song that inspired the "Quiet Storm" formats of long ago... I think KBLX Berkley/S.F. still goes by the "Quiet Storm" as influenced by this song.

Yeah skep nice rendition for sure except that his alto sax is at times out of tune but still listenable.

Noticed his toys too. Looked like a Mackie mixer board interfaced with Macintosh laptop computer probably midi'd with the grand piano. Nice set up.

Levi Stubbs passed away. I loved the Tops I think it was Saturday.

There's a thread about it on the other side.

I Can't Stand The Rain - Ann Peebles
I Don't Know Why - Stevie Wonder (B side of My Cherie Amour)
Bernadette - Four Tops
If You Want Me To Stay - Sly & Family Stone
My Whole World Ended - David Ruffin

2008: Cold Shoulder - Adele

Correction to the above post: My Cherie Amour was actually the B side to "I Don't Know Why (I love you)". It was an unexpected hit.

How about "Ain't Understanding Mellow" - Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KxRidG0Hvc

Ask The Lonely 4 Tops
Nobody Loves Me Like You Do Flamingos
Open The Door To Your Heart Darrel Banks
Baby Don't Do It Marvin Gaye
Searchin' For My Love Bobby Moore&Rhythm Aces
A Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke
Turn On Your Lovelight Bobby "Blue" Bland

Bob how about: I only Have eyes for you, Your other love-the Flamingos.
Thats it I quit I'm Moving On, Frankie and Johnny, Sad Mood, For Sentimental reasons-Sam Cooke.
Your Precious Love With Tammi Terrel , Too Busy Thinking about my baby, Once upon a Time-with Mary Wells, Marvin Gay
The 4 tops, your choice plus, Shake me Wake me, Still Water Love,