Buttery Soul Mix

Just under 30 minutes of speaker pimp classics you've never heard.

New Holidays - Maybe So, Maybe No (1969)
Smokey Robinson - If You Can Want (1968)
Ruby Andrews - You Made a Believer Out of Me (1969)
The Jarmels - A Little of Bit of Soap (1961)
The Impressions - Seven Years (1969)
The Mad Lads - No Strings Attached (1969)
Betty Padgett - Sugar Daddy (1975)
Harvey Averne - You're No Good (1968)
Jackson Sisters - I Believe in Miracles (1976)
The Johnny Otis Show - Watts Breakaway (1969)


Buttery Soul Mix (right click to download mp3)

Enjoy - and remember to hit up Soul Sides for your old soul/funk/latin/hip hop needs.

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Here Comes Shuggie (+ Johhny) Otis
3 Feet High and Rising - Original Samples
Q-Tip flips Ruby Andrews

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Be Thankful For What You've Got

The economy is making people act a fool, a BT staffer just saw an old guy get hit by a cab, and even though it's raining the falafel cart line is still really long. WTF.

We need to be thankful for what we've got people - and that starts with appreciating your beats; particularly William DeVaughn's 1974 classic and its varied offspring. Massive Attack covered it in 1991 and Ludacris mangled it in 2004, but neither compares to the super-dubbed Lee "Scratch" Perry/Upsetters version or Yo La's thumping platitude of gratitude.


William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got


The Upsetters - Dubbing in the Backseat (from Trojan in Dub 1970-80)


Yo La Tengo - Be Thankful For What You've Got (from Little Honda)

I'm also thankful for Soul Sides dropping this Smokey Robinson gem they call a "loud, proud wake-up call of funky power." Indeed. Be sure to spend some time over there if you haven't already, it's like a musty record store basement with free schooling.


Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - If You Can Want (from Special Occasion)

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