The first airing of this special happened Friday (6/11) at 3 p.m. So SiriusXM’s “’70s on 7” pop oldies station commemorates Black Music Month this weekend by airing its countdown of the 70 greatest soul songs of the 1970s. It featured an array of performers. The concert was held for Ghana's 14th Independence Day on Maat the Black Star Square in Accra. (soundtrack) Soul To Soul (Music From The Original Soundtrack - Recorded Live In Ghana, West Africa) is the soundtrack to the concert film Soul to Soul released on Atlantic Records in 1971.So whether your guests can’t get enough of those old school classics such as Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, and Stevie Wonder or love contemporary music from. We play a mix of music that is suitable for all ages. Together we perform acoustic cover songs with a soulful twist. Back To Life Booker T Kings Of Soul Satta Dub.Soul To Soul Acoustic is made up of singer Chloe and guitarist Richard. Back To Life Zepherin Saint Tribe Vocal Mix Zepherin Saint, Soul II Soul Funki Dred Records 2.Pop comparisons, 33 of the songs reached No. 12 and 20 on the Soul chart during their original runs in 19, respectively.Continuing with the soul vs. 12 and 32, respectively, on the Hot 100).Interestingly, two of the seventy songs also missed the soul chart’s top 10 (Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles Chart): again one was “Fantasy” by EWF and the other Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold.” Those two songs petered out at Nos. 70!But before we get to that, readers should know that this soul countdown came from a pop music satellite radio station…voted on by pop music fans.Granted, the list was democratically created, generated by an online listeners’ poll the station recently conducted (although, oddly enough, I listen to this ‘70s station pretty often and don’t recall them announcing the poll’s availability).(Spoiler alert: If you haven’t caught the countdown yet and want to be surprised when you do, don’t read much further than this.)Anyway, as one might expect given the station’s normal playlist and likely audience demographic (older, mostly white), the list is pretty poppy.All 70 of the soul songs listed below also reached the pop chart in fact, all but two of them reached the pop top ten (using Billboard’s Hot 100 chart as the reference).Ironically, the only two songs on this list that didn’t reach the top ten on the pop chart were both by Earth, Wind & Fire (“That’s The Way of the World” and “Fantasy,” which reached Nos.3 pop and soul.Fourteen songs peaked higher on the pop chart than they did on the soul list, while 27 did the opposite.That’s not a bad showing for fans of pop and soul crossover hits, but this list (printed in its entirety below) leaves a lot to be desired for soul music purists.For example, there is no Parliament/Funkadelic to be found. Chaka Khan’s “Tell Me Something Good,” which peaked at No. 2 on both lists, and Rufus ft. 1 on both charts, only two other listed songs had matching pop and soul chart peaks: EWF’s “After The Love Has Gone,” which reached No. 2 on both charts.In addition to the 27 songs that reached No.
1 ranked “September” (no surprise there). The band from Chicago has five songs on this countdown (tied with the Spinners for the most), including the song that finished at the top – the No. “Serpentine Fire” is also non-existent on this SiriusXM countdown.There is plenty of other EWF, however. 1 on Billboard’s Soul Singles list for six weeks (only two songs during the 1970s spent longer time in that position: “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green and “Serpentine Fire” by EWF, at nine and seven weeks, respectively). Timer app macIt has become the “Don’t Stop Believin'” of Black music – the song that had respectable chart success when it was released but has grown tremendously in stature ever since. 1, greatest song of the ‘70s, either by chart standards or by quality standards.There are too many other songs – many on this list, some not – that represent the true essence of ’70s soul music better than “September.” That song gets by on its catchiness, the nostalgic factor and its more current popularity.“September” and EWF have inspired annual celebrations across the nation every 21st night of September. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great song – clearly EWF’s most enduring classic – but it just doesn’t feel like the No. 1 soul song of the entire 1970s decade. But even I will admit that “September” is a dubious choice as the No. Soul To Soul Songs Plus The TamlaMotown was easily the most represented label here (and you thought just the 1960s were their decade!).And speaking of Hitsville, USA, three former Motown acts did make the list with songs from their ‘70s labels, but sadly with only one hit each. Apparently, pop fans don’t have as much love for Soul Train’s most popular theme music, even though it also topped both the pop and soul charts – a seemingly winning formula for getting on this list.Motown Records (the main blue label plus the Tamla and Gordy imprints) had 19 songs listed, the highest of which was Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” at No. If any ‘70s jam was the epitome of chart crossover success during that decade and belongs on this list, it was that one.Now, before I reveal the list, I thought readers might be interested in another countdown subplot: which one of the two most important music capitals of the era – Philadelphia and Detroit – won the battle for representation on this list?Philly soul (songs written and/or produced by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and/or Thom Bell) accounted for twelve of the 70 songs, with Philadelphia International Records accounting for five of those (the others were on the Atlantic or Avco labels by the Spinners and Stylistics, respectively).Philly soul fans will be disappointed to learn, however, that classics by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, and the label’s house band, MFSB (Mother, Father, Sister, Brother) did not even make the list (nope, there’s no “TSOP” here…sheer blasphemy!). 1 on the pop chart during the summer and fall of 1977. 1 on the Soul list but – even more importantly – logged FIVE weeks at No. License files for mestrenova not workingStill shot from EWF’s “September” video. But, there’s clearly a demographic influence on the outcome, as some might have expected.As for the list itself, brace yourself, here it is – the 70 songs voted by SiriusXM’s pop listeners as the greatest soul songs of the 1970s. If you’re looking for the latter group’s top-5 pop and soul social anthem “Fight the Power,” you won’t find it here.All-n-all (pun intended for those who get it) it’s not a horrible list all of the songs here are truly soul hits – big ones even. 35, and the Isley Brothers’ “That Lady” placed at No.
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