Re: My love is a-live

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:35:10 -0400
Newsgroups: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1970s
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mga707 wrote:
> email-address-deleted (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
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>>>What mid- to -late 1970's soul classic is this? Who made it? When? What
>>>other hits?
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>>This is the first time I have heard Gary Wright referred to as a "soul" artist.
I think he was only talking about "Love Is Alive". That song sounds
like a funk song if you ask me, and perhaps even funkier than most of
Hall and Oates' material :)
Another song just popped in my head that I would consider "blue eyed
soul/funk". It's the Four Seasons "Who Loves You". Another is "Play
That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry.
Who says white people can't do soul/funk music? ;-)
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> Well, the local "Mega-Oldies" (radio format-speak for r&b/soul/disco
> oldies) station DOES play it...
> But then they play rather fast and loose with the format, playing such
> other 'soulful' oldies as the two '70s Pablo Cruise hits, and even,
> believe it or not, "The Way That I Want to Touch You" by Captain and
> Tennille.
> guess there's a little soul in just about everyone (except Celine
> Dion, of course)...
> ;-)
Well, I remember hearing "Love Will Keep Us Together" back in '75 when I
didn't know who Captain and Tennille were. I thought the lead singer
(Tennille) was a black woman ;-)
I think Tennille has a very soulful voice.
Also, both of Pablo Cruise's hits, "Whatcha Gonna Do", and "Love Will
Find A Way" were played a lot in R&B stations in the 70s.
-Naz