TOP 45 SWEET SOUL RECORDS: KIMMER'S PICKS

I ran into a story today online about the top 45 soul music 45's.  Though it was a valiant effort..I knew the writer was not from Detroit. Here are my top 45 Soul Tunes. What do you think? Add your favorites in the comments ok?

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Aaron Neville - Tell it Like It Is
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
Barrett Strong: Money (That’s What I Want)
Ben E King - Stand By Me
Billy Ward and the Dominoes - 60 Minute Man
Chubby Checker - The Twist
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
Delfonics - La La Mean I Love You
Dells - Stay in my Corner
Eddie Floyd- Knock on Wood
Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl
Edwin Starr - Stop Her on Sight (SOS)
Frankie Lymon - Little Bitty Pretty One
Jackie Wilson - Baby Work Out
James Brown - I Feel Good
Ike Turner - Rocket 88
Isley Brothers - This Ol Heart of Mine
Little Anthony and the Imperials - Hurts so Bad
Martha Reeves The Vandellas Nowhere To Run
Marvin Gaye - Aint That Peculiar
Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby
One Hundred Proof Aged in Soul - Somebody's Been Sleepin
Otis Redding - Love Man
Patty and the Emblems - Mixed up Shook up Girl
Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves a Woman
Ray Charles - Mess Around
Royalettes - It's Gonna Take a Miracle
Rufus & Chuka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Sam & Dave - I Thank You
Sam Cooke - Bring it on Home
Sly And The Family Stone – I Want to Take You Higher
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - You Really Got a Hold on Me
Solomon Burke - Cry to Me
Stevie Wonder - I was Made to Love Her
The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Lovin
The Impressions - We're a Winner
The Impressions - It's Alright
The Main Ingredient - Just Don't Want to be Lonely
The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
The Temptations - Aint too Proud to Beg
Tyrone Davis - "Turn Back The Hands Of Time"
Wilson Pickett - 6345789

BOBBY RYDELL AUTOBIOGRAPHY: TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS!

TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS

The Bobby Rydell Autobiography

From Rise to Superstardom through Alcoholism and Life-Saving

Double Transplant Surgery, ‘Justin Bieber of the Camelot Era’

Releases Candid and Compelling ‘Tale of Second Chances’

PHILADELPHIA (March 22, 2016) — From his vivid childhood on the fabled mid-20th-century streets of South Philadelphia, to his reign as the Justin Bieber of the “Camelot” era, his battles with alcoholism, and his lifesaving double-transplant surgery, multi-talented entertainer BOBBY RYDELL has one hell of a story to tell.

On May 4, Bobby will share his incredible tale as he releases his candid and compelling autobiography, TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS: A Tale of Second Chances (Doctor Licks Publishing, 249 pp., $16.95).

Co-written with award-winning musician-author-filmmaker Allan Slutsky (Standing in the Shadows of Motown), TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS not only tells the story of Bobby Rydell, but that of American pop culture through the past six decades. In its pages, Bobby writes of his encounters with such giants of 20th century show business as Frank Sinatra, Ann-Margret, The Beatles, Red Skelton, Jack Benny and Dick Clark, whose Philly-based American Bandstand helped make Rydell the world’s biggest teen idol in the years between Elvis Presley’s army induction and the advent of Beatlemania. A time when Frank Sinatra called Bobby his “favorite” pop singer.

But TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS also is a very personal — and often-painful – story. Bobby delves into the darker and more dramatic aspects of his life, including the death of his beloved first wife, Camille, his decades of alcohol abuse, and the last-ditch transplant surgery that saved his life.

Among other topics covered in the book:

The circumstances of how Bobby lost his virginity in a Hollywood hotel suite at the age of 17.

How a Philadelphia mob boss helped him take a movie acting job.

His becoming, at age 19, the youngest-ever headliner at New York’s legendary Copacabana nightclub.

How The Beatles paid homage to Bobby in one of their biggest hits — and how the Fab Four’s emergence as a global phenomenon all but killed his career.

Humorous, tragic, fascinating, inspiring and always entertaining, TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS stands as one of the most important non-fiction books of 2016.

TEEN IDOL ON THE ROCKS (Doctor Licks Publishing) will be available May 4, 2016 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and book stores throughout America.

Official website: www.bobbyrydell.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialBobbyRydell

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/BobbayRydell

ROCK TV BEGAN IN THE 1960'S: SHINDIG★ HULLABALOO★ AND WHERE THE ACTION IS

Shindig! was the first of a kind in the US- a prime-time rock music TV show that featured live... maybe rehearsed and then taped live... performances by the top acts of the early Sixties.

The Studio band for Shindig were called The Shindogs.. the band lineup was Glen D Hardin Delaney Bramlett Joey Cooper James Burton and Chuck Blackwell. Never knew Delaney was in this group!

Patty Duke on Shindig!

Rolling Stones on Shindig!

The Shindig show, hosted Jimmy O'Neill, was broadcast live on ABC September 16, 1964, with house band the Shin-diggers (later the Shindogs) and the Shindigger dancers (the reason anyone over twenty-five might be watching the show). Most of the 'Shindig' shows were broadcast in glorious black and white.

On January of 1966, a year and a half after the series debuted, it was canceled to make room on ABC's schedule for 'Batman', which was also scheduled to run on two nights a week. Sigh... Oh well, we liked Batman too for a time.

Shindig was an American version of Britain's rock/pop show Ready Steady Go. They featured a lot of British Invasion bands and lots of American music too like Motown, The Birds, Fontella Bass and more. Here is a video of one of my favorite singers Gerry Marsden and Gerry and the Pacemakers "Ferry Cross the Mersey" I got to meet Gerry at the Premiere Center in Sterling Heights in the late 80's. Loved him.

Paul Revere and The Raiders with Mark Lindsay Where The Action Is In 1963, AMERICAN BANDSTAND left the weekday shift for Saturday afternoons. Two years later (1965), Dick Clark created a new spin-off for ABC called Where The Action Is, a half-hour rock 'n' roll show featuring the…

More hits of the day. Buffalo Springfield on Where the Action Is Where The Action Is took viewers to various locations across the US. In addition to Stateside locations, segments were also taped in Canada, Britain and Japan.

One frequent location was Malibu Beach in Malibu, CA, where many of the summer shows were shot. Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Bear Mountain, CA was the frequent site for the winter and holiday shows. Steve Alaimo and Linda Scott were the original hosts.

By 1966, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the house band, took over the hosting duties. That's when the show was it's best. Other series regulars included Keith Allison, Tina Mason, and Jimmy Hubbard. The Action Kids was the series' dance troupe. Where The Action Is was in black and white during its original ABC run.

 

Hullabaloo was a lot like Shindig, and lasted only a year and a half as well, debuting in January of 1965, and continuing until the Fall of 1966. Hullabaloo! in the fall of 1965 was a pretty cool show. It was in color and a bit over produced.

Not as cool as Shindig but we watched our favorite bands anywhere we could find them.  These shows and transistor am radio was all we had to discover new music. No FM, No MTV, VH1 or the internet. Now days the only way I discover new music is on film soundtracks. They rarely announce the names of the bands on the radio.

So if I hear something I really like in a movie I look it up on Amazon for the samplers to listen to. I also really love Playlist.com. It is not a download site it is more of a free jukebox for your favorite tunes. I have lots of playlists for this blog ala the Christmas tunes playing now.

 All of these shows, especially Shindig, captured some of the coolest live songs by the best rock, pop and soul stars, The Supremes, Otis Redding, Beach Boys, and James Brown.

 Read more on RK Florence Ballard and The Supremes Dave Wakeling The English Beat Darlene Love