Carol Brown - Flight of the Conchords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGoDns8wTA Carol Brown took a bus out of town - divergence for the weekend. This isn't soul, but still...
Heaven Must Have Sent You - the Elgins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6yPqcZXCY Surely the best opening line in pop I've cried so many endless nights just holding my...
Your Promise to be Mine - the Drifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQu_AMf6ics Bubba Thrasher's finest hour! The Drifters again, this time just two years later in 1956....
Whatcha Gonna Do - the Drifters
A lot of people think the Drifters began in 1959 with the classic "There goes my Baby", Ben E King's first lead vocal with them. But...
Stand By Me - Playing for Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM Buskers of the world unite. I normally would never countenance a new version of such a...
It's Only Mystery - Arthur Sims
In Luc Besson's early movie "Subway", Christopher Lambert spends almost as much time looking quizzically at the busking community in the...
You're So Fine - the Falcons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhdzhLxHw_Y Mesozoic soul! Evidence that Detroit was truly the the heartbeat of early soul is to be found...
The Breaking Point - Chuck Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOwmTV4n4E "Shagga dagga da-ga shick shick" it starts, already on edge, then Chuck sings seemingly...
A Quiet Place - Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJuUUV7TP4E About twenty years ago I saw a listing in the telephone book (remember them?) for Rare...
You and Me - Penny and the Quarters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8rumyup0Os Often when you listen to a track, you can date it to at least within five years or so by the...