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Thread started 07/19/11 9:16am

MidniteMagnet

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R&B piano ballads...help me!

I'm trying to create a playlist of old scool r&b ballads from '73-'83 that are mainly just piano and vocal. Here is what I have so far but I need your help!

Rufus & Chaka Khan - In Love We Grow

Teena Marie - Yes Indeed

Rick James - Unity

Steve Wonder - All In Love Is Fair

Donny Hathaway - For All We Know

Thelma Houston - Don't Misunderstand

Aretha Franklin - I'm Your Speed

Natalie Cole - Beautiful Dreamer

I know there are tons more...any ideas??

"Keep in mind that I'm an artist...and I'm sensitive about my shit."--E. Badu
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Reply #1 posted 07/19/11 1:03pm

Japha11

Stevie Wonder - Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You?)

Stevie Wonder - Blame it on the Sun

Stevie Wonder - Looking for another Pure Love

Stevie Wonder - I Believe When I Fall In Love

Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know It All

Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me off My Feet

Stevie Wonder - As

Stevie Wonder - Send One Your Love

Stevie Wonder - Lately

Stevie Wonder - Ribbon in the Sky

lol Looks like a joke but it really isn't.

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Reply #2 posted 07/19/11 1:09pm

BlaqueKnight

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If you are bold enough to go up just a few years, here's one:

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Reply #3 posted 07/19/11 1:28pm

AlexdeParis

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Stevie's "You and I" was released a few months before the era you stated, but it definitely fits.

"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis
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Reply #4 posted 07/19/11 1:32pm

AlexdeParis

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Another great one: The Isley Brothers - The Highways of My Life

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Reply #5 posted 07/19/11 2:36pm

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Tender Love is amazing....and I know it's a Jam & Lewis production, and also reminds me of Again thuogh it came out years earlier

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Reply #6 posted 07/19/11 3:14pm

MidniteMagnet

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Thanks guys!

God, I could fill an entire CD with Stevie alone...

Never heard that Isley's before...love it!

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Reply #7 posted 07/19/11 3:48pm

AlexdeParis

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Yes, it's an amazing song. Other piano ballads from the Isleys:

Lover's Eve (1974)

Love Put Me on the Corner (1972)

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Reply #8 posted 07/19/11 4:05pm

Serious

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Well as tender love was posted I am gonna post another one from about the same time

With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A....
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Reply #9 posted 07/19/11 4:13pm

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AlexdeParis said:

Stevie's "You and I" was released a few months before the era you stated, but it definitely fits.

I'm such an idiot for not putting 'You and I'.duh And ^^^ 'Let Her Down Easy'... one of my favourites that Terence has done.

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