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Thread started 06/04/22 8:08am

2freaky

Champaign, About Us, kinda blue eyed soul lol

I'll tell U what the Eye in the Pimp stand 4!
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Reply #1 posted 06/05/22 11:05am

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Going by this logic, then Aretha Franklin is so-called "blue eyed soul". lol Since most of the session musicians on her 1960s records on both Columbia & Atlantic are white and so are the producers like John Hammond & Jerry Wexler. On songs like Respect, it was the Muscle Shoals house band. Members of Toto have also played on a lot of R&B records in the 1970s & 1980s. Hall & Oates have said they don't like the term "blue eyed soul". Daryl in particular said he considers it offensive.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #2 posted 06/06/22 5:47am

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“How about Us” is a good song but check out the singles “Try Again” (1982) and “Off And On Love” (1984).A very underrated group.
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Reply #3 posted 06/06/22 11:11am

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I used to get Champaign and Klique mixed up biggrin

Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint
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Reply #4 posted 06/06/22 8:01pm

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SoulAlive said:

“How about Us” is a good song but check out the singles “Try Again” (1982) and “Off And On Love” (1984).A very underrated group.

nod nod nod

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Reply #5 posted 06/07/22 11:16am

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MickyDolenz said:

Going by this logic, then Aretha Franklin is so-called "blue eyed soul". lol Since most of the session musicians on her 1960s records on both Columbia & Atlantic are white and so are the producers like John Hammond & Jerry Wexler. On songs like Respect, it was the Muscle Shoals house band. Members of Toto have also played on a lot of R&B records in the 1970s & 1980s. Hall & Oates have said they don't like the term "blue eyed soul". Daryl in particular said he considers it offensive.



Lets be clear...Aretha's voice and vocal phrasings gave those songs soul...not the hillbillys that played the instruments.
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Reply #6 posted 06/07/22 4:32pm

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RJOrion said:

MickyDolenz said:

Going by this logic, then Aretha Franklin is so-called "blue eyed soul". lol Since most of the session musicians on her 1960s records on both Columbia & Atlantic are white and so are the producers like John Hammond & Jerry Wexler. On songs like Respect, it was the Muscle Shoals house band. Members of Toto have also played on a lot of R&B records in the 1970s & 1980s. Hall & Oates have said they don't like the term "blue eyed soul". Daryl in particular said he considers it offensive.

Lets be clear...Aretha's voice and vocal phrasings gave those songs soul...not the hillbillys that played the instruments.



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