NO Soul
12.06.23
A stroll through New Orleans in the 50s, 60s and 70s illuminates the genesis and proliferation of the Crescent City’s own Soul music identity. In contrast to more well known songs that caricature New Orleans around Mardi Gras tourism, this slice aims to paint a more universal picture of artists recounting love, pain, and spiritual communion. Countless dancey oddities and mystical bops of the era mostly failed to reach a national audience despite the scene’s thriving insular world. A closer look, however, reveals global threads of influence that weave a very soulful epoch.
Tracklist:
Premium – Isn’t Life So Wonderful (Feel good up-tempo)
Ameriquette – Tell Me Tell Me
Eddie Bo- You are going to be somebody’s fool too (oldies teeny bop)
The Montclairs- How can one man live
The Dixie Cups – Ain’t That Nice
Mable John – If You Give Up What You Got
Explosions – Teach Me (ballad)
Chuck Carbo – Take Care of Your Homework Friend
Warren Lee – Mama said we can’t get married (James brown type funk)
Aaron Neville – You Can Give But You Can’t Take
Bobby Powell – Thank You
Inell Young – The Next Ball Game
Lowell Fulsome – Lonesome Christmas pt. 1
Stu Gardner – How Do You Feel
Esther Phillips – Such A Night
The Stokes – Young Man, Old Man
Bobby Charles – Why Can’t You (old timey 1 4 5 ballad)
Johnny Adams – You made a new man out of me (upbeat funky)
Joe Haywood – Hand In Hand
Ernie K Doe – Te-ta-te-ta-ta
Lee Dorsey – A lover Was Born
Art Neville – Come Back Love
Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller
Related Broadcasts
