"Cherish" is a song by American #RAndB band #KoolAndTheGang, released in May 1985. It was the third single released from the band's sixteenth studio album, #Emergency. It was certified Gold by the #RIAA and held the number 1 position on #Billboard's #AdultContemporary chart for six weeks running. It would ultimately rank as the biggest Adult Contemporary chart hit of the 1980s. The song is a romantic #ballad that proved to be extremely popular when it was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4l32yNal9A

Respect - Otis Redding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvC9V_lBnDQ #Music #Soul #RandB

New #intro!

I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.

My website https://meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.

Some stuff I love:

#NowPlaying: 'Feel So High' by Desree (1991).

An old CD single originally, but I found the 7" on eBay last year. A gorgeous song.

"Doesn't Really Matter" is a song by American singer #JanetJackson from the #soundtrack to the 2000 film #NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps and her seventh studio album, #AllForYou (2001). It was written and produced by Jackson, #JimmyJamAndTerryLewis. The track was sent to #contemporaryHitRadio in the US on May 23, 2000, after an #unmastered version was #leaked to several radio stations. It is an upbeat #electropop, #RAndB and #dance song with a #syncopated drum loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6fyVBhRhY

"Sing a Song" is a song recorded by #RAndB/funk band, #EarthWindAndFire, which was issued as a single in November 1975 on #ColumbiaRecords. The song reached No. 1 on the #Billboard #HotSoulSingles chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXhsb7pdPbI

https://m.soundcloud.com/syeed/sets/the-manifesto

"Say You'll Be There" is a song recorded by the English #girlGroup Spice Girls for their #debut studio album Spice (1996). #TheSpiceGirls co-wrote the song with #EliotKennedy after the group left Heart Management in 1995. Later, #JonathanBuck also received a songwriting credit. Produced by #production duo #Absolute, the song incorporates a mix of #dancepop and #RAndB influences. It also includes a #harmonica #solo played by #JuddLander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03RKO8L-nE

"Right Here" is the debut single of American #RAndB girl group #SWV, released on August 20, 1992, by #RCARecords as the lead single from their debut album, #ItsAboutTime (1992). The song was written by #BrianAlexanderMorgan, who also produced it. A remixed version, referred to as "Right Here (#HumanNature Remix)" and based on a feature of #MichaelJackson's 1982 song "Human Nature", was released in July 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btr3If04rFg

"Lovely Day" is a song by American #soul and #RAndB singer #BillWithers. Written by Withers and #SkipScarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, #Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained note towards the end which, at 18 seconds, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song. The song was listed at No. 402 on #RollingStone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0L7kzW0sk

"I Got a Woman" (originally titled "#IveGotAWoman") is a song co-written and recorded by American #RAndB and #soulMusician #RayCharles. #AtlanticRecords released the song as a single in December 1954, with "#ComeBackBaby" as the B-side. Both songs later appeared on the 1957 album Ray Charles (subsequently reissued as Hallelujah I Love Her So).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxD6ExGpLMk

"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an #RAndB song written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith. It was recorded by #JackieWilson for his album #HigherAndHigher (1967), produced by #CarlDavis, and became a Top 10 pop and number one R&B hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdZgmFh32U

Such a fantastic album.

(I didn't realize until I read some notes about it that some great songriters contributed songs -- Dylan, Waits, Van Morrison, Costello, Lowe, Brian Wilson...)

#music #nowListening #solomonBurke #soul #soulMusic #randb

https://album.link/kjbh4pbkttvsb

"Starting All Over Again" is a 1972 song by the cousin duo #MelAndTim. It is the title track of their second LP. It was their second and final top 40 hit in the U.S. and Canada. It peaked at number 19 on the #Billboard #Hot100, spending five months on the American charts. On the #RAndB chart, the song peaked at number 4. The cousins performed "Starting All Over Again" on #SoulTrain on March 17, 1973. They appeared on the show along with #AlGreen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvdhODRNHI

"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" is a song written by #BertCarroll and #RussellMoody, performed by #ElvisPresley, which was released in 1958. It was particularly notable for breaking a string of ten consecutive number 1 hits for Presley achieved in just two years. Although it was Presley's 6th number-one hit in the American #RAndB Charts, it only peaked at number 2 on the American Pop Charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaW9WZwXjs

"Part-Time Lover" is a song by American #RAndB singer and songwriter #StevieWonder, released as the first single from his twentieth studio album, #InSquareCircle (1985). The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, R&B, #dance, and #adultContemporary charts, becoming Wonder's final number one hit to date. The song's simultaneous chart successes made Wonder the first artist to score a number-one hit on four different Billboard charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpDM6ygsb20

"Give Me the Night" is a song recorded by American #jazz and #RAndB musician #GeorgeBenson, released in June 1980 by #WarnerBros as the first single from his 18th studio album of the same title (1980). It was written by #Heatwave's keyboard player #RodTemperton and produced by #QuincyJones. #PattiAustin provides the backing and #scat vocals that are heard throughout, and one of Benson's fellow jazz guitarists, #LeeRitenour, also performs on the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIF7wKJb2iU

"Heat Wave" is a 1963 song written by the #HollandDozierHolland songwriting team. It was first made popular by the #Motown vocal group #MarthaAndTheVandellas, who issued it as a single on July 10, 1963, on the Motown subsidiary #Gordy label. The single reached #numberOne on the #Billboard Hot #RAndB chart—where it stayed for four weeks—and peaking at number 4 on the Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpr0I1o99h0

"Mirrors" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter #JustinTimberlake for his third studio album, #The2020Experience (2013). First conceived in 2009, the track was inspired by his relationship with #JessicaBiel and the marriage of his grandparents. It is an eight-minute-long mid-tempo #progressiveSoul and #RAndB #ballad. Timberlake wrote and produced the song with #Timbaland and #JeromeJRocHarmon, with additional writing from #JamesFauntleroy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZE_IRwLNI

"Too Hot ta Trot" is a song by #RAndB/funk band, the Commodores. The song is written in #EMajor. The track on their 1977 live album #CommodoresLive, and it spent a week at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number twenty-four on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1978. #RecordWorld called it a "thumping funk exercise from a live lp."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqeesjA9Gg