The Chi-Lites, Teena Marie & George Benson

Recorded live over 25 years ago

Some Teena Marie Favs

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Déjà Vu Live


Another Soul Train performance

On American Band Stand

Remembrance







Happy


I'm Just a Sucker For Your Love (instrumental)


Sunny Skies


Now That I Have You


Black Reign


My Dear Mr. Gaye


Out on a Limb


Casanova Brown


Pretty Man


Dear lover


It Must Be Magic


Square Biz


How Can You Resist It


Can’t Love Anymore


365


Miracles Need Wings To Fly


Interview

Soul Legend Teena Marie (Mary Christine Brockhert) Passes Away

Mary Christine Brockhert (Teena Marie) The Ivory Queen of Soul1956-2010

One of the greatest Soul singers of all-time, certainly among women. She easily fits into the top 10 women of all-time in Soul. Although I didn't care much for her bend towards Rap/Hip Hop in recent years. A genius, talented beyond measure. Her impact may never be fully appreciated. "The Brockert Initiative" alone (the Federal law setting precedent for protecting artists from record companies- freeing artists from labels abusing their contracts) puts her in a unique place in history.

Her music was part of the soundtrack to my childhood. A relative exposed me to her work back in the mid 80's. I didn't know until sometime later that she was white....and in the end, it didn't matter. She was a staple...both in our home and on those long 8, 12, 15+ hour road trips that my father seemed to love so much. She never quite got the level of recognition that matched her talent. She'll be in good company in that department.... Donny Hathaway, Chick Webb, Phyllis Hyman, Minnie Riperton, Grant Green & Curtis Mayfield immediately come to mind.

Solomon Burke Passes On at Age 70

Solomon Burke
(1940-2010)  
I Have A Dream (Now Is The Time)

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Page

Reports & Remembrances

Rolling Stone

The Guardian

NPR Report

Funky 16 Corners

Three for One: Quincy Jones and Crusaders

Joe Sample/Crusaders - Covert Action

Esther Williams, Dave Grusin, Laura Nyro, & Gene Harris

Mavis Staples, The Voices of East Harlem, & The Pockets

Mavis Staples - Eyes On The Prize


Voices of East Harlem (C. Mayfield production) - Take a Stand


The Pockets- Come Go With Me

Shuggie Otis and Love Unlimited

Shuggie Otis - Oxford Gray


Love Unlimited w/ Love Unlimited Orchestra (Barry White & Co.) - I Belong To You


Barry White/ Love Unlimited - I Found Someone/ Live in London 1975

2 for 1: Boz Scaggs and Joe Sample & the Crusaders

 Boz Scaggs - Here to Stay & Flames of Love


Joe Sample/Crusaders - Lilies of the Nile

Gil-Scott Heron - Ain't No Such Thing As Superman

Ain't No Such Thing As Superman
Gil-Scott Heron & Brian Jackson

Lyrics:

You have understood
The riddles of the ages

Yes and you have understood
The universal mind

You have placed your footprints on
The everlasting sands of time

Yes so tell me why
Can't you understand that there ain't no such thing as a superman?
There ain't no such thing as a superman

You was on the Nile
You went to see great Egypt fall
It fell down to the ground

Yes, and you was out there on the corner
When being cool went blind
Oh, you alone understand that if we gonna win
We've got to get together, stay together, be together, stick together

So tell me why, can't you understand
That there ain't no such thing as a superman
There ain't no such thing as a superman

You alone consider mercy after it seems like all you get is pain
It seems to me that you have found the courage that others could not find
You alone have the wisdom to take this world and make it what it needs to be, wants to be, will be, someday you'll see

The day, the day you understand
That there ain't no such thing as a superman
There ain't no such thing as a superman

3 for 1 - Bettye LaVette, Bill Withers, and Sharon Jones

Bettye LaVette- Salt of the Earth (as good as the original? I think so).


Bettye LaVette - Salt Of The Earth found on R&B




Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

Bill Withers - World Keeps Going Around

Awesome live performance - from the live @ Carnegie Hall album

4 for 1: Brothers Johnson, Tom Scott, Newbirth, Mayer Hawthorne

Kings Go Forth

Bonus: Willie Hutch

Mayer Hawthorne + The Independents

Make Her Mine (love the nod to Curtis Mayfield)


Leaving Me

Vintage Vandross

The great Luther Vandross from the mid 1970's, when he was with the group "Luther".

Classics "The Second Time Around" and "Funky Music" (David Bowie).

Marvin Gaye - Life's Opera

Extra: O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

Cannonball Adderley/Joe Zawinul & The Dramatics/Ron Banks (1951-2010)

Ron Banks (1951-2010) link. Report from ABC.