Listening List for June 02, 2026

Here's the listening list for this week, featuring some of the greatest American popular music of the 20th century (yes, I'm biased).

NORTHERN SOUL

Chicago

Rescue me
Fontella Bass (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7BeGDZewHs

Have you seen her?
The Chi-lites (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYxKRXDT2I

Freddie's dead
Curtis Mayfield (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_vGs980z-o


Philadelphia

One of a kind love affair
The Spinners (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uRhUSPBjk

The Love I Lost
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs1QlyawpY

The sound of Philadelphia
MFSB (with the Three Degrees) (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2PQs_IRNk

Be thankful for what you got
William DeVaughn (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSt5MaSDDj8


New York

Not on the outside
The Moments (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztb5cLT2uk

Linda Jones (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjaorD-950

So many ways to die
Barbara Jean English (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Agd_UbCymg

Home is where the hatred is
Esther Phillips (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvdnMzQGbEQ

SOUTHERN SOUL

Memphis

Respect yourself
The Staple Singers (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InYaB16xEd0

I'll take you there
The Staple Singers (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9xgx6fA5E

If loving you is wrong (I don't wanna be right)
Luther Ingram (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvJj7SN9EWI

I let my chance go by
Frederick Knight (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htk_XpfEbw8

I can't stand the rain
Ann Peebles (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmGig_b2QLI

Sha la la
Al Green (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCLir1hdZ8


Muscle Shoals

I'd rather go blind
Etta James (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbha6lKNBhs

Share your love with me
Aretha Franklin (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqJzYsjyXQ


Miscelaneous

Funk

I feel good
James Brown (1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTRwnjFygU

Jungle boogie
Kool and the Gang (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHGOO73Gxg4

Disco

You're the first, the last, my everything
Barry White (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtwOeoeWhoo

Never can say goodbye
Gloria Gaynor (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSvNZWpXaM

Lyrics for May 26, 2026

Here are the lyrics for May 26, 2026 (Motown!)

See y'all in class!

Listening List for May 26, 2026

Here is the listening list for Motown, songs marked with *** are more likely to be used in class. If links are dead you should be able to find videos by searching song title and artist.

EARLY YEARS 1960-63)

Money (That's what I want)
Barret Strong (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI

***Shop around
The Miracles (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ftvr7xzS7Y

***Please Mr. Postman
The Marvelettes (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425GpjTSlS4

Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI

***Fingertips (Part 2)
Little Stevie Wonder (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCfRvcXuY0

Heat wave
Martha and the Vandellas (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo

GLORY YEARS 1964-1970)

My Guy
Mary Wells (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WT7nBGX5eU

My Girl (1964)
The Temptations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsdGo8dEoY

***Where did our love go?
The Supremes (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0wQZ7dIX5U

How sweet it is (to be loved by you)
Marvin Gaye (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0vRHUu6eI

Dancing in the streets
Martha and the Vandellas (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbM2mqhCQ

Baby, I need your loving
The Four Tops (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqjBAJx4ZA

Baby love
The Supremes (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_y6nFjoVp4

***I can't help myself (Sugar pie honey bunch)
The Four Tops (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c

Stop! In the name of love
The Supremes (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBkiBbO4_4

Ain't too proud to beg
The Temptations (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHMHrWJ2SE

What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Jimmy Ruffin (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQywZYoGB1g

You keep me hangin' on
The Supremes (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bjMtqpGBw

Reach out! I'll be there
The Four Tops (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56Sj7kMbLk

***I heard it through the grapevine
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRcUxNJEbs

***Ain't no mountain high enough
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5PL0XImjw

Cloud Nine
The Temptations (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdhhQayeWw

Love Child
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3oU1AlVATs

***I heard it through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnZZTVp_2A

I can't get next to you
The Temptations (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfGe6MvY84

Someday we'll be together
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGz8i0I2L0

Ball of Confusion
The Temptations (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9poCAuYT-s

If I were your woman
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfORYJt3OJU

The tears of a clown
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heHLbchPKk

***I want you back
The Jackson 5 (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDyAb6pePo

RELATED VIDEOS

***James Jamerson isolated bass (I can't help myself)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUFGe06Ylw

***Funk brothers instrumental track (Love is like an itching in my heart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-2kPilg5uQ

Funk brothers with the Andantes (Just ask the lonely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtbhSu0OQw

Supremes a capella track (Come see about me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSi18lwvmQ

Temptations a capella track (Just my imagination)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZze-PA7EA

Somewhere (cover by the Supremes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDFUqLgI3Rc

Class Materials for May 19, 2026

Okay, first an important announcement.

Class this week, May 19, 2026, will be held in 102A (other side of the building).

Remember, class will be in 102A!

That said, here are lyrics for this week.

Also, here are the notes for Crossover Artists.

See y'all in class!

Class Cancelled on May 12, 2026

Unfortunately I won't be able to have class this week, I'm too busy coughing.

See y'all next week!

Listening List for May 12, 2026

I've been busy coughing, so I haven't had as much time as I wanted to update the materials for this week (kind of a slumgullion).

Anyway, here it is:

Early Rock and Roll

Move to Alabama 
Charley Patton (1929)

(first listen at normal speed and then listen at 1.25 normal speed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuY6NROhCQw

Rocket 88 (1951)
Jackie Brenson/Ike Turner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

Rock Awhile
Goree Carter (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZlESMXHFfY

Rhythm and Blues Dirty and Clean

Keep on Churnin' (till the butter comes)
Wynonie Harris (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8swz7WFgrU

Further on up the Road
Bobby Bland (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsl_swTQCVU

Vocal group history

Barbershop

Explanation of Barbershop harmony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zyQSDyI5q4

Let me call you sweetheart
Shannon Quartet (1926)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAPnv6RqZDs

Sincere
Buffalo Bills (from the movie The Music Man) 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXNag2XWYA

I get around
Proper Sound Barbshop Quartet (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z-FUk00fYk

The evolution of modern vocal groups

Crazy People
Boswell Sisters (1932) (not African American but hugely important)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-O5U4uuPF8

My Prayer
The Ink Spots (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7KJCns5v3g

Paper Doll
The Mills Brothers (1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeSrynug0

Platters
Smoke gets in your eyes (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLFZSoeXbnI

Doo Wop

Sixty Minute Man
The Dominos (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfJj8R3q20

Little Darlin'
The Gladiolas (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsSkI81Sgk

The Wah Watusi
The Orlons (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b5WS2xAYk

Cover Versions

Ain't That a Shame?
Fats Domino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfMlk1PwGU

Pat Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuI_cVNW4Y

Tutti Frutti
Little Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_C9q4tuwXI

Pat Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFxTvffJqOg