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