Recommend me some simmering soul tracks like "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" and "Walk on By"

Curtis Mayfield, "If There's Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go"

and for REALLY menacing:

James Brown, "King Heroin"

allmusic.com confirms that it is the Dramatics who do "In the Rain". Brook Benton doing Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night in Georgia" is also a dramatic, beautifully sad number that might work.

I used to love playing some of these numbers on my college radio show way back when. Much better than the Smiths or the Cure for mopeyness or other more extreme emotions re travails of love.

-- andrew m. (westernis...), April 19th, 2005.

Hell yes. The song is so fucking amazing, the way it just jumps from coming home at night with nothing apparently wrong to being in bandages. The only clue it really drops (very slyly and deliberately though) is that the guy is coming home at 5am, and the girl is clearly waiting up, and the guy is too thick to realize it.

Holy shit, I just realizes she POISONS him, THEN fucks him up.

"Are you hungry? Didja EAT YEEEEETTT?"

realized

(or slips him something that makes him pass out, I guess)

oh, come on people!..Isaac Hayes' rendition of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" is the definition of simmering soul!...chills are sent up and down the spine!

More Bill Withers - 'Who is He, and What is He to You?

William DeVaughn, "Be Thankful For What You've Got"

If simmering is what you want, then definitely "Go On Fool" by Marion Black... it's a lost classic.

O.V. Wright-"Drowning On Dry Land" "A Nickel and A Nail"

Another obscure one: "How Much Can A Man Take" by Big John Hamilton, though maybe that's more Otis Redding/Deep South than you're looking for.

Plenty of stuff on the Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures comps of course, e.g. Roy Hamilton's "The Dark End Of The Street" (don't know how that compares to the James Carr version listed upthread).

More readily available: Donny Hathaway's immaculate "The Ghetto".

Don Covay - I Was Checkin' Out (She Was Checkin' In)
-- whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:04 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Forgotten how good that whole record (Super Dude) is...... like a male version of 'Caught Up'

Doris Duke - To The Other Woman

"I'll Cry 1,000 Tears" by Eddie Holman. Must get this.

"It Ain't No Fun" and "Woman to Woman" by Shirley Brown. Plus the "Woman to Woman" answer record "From His Woman to You" by Barbara Mason.

circulating on Facebook and Yahoo soul group emails

I just received permission from a member of The Dells Family to post this information. Marvin Junior is very ill & is not expected to be with us for very much longer. Chuck Barksdale is also ill & is not doing very well.

Sexy Mama - The Moments
In the Mood - Tyrone Davis
The Masquerade is Over - David Porter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBa746RVNHA

Curtis Mayfield - Now you're gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9xlbIJcZk

RIP Marvin Junior, lead singer of the Dells. He still sounded stunning when I saw him with the Dells in 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4woQg4cL8

I think the Dells deserve their own thread, but on the other hand there are probably not enough folks here who would post on such a thread. I don't have the record geek knowledge to school anyone on their discography but "Stay in my Corner" and "The Love We had (Stays on My Mind)" are just so powerful. When I saw 'em in 2005 live their vocals and harmonies were still so strong and precise. The lead vocals were spine-tingling on those cuts. Really.