if i like david bowie's young americans and in particular, the outtakes for the album, what soul artists should i check out?

Sorry this doesn't help you much but I love YA but only have the vinyl, what are the out takes?

For the best in secondhand Philly soul, check out Hall & Oates

Philly loves Hall & Oates.

You should DEFINITELY check out the song "When You Come Back To Me" by World Party. Released on the Reality Bites soundtrack.

so...telluswhatyawant:

1) Philly Soul originals or contemporaneous soundalikes

2) "secondhand" aka white guys doing Philly Soul

"so...telluswhatyawant:

1) Philly Soul originals or contemporaneous soundalikes

2) "secondhand" aka white guys doing Philly Soul "

originally i just wanted option 1, but now you mention it, both 1 and 2 would be great, really.

xxxxxpost - the outtakes i have are can you hear me, right, and somebody up there likes me, as well as young americans and footstompin from the dick cavett show in dec 1974.

You might as well start with THE PHILLY SOUND box set on Legacy. Three discs cover Gamble & Huff's early freelance period and the heyday of their Philadelphia International label. All the usual suspects are present and well accounted for: O'Jays, Billy Paul, Three Degrees, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Intruders and more.

For The Spinners' classic work with iconoclastic Philly producer Thom Bell, go to One Of A Kind Love Affair: The Anthology (Rhino/Atlantic) Some of their individual albums are worth the search: The Spinners, Mighty Love, Pick of the Litter.

Gamble & Huff parted ways w/Columbia Records distribution in the mid 70s so that boxed set doesn't include later classics like "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" by Lou Rawls and McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" or solo Teddy Pendergrass. The Right Stuff label reissued many Philly Intl albums from the post-CBS period but they're a real mixed bag. Try Teddy's TP album. Don't know of an anthology covering these years. One of the first CD sets I bought in 1989 was an 8-disc German box that's all-inclusive. The Philadelphia Years: Volume One 1971-1976 and Volume Two: 1976-1983. On Knight Records, good luck.

If you need to start simply, begin with the O'Jays' Backstabbers LP.

we haven't had a proper david bowie young americans thread, have we?!?

Luther Vandross might be one answer to your question, since he did vocals and arrangements on YA before finding fame as a solo artist. His 80s albums are pretty consistent, and my suggestion of The Night I Fell In Love is just because that one came along at an opportune moment in my own amorous history. There's a really good greatest hits album called The Best of Love.