01/09/2023
A playlist of classic soul, funk, disco and R&B with new releases and features, plus interview with Alan Gorrie of Average White Band and archive session tracks from Button Up.
Ravi celebrates the best of soul, funk and disco. Alan Gorrie of Average White Band talks about how the band infused influences of their Soul and R&B hero’s and took the band’s sound to the top of the American charts and the archive session is courtesy of Scotland’s Button Up’ featuring Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie and Ike and Tina Turner provide tonight’s Live Classic.
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Music Played
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The Gap Band
Oops Up Side Your Head
- Soul Years 1980 (Various Artists).
- Knight Records.
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Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson
The Best Things In Life Are Free
- (CD Single).
- DEF JAM.
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Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Motoring
- The Ultimate Collection.
- Motown.
- 25.
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Sly & the Family Stone
Everyday People (Glastonbury 2015)
- The Woodstock Generation (Various).
- Nectar.
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Maggie Bell
Ain't No Love In The Heart of The City
- The River Sessions.
- River Records.
- 05.
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Button Up
Home Is Where The Hatred Is (feat. Justin Currie)
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Gladys Knight & the Pips
Midnight Train To Georgia
- Midnight Train To Georgia: The Best Of Gladys Knight And The Pips.
- Music Club Records.
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Ike & Tina Turner
Proud Mary (live)
- The Archive Series Vols. 1 & 2.
- SPV.
- 10.
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Eli "Paperboy" Reed & True Loves
The Boom Boom
- Roll With You.
- Yep Roc Records.
- 11.
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Leon Haywood
Don't Push It Don't Force It
- Keep It In The Family (Expanded Edition).
- Mercury Records.
- 10.
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Dusty Springfield
Son Of A Preacher Man
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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The Tams
Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
- Feelgood Songs.
- EMI / Virgin.
- 15.
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Wild Cherry
Play That Funky Music
- Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
- Columbia.
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Positive Force
We Got The Funk
- Disco Delight: The Beat Goes On.
- Metro Select.
- 5.
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Lou Rawls
You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- Love train.
- Sony Columbia.
- 3.
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Emeli Sandé
There For You
- (single).
- Chrysalis.
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Aretha Franklin
All Of These Things
- With Everything I Feel In Me.
- Atlantic.
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Average White Band
Cut The Cake
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Average White Band
Let's Go Round Again
- 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1980.
- Connoisseur.
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Robert Knight
Love On A Mountain Top
- Love On A Mountain Top (Single).
- Monument.
- 1.
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Wayne Gibson & the Dynamic Sounds
Under My Thumb
- North of Watford: 24 Rare Pop & Soul Classics, Vol. 1.
- Kev Roberts.
- 19.
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The Elgins
Put Yourself In My Place
- Big Motown Hits & Hard To Find Classi.
- Tamla Motown.
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Otis Clay
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (Remastered Single Version)
- Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Brothers.
- Rhino Atlantic.
- 10.
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Wilson Pickett
I'm a Midnight Mover
- The Very Best of Wilson Pickett.
- Rhino.
- 14.
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Soul II Soul
Joy
- Volume III - Just Right.
- Ten Records.
- 1.
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Blue Boy
Remember Me
-
Estelle
American Boy (feat. Ye)
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Minnie Riperton
Les Fleurs
- Come To My Garden.
- CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92).
- 1.
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Alicia Keys
Fallin'
- Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor.
- J.
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James & Bobby Purify
Morning Glory
- North Of Watford Vol 2.
- KRL.
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Jim Diamond
I'm Your Puppet
- City of Soul.
- Camino Records.
- 07.
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Button Up
To Have & Don't Need (feat. Justin Currie)
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Jill Scott
SO IN LOVE (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
- The Light of the Sun.
- Blues Babe Records.
- 2.
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Fantastic Negrito
I'm so Happy I Cry (feat. Tank and the Bangas & Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball)
- Have You Lost Your Mind yet?.
- Cooking Vinyl Limited.
- 2.
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Macy Gray
Sweet Baby (feat. Erykah Badu)
- The Very Best of.
- Sony Music UK.
- 7.
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Don't Leave Me This Way
- The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
- Premier.
Broadcast
- Fri 1 Sep 2023 22:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland