This week, we'll be Killin' Time with Natural Essence, checking in with Richie Havens (and a song popularized by him), and scaring ourselves with Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
UpFront Soul Playlist #2016.44 Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Natural Essence "Killin' Time" from "In Search Of Happiness" on Universal Japan Ahmad Jamal "Bogota" from "Bogota" The Voices of East Harlem "Run Shaker Life" from "Right on Be Free" Richie Havens "The Dolphins" from "Resume: the Best of Richie Havens" on Rhino Black Rock "Yeah Yeah" from "Yeah Yeah" Linda Lyndell "What a Man" from "Stax 50th Anniversary" EKO "Ndolo Embe Mulema" from "Funky Disco Music" on Fly By Night Billy Preston "Low Down" from "The Very Best of Billy Preston" The Soul Clan "That's How it Feels" from "That's How it Feels" on Atlantic Gloria Griffin "You" from "Greg Belson's Divine Disco" on Cultures of Soul Black Sugar "Viajecito" from "Black Sugar" on Munster Cutlass Dance Band "Accra Makola" from "Ghana Funk" Hour 2 Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put a Spell on You" from "At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins" on Rumble Maxine Brown "In My Entire Life" from "Out of Sight" on Sony Japan Mahalia Jackson "In My Home Over There" from "Mahalia Jackson In Concert Easter Sunday, 1967" on Sony Gene Anderson "The Devil Made Me Do It" from "Super Funk 1" Alvin Cash & The Registers "Stone Thing" from "Stone Thing" Little Richard "Function At The Junction" from "Get Down With It!: The OKeh Sessions" Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples "We Need Power" from "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism" on Arista/BMG Heritage Cannonball Adderley "Autumn Leaves" from "Somethin' Else" on Art Music Gloria Edwards "Don't Mess With My Man" from "I'm a Good Woman Vol. 3" A Tribe Called Quest "I Left My Wallet in el Segundo" from "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm" on Jive Weather Report "The Juggler" from "Heavy Weather" on COLUMBIA/LEGACY 6IX "You Can, We Can" from "I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970" Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA