We'll feel the heat with summer songs from Sam Cooke, Kool & the Gang, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, hear songs about relationships from Joan Armatrading, and dance our way through a Stevie Wonder set- plus a wild violin version of Horace Silver's Song For My Father by Don "Sugarcane" Harris.
UpFront Soul Playlist #2020.34 PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Hank Mobley "A Baptist Beat [alt take]" from Roll Call Copperwire "Phone Home" from Earthbound Jimmy McGriff "It Feels So Nice" from Birth of the Cool Funk - Vintage Jams and Serious Grooves, Vol. 3 Michele Thomas "Where Were You When I Needed You?" from I'll Take Romance Cutlass Dance Band "Accra Makola" from Ghana Funk Black Sugar "Viajecito" from Black Sugar Gloria Griffin "You" from Greg Belson's Divine Disco on Cultures of Soul Curtis Mayfield "Get Down" from Roots Bernard Purdie "Hap'nin'" from Lialeh: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Leon Bridges "Coming Home" from Coming Home Don "Sugarcane" Harris "Song for My Father" from Essential Blues Masters Black Sugar "Don't You Worry About A Thing" from Black Sugar II Michele Thomas "Higher Ground" from Messenger Stevie Wonder "Another Star" from Songs In The Key Of Life [Disc 2] Joan Armatrading "Still Waters" from Not Too Far Away Joan Armatrading "What Do You Want" from To the Limit Joan Armatrading "All the Way from America" from Me Myself I DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince "Summertime" from Platinum & Gold Collection Kool & the Gang "Summer Madness" from Hit & Run (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sam Cooke "Summertime Pt. 1" from The Man Who Invented Soul Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M