www.CostaRicaTicas.com

And another'n--Kenny Loggins. Here's a nice semi-acoustic version of a great song--with a special guest sitting in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzEzK7Y4 ... re=related
Try this one, done with his co-writer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiq1hih7 ... re=related

There's also an '05 DVD Loggins and Messina: Sittin' in Again that's fun first minute to last

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michael mcdonald
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9mmto2Cdw

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Paul Carrack of Mike and the Mechanics; here's a cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYRmQRtS3cw
and another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEmFzDdwUzg
next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYdFQRM ... re=related
Then here's an original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYdFQRM ... re=related

Here's his bio. Don't know him? I know you've heard him: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... qw5ldfe~T1

ADD: Mr Carrack doing a Marvin Gaye rave-up classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEmFzDdwUzg

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he was in squeeze right?

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Yes, he was in Ace, Squeeze, Roxy Music but his main vehicle is Mike and the Mechanics + he still hires out for side projects when a multi-keyboardist and soulful singer is needed. AllMusic called him "The Ultimate Rock Journeyman"--very underrated because he hid himself inside others' bands.
BTW, he's from Sheffield, England as is Joe Cocker--something about those Midlands guys. It's the UK's Pittsburgh and Detroit area--a gritty industrial heartland now in sad decline.

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funny you should mention roxy music...bryan ferry rules. this song sort of defies description for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PAuWV-Vn0

but this was more what the band was about. amazing violin at the end. worth the price of admission.
notice how coldplay blatantly ripped off this band?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqYBdcwVsHM

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For an "OMG, how did I forget them?" array of singers known collectively as Three Dog Night, see this bio:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... qr5ldse~T1
Easy to forget now 3-1/2 decades later but they owned the charts in the early '70's. They never got the critical acclaim they deserved, being characterized as too slick and commercial, and they didn't write their material (a damning indictment for a Pop group; a big "so what?" when it came to Soul music). BTW, the same could be said of the early Manhattan Transfer. They are still out there making good music usually with a symphony backing their core band.
2 picks to click: CD The Complete Hit Singles http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... frxqealdhe
DVD (just the 2 survivors--see below) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... fixqt0ld6e << beautiful orchestral charts

And now--Chuck Negron. Prettyboy/badboy Chuck. Arguably the best singer in the group. After Wells and Hutton had had enough of Chuck's hopelessly drug-addicted shenanigans, they kicked him out in '76. After a looong rehab period he seems to be doing and singing well. Here's a bio and DVD listing (he speaks the brutal truth about himself between songs): BIO http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... q8gldhe~T1
He doesn't have much worthy new material but does well singing the TDN hits on this DVD: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... frxqesldke << can be horrifically expensive

For the YouTubers (that sounds like a cross between a female sheep and a potato but there you go):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFaG4IbPl28 << They just kill on this tune
2 of the same song from Negron. You could argue that what his much-abused voice has lost in pure quality it's gained in soulfulness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yP ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gQpLp4gDk << this is from the late '90's--If you want to hear what he sounds like today, he's in Ocean City MD 25 Sept. with the 2010 version of Blood, Sweat and Tears

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OK, some of my other choices pushed the envelope--these 3 may be totally off the rez:
Gene Pitney--Was there ever a more operatic voice this side of Roy Orbison? Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD3z8bSGNTo
and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXE9uyG ... 1&index=55
finally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZPJS_wl9o
I hear you saying, "At one point does angst become soulful and not just technique for it's own sake?" But isn't just that point of the deep soul singers like O.V Wright and Otis Clay' stock-in-trade?

Cher--Now I expect some flak for this but listen to her '69 opus (some call it the finest recording she ever did)--3614 Jackson Highway Read about the session here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... fixqw5ldde
not from that session but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4p8kFdvgtE
this one is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rRG4wR ... =1&index=4

Laura Nyro--Known principally as a songwriter (superb--Eli's Coming, Stoned Soul Picnic [I'm personally greatly in favor of attending one of these] and so many more), the lady could deliver vocals too. She's so much more than she's thought to be. Evidence? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... qr5ld6e~T1
here's the one you need of this tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMi8KrK0QbI
what I said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSNbC9z ... playnext=1

Hey, now--still looking for submissions--don't be shy.

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Ah, yes Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (not to be confused with another band called Roxy)--it was essentially a vehicle post-'79 for Ferry's chilly, suave, ironic stylings (English to the bone is he) but soul is soul. The have an excellent '01 DVD called Live at the Apollo but it's the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Whatever. Impassioned performances, enthusiastic audience. Allmusic quite likes it.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... fexqraldfe

BTW, and off-topic: Bryan Ferry is one of the supreme singers of Dylan's music. Here's a review of his '07 album (there's also a live DVD of this material):
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... foxq8rldae
And here's a hot slice--"If Not for You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUbD48zEqw

ADD: He just kills, gets to this song's essence, in his version of this classic; this song also more conventionally covered by Dusty Springfield--I've included that one. too, for comparison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0ebvpf9FY&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLrSVD6 ... re=related

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I expect to be chaffed a bit for this but--Scott Bakula is a classic Broadway singer/actor who did a creditable job on Quantum Leap for a few years. In one episode in year 2 he did a good job in a duet on a Gospel/R & B tune. The episode is called "Pool Hall Blues". Worth watching.
BTW and not to hijack this Thread too much, look for a Milwaukee group called Kings Go Forth--1 CD so far but in terms of retro/nuevo 60's/70's Philly soul with a strong touch of Chitown--they do it right. see this review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... fwxzusld6e I have it on high-repeat. Try this one for a prime example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzvIUVgQQE

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cher? scott bakula? sorry jbro i can't hang.

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Brother LaDiablo makes a good point--with those 2 I was just being maybe overly inclusive (sweeping up the leavings), though that one mention of Cher's is pretty good (Muscle Shoals rhythm section and those good Memphis Horns, Tom Dowd on the board and Arif Mariden (sp?)producing--everybody participating was pleased with the results). Truth to tell, I expected to get really slammed for the Pat Benatar mention. Scott Bakula is nobody's idea of a soul singer but did acquit himself OK in a duet in the episode mentioned (he'd "Leaped" into a Black pool shooter's body).

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As long as the nominees are going far afield, I'll make the case for 60's country and 60's soul being mighty close cousins.

Here's a guy from the bayous of Louisiana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw&feature=related
A gal from Chicasaw County, Mississippi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc
A certain truck driver from Memphis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqAt6-sptk
And a survivor from Nashville:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y

The way I see it, they all drank from the same well as Al Green, Otis Redding, James Carr and Aretha Franklin. Chuck D had it wrong. . . as he subsequently admitted.

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Brother El Tranquilo's list is SO yes! EP was the master at whatever form he did--R & R, Blues, Gospel, whatever. While we're on the subject of Nashvillagers, how about Patsy Cline? Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG-8uZg2uV0 And George Jones? Oh hell yes--anybody that can have huge hit singing about moonshine gets my vote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG-8uZg2uV0 although I always liked this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9b2zB3HwOM And the writer of that song about illegal hooch? J.P. Richardson is the Blackest sounding White man I know of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcC_ni0ojo

It wouldn't be my post if I didn't throw in an odd-duck or 2. First up a N. O artist who stayed strong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jke8f7B8ZRc
Next we'd be extremely remiss in overlooking the Detroit wild man, who hasn't lost much either (and who has a wicked sense of humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dd9qjHU ... =1&index=7
And his performance puts the lie to this song title: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MisLnQjKP00

ADD: Another all-around performer (jazz, country, R&B/Gospel), piano/voice/writing and arranging--Charlie Rich. Check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8uYJstvsc&feature=fvst

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Had you heard of this bloke? Me either at least not in a soul context, until I caught hip to this duet with Tina Turner covering a Big O soul classic--I think you'll want to hear it twice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OtqmLTD9So

John Miles

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