Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAWLS: FEELIN' GOOD (Capitol). Unlike many a soul singer, Lou Rawls leaves no doubt about what he is saying, as well as feeling. His machete-sharp enunciation is a major component of his thoroughly masculine power, and he means what he says. The album's selection of songs is felicitous, particularly the bitter My Ancestors, and the wry Hang-Ups (that manages to use nearly every cliche in the contemporary vocabulary: shook-up, with-it, uptight, hung-up and groovin...
...TEMPTATIONS: WISH IT WOULD RAIN (Gordy). The five boys from Motown display a studied sophistication that might be called "hybrid Soul." They are backed up by an outfit that sounds like a cross between the Vienna Philharmonic, Herb Alpert and an electrified Gene Autry. The occasional catch in the throat and sad hoot do not a soul sound make, but the music is entirely inoffensive. Besides, the cover photograph depicting The Temptations as utterly defeated Foreign Legionnaires has to be the funniest of the year...
...Soul Straight City TIME Magazine U.S. News and World Report CHARLES SCHMIDT San Francisco...
...Soul Straight City Los Angeles Free TIME Magazine Press LIZA WILLIAMS Los Angeles...
...Soul Straight City William Jennings Bryan Jack Paar Woody Guthrie Bob Johnny Dylan Carson STUART LEVIN, D.V.M. hicago...