#'60s soul

[mywifeleftme]

166: Roberta Flack // First Take

First Take Roberta Flack 1969, Atlantic

I was never fair to Roberta Flack. Up until a few years ago, I dismissed her as a Black Carly Simon, emblem of that blandly textured early ‘70s AM radio singer-songwriter style that has always made me cringe. (Is there some latent sexism in that posture I should be re-examining? Yes, probably, but one thing at a time.) This turns out to have been a clownshoes take, as anyone who has listened to Roberta Flack’s majestic First Take could’ve told me. Flack, it turns out, is a devastating singer and pianist who effortlessly draws together the worlds of hard bop, soul, singer-songwriter folk, and musical theatre. She is certainly a softer touch than Nina Simone or Aretha Franklin, but the power of her voice commands a similar respect from the players around her, who give her all the space she needs to float into the lyrics, which she has a way of singing as though the words have just come to her in a dream. She leads a masterly quartet, with Ron Carter (of Miles Davis’s second Quintet and 2,220 other recordings) in particular really digging in on bass—to the extent this can be considered a soul record, it’s in the dialogue between Flack’s vocal and his deep grooves. All in all, First Take is one of the finest albums of 1969, and I’m an ass for having doubted Flack’s quality—but a world that permits anything as lovely as her “Angelitos Negros” to reside in it is making at least a tacit promise of a great forgiveness to come.

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[classichorrorblog]

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

[tyger-land]

𝗝𝗶𝗺𝗶 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘅 𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟿, ʙʏ ᴇᴅ ᴛʜʀᴀsʜᴇʀ.

[theinternetarchive]

'high priestess of soul' vinyl cover and lp, nina simone, 1967.

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: A drawing of the three player characters from Drawfee's Drawtectives series, posing in front of one of their pride flags. The drawings are black line art filled in with white, and the characters have their season 1 designs. York, a tall half-orc, is in front of an asexual flag. Rosé, a human, is in front of a sapphic flag. Grendan, a dwarf, is in front of a genderfluid flag. End ID.]

The new drawfee video had me in a drawtectives mood. Happy pride!

Bonus:

[ID: The same drawing as above, except now the characters are placed in front of one big flag, the tricolor polyamorous flag. End ID.]

Bonus bonus:

[ID: The same drawings as the previous two images, except now the characters are placed in front of a large queerplatonic flag. End ID.]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Carnival of Souls (1962)

[60swonderland]

grace jones and the chamber brothers photographed by anthony barboza in new york city, 1971🔮⚡️🌈

[flamememeago]

I feel we as a society moved on way too fast from the fact that Dave Davies and Brian Jones almost had a threesome.

[goryhorroor]

at midnight i'll take your soul (1964) directed by jose mojica marins

[oldnessismyobsession]

Elvis girlie 🎸♡︎

My mom got me a Elvis phone case :D

[tyger-land]

ᴊɪᴍɪ ʜᴇɴᴅʀɪx ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʟʟᴍᴀɴ ᴛʜᴇᴀᴛᴇʀ in Central Park, New York City - July 5, 1967 - photo by Linda McCartney.

[daylily-diary]

I’m so glad The Beatles were on a lot of drugs

[visceravalentines]

the passenger - first date

[mariocki]

RIP Timothy West (20.10.1934 - 12.11.2024)

"We met when we were cast with small parts in that really boring play, so had both brought the crossword to stop us going mad. We saw each other across the rehearsal room doing it, so decided to sit together. Then we couldn’t record because of the strike one day so we went to the cinema, Pru and I, to see The Grass is Greener with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. The show was cancelled, but a bit later Pru sent me a card saying ‘they’re reviving that terrible play, are you in it?’ I wasn’t but we started writing to each other then."

"Humour is vital, and respect for what people do and what people think. Kindness is important, and we’ve always had the same humour, laughed at the same things, been interested in the same things, got cross about the same things. And been in the same business. We have often been away from each other work-wise and therefore we’re always very glad to see each other again."

[singonavine71]

[music-is-my-life-man]

Tom Jones & Janis Joplin, 1969

(Raise Your Hand)