Sweet Soul Music
- Brent Miller
- Apr 10
- 2 min read
*** There is a timeliness feeling to Soul Music that creates event magic. Here are our favourites ->
There is a certain magic that exists only in soul music. These classic songs have shades of romance, elegance and coolness that elevate the atmosphere anytime they come on.
We have loved performing these songs at Cocktails and Dinner Parties, some of them even as timeless First Dance songs, the perfect match for gorgeous evenings with dim lighting and great company.
The sound of these songs is so magical it often makes us feel like we are performing within a movie, so many of these incredible songs being found on the soundtracks of films we have loved from Crazy Stupid Love to Ray to Hitch to Back To The Future. Too many to remember them all.
In the hopes of inspiring you to choose your own Soulful Playlists, we have listed our favourite Soul Songs from their origins in 1950s, to the Motown-filled 1960s and finally the R&B flavoured 1970s.
Feel free to dance along with us at your work desk, living room or wherever the mood strikes. Enjoy!
50s SOUL ORIGINS
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
Only You - The Platters
There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Little Bittie Preaty One - Thurston Harris
Shout - The Isley Brothers
Do You Want To Dance - Bobby Freeman
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon
Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
Charlie Brown - The Coasters
Rockin Robin - Bobby Day
I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
Book Of Love - The Monotones
Great Pretender - The Platters
Earth Angel - The Penguins
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
60s SOUL and MOTOWN
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Reach Out (Ill Be There) - The Four Tops
Good Lovin - Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
Cant Hurry Love - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Do You Love Me - The Contours
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Its In His Kiss - Betty Everett
Hes So Fine - The Chiffons
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Hold On Im Coming - Sam & Dave
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations
70s SOUL and R&B
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Get Up Offa That Thang - James Brown
What's Going On Marvin Gaye
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Love Train - The O'Jays
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Could It Be Im Falling In Love - The Spinners
Ill Be Good To You - The Brothers Johnson
Lean On Me - Bill Withers
Easy - The Commodores
Best Of My Love - The Emotions
Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
This Will Be An Everlasting Love - Natalie Cole
