Are there parts in songs that make you shiver, it maybe a sax break a word phrasing,or even laughing.I will start with one of mine.Check out Nelson Sanders Im Lonley Rambler (its here on refosoul )  there is an organ comes in trying to sound like chellos it makes me shiver every time I hear it whats yours ?

the intro bars of Johnny Vanelli's Seven Days of Loving You always did and always will do it for me

_{Rockmasters Raining Teardrops   I think the whole song is mental but from 1:28 sec he kicks off big time until the end singing mainly on the up I think hes gone mental I know I do when I hear it.Find its a great way to get in the mood for a days work}

Ask the lonely does me every time awsome the accapella version

Edited May 8, 201411 yr by jazz

All of the haunting Jack Montgomery's Don't Turn Your Back On Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wATup7oQvI   Every time

• https://youtu.be/A3gVfLpUXG0

 

 

Flick to 1.41 in clip

First 30 secs or so of this...........would stop an elephant in its tracks at 100 paces................stunning!!!

 

The intro to PP Arnold Everything's gonna be alright always used to get the spine tingling.

All of Donny Hathaways "Someday We'll All Be Free" but especially the line after the trumpet solo "Keep on walking tall, hold your head up high"

Don Gardner Cheatin Kind - every riff just about.

 

The Artistics- Girl I Need You - where the strings kick in near the end

Artistics..... gets me everytime. those strings are like a breeze blowing through.

I can't believe I am still hearing stuff recorded in 1967/8 for the first time in the last couple of weeks. It's very inspiring with my song writing. Indeed I just heared recently 'In the nick if time' by Toni Lamarr on Buddah Records. They just get better. In fact I just analysed the song with a view to it's structure, use of pre-hook and chorus key change. Also the drummer seems to be using ride rather than hi hat in places. It is on YouTube and about £30 from the record stores. Brill tune and shocked me when I heard it. Here is my analysis:

 

https://soundcloud.com/55motown/in-the-nick-of-time

 

The horns are slightly different, but in essence I have the structure now....

 

Actually it sounds very Teen Turbans (I think) 'Need to be loved'. I wonder if that was a Van McCoy Production?

Edited May 29, 201410 yr by Carl Dixon

The instrumental break at around 1:20 on Sam Fletcher "I`d Think It Over"  Just sublime to my ears...

 

Great thread BTW - some tunes on here I`ve been introduced to   

Edited May 30, 201410 yr by Orotava

Aw definitely Kell Osborne at the beginning of Quicksand

Suz x

goosebumps?.....shivers down the spine??......there is ONE supreme hands down WINNER.....LINDA JONES, unquestionably, and without any shred of a doubt, THIS woman HAD IT ALL.  not an octave on the chart she couldn't reach...coupled with THE genius that was GEORGE KERR, her contributions to soul music are nothing less than SUBLIMINAL!..we could talk for eternity about wonderfully dynamic orchestrations and the legendary and integral sax break that is the trademark of many historic northern soul records, but only ONE ARTIST can contrive a "vocal break", if such a thing exists...and that would lead all and sundry to conclude that i speak of "MY HEART NEEDS A BREAK", a song in itself that could easily have doubled for a blockbusting 007 soundtrack, when from out of nowhere, bursts forth, a mind blowingly sumptuous mini-aria that is breathtaking, yet not beyond the realm of a woman, mature beyond her years...she takes it in her stride with ease, pitched within the confines of kerr's heartwrenching lyrics.

 

a true heroine of the northern soul saga, who seccumbed to diabetes, LINDA was taken from us, aged just 28 years in 1973, an incalculable loss in terms of her mastery of a meaningful song, her catalogue has no flaws, such was her very real greatness...had she lived, what price a performance on a stage in this country??.

 

I wish to associate myself with this post - nail and head.

I can't believe I am still hearing stuff recorded in 1967/8 for the first time in the last couple of weeks. It's very inspiring with my song writing. Indeed I just heared recently 'In the nick if time' by Toni Lamarr on Buddah Records. They just get better. In fact I just analysed the song with a view to it's structure, use of pre-hook and chorus key change. Also the drummer seems to be using ride rather than hi hat in places. It is on YouTube and about £30 from the record stores. Brill tune and shocked me when I heard it. Here is my analysis:

 

https://soundcloud.com/55motown/in-the-nick-of-time

 

The horns are slightly different, but in essence I have the structure now....

 

Actually it sounds very Teen Turbans (I think) 'Need to be loved'. I wonder if that was a Van McCoy Production?

 

 

...mmmmmmmm interesting

...mmmmmmmm i

 

...AHH the Van McCoy connection.............similar arrangement to this I think anyway.................https://youtu.be/o4I43kf1Irw

The instrumental break on Girl, Don`t Make Me Wait

Yep, with you on that mate.

 

Rose Royce's "Wishing" is class too - absolutely.

 

Peter

 

always regret not buying charles johnson in the 70's, still have my wants book with it in and sadly not crossed out.

 

rose royce what can i say CAR WASH is still one of my favourite films

 

kev

THE PIANO INTRO ON THE FIDELS  TRY A LITTLE HARDER DOES IT FOR ME THE REST OF THE SONG TOO AND WHERE THE SAX COMES IN ON THE INSTRUMENTAL

 

  https://youtu.be/5Pt_CtO1b-0

 

 

KEV

goosebumps?.....shivers down the spine??......there is ONE supreme hands down WINNER.....LINDA JONES, unquestionably, and without any shred of a doubt, THIS woman HAD IT ALL.  not an octave on the chart she couldn't reach...coupled with THE genius that was GEORGE KERR, her contributions to soul music are nothing less than SUBLIMINAL!..we could talk for eternity about wonderfully dynamic orchestrations and the legendary and integral sax break that is the trademark of many historic northern soul records, but only ONE ARTIST can contrive a "vocal break", if such a thing exists...and that would lead all and sundry to conclude that i speak of "MY HEART NEEDS A BREAK", a song in itself that could easily have doubled for a blockbusting 007 soundtrack, when from out of nowhere, bursts forth, a mind blowingly sumptuous mini-aria that is breathtaking, yet not beyond the realm of a woman, mature beyond her years...she takes it in her stride with ease, pitched within the confines of kerr's heartwrenching lyrics.

 

a true heroine of the northern soul saga, who seccumbed to diabetes, LINDA was taken from us, aged just 28 years in 1973, an incalculable loss in terms of her mastery of a meaningful song, her catalogue has no flaws, such was her very real greatness...had she lived, what price a performance on a stage in this country??.

Agentsmith

I think your comments are 100% spot on. Linda has always been my queen of soul and theirs no rival. But I think she passed at 27 in 1972 I have only mentioned this as you are obviously a big fan.Check it out I may be wrong (wouldent be the 1st Time) I always thought the great My Heart Needs A Break was a 70s track but now I wonder if it was late 60s   MIck

Kevin - that piano intro is unique isn't it! It works.

 

Jez - Van McCoy has a certain stamp on his tracks....especially singing as a girl on one of his productions I believe.

 

Don't forget the Soundcloud analysis I did on 'Nick', is not the original, just me laying down the groove to see how the structure worked. I decided to put the hand claps and tambourine on to give it a more organic feel.

kevinsoulman, on 31 May 2014 - 09:33 AM, said:

always regret not buying charles johnson in the 70's, still have my wants book with it in and sadly not crossed out.

 

rose royce what can i say CAR WASH is still one of my favourite films

 

kev

I had a Charles Johnson Kev. It was one of the records that I had stolen many moons ago.

 

Peter

I just love the wonky sax break on There's No Stopping Us Now, and think a very similar break in I Guess I'll Always Love You is breathtaking. 

 

I think the only word I can think of to describe them is Melancholy.

 

Also love Levi's voice breaking towards the end of Can't Help Myself.

 

Really good thread.

For me it has  to be  Alice Clark, the parts from where she says "Suddenly... watching you go.........  the whole build up through to the words you "Hit me hit me etc into the chorus" what a voice combined with a  brilliant musical arrangement and build up going on, now that gives me  a "Shiver",if thats what you call it ....then some more of the same besides.Classic all nighter soul at its most magnificent adrenaline rush shiver down and up your every bone in your body provoking  best .One of those many from back then(Among present day others I still do  on  hearing   the  first time )made you shiver and ask as soon as you heard it "Who sung that,whats it  called",one of those you continued to love and always will love one that never fails to give you that shiver"as they call it".By the way the intro gives me a shiver and for that matter every little bit of You hit me does just that raw emotion true all nighter style.

Edited June 4, 201410 yr by manusf3a

KoKo Taylor's gutsy take of Etta's immortal "I'd Rather Go Blind" gave me a rush the first time ever I heard it.

 

A million miles from Northern but a multiple shiverer

 

The beginning, then end and everything in between

 

J Blackfoot - I Stood On The Sidewalk

 

Edited August 13, 201410 yr by Dave Turner

A million miles from Northern but a multiple shiverer

 

The beginning, then end and everything in between

 

J Blackfoot - I Stood On The Sidewalk

 

Yes indeed, Dave.

A majestic track.

Always loved this record, since first hearing in about 1987, just listen to the build up and then the end, 

 

 

Kev

Yvonne Baker & the Sensations I cant change at 40secs & 1:47secs when she wraps that vocal round that single word change

Cashmeres, Dont let the door hit your back Intro that guitar intro then them drums is like a pied piper to the floor

Yum Yums, Gonna be a  Big thing also intro to this

Tropics, hey you little girl just sways along on a tide of emotion (bring a lump to the throat of a woman !)

Freddie Scott girl i need you the hole magical record but that way he delivers the vocal at 2:04 WOW then even better at 2:49

Billy kennedy sweet things drums are phenominal

Al green how can you mend a broken heart

up there with my top 5 faves but gotta be this live version just something about the delivery,s so special

Marlena shaw Go away little boy the way the instruments and the vocal marry up perfectly, just swings along with a gr8 little story line getting spoken then WHAM! just as its plodding along she hits you with the delivery of Go away little boy at 2:47 then biulds to a creshendo of exquisite female vocals

Theres just so many, I,m getting carried away now & have to go play some tunes as ive got a very warm glow and magic feeling coming over me, but before i go got leave you with my ultimate complete record which is the Dells Make sure WOOOooooSh !

atb Charlie

There's so many but the one that gives me goose pimples every time is Jimmy Radcliffes, Long After Tonight is all over.

From start to finish pure magic. 

At this moment in time for tracks is Tan Geers, whats the use of trying and Ernie Andrews fine young girl, cheers billy.

Virgil Henry "Ain't saying nothing new". The whole chorus part.

 

Bobby Cutchins "I did it again".    "The wall I built just came tumbling down................brick by brick."

 

Jerry Warren "I really love you".     Trumpet break.

 

Skip Mahoney "Janice".   "I feel just like a wolf up in the hills..........roooooah".

 

William Bell "The man in the street".   "The man in the street, the common people"

 

The Innersection "I'm in debt to you".  The whole chorus part about what she can have.

the three that have always given me a shiver & made the hairs on stand up  and still do

 

Bobby Paris  I walked Away At Intro

Gerri Granger I go to Pieces AT Intro

Timi Youro It@ll Never be over for  All of it

The way Aretha sings the line : "With his arms all around me" at 0.56 on "All the king's horses"

 

The note Ron Banks holds at 3.35 on "Make it easy on yourself "

 

Both above on You tube

 

The drum rolls (and her "ooohs") on Rita and Tiaras' "Gone with the wind"

JOHNNY SALES - I CAN'T GET ENOUGH of your love instrumental  break half way thru awesome

YES! I heard this for the first time the other week, so powerful, nearly took my bloody head off.

Ree Flores - Look into my heart,

the machine gun intro, the singing, the words, "damage has been done" complete package.

Arin Demain - Silent Treatment.

again fantastic intro and the way the tempo changes

Lee Rogers - How are you fixed for love

complete package.

Ree Flores, again, so powerful.fabulous.

Edited August 19, 201410 yr by Juniorsoul

The lyrics to The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Lovin'.

Pulls at my heartstrings, like someone stood on my grave.

Where the lead vocals kick in on the following 2 :-

 

The Tomangoes - I Really Love You

The Originals - Suspicion

 

And June Edwards - The Human Race (the whole song. Awesome !!)

And what about:-

 

Marva Whitney - Savin' My Love For My Baby

 

At the start where she wails the gospel style intro then it kicks into the main song - Brilliant Northern !!!!

Got include Contours  this or her who shall be obeyed will ............................................................. me

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrunJ4ygJw