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Female "big Beat" Ballads - Your Faves?

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I love tunes like Sweets - "something about my baby" or Big Maybelle's "it's raining."

 

I'm sure people out there have tons of other great suggestions. I am looking to blow up my want list!

 

thanks! 

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love both sides of this x

Carol & Jerri - on you heartache looks good/How can I ever find the way x

 

fantastic. i love MGM catalogue of classy soul.

 

i spin this out sometimes...

 

fantastic. i love MGM catalogue of classy soul.

 

Nice and yes M.G.M have an amazing catalogue of tunes  :)

The Royalettes - I want to meet him

This one is fab, just listen to the way it builds up  :) x

Ginny Arnell - A little bit of love can hurt

 

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    No words from me are needed as the music says everything.

     

    Derek x

     

    Mary Wheeler “Prove it” (Calla)  version of Sandra Lynn

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

     

    Nina Simone “Take care of business” (album only Philips)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdqxxlsr4QE

     

    Theola Kilgore “I can’t stand it” (Mercury)

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

     

    Aretha Franklin “Cry like a baby” (Columbia)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qsVgYibb5k

     

    Bettye Swann “Closed for the season” (Capitol)

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    No words from me are needed as the music says everything.

     

     

     

    Bettye Swann “Closed for the season” (Capitol)

     

    love it. spin this out sometimes. sounds really nice and heavy over the PA system...

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    also, if you love female vocal (ballads, girlie, mid tempo) stuff, stop into a record shop in San Francisco called "Rooky Ricardos" on lower Haight street.

     

    the owner, Dick Vivian, is SUPER knowledgable about all this stuff. it's worth spending a long afternoon just chatting with him...

    Margaret Mandolph - I Wanna Make You Happy

     

     

    Dusty Springfield did an excellent version of this song, and in fact I prefer her version, normally I like the originals better but not in this case.

     

     

    The song does make me smile. It's the sort of thing I'd have been most pleased to hear a girl say to me at a party when I was a teenager. In fact I'd be happy for a nice lady to say it to me tonight. LOL. Hope that doesn't offend anyone. This thread has been one of the most enjoyable on Soul Source for ages.

    I've always liked this one - used to get lots of plays in late 90's. 

     

    Donna Loren - Blowing Out The Candles 

     

     

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    DEENA JOHNSON - THE BREAKING POINT - WILD DUECE

     

    SURELY ONE OF 'THE' BEST....... :thumbsup:

    No words from me are needed as the music says everything.

     

    Derek x

     

    Mary Wheeler “Prove it” (Calla)  version of Sandra Lynn

     

    Sorry Derek, Sandra Lynn completely different song. Don Gardner on Sack is same as Mary Wheeler (and much better IMO)

    Mary Wheeler's Prove It also recorded by Aretha Franklin and Lea Roberts. 

    Thanks! Forgot all about Aretha Franklin's take and I actually own this one :dash2:  Didn't know Lea Roberts before. Nice one. Mary Wheeler still the winner in the girls department for me.

     

    Back on topic, was this posted before? Peggy March - Losin' my touch. Pure drama beat ballad. I love it

     

    There's a great Maxine Brown version of "Losing My Touch" which was released on at least one Kent album.

     

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    it's been wonderful just listening to others choices, some I've never heard before so thank you for that  :) x

     

    The Thrills - No One

    Verdelle Smith - If you can't say anything nice 

     

     

    Also a version by Gia Mateo but more uptempo x

    Always said this stands up against Ella Woods, Ty Karim, Towanda and Total Destruction etc

     

    Jo Ann Garrett-One Woman

     

    Kev

     

     

    nice popcorn-y tune...

     

     Nice version x I'm used to listening to 'Amanda Humphreys which is more uptempo or Mary Silvers x

    Rhythm and tempo wise too fast for a beat ballad but the vocals are pure dramatic ballad (IMO).

     

    Ty Karin - All at once:

     

    Please keep this thread going and going. it's just amazing. Many,many thanks to everyone that's posting these awesome tunes.

    Steve

    Big thread, forgive me if this has already been posted, I am particularly fond of the male sound but this is great IMHO

     

    Kev

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    this is a great female double sider

     

    this side is big beat (but not so much a ballad)

     

     

    this is just a ballad (not big beat, but still great)

     

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    Can someone explain what defines the "big beat" sound?

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    Can someone explain what defines the "big beat" sound?

     

    I think this sound is defined by big, lush, urbane production/arrangement - but also has a heavy, pronounced mid-tempo dance beat embedded in it. I think combining these attributes results in really classy, dramatic songs - especially when coupled with super-powerful female vocals.

     

    others feel free to chime in. just my take on it...

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    i can't find a video on youtube, but "lend a helping heart" by joan moody is an awesome big beat. it is the flip of this nice northern tune which i will post just cuz i love it... 

     

     

    Big thread, forgive me if this has already been posted, I am particularly fond of the male sound but this is great IMHO

     

    Kev

    I like the intro on this version better than the straight vocals intro heard on the earlier post in this thread.  Is this on the 45 and the other on an album cut?  I have the 45 with this intro and the greatest hits album with the vocal intro but wasn't sure if there were two versions of the 45.

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    i can't find a video on youtube, but "lend a helping heart" by joan moody is an awesome big beat. it is the flip of this nice northern tune which i will post just cuz i love it... 

    There you go Leon xx

     

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    someone posted "piece of the sky", but also love this...

     

     

    Bloody Lovely

    None of the above :D sorry not into "beat ballads" :glare:

    geeeez always get one with a negativity, thread clearly says 'Female "big Beat" Ballads - Your Faves? :lol:

    Rhythm and tempo wise too fast for a beat ballad but the vocals are pure dramatic ballad (IMO).

     

    Ty Karin - All at once:

     

     

    Smashing, super, great .......

    Ruby & The Romantics - Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore x

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN3MtbT1zRY

     

    This a the 45 version and has a different intro.  I like this intro a bit better.

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    messed up entering the music file. How do I delete a post?

    Reatha Reese

     

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