> I'm amazed nobody's mentioned Laura Nyro and Dusty Springfield!
>
> Mark in Seattle
Laura Nyro was the very first non-Black soulful person I mentioned in my
original reply to Jerry's post that started all this. Dusty Springfield had
soul, no doubt about it. In my list today I forgot to mention Van Morrison
and Stevie Ray Vaughn, so here's to them now.
Lest we forget the African Americans, again, here is a very partial list of
performers who are the absolute embodiment of soul, IMO:
James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson, Etta James, Diana Ross,
Andrea Crouch, Curtis Mayfield, Issac Hayes, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Robert
Johnson, Michael Jackson, Odetta, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Wilson
Pickett, Bill Withers, Chuck Berry, Bryan Thomas, Little Richard, Miles
Davis, Charlie Parker, Patti Cathcart, John Lee Hooker, Duke Ellington,
Tammi Terrell, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Earl Klugh, Ella
Fitzgerald, Macy Gray, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, Muddy Waters, Grover
Washington, Jr.and scores and scores of others known and unknown. Thanks to
them all for helping to make my life almost bearable in the worst of times
through their music.
-Julius
