Soul Music

“I will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston

Posted in Music, Soul Music on March 9th, 2010 by melody – 5 Comments

“I will Always Love You” , is one of the best-selling singles in music history. It is performed by Whitney Houston.

I will always love you(download)

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if I should stay
I would only be in your way
so I’ll go, but I know
I’ll think of you every step of the way
 
and I will always love you
I will always love you
you, my darling you, you
 
bitter sweet memories
that is all I’m taking with me
so goodbye, please don’t cry
we both know I’m not what you need
and I will always love you
I will always love you
 
I hope life treats you kind
and I hope you have all you dreamed off
and I wish to you joy and happiness
but above all this I wish you love
and I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
you,darling ,I love you
I always love you

Talk Something about Soul Music

Posted in Music, Soul Music on March 9th, 2010 by melody – 1 Comment

soul musicRay Charles is often seen as the first soul singers for his achievement of absorbing elements in the gospel music into rhythm and blues and his string of hits starting with 1954’s “I Got a Woman”. So we can get a fundamental understanding of soul music that it has its roots in gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music has its roots in gospel music and rhythm and blues. The hard gospel vocal quartets of the 1940s and 1950s were big influences on major soul singers of the 1960s.

Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style. Another view has it that a decade would transpire until Solomon Burke’s early recordings for Atlantic Records codified the soul style; his early 1960s songs “Cry to Me”, “Just Out of Reach” and “Down in the Valley” are considered classics of the genre. Little Richard (who was the inspiration for Otis Redding), Fats Domino and James Brown originally called themselves rock and roll performers. However, as rock music moved away from its R&B roots in the 1960s, Brown claimed that he had always really been an R&B singer.[citation needed] Little Richard proclaimed himself the “king of rockin’ and rollin’, rhythm and blues soulin’”, because his music embodied elements of all three, and because he inspired artists in all three genres.

Aretha Franklin’s 1967 recordings, such as “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)”, “Respect” (originally sung by Otis Redding), and “Do Right Woman-Do Right Man”, are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions. In the late 1960s, Stax artists such as Eddie Floyd and Johnnie Taylor made significant contributions to soul music. Howard Tate’s recordings in the late 1960s for Verve Records, and later for Atlantic (produced by Jerry Ragovoy) are another notable body of work in the soul genre. By 1968, the soul music movement had begun to splinter, as artists such as James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone began to incorporate new styles into their music.

Oh Africa: FiFa World Cup 2010 Song by Akon and Keri Hilson

Posted in Music, Soul Music on February 6th, 2010 by melody – 12 Comments

oh africaOh Africa is an offical song for FiFa World Cup 2010, performed by Akon and Keri Hilson. Oh Africa is also a charity single that is released to benifit underprivileged African youth. It features the Soweto Gospel Choir and 16 young singers from around the world as well.

Here are the lyrics for Oh Africa by Adel Ali.

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I know that we have to take it to the goal
‘Cause everyone is depending on we
See we ain’t got nowhere to go but,
It’s our destiny
We’re choosing nowhere,
We’ll do what it takes to get to the top of the highest mountain
We’ll do anything, we got to prove ourselves ’cause we know

OH AFRICA

See we’ll never be able to forget this day
‘Cause it’s the greatest day of our life
See no matter what happens at least
We can say ‘we came, we saw, we tried’
We’re choosing nowhere,
We’ll do what it takes to get to the top of the highest mountain
We’ll do anything, we got to prove ourselves ’cause we know

OH AFRICA

This our time to show, our time to fly,
Our time to be inside the sky
Our time to so, our time of song
The last one in football