Field Marshall Bradley
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And if you think "sounding black" = emanating soul from music, then we can agree to disagree....
Why Is Adele Getting Play on Hip-Hop Stations???
And if you think "sounding black" = emanating soul from music, then we can agree to disagree....
IllmaticDelta
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Who tagged them as such?
black people
Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is a term sometimes used for rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists.[1] The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music of the Motown and Stax record labels. Though many rhythm and blues radio stations would only play music by black musicians, some began to play music by white acts considered to have "soul feeling", which came to be called "blue-eyed soul".[2][3]
1960s
The Righteous Brothers, one of the early artists most closely associated with blue-eyed soul
Georgie Woods, a Philadelphia radio DJ, is thought to have coined the term "blue-eyed soul" in 1964, initially to describe The Righteous Brothers, then white artists in general who received airplay on rhythm and blues radio stations.[3][4][5] The Righteous Brothers, who were then most associated with the term, named their 1964 LP Some Blue-Eyed Soul.[6][7] According to Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, R&B radio stations who played their songs were surprised to find them to be white when they turned up for interviews, and one DJ in Philadelphia (unnamed by Medley but probably Georgie Woods) started saying "Here's my blue-eyed soul brothers", and it became a code to signal to the audience that they were white singers.[8] The popularity of The Righteous Brother who had a hit with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" is thought to have started the trend for a number of R&B radio stations to play songs by white artists with "soul feeling" (i.e. blue-eyed soul) in the mid-1960s, a more integrative approach that was then popular with their audience.[2] Blue-eyed soul then became a loosely used term to describe many white artists, including Sonny & Cher, the Beatles, Tom Jones, Sam the Sham, Barry McGuire, and Roy Head.[9]
White musicians playing R&B music, however, began before the term blue-eyed soul was coined. For instance, in the early 1960s, one of the rare female blue-eyed soul singers was Timi Yuro, whose vocal delivery and repertoire were influenced by African American singers such as Dinah Washington.[10]
Steve Winwood performing with Traffic, 1969
Lonnie Mack's 1963 gospel-infused vocals earned him widespread critical acclaim as a blue-eyed soul singer.[11] Groups such as The Rascals (originally The Young Rascals) had soul-tinged pop songs,[12] but it was the soulful vocals of Felix Cavaliere that gave them the blue-eyed soul sound. By the mid-1960s, British singers Dusty Springfield, Eric Burdon and Tom Jones had become leading vocal stars of the emerging style.[13] Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included The Spencer Davis Group (featuring singer-organist-guitarist Steve Winwood) and archetypal mod band The Small Faces, whose sound was heavily influenced by the Stax label's house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Blue-eyed soul singer, Chris Clark became the first white singer to have an R&B hit with Motown Records in 1966. Most of the leading UK pop groups of the period – including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who – regularly covered Stax and Motown tracks on record or in concert, and all of them have acknowledged the influence of Motown and Stax artists on their music.[citation needed] In 1967, Jerry Lee Lewis, whose latter days at Sun Records (1961–63) had been characterized by R&B covers, recorded an album for Smash entitled Soul My Way. Delaney and Bonnie (Bramlett) produced the blue-eyed soul album Home on Stax in 1969.[14]
Michael Sembello, who left home at age 17 to tour with Stevie Wonder, wrote and performed on numerous blue-eyed soul hits for Wonder, Brian McKnight, David Sanborn, Bill Champlin and Bobby Caldwell. Todd Rundgren began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a group based on the model of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He left the band to form the garage rock band Nazz in 1967.
Outside the Anglo-American scene, in Italy, Mina and Carmen Villani fused elements of soul music with the traditional Italian pop music.[15][16][17][18][19] Carola and Doris were notable Scandinavian artists who were influenced by soul music.[20][21][22][23]
1970s
In February 1975, Tower of Power became the first white/mixed act to appear on Soul Train. Also in 1975, David Bowie, another early white artist to appear on Soul Train, released Young Americans, a popular blue-eyed soul album. It featured the funk-inspired "Fame", which became Bowie's first number-one hit in the US. Hall & Oates' 1975 Silver Album (real title Daryl Hall & John Oates) includes the ballad "Sara Smile", long considered a blue-eyed soul standard. "She's Gone", another soulful hit, was originally released in 1973 but did better as a re-release after "Sara Smile". Average White Band is a Scottish funk and R&B band who had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980, their biggest two being "Pick Up the Pieces" from their 1975 best-selling album AWB, and "Cut the Cake" from their 1975 album of the same name. Boz Scaggs' 1976 "Lowdown", which featured Scaggs' laid-back vocals and a smooth funky groove, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart (and reaching Top 5 on the R&B chart). In April 1976, The Faragher Brothers became the first all-white ensemble to make an appearance on Soul Train. In September that year, white funk band Wild Cherry released the Billboard Hot 100 chart topping funk/rock single "Play That Funky Music" and also went to number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. The single would eventually sell 2.5 million copies.
In 1978, The Bee Gees topped R&B album charts with their Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, along with several songs from the album, including "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever" and "You Should Be Dancing", which originally charted back in 1976. The Bee Gees again had a hit album on the R&B charts in 1979 with the Spirits Having Flown album along with its three pop number-one singles, "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out".
Other blue-eyed soul of the decade include the hits "How Long" by Ace (Paul Carrack, lead vocals), three hits by Ambrosia, "How Much I Feel", "Biggest Part of Me" and "You're the Only Woman", and Bobby Caldwell's soul standard "What You Won't Do for Love".
IllmaticDelta
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yes because soul music or black american music in general was the music with those vocal qualities that whites were imitating
According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying".[2] Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds
Field Marshall Bradley
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No, black people did not...... Motown execs and black radio hosts during that period dissed the fukk outta the Osmond brothers..... not to mention that the Jackson 5 felt some type of way from them biting their sound and taking money out of their pockets.......
Field Marshall Bradley
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Nah.. man.... Not even..... That statement went entirely over your head, like I knew it would.....
IllmaticDelta
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it's matter of opinion if you think the person trying to sound "black" has soul but the fact is, the black sound is what they're imitating.
We don't own nor dictate the direction of the radio stations ... so we just gon reap what we sow till further notice 
IllmaticDelta
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No, black people did not...... Motown execs and black radio hosts during that period dissed the fukk outta the Osmond brothers.....
did you somehow miss this fact?
an Afram (GeorgeWoods) coined the term
"Two years down the road, in 1964, Woods coined the phrase “blue-eyed soul” referring to The Righteous Brothers. Six years later, the term got heavy use for the Osmond Brothers’ hit, “One Bad Apple,” when the group sounded very similar to the Jackson 5."
The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
Of course they were salty. The same way Bo Diddley was salty about Elvis jacking afram music and getting bigger
The term R&B came about because black people didn't want their music to be called "race music".
"white soul" is R&B
an Afram (GeorgeWoods) coined the term
"Two years down the road, in 1964, Woods coined the phrase “blue-eyed soul” referring to The Righteous Brothers. Six years later, the term got heavy use for the Osmond Brothers’ hit, “One Bad Apple,” when the group sounded very similar to the Jackson 5."
The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
but she is....Adele is basically a torch singer, a sub genre of the blues-jazz,
Torch song
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with more Soul styling. Repost of mine
Thats basically what it is. Its white people singing black based, music and using black vocal styles.The precursor to "Blue Eyed Soul" was known as "c00n Shouting" which is based in the BLues just like Soul/R&B
I'll check this out later. I love reading about American music history...BTW repped.
It's actually the other way around. White brits historically since the British Invasiian have always drawn their main influences from black america
Truth.
Where did it originate from then?
Ever since classical music, all the genres of music that have been made have been made by black people so where does soul music come from in that extent?
Pretty much every musical form that exists today stems from the delta blues...
fukk, even the banjo...the staple of folk music is originally an African made instrument.
There is no country without the blues...what's intrinsically white about country?
But let's face it, Americans don't give two fukks about musical appreciation. They just like what sounds good and could care less about the history behind it. This goes across the board.
There is no country without the blues...what's intrinsically white about country?
But let's face it, Americans don't give two fukks about musical appreciation. They just like what sounds good and could care less about the history behind it. This goes across the board.
IllmaticDelta
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what we think of as sounding "soulful" today is all from black american vocal qualities/singing techniques
Talking about Adele in another thread and her Blues rooted style reminded me of
Classic female blues
Bessie Smith: The Complete Columbia Recordings