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Chicago soul, the Glossary

Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago.^[1]

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Music of Chicago
Soul music genres

ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.

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Alvin Cash

Alvin Cash (born Alvin Welch; February 15, 1939 – November 21, 1999) was an American pop singer and actor.

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Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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At Last

"At Last" is a song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

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Barbara Acklin

Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter, who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Betty Everett

Betty Jean Everett (November 23, 1939 – August 19, 2001) was an American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)", and her duet "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler.

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Billy Davis (songwriter)

Roquel "Billy" Davis (July 11, 1932 – September 2, 2004), of Detroit, was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer.

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Billy Stewart

William Larry Stewart II (March 24, 1937 – January 17, 1970) was an American R&B singer and pianist popular during the 1960s.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Chicago soul and Blues are 20th-century music genres.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Calvin Carter

Calvin Tollie Carter (May 27, 1925 – July 9, 1986) was an American record producer, record label manager and songwriter of jazz and pop songs.

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Chance Records

Chance Records was a Chicago-based label founded in 1950 by Art Sheridan.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Con Funk Shun

Con Funk Shun (formerly known as Project Soul) is an American R&B and funk band from Vallejo, California, formed in 1969.

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Constellation Records (Chicago)

Constellation Records was an American record label extant from 1963 to 1966.

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Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

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Curtom Records

Curtom Records was a record label founded by Curtis Mayfield and Eddie Thomas in March 1968 as an independently distributed music label.

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Dakar Records

Dakar Records (1967-1976) was a record label started by Carl Davis in 1967, while employed at Brunswick Records.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Chicago soul and Disco are 20th-century music genres.

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Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who ''Rolling Stone'' described as a "soul legend".

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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Duke of Earl

"Duke of Earl" is a 1962 US number-one song, originally recorded by Gene Chandler.

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Etta James

Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter who performed in various genres, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and soul.

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Ewart Abner

Ewart Gladstone Abner, Jr. (May 11, 1923 – December 27, 1997) was a major American record company executive who was President of Motown Records from 1973 to 1975 and was personal and business manager for Stevie Wonder for 10 years.

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Fontella Bass

Fontella Marie Bass (July 3, 1940 – December 26, 2012) was an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965.

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For Your Precious Love

"For Your Precious Love" is a song written by Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler, and performed by Jerry Butler and The Impressions in 1958.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. Chicago soul and Funk are 20th-century music genres.

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Gene Chandler

Gene Chandler (born Eugene Drake Dixon; July 6, 1937) is an American singer, songwriter, music producer, and record-label executive.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Harold Burrage

Harold Edwin Burrage (March 30, 1931 – November 26, 1966) was an American blues and soul singer, pianist, songwriter, and record producer.

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He Will Break Your Heart

"He Will Break Your Heart", is a song originally performed and co-written by Jerry Butler.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Insolvency

In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company (debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent.

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Introducing... The Beatles

Introducing...

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Jackie Ross

Jaculyn Bless "Jackie" Ross (born January 30, 1946) is an American soul singer.

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Jackie Wilson

Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jan Bradley

Addie "Jan" Bradley (born July 6, 1943) is an American soul singer.

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Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and retired politician.

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Johnny Pate

John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former musician, a jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger, and leading figure in Chicago soul, pop, and rhythm and blues.

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Leroy Hutson

Leroy Hutson (born June 4, 1945) is an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, best known as former lead singer of R&B vocal group The Impressions.

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Let's Do It Again (song)

"Let's Do It Again" is a song by the Staple Singers.

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Major Lance

Major Lance (April 4, 1939, – September 3, 1994) was an American R&B singer.

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McKinley Mitchell

McKinley Mitchell (December 25, 1934 – January 18, 1986) was an American Chicago-based blues and rhythm and blues singer, who started out performing gospel music.

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Memphis soul

Memphis soul, also known as the Memphis sound, is the most prominent strain of Southern soul. Chicago soul and Memphis soul are soul music genres.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.

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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. Chicago soul and Motown are soul music genres.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s. Chicago soul and Northern soul are soul music genres.

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Oh Girl

"Oh Girl" is a song written by Eugene Record and recorded by American soul vocal group the Chi-Lites, with Record on vocals and also producing.

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Ohio Players

Ohio Players are an American funk band, most popular in the 1970s.

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Okeh Records

OKeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Otis Clay

Otis Lee Clay (February 11, 1942 – January 8, 2016) was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music.

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People Get Ready

"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Raindrops (Dee Clark song)

"Raindrops" is a popular song written and recorded by American R&B singer Dee Clark, released in April 1961.

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Rescue Me (Fontella Bass song)

"Rescue Me" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and released as a single by American soul singer-songwriter Fontella Bass in 1965.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Shake a Tail Feather

"Shake a Tail Feather" is a song written by Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, and Andre Williams and originally recorded in 1963 by the Chicago-based group the Five Du-Tones.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Southern soul

Southern soul is a type of soul music that emerged from the Southern United States. Chicago soul and Southern soul are 20th-century music genres and soul music genres.

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Stay in My Corner

"Stay in My Corner" is a 1965 soul song by The Dells.

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Super Fly (soundtrack)

Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972 on Curtom Records.

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Tell Mama

Tell Mama is the seventh studio album by American singer Etta James.

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The Artistics

The Artistics were an American R&B vocal group in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Chi-Lites

The Chi-Lites are an American R&B/Soul vocal quartet from Chicago.

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The Dells

The Dells were an American R&B vocal group.

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The Five Du-Tones

The Five Du-Tones were an American soul vocal group, who enjoyed success in the dance craze era of the early 1960s.

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The Gap Band

The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Impressions

The Impressions were an American music group originally formed in 1958.

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The Marvelows

The Marvelows were an American soul group from Chicago, formed in 1959.

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The Monkey Time

"The Monkey Time" is a song written by Curtis Mayfield and performed by Major Lance.

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The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

"It's in His Kiss" is a song written and composed by Rudy Clark.

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The Staple Singers

The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group.

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Turn Back the Hands of Time

"Turn Back the Hands of Time" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Tyrone Davis.

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Tyrone Davis

Tyrone Davis (born Tyrone D. Fettson or Tyrone D. Branch, October 3, 1937 – February 9, 2005) (although many websites have his date of birth as May 4th 1938), was an American blues and soul singer with a long list of hit records over more than 20 years.

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Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_soul

, Michigan Avenue (Chicago), Motown, Musical ensemble, New York City, Northern soul, Oh Girl, Ohio Players, Okeh Records, Orchestra, Otis Clay, People Get Ready, Pop music, Raindrops (Dee Clark song), Rescue Me (Fontella Bass song), Rhythm and blues, Shake a Tail Feather, Soul music, Southern soul, Stay in My Corner, Super Fly (soundtrack), Tell Mama, The Artistics, The Beatles, The Chi-Lites, The Dells, The Five Du-Tones, The Gap Band, The Impressions, The Marvelows, The Monkey Time, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss), The Staple Singers, Turn Back the Hands of Time, Tyrone Davis, Vee-Jay Records, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher.

Chicago soul, the Glossary

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See also

Music of Chicago

Soul music genres

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