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2. California Soul - Wikipedia

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   Label. Soul. Songwriter (s) Ashford & Simpson. Producer (s) Jeffrey Bowen. Official audio. "California Soul" on YouTube. " California Soul " is a funk - soul tune written by Ashford & Simpson, issued originally as the B-side of the Messengers ' single "Window Shopping" in 1967 under the Motown group of labels.

3. Wattstax - Wikipedia

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   Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. [2][3] The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time.

4. Otis Redding - Wikipedia

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   Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", [3] Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the ...

5. Marlena Shaw - Wikipedia

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   Marlena Shaw was born in New Rochelle, New York.She was first introduced to music by her uncle Jimmy Burgess, a jazz trumpet player. [4] In an interview with The New York Times, she told the reporter: "He [Jimmy Burgess] introduced me to good music through records – Dizzy [Gillespie], Miles [Davis], a lot of gospel things, and Al Hibbler, who really knows how to phrase a song."

6. The Caledonia Soul Orchestra - Wikipedia

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   In 1973 Van Morrison and the Caledonia Soul Orchestra went on a three-month tour of the United States and Europe, the result of which was the live double album It's Too Late to Stop Now. The title is taken from the last line in the lyrics of one of Morrison's songs, " Into the Mystic ", from the 1970 Moondance album.

7. 'California Soul' singer Marlena Shaw dies at 81 - AOL

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   Jazz and R&B singer Marlena Shaw, known for the widely sampled "California Soul," died Friday. She was 81.

8. Shuggie Otis - Wikipedia

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   Cleopatra [5] and various labels. Johnny Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30, 1953) [6][7] is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis's composition "Strawberry Letter 23" as recorded by The Brothers Johnson topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

9. Ginger Root (music project) - Wikipedia

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   Ginger Root (姜根) is an American indie soul music project from Huntington Beach, California, led by singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Cameron Lew.Lew has described the project's musical sound as "aggressive elevator soul", also citing inspiration as coming from groups such as Vulfpeck, Toro y Moi, White Denim, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Feist.