R&B Soul Music Jukebox Discography and Biography of Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke Songs

(with biography below if available)

Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 - October 10, 2010) was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul" and the "Muhammad Ali of soul". Due to his minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke has been described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time".

Below is a list of Solomon Burke songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Atlantic 2185
chart position: RandB #2 (5 weeks), US #37
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Wilson Pickett, Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Solomon Burke If You Need Me
1963 Atlantic
2 record label: Atlantic 2205
chart position: RandB #3 (1 week), US #49
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Don Covay and Horace Ott
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Solomon Burke You're Good For Me
1963 Atlantic
3 record label: Atlantic 2114
chart position: RandB #7, US #24, US AC #6
weeksinr&bchart: 19
written by: Virgil Stewart
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [ballad]
Solomon Burke Just Out of Reach
1961 Atlantic
4 record label: Atlantic 2276
chart position: RandB #1, US #22
written by: Delores Burke & Solomon Burke
album: The Best of Solomon Burke
comments: [southern soul]
Solomon Burke Got to Get You Off My Mind
1965 Atlantic
5 record label: Atlantic 2288
chart position: RandB #2, US #28
written by: Solomon Burke & Don Covay
album: The Best of Solomon Burke
comments: [blues soul]
Solomon Burke Tonight's the Night
1965 Atlantic
6 record label: Atlantic 2226
chart position: RandB #8, US #33
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns) & Wes Farrell
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Solomon Burke Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
1964 Atlantic
7 record label: Atlantic 2131
chart position: RandB #5, US #44
written by: Bert Russell
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Solomon Burke Cry To Me
1962 Atlantic
8 record label: Atlantic 2241
chart position: RandB #4, US #58
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns), Solomon Burke and Jerry Wexler
album: Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
Solomon Burke Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
1964 Atlantic
9 record label: Atlantic 2259
chart position: RandB #10, US #57
written by: Solomon Burke, Solomon Burke Jr. and J.B. Moore
comments: [deep soul]
Solomon Burke The Price
1964 Atlantic
10 record label: Atlantic 2416
chart position: RandB #11, US #49
written by: James Brown
Solomon Burke Take Me (Just As I Am)
1967 Atlantic
11 record label: Bell 783
chart position: RandB #15, US #45
written by: John Fogerty
album: Proud Mary
Solomon Burke Proud Mary
1969 Bell
12 record label: MGM 14353
chart position: RandB #13, US #89
written by: Solomon Burke (as Solomon Burke Sr.)
album: Cool Breeze
Solomon Burke Love's Street and Fools' Road
1972 MGM
13 record label: Atlantic 45 2147
chart position: RandB #15, US #85
written by: John Berry and Don Covay
Solomon Burke I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You
1962 Atlantic
14 record label: Atlantic 2218
chart position: RandB #17, US #51, US AC #16
written by: Joe Allison and Audrey Allison
album: Rock and Soul
Solomon Burke He'll Have To Go
1964 Atlantic
15 record label: Atlantic 2308
chart position: Cashbox R&B #14, US #94
written by: Larry Harrison, Jimmy Williams and Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke Only Love (Can Save Me Now)
1965 Atlantic
16 record label: Atlantic 2378
chart position: RandB #15, US #64
written by: Alexander
comments: [deep soul]
Solomon Burke Keep a Light in the Window Till I Come Home
1967 Atlantic
17 record label: Atlantic 45 2147
chart position: RandB #20, US #71, US AC #19
written by: Solomon Burke and Bert Berns
album: Solomon Burke's Greatest Hits
Solomon Burke Down In The Valley
1962 Atlantic
18 record label: Dunhill 4388
chart position: RandB #14
written by: Billy Page and Gene Page
album: Music to Make Love By
Solomon Burke Midnight and You
1974 Dunhill
19 record label: Chess 2159
chart position: RandB #19, US #96
written by: Solomon Burke and Jerry Styner
Solomon Burke You and Your Baby Blues
1975 Chess
20 record label: Atlantic 2345
chart position: Cashbox RandB #19
written by: Solomon Burke, Dolores Burke
Solomon Burke Suddenly
1966 Atlantic
21 record label: Atlantic 4044
chart position: RandB #24, US #89
written by: Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyd and Al Bell (as Alvertis Isbell)
Solomon Burke Someone Is Watching
1965 Atlantic
22 record label: Atlantic 2196
chart position: US #66
written by: James Mitchell
album: Rock and Soul
Solomon Burke Can't Nobody Love You
1963 Atlantic
23 record label: MGM 14221
chart position: RandB #26, US #96
written by: M. Burke, Solomon Burke Jr. and B. Burke
Solomon Burke The Electronic Magnetism (That's Heavy, Baby)
1971 MGM
24 record label: Atlantic 2507
chart position: RandB #32, US #68
written by: Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas
Solomon Burke I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)
1968 Atlantic
25 record label: Atlantic 452314
chart position: RandB #31, US #96
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns)
Solomon Burke Baby, Come on Home
1966 Atlantic
26 record label: Atlantic 2157
chart position: US #93
written by: Don Robertson and Howard Barnes
Solomon Burke I Really Don't Want To Know
1962 Atlantic
27 record label: Atlantic 2254
chart position: RandB #38, US #92
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns)
Solomon Burke Yes I Do
1964 Atlantic
28 record label: Atlantic 2327
chart position: US #97
written by: Orville Couch and Eddie McDuff
Solomon Burke I Feel a Sin Coming On
1966 Atlantic
29 record label: Atlantic 2349
chart position: RandB #38, US #109
written by: Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke Keep Looking
1966 Atlantic
30 record label: Atlantic 45 2180
chart position: Cashbox R&B #36, US #121
written by: Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke Words
1963 Atlantic
31 record label: Atlantic 2483
chart position: US #112
written by: Don Covay
Solomon Burke Party People
1968 Atlantic
32 record label: Bell 759
chart position: RandB #47, US #116
written by: Dan Penn, Jimmy Johnson and Spooner Oldham
album: Proud Mary
Solomon Burke Up Tight Good Woman
1969 Bell
33 record label: Fat Possum 358 2
chart position: UK #125
written by: Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Brenda Russell
album: Don't Give Up on Me
Solomon Burke None of Us Are Free
2003 Fat Possum
34 record label: MGM 14402
chart position: RandB #42
written by: Solomon Burke Jr. and Solomon Burke (as Solomon Burke Sr.
album: We're Almost Home
Solomon Burke We're Almost Home
1972 MGM
35 record label: Atlantic 2459
chart position: RandB #47, US #104
written by: Danny Dill and Mel Tillis
Solomon Burke Detroit City
1967 Atlantic
36 record label: Bell 806
chart position: US #129
written by: Beasley Smith and Haven Gillespie
album: Proud Mary
Solomon Burke That Lucky Old Sun
1969 Bell
37 record label: Chess 2172
chart position: RandB #72
written by: Solomon Burke
album: Music to Make Love By
Solomon Burke Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You
1975 Chess
38 record label: Amherst 736
chart position: RandB #91
written by: J. Williams Jr.
Solomon Burke Please Don't You Say Goodbye to Me
1978 Amherst
39 record label: MGM 14571
chart position: RandB #97
written by: Daniel Moore
Solomon Burke Shambala
1973 MGM
-- record label: Atlantic 8096
written by: Angela Martin, Bobby Scott
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [album cut]
Solomon Burke Won't You Give Him (One More Chance)
1964 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 8096
written by: Woody Guthrie
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [album cut]
Solomon Burke Hard Ain't It Hard
1964 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 8096
written by: Bert Berns, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Nugetre
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [album cut]
Solomon Burke You Can't Love' Em All
1964 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 8096
written by: Solomon Burke
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [album cut]
Solomon Burke Someone To Love Me
1964 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 2205
written by: Bert Russell, Solomon Burke
album: Rock and Soul
comments: [ballad]
Solomon Burke Beautiful Brown Eyes
1963 Atlantic




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