| 1 |
record label: Volt 157
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #3
written by: Otis Redding & Steve Cropper
album: The Dock of the Bay / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 2 |
record label: Atlantic 2326
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #4
written by: Percy Sledge
album: When A Man Loves A Woman / The Best Of Percy Sledge / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 3 |
record label: Minit 623
chart position: RandB #1 (5 weeks), US #1, UK #29
weeksinr&bchart: 16
written by: Allen Toussaint
album: Mother in Law
comments: [southern soul]
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| 4 |
record label: ABC Paramount 10502
chart position: RandB #1 (3 weeks), US #9
weeksinr&bchart: 16
written by: Ray Whitley
album: Presenting The Tams / The Best Of The Tams
comments: [southern soul]
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| 5 |
record label: Atlantic 2748
chart position: RandB #2, US #4, UK #2
written by: General Johnson & Ronald Dunbar
album: Patches / The Best of Clarence Carter
comments: (southern soul)
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| 6 |
record label: Atco 6463
chart position: RandB #2, US #2, UK #7
written by: Otis Redding, Arthur Conley & Sam Cooke
album: Sweet Soul Music / Best Of Arthur Conley / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 7 |
record label: United Artists 2269(UK)
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #7
weeksinr&bchart: 19
written by: Charlie Foxx & Inez Foxx
album: Mockingbird
comments: [southern soul]
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| 8 |
record label: Stax 0125
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #30
written by: Al Bell (as Alvertis Isbell)
album: Be Altitude: Respect Yourself / Stax Greatest Hits / The Best of The Staple Singers
comments: [southern soul]
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| 9 |
record label: Stax 231
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #24
written by: Isaac Hayes & David Porter
album: Soul Men / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 10 |
record label: Stax 0088
chart position: RandB #1, US #2
written by: Joseph Broussard, Ralph Williams & Carrol Washington
album: Mr. Big Stuff / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul funk]
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| 11 |
record label: Atlantic 2464
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #37
written by: Don Covay
album: Lady Soul
comments: [southern soul]
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| 12 |
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]
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| 13 |
record label: Atlantic 2546
chart position: RandB #3, US #10, UK #4
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: Aretha Now
comments: [southern soul]
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| 14 |
record label: Probe 532 (UK)
chart position: UK #1
written by: Ray Whitley
album: The Best Of The Tams
comments: (re release) [southern soul]
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| 15 |
record label: RCA Victor 47 8368
chart position: RandB #1 (2 weeks), US #11
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Sam Cooke
album: Ain't That Good News
comments: [southern soul]
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| 16 |
record label: Fame 6401
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #17
weeksinr&bchart: 19
written by: Jimmy Hughes
album: Steal Away
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 17 |
record label: Atlantic 2427
chart position: RandB #1, US #4, UK #39
written by: Jimmy Holiday & Ronnie Shannon
album: Aretha Arrives
comments: [southern soul]
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| 18 |
record label: ABC Paramount 10739
chart position: RandB #5, US #6, UK #50, US AC #1
written by: Buck Owens
album: Crying Time
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 19 |
record label: Hi 2194
chart position: RandB #7, US #11, UK #4
written by: Al Green
album: Al Green Gets Next To You
comments: (southern soul)
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| 20 |
record label: Chimneyville 435
chart position: RandB #1, US #6, UK #51
written by: King Floyd
album: King Floyd
comments: [southern soul funk]
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| 21 |
record label: Bell 648
chart position: RandB #5, US #6
written by: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
album: James & Bobby Purify
comments: [southern soul]
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| 22 |
record label: Hi 2227
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, UK #51, US AC #28
written by: Al Green, Al Jackson Jr. & Willie Mitchell
album: Call Me...
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 23 |
record label: Dial 4001
chart position: RandB #1, US #5
written by: Joe Tex
album: Hold What You've Got
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 24 |
record label: King 6035
chart position: RandB #1, US #8, UK #13
written by: James Brown & Betty Jean Newsome
album: Out of Sight
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 25 |
record label: Atlantic 2486
chart position: RandB #1, US #5, UK #47
written by: Aretha Franklin & Ted White
album: Lady Soul
comments: [southern soul]
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| 26 |
record label: Hi 2216
chart position: RandB #2, US #4, UK #44
written by: Al Green, Al Jackson Jr. & Willie Mitchell
album: I'm Still in Love with You
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 27 |
record label: Atlantic 2518
chart position: RandB #1, US #7, UK #26
written by: Aretha Franklin & Bernice Hart
album: Aretha Now
comments: [southern soul]
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| 28 |
record label: KoKo 2111
chart position: RandB #1, US #3
written by: Homer Banks, Carl Hampton & Raymond Jackson
album: If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want to Be Right
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 29 |
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]
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| 30 |
record label: Stax 0009
chart position: RandB #1, US #5
written by: Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Don Davis & Raymond Jackson
album: Who's Making Love / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul]
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| 31 |
record label: Atlantic 2430
chart position: RandB #1, US #8, UK #43
written by: Arlester
album: The Sound of Wilson Pickett
comments: [southern soul]
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| 32 |
record label: Hi 2211
chart position: RandB #2, US 4, UK #44
written by: Al Green, Al Jackson Jr. & Willie Mitchell
album: I'm Still in Love with You
comments: [southern soul]
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| 33 |
record label: Alston 4601
chart position: RandB #2, US #6
written by: Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke
album: I Love the Way You Love
comments: (southern soul)
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| 34 |
record label: London 10470
chart position: RandB #2, US #7, UK #20, US AC #28
written by: Al Green
album: Al Green Explores Your Mind
comments: [southern soul]
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| 35 |
record label: Sar Records 117
chart position: RandB #4, US #8
weeksinr&bchart: 22
written by: Sam Cooke
comments: [southern soul]
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| 36 |
record label: Atlantic 2508
chart position: RandB #2, US #6
written by: William Armstrong, Marcus Lewis Daniel & Wilbur Terrell
album: This Is Clarence Carter / The Best of Clarence Carter
comments: [southern soul]
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| 37 |
record label: Amy 965
chart position: RandB #10, US #23, UK #6
written by: Allen Toussaint
album: The New Lee Dorsey
comments: [southern soul]
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| 38 |
record label: Atlantic 452441
chart position: RandB #2, US #8
written by: Gerry Goffin, Carole King & Jerry Wexler
album: Lady Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 39 |
record label: Atlantic 452320
chart position: RandB #1, US #13, UK #36
written by: Eddie Floyd & Steve Cropper
album: The Exciting Wilson Pickett
comments: [southern soul]
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| 40 |
record label: Atlantic 2289
chart position: RandB #1, US #21, UK #12
written by: Wilson Pickett & Steve Cropper
album: In The Midnight Hour / The Exciting Wilson Pickett / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 41 |
record label: Atlantic 2386
chart position: RandB #1, US #9
written by: Ronnie Shannon
album: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 42 |
record label: Stax 194
chart position: RandB #1, US #28, UK #19
written by: Eddie Floyd & Steve Cropper
album: Knock on Wood / Rare Stamps / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 43 |
record label: Dakar 45 602
chart position: RandB #1, US #5
written by: Barry Despenza & Carl Wolfolk
album: Can I Change My Mind / Tyrone Davis Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul]
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| 44 |
record label: Hi 2247
chart position: RandB #2, US #10
written by: A. Green, M. Hodges
album: Call Me...
comments: [southern soul]
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| 45 |
record label: Sound Stage Seven 2628
chart position: RandB #1, US #13
written by: Harlan Howard
album: The Chokin' Kind
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 46 |
record label: Wand 122
chart position: RandB #2, US #23
written by: Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard
album: Any Day Now / Chuck Jackson's Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 47 |
record label: Stax 195
chart position: RandB #3, US #14
written by: Isaac Hayes & David Porter
album: Carla / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 48 |
record label: Stax 0161
chart position: RandB #1, US #11
written by: Don Davis
album: Taylored in Silk
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 49 |
record label: Dial 4063
chart position: RandB #2, US #10
written by: Joe Tex
album: Live And Lively
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 50 |
record label: Hi 2235
chart position: RandB #2, US #10
written by: Al Green, Al Jackson Jr. & Willie Mitchell
album: Call Me...
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 51 |
record label: United Artists 375
chart position: RandB #1, US #10
written by: James Alexander & Zelda Samuels
album: Lookin' for a Love Again
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 52 |
record label: Spring 128
chart position: RandB #1, US #11
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Joe Simon
album: The Power Of Joe Simon
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 53 |
record label: Atlantic 2342
chart position: RandB #5, US #17, UK #34
written by: Bobby Robinson, Dan Quinvy & Pronto Bob
album: Warm & Tender Soul / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 54 |
record label: Westbound 182
chart position: RandB #1, US #13
written by: Denise LaSalle
album: Trapped By A Thing Called Love / Doin' It Right
comments: [southern soul]
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| 55 |
record label: Stax 0059
chart position: RandB #5, US #28, UK #18
written by: Rufus Thomas
album: Do the Funky Chicken / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul funk]
|
| 56 |
record label: Cat 1996
chart position: RandB #1, US #9
written by: Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke
album: Rockin' Chair
comments: [southern soul]
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| 57 |
record label: ABC/TRC 10938
chart position: RandB #5, US #15, UK #38, US AC #38
written by: Donnie Lanier & Red Steagall (as Russ Steagall)
album: Ray Charles Invites You to Listen
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 58 |
record label: Chess 2049
chart position: RandB #4, US #19, UK #19
written by: Bob Astor, Pigmeat Markham (as Dewey Markham), Dick Allen & Sarah Harvey
comments: [southern soul novelty]
|
| 59 |
record label: Hi 2257
chart position: RandB #1, US #19, UK #52
written by: Al Green & Willie Mitchell
album: Livin' for You
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 60 |
record label: Atlantic 2160
chart position: RandB #7, US #101
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: James Bennett & Johnnie Mae Matthews
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 61 |
record label: Atlantic 2490
chart position: RandB #6, US #11
written by: Steve Davis
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 62 |
record label: Atlantic 2365
chart position: RandB #6, US #23, UK #28
written by: Mack Rice (as Bonny Rice)
album: The Wicked Pickett
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 63 |
record label: Atlantic 2569
chart position: RandB #3, US #13
written by: John M. Keyes, Clarence Carter, Rick Hall & George Jackson
album: The Dynamic Clarence Carter / The Best of Clarence Carter
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 64 |
record label: Stax 189
chart position: RandB #1, US #21
written by: Isaac Hayes & David Porter
album: Hold On! I'm Comin
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 65 |
record label: Jamie 1220
chart position: RandB #1, US #8
written by: Barbara Lynn Ozen
album: You'll Lose A Good Thing
comments: (southern soul ballad)
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| 66 |
record label: Stax 0117
chart position: RandB #8, US #27, UK #22
written by: Posie Knight & Jerry Weaver
album: I've Been Lonely for So Long / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul]
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| 67 |
record label: Stax 216
chart position: RandB #2, US #26, UK #18
written by: Lowell Fulson & Jimmy McCracklin
album: King & Queen / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 68 |
record label: Atco 6563
chart position: RandB #5, US #14, UK #46
written by: Arthur Conley & Earl Simms
album: Soul Directions / Best Of Arthur Conley
comments: [southern soul funk]
|
| 69 |
record label: Island 273 (UK)
chart position: RandB #14, UK #6
written by: Roy C (as Roy Hammond)
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 70 |
record label: Columbia 42157
chart position: RandB #6
weeksinr&bchart: 12
written by: Al Kasha, Alan Thomas & Curtis Williams
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 71 |
record label: Volt 141
chart position: RandB #4, US #25, UK #46
written by: James Campbel, Reginald Connelly & Harry M. Woods
album: Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
comments: [southern soul]
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| 72 |
record label: Dial 4016
chart position: RandB #1, US #23
written by: Joe Tex
album: The New Boss
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 73 |
record label: Calla 119
chart position: RandB #4, US #22
written by: J.J. Jackson (as Jerome L. Jackson) & Pierre Tubbs
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 74 |
record label: Stax 0079
chart position: RandB #1, US #25
written by: Rufus Thomas
album: Did You Heard Me?
comments: (southern soul funk)
|
| 75 |
record label: Stax 0023
chart position: RandB #2, US #20
written by: Homer Banks, Don Davis, Raymond Jackson & Tom Kelly
album: Who's Making Love
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 76 |
record label: Volt 138
chart position: RandB #12, US #29, UK #23
written by: Steve Cropper & Otis Redding
album: Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 77 |
record label: Stax 0127
chart position: RandB #4, US #19
written by: Phillip Mitchell
album: Starting All Over Again / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 78 |
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]
|
| 79 |
record label: Fame 1472
chart position: RandB #4, US #24
written by: Billy Sherrill & Tammy Wynette
album: Stand by Your Man
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 80 |
record label: Checker 1105
chart position: RandB #1, US #25
written by: Raynard Miner, Billy Davis, Carl Smith, Gene Barge
album: We're Gonna Make It
comments: [southern soul]
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| 81 |
record label: Uni 55143
chart position: RandB #5, US #20
written by: Jo Armstead (as Josephine Armstead), Garland Green, Cash McCall & Rudolph Browner
album: Jealous Kind of Fella
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 82 |
record label: United Artists 658
chart position: RandB #9, US #26
weeksinr&bchart: 11
written by: Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler
album: Cry Baby And 11 Other Hits
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 83 |
record label: Amy 945
chart position: RandB #5, US #44, UK #22
written by: Allen Toussaint
album: The New Lee Dorsey
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 84 |
record label: Truth 3206
chart position: RandB #1, US #22
written by: Homer Banks, Eddie Marion & Henderson Thigpen
album: Woman to Woman / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 85 |
record label: Atlantic 2574
chart position: RandB #9, US #14
written by: Steve Cropper & Don Covay
album: Aretha Now / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
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| 86 |
record label: Volt 163
chart position: RandB #10, US #25, UK #24
written by: Otis Redding & Steve Cropper
album: The Immortal Otis Redding
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 87 |
record label: Atlantic 2476
chart position: RandB #4, US #20
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Jerry Butler
album: The Soul Goes On
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 88 |
record label: Dial 4022
chart position: RandB #1, US #29
written by: Joe Tex
album: The Love You Save
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 89 |
record label: Atlantic 2486
chart position: RandB #9, US #16
written by: Carolyn Franklin
album: Lady Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 90 |
record label: Spring 139
chart position: RandB #3, US #24
written by: Prince Phillip Mitchell (as Phillip Mitchell)
album: It Hurts So Good
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 91 |
record label: Checker 1129
chart position: RandB #7, US #27
written by: Bobby Moore
comments: [southern soul]
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| 92 |
record label: Atlantic 2306
chart position: RandB #4, US #53, UK #29
written by: Steve Cropper & Wilson Pickett
album: In the Midnight Hour
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 93 |
record label: Atlantic 2528
chart position: RandB #6, US #24, UK #38
written by: Bobby Womack & Wilson Pickett
album: The Midnight Mover
comments: [southern soul]
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| 94 |
record label: Stax 0005
chart position: UK #8, RandB #17, US #75
written by: William Bell & Booker T. Jones
album: Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 95 |
record label: United Artists 50847
chart position: RandB #2, US #27
written by: Jimmy Grisby, Joe Hicks & Bobby Womack
album: Communication...
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 96 |
record label: Kayvette 5128
chart position: RandB #3, US #31
written by: Bill Anderson
album: Sometimes
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 97 |
record label: Shout 207
chart position: RandB #1, US #39
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns)
album: Are You Lonely for Me?
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 98 |
record label: Atlantic 2605
chart position: RandB #4, US #31
written by: Clarence Carter & George Jackson
album: Testifyin' / The Best of Clarence Carter
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 99 |
record label: Atlantic 452681
chart position: RandB #12, US #30
written by: Dave Crawford & Jackie Moore
comments: [southern soul]
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| 100 |
record label: United Artists 255
chart position: RandB #2, US #29
written by: James Cox
album: Facts of Life...
comments: [southern soul]
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