| 1 |
record label: Atlantic 2403
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #10
written by: Otis Redding
album: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You / Atlantic Soul Classics
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| 2 |
record label: Atlantic 2401
chart position: RandB #3, US #1, UK #8
written by: Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati
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| 3 |
record label: Motown 1107
chart position: RandB #12, US #1, UK #6
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland Jr. & Frank De Vol
album: Greatest Hits / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 4 |
record label: Tamla 54151
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #5
written by: Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway, Henry Cosby & Sylvia Moy
album: I Was Made to Love Her / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 5 |
record label: Tamla Motown 981
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #17
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: The Supremes Sing Holland Dozier Holland / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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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: Epic 10187
chart position: RandB #9, US #1
written by: Don Black & Mark London
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| 8 |
record label: Motown 1111
chart position: RandB #4, US #2, UK #5
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Reflections / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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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: Motown 1104
chart position: RandB #3, UK #8, US #4
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Reach Out / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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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: Soul 35039
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #47
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Everybody Needs Love / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 13 |
record label: Tamla 54159
chart position: RandB #1, US #4, UK #27
written by: Smokey Robinson & Al Cleveland
album: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 14 |
record label: Uni 55038
chart position: UK #1, RandB #33, US #11
written by: Tony Macaulay & John Macleod
album: The Foundations
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| 15 |
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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| 16 |
record label: Tamla Motown 620
chart position: RandB #3, US #6, UK #26
written by: Norman Whitfield, Cornelius Grant & Roger Penzabene
album: The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [love ballad] [Motown Sound]
|
| 17 |
record label: Double Shot 116
chart position: RandB #19, US #9, UK #8
written by: Alfred Smith & Joseph Hooven
album: Oogum Boogum
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 18 |
record label: Crimson 1010
chart position: RandB #3, US #4
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: When the Whistle Blows Anything Goes
comments: [philly sound]
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| 19 |
record label: Tamla 54156
chart position: RandB #2, US #5, US AC #37
written by: Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
album: United
comments: [love ballad] [Motown Sound]
|
| 20 |
record label: Scepter 12203
chart position: RandB #8, US #4
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: The Windows of the World
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 21 |
record label: Brunswick 55336
chart position: RandB #1, US #6
written by: Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner & Carl Smith
album: Higher and Higher
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 22 |
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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| 23 |
record label: Warner 7072
chart position: RandB #18, US #4
written by: Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy & Henry Cosby
album: Bill Cosby Sings/Silver Throat
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 24 |
record label: Phil L.A. Of Soul 305
chart position: RandB #5, US #7
written by: Jesse James
album: Boogaloo Down Broadway
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 25 |
record label: Motown 1119
chart position: UK #3, RandB #15, US #14
written by: Michael Brown, Bob Calilli & Tony Sansone
album: Reach Out
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 26 |
record label: Gordy 7061
chart position: RandB #2, US #8, UK #60
written by: Frank Wilson, Eddie Holland Jr. & R. Dean Taylor
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 27 |
record label: Tamla 54161
chart position: RandB #2, US #10, UK #41
written by: Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol & Vernon Bullock
album: United / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 28 |
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]
|
| 29 |
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]
|
| 30 |
record label: Tamla Motown 599
chart position: RandB #1, US #10, UK #21
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Watchout! / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 31 |
record label: Smash 2086
chart position: RandB #8, US #6
written by: Maurice Irby (as Maurice Irby Jr.)
album: Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 32 |
record label: Motown 1116
chart position: RandB #16, US #9, UK #13
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Reflections
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 33 |
record label: King 6110
chart position: RandB #1, US #7
written by: James Brown & Pee Wee Ellis (as Alfred Ellis)
album: Cold Sweat
comments: [funk]
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| 34 |
record label: Tamla 54141
chart position: RandB #4, US #14, UK #16
written by: William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Sylvia Moy
album: Take Two / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 35 |
record label: Motown 1110
chart position: RandB #10, US #14, UK #12
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Reach Out / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 36 |
record label: Date 1549
chart position: RandB #4, US #8
written by: Chuck Willis
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 37 |
record label: Dial 4063
chart position: RandB #2, US #10
written by: Joe Tex
album: Live And Lively
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 38 |
record label: Tamla 54157
chart position: RandB #4, US #12, UK #22
written by: Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder & Sylvia Moy
album: British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 39 |
record label: Gordy 7067
chart position: RandB #5, US #11, UK #30
written by: Sylvia Moy & Richard Morris
album: Ridin' High / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 40 |
record label: Tamla 54150
chart position: RandB #9, US #23, UK #13
written by: Van McCoy
album: The Marvelettes / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 41 |
record label: Bunky 7750
chart position: RandB #3, US #11
written by: Gilbert Moorer & Bill Sheppard
album: Get On Up and Get Away
comments: [northern soul]
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| 42 |
record label: Volt 148
chart position: RandB #3, US #17, UK #33
written by: Alexander, Caldwell, Cauley, Cunningham, Jones & King
album: Soul Finger / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [mainly instrumental]
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| 43 |
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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| 44 |
record label: Capitol 5798
chart position: RandB #2, US #11
written by: Joe Zawinul
album: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!
comments: instrumental
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| 45 |
record label: Tamla 54143
chart position: RandB #2, US #13
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: The Marvelettes
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 46 |
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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| 47 |
record label: ABC 11022
chart position: RandB #1, US #14
written by: Curtis Mayfield
album: We're A Winner
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| 48 |
record label: Tamla Motown 623
chart position: RandB #7, US #19, UK #26
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr
album: Greatest Hits / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 49 |
record label: Rising Sons 705
chart position: RandB #14, US #13, UK #40
written by: Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden
album: Everlasting Love
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 50 |
record label: Scepter 12187
chart position: RandB #5, US #15
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: Here Where There Is Love
comments: [pop soul ballad]
|
| 51 |
record label: Reprise 0606
chart position: RandB #7, US #12, US AC #36
written by: Jerry Ragovoy & Miriam Makeba
album: Pata Pata
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| 52 |
record label: Gordy 7065
chart position: RandB #3, US #14
written by: Norman Whitfield & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 53 |
record label: Money 126
chart position: RandB #1, US #21
written by: Bettye Swann
album: Make Me Yours
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 54 |
record label: Tamla 54149
chart position: RandB #3, US #19
written by: Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
album: United
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 55 |
record label: Musicor 1229
chart position: RandB #12, US #14
written by: Luther Dixon, Anthony Hester & Popcorn Wylie (as Richard Wylie)
album: Going Back To Detroit
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 56 |
record label: Revilot 207
chart position: RandB #3, US #20
written by: George Clinton & Deron Taylor
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 57 |
record label: Tamla 54158
chart position: RandB #8, US #17
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Sophisticated Soul
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 58 |
record label: Date 1574
chart position: RandB #16, US #13
written by: Mickey Baker, Sylvia Robinson (as Sylvia Vanderpool) & Bo Diddley
album: Golden Duets
comments: [northern soul]
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| 59 |
record label: Loma 2070
chart position: RandB #4, US #21
written by: Gloria Spolan & Richard Poindexter
album: Hypnotized / Linda Jones Greatest Hits
comments: [deep soul]
|
| 60 |
record label: Atlantic 2377
chart position: RandB #33, US #16
written by: Felix Cavaliere
album: Collections
comments: [northern soul]
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| 61 |
record label: Tamla Motown 637
chart position: RandB #8, US #24, UK #51
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Home Cookin
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 62 |
record label: Bell 672
chart position: RandB #4, US #23
written by: Arthur Brooks, Jerry Butler & Richard Brooks
album: For Your Precious Love
comments: [deep soul]
|
| 63 |
record label: Tamla Motown 598
chart position: RandB #10, US #20
written by: Smokey Robinson & Marv Tarplin (as Marvin Tarplin)
album: Make It Happen
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 64 |
record label: Soul 35032
chart position: RandB #14, US #29, UK #26
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Jimmy Ruffin Sings Top Ten / Greatest Hits (UK compilation) / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 65 |
record label: Dionn 500
chart position: RandB #8, US #20
written by: Maurice Coates & Brenda Payton
album: Dry Your Eyes
comments: [ballad]
|
| 66 |
record label: Stax 224
chart position: RandB #10, US #21
written by: Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati
album: Hip Hug Her / The Best Of Booker T. and The MGs
comments: instrumental
|
| 67 |
record label: Stax 45228
chart position: RandB #8, US #30, UK #35
written by: Steve Cropper & Eddie Floyd
album: King & Queen
comments: [northern soul]
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| 68 |
record label: Bell 685
chart position: RandB #18, US #23, UK #51
written by: Jo Sobotka & Johnny Wyker
album: The Pure Sound Of The Purifys
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 69 |
record label: Cadet 5578
chart position: RandB #10, US #23
written by: Clarence Carter, Wilbur Terrell & Marcus Daniels
album: Tell Mama
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 70 |
record label: Gordy 7062
chart position: RandB #14, US #25, UK #56
written by: Richard Morris & Sylvia Moy
album: Ridin' High
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 71 |
record label: Tamla Motown 604
chart position: UK #13, US #98
written by: Barrett Strong, Roger Penzabene and Cornelius Grant
album: Everybody Needs Love / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 72 |
record label: Tamla 54152
chart position: RandB #13, US #23
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Make It Happen / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 2
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 73 |
record label: Date 1563
chart position: RandB #10, US #20
written by: Ted Townsend
album: For Your Love
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 74 |
record label: Stateside 1238
chart position: RandB #9, US #25, UK #44
written by: John Lennon & Paul McCartney
album: Ray Charles Invites You to Listen
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 75 |
record label: Parkway 153
chart position: RandB #20, US #22
written by: Leonard Lee
album: Let The Good Times Roll & (Feel So Good)
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 76 |
record label: Bunky 7752
chart position: RandB #9, US #22
written by: Gilbert Moorer & Bill Sheppard
album: Get On Up and Get Away
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 77 |
record label: Atlantic 2448
chart position: RandB #13, US #22
written by: traditional, Harold Logan & Lloyd Price
|
| 78 |
record label: King 6144
chart position: RandB 4, US 28
written by: James Brown
album: I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me
comments: [funk]
|
| 79 |
record label: Capitol 5869
chart position: RandB #3, US #29
written by: Lou Rawls, David Axelrod & Ben Raleigh
album: Too Much !
|
| 80 |
record label: Atco 6511
chart position: RandB #6, US #33, UK #51
written by: King Curtis (as Curtis Ousley)
comments: [jazz funk]
|
| 81 |
record label: Stax 211
chart position: RandB #6, US #37, UK #51
written by: Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones
album: Hip Hug Her / The Best Of Booker T. and The MGs
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
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| 82 |
record label: Bell 669
chart position: RandB #15, US #25
written by: Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice & Andre Williams
album: The Pure Sound Of The Purifys
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 83 |
record label: Atco 6516
chart position: RandB #6, US #28
written by: Bobbie Gentry
comments: [instrumental]
|
| 84 |
record label: King 6071
chart position: RandB #7, US #29
written by: James Brown & Nat Jones
album: Raw Soul
comments: [funk]
|
| 85 |
record label: Atlantic 452394
chart position: RandB #6, US #32
written by: Wilson Pickett, Willie Schofield & Robert West
album: The Sound of Wilson Pickett
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 86 |
record label: Volt 149
chart position: RandB #16, US #47, UK #28
written by: Sam Cooke
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul / History of Otis Redding
comments: [southern soul]
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| 87 |
record label: Atlantic 2381
chart position: RandB #19, US #29
written by: Bert Russell (as Bert Berns), Solomon Burke & Jerry Wexler
album: The Wicked Pickett
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 88 |
record label: Tamla Motown 618
chart position: RandB #7, US #33
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Moods of Marvin Gaye
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 89 |
record label: Soul 35034
chart position: RandB #3, US #39
written by: Norman Whitfield & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Everybody Needs Love / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 2
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 90 |
record label: Tamla Motown 596
chart position: RandB #11, US #31
written by: Danny Coggins, Harvey Fuqua & Johnny Bristol
album: Road Runner
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 91 |
record label: Stax 210
chart position: RandB #2, US #42
written by: Isaac Hayes & David Porter
album: Double Dynamite
comments: [deep soul]
|
| 92 |
record label: Pye International 25428
chart position: RandB #27, US #32, US AC #32
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: The Windows of the World
comments: [pop soul ballad]
|
| 93 |
record label: Double Shot 121
chart position: RandB #30, US #34, UK #52
written by: Alfred Smith, Hal Winn, Jerry Winn & Joseph Hooven
album: Baby, You Got It
|
| 94 |
record label: Pyramid 6004 (UK)
chart position: UK #14
written by: Desmond Dekker
album: Action!
comments: [Reggae]
|
| 95 |
record label: Hot Line 15000
chart position: RandB #5, US #41
written by: Curtis Rodgers & Palmer E. James
album: Back Up Train
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 96 |
record label: Stax 218
chart position: RandB #16, US #56, UK #35
written by: Sam Cooke
album: Double Dynamite
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 97 |
record label: Ronn 3
chart position: RandB #5, US #52
written by: Toussaint McCall and Patrick Robinson
album: Nothing Takes the Place of You Deep Soul Treasures Vol.2 (compiled by Dave Godin)
comments: [deep soul]
|
| 98 |
record label: Double Shot 111
chart position: RandB #19, US #34
written by: Alfred Smith
album: Oogum Boogum
|
| 99 |
record label: Kent 456
chart position: RandB #5, US #52
written by: Lowell Fulson (as Lowell Fulsom) and Jimmy McCracklin
album: Tramp
comments: [southern soul blues]
|
| 100 |
record label: Atlantic 2448
chart position: RandB #4, US #45
written by: Bobby Womack
album: I'm in Love
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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