We'll hear the long-awaited new single from Stevie Wonder, plus new music from Amerigo Gazaway, uplifting tunes from The Commodores, Curtis Mayfield, and McFadden & Whitehead, powerful songs from Rasheed Ali and Kaleta & Bosq, and hard-hitting Afrobeat from Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and Antibalas.
UpFront Soul #2020.44 Playlist PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1 Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Sam Cooke "A Change is Gonna Come" The Freedom Singers "Governor Wallace" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Disc 2 Speedometer (feat. James Junior) "Let's Start a Movement (feat. James Junior)" from Our Kind of Movement The Ray Camacho Band "Si Se Puede" from Bay Area Funk 2 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra "Uprising" from Liberation Afro Beat, Vol. 1 Bosq feat. Kaleta "A1 Wake Up (ft. Kaleta)" from Wake Up 12" The Freedom Singers "If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Eddie Kendricks "My People?Hold On" from Black Power: Music of a Revolution Richie Havens "Freedom" from Resume: The Best of Richie Havens The Impressions "Keep On Pushing" from People Get Ready Curtis Mayfield "We're a Winner" from Curtis/Live! Fannie Lou Hamer "The Day of Registration" from Movement Soul Vol. 2 McFadden & Whitehead "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" from Black Power: Music of a Revolution Disc 2 Curtis Mayfield "Power to the People [demo]" from Curtis Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come" from The Harder They Come Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 "Gimme My Vote Back (C.P.C.D.)" from Struggle Sounds Femi Kuti "Politics Na Big Business" from No Place for My Dream Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats "Power to the People" from Heavy Heavy Heavy 1968 Featuring Rasheed Ali "Will You Stand Up For Me?" from 1968: The Other Side of Town Kathleen Cleaver "Change It" from Black Power: Music of a Revolution Disc 1 The Commodores "Rise Up" from Blame it on the Dogg Vol 2 The Ojays "Give the People What They Want" from Black Power: Music of a Revolution Disc 1 Amerigo Gazaway "Work to Do" Little Steven "Vote" from Voice of America Stevie Wonder "Can't Put It In The Hands Of Fate [feat. Rapsody & Cordae & Chika & Busta Rhymes]" Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M