We'll ring in the New Year with Sun Ra, Skydive with Alicia Keys, and pay tribute to bebop piano great Barry Harris who, sadly, recently passed on.
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 1Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
UpFront Soul Playlist #2021.51 Sam Cooke "Having a Party" from One Night Stand! Live At the Harlem Square Club, 1963 on RCA/Legacy. Genre: R&B/Soul Charles Earland "Message to a Black Man" from Living Black! ENDRECHERI "Rain of Rainbow" from Go To Funk Sam Cooke "That's It- I Quit- I'm Movin' On" from The Man Who Invented Soul Ramon Morris "People Make the World Go Round" from Sweet Sister Funk Ben E King "It's All Over" from Ben E King Femi Kuti "Politics Na Big Business" from No Place for My Dream on Wrasse Records Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "All Here and Now (excerpt)" from Great Audio Moments, Vol.41: Martin Luther King Abdullah Ebrahim "Mannenberg" from Essential South African Jazz: The Jo'burg Sessions June Victory & the Bayou Renegades "Down on the Bayou" from June Victory & the Bayou Renegades on Monkey Hill Ellis Marsalis "Creole Love Call" from Duke In Blue Barry Harris "7 4 3" from Live in New York Lee Morgan "Sidewinder" Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five "Superrappin'" on Enjoy Records Wawesh "Mjanja" from Afrolution Vol. 1 - The Original African Hip Hop Collection A Tribe Called Quest "Can I Kick It" from People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Otis Redding "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from The Very Best of Otis Redding Richard "Groove" Holmes "Groovin' Time" from Welcome Home! Soul Jazz Masters The Cannibals "We Keep On Keepin' On" from Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth-Disco 1980-1984 on Cultures of Soul Alicia Keys "Skydive" from KEYS Kashmere Stage Band "$$ Kash Register $" from Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 Leon Bridges "Steam" from Gold Diggers Sound The Coolbreezers "Mr. New Year" from Hipsters' Holiday: Vocal Jazz & R&B Classics Sun Ra "Happy New Year to You" from The Sounds of Sun Ra 1956-1961 Joseph Washington Jr. "New Year" from Merry Christmas to You 2:00 PM Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M