❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[vagrantx]

Day 21: A song from the 60s

Ishida Ayumi passed away two weeks ago. She was a legendary actress, singer, and one of the first performers to get the label of idol. Her singing and musical style may seem archaic now, even from a 1960s standpoint, but I find it beautiful. Her voice had some distinct qualities stemming from training in shigin, japanese folk singing.

Rest in peace

Ishida Ayumi - Blue Light Yokohama (1968)
+1

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 60s.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is The Godmother of Rock and Roll. From early on in her long career, she mixed gospel with blues in a way that hadn't been done before. It damaged some of her reputation in the gospel fan set, but that didn't matter to her, and was one of the main keystones to modern music. She broke ground in a number of ways, including being one of the first artists to use electric guitar back when she started in the 30s, then adding distortion, paving the way for the electric blues. She was also a big, beautiful, lesbian woman of color in a male-dominated world, and chose to tour with her partner along side her, regardless of the dangers. She was the first Soul Sister, a pioneer, and a hero.

This clip is from a tour she did in the mid-60s in Manchester, England. It was recorded at a train station, in the rain, her powerful voice ringing even near the end of her career. She had been criminally overlooked as an influence, but she was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. I don't have a lot of respect for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but they fucking got that one right.

"Didn't It Rain, Children," Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1964)

(+1 for woman of color, 1 total so far)

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 21: A song from the 60s
This song incorporates the both the theme of the week (women of color), as well as my undying love for po-tay-toes.
1962 - "Mashed Potato Time" - Dee Dee Sharp

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 21: A song from the 60s.

This is pretty much a teenager's journal entry but set to music. Seeing everyone of your peers around you being in love while you roam alone, and sad.

Françoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 21: A song from the 60s.

You Made A Fool Out Of Me - Mable John

+1

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Day 21: A song from the 60s.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is The Godmother of Rock and Roll. From early on in her long career, she mixed gospel with blues in a way that hadn't been done before. It damaged some of her reputation in the gospel fan set, but that didn't matter to her, and was one of the main keystones to modern music. She broke ground in a number of ways, including being one of the first artists to use electric guitar back when she started in the 30s, then adding distortion, paving the way for the electric blues. She was also a big, beautiful, lesbian woman of color in a male-dominated world, and chose to tour with her partner along side her, regardless of the dangers. She was the first Soul Sister, a pioneer, and a hero.

This clip is from a tour she did in the mid-60s in Manchester, England. It was recorded at a train station, in the rain, her powerful voice ringing even near the end of her career. She had been criminally overlooked as an influence, but she was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. I don't have a lot of respect for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but they fucking got that one right.

"Didn't It Rain, Children," Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1964)

(+1 for woman of color, 1 total so far)

Great choice. My father talked about this - Muddy Waters was on the same bill. The disused train station in Whalley Range was where it was filmed.

Loads of British bluesman like Page, Clapton, Richards travelled to Manchester to see Tharpe and Waters in both 1963/4 and were all heavily influenced by what they saw. So, it's damn right that she's in the RnR HoF.

 

[MisterChillax]

 

[TXRafe]

Day 22: A song from the 70s
i currently have a movie hyperfixation with these categories lately...today i am going with a song from Now and Then (1995)

Tony Orlando & Dawn - Knock Three Times (1970)​

+1 WOC = +2 total

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Yesterday was just the beginning of my life -Mark Williams

 

[kenbrack]

Day 22: A song from the 70s

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Ring My Bell - Anita Ward

 

[lingus60]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Joan Armatrading: Love and affection

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Labelle - Lady Marmalade

 

[Biggalute]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Joan Armatrading: Love and affection

You beat me to it

 

[Biggalute]

Day 22: A song from the 70's
The history of WOC in the UK and Ireland is different from that in the US, with many of their families only settling here post WW2.
I'm trying to only post British/Irish singers with this prompt.

Both Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett were Jamaican/British singers and original members of Boney M

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

I grew up listening to a lot of Motown and damn, it's hard to pick just one. All these Motown hits remind me of long car rides as a kid, little did I know how lucky I was to be listening to some of the best music as opposed to some bullshit kids albums.

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown - Neil Young

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Day 22: A song from the seventies.

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescent

Anglo-Somali Poly Styrene was all about being bold, provocative and inventive. She was colourful and thoughtful and abrasive - a poseur with identity. She was told, "little girls should be seen and not heard." She replied, "Oh bondage! Up yours!"

 

[Awaywego]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Joan Armatrading: Love and affection

Hosted her on campus 76 or 77, lovely person

 

[Awaywego]

Day 22: A song from the seventies
Disco Anthem....Chic with female leads, Anderson, Martin, and Wright

" Le Freak"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 22: A song from the 70s
1978 - "Ease on Down the Road" - The Wiz (Diana Ross & Michael Jackson)

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 22: A song from the 70's

Mr Big Stuff - Jean Knight

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 21: A WOC song from the 60s

Etta James - A Sunday Kind Of Love
+1

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 22: A WOC song from the 70s

Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin’ Love
+1

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 22: A song from the 70's-1976