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A trio of sisters with a strong gospel base, the Emotions were one of the leading female R&B acts of the '70s. Lead singer Sheila Hutchinson and her sisters Wanda and Jeanette were only teenagers when they crashed the soul charts in 1969 with the engaging "So I Can Love You," but they sang gospel as children and enjoyed secular fame locally before ...

Concord Music continues its "For Lovers" series with collections from R&B greats Isaac Hayes and Ray Charles; both albums are scheduled for release on December 22, 2009 at a budget price of $11.98. Previous releases in the series featured performances by artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, and Sarah Vaughan.

Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs.

The year in reissues was dominated by the rerelease of every Beatles album. But there were other awesome reisssues.

STARTING WITH COVERS Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - If I Were a Rich Man - What Now My Love Arthur Prysock - After the Lovin' - The Milestone Years Isaac Hayes - The Look of Love - Greatest Hit Singles Cookie Monster - Cookie Disco - My First Seasame Street Record Collection Klaus Nomi - Falling in Love Again David Moss - Delilah - My Favorite ...

The importance of rural music is part of the story at the Rock 'n Soul Museum in Memphis.

Alan Hewitt, platinum producer to the stars, inks deal with nuGroove/Sony Red and will release a new album entitled Retroactive in early 2010.

Few figures exerted greater influence over the music of the 1960s and 1970s than Isaac Hayes; after laying the groundwork for the Memphis soul sound through his work with Stax-Volt Records, Hayes began a highly successful solo career which predated not only the disco movement but also the evolution of rap.

Rating : * * * * Verdict : The sound of 60s soul today from golden-voiced US singer and player As well as the old-school R&B influence of Smokey Robinson, and the smooth, trippy soul of Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes, there's more than a hint of Justin Timberlake's pop sensibility to Mayer Hawthorne's tunes.

1954 - Elvis Presley first hit radio with an appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride." 1956 - Elvis Presley's film Love Me Tender premiered.

Tyler Perry's got considerable competition in the oneman theater juggernaut category.

Bob Patton knew the Godfather of Soul up close and personal. They were like family.

Season 32, Episode 11 of 14 : Between 1959 and 1975, Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, released international chart-topping hits such as "Soul Man," "Dock of the Bay, " "Green Onions," "Midnight Hour," "Respect Yourself" and the theme from Shaft.

Stax Records has announced a November 3, 2009 release date for the label's deluxe reissue of soul legend Isaac Hayes ' classic soundtrack to the movie Shaft .

'HOT BUTTERED SOUL' Isaac Hayes 1969 Tracks/time: 13/45 minutes, 33 seconds. Sounds like: Groundbreaking, baby-making merger of Memphis soul/funk with West Coast pop.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - In 1971, the song was everywhere. "Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man Shaft? Damn right.

Back to a 90 minute show , I began with some African pop, over to American blues, a big sampling of the Fruit Bats' album and a rash of covers - Jim James of George Harrison, Iron & Wine of The Flaming Lips; The Flaming Lips covering Beck.

Provided by the Heather Hayes Band The Heather Hayes Band will perform at Arts Alive Motown Nights.

The Church of Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by pulp science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it's been run by his successor, David Miscavige, since 1987.