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Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago. Along with Detroit , the home of Motown , and Memphis , with its hard-edged, gritty performers (see Memphis soul ), Chicago and the Chicago soul style helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s.
[1] [2] The group gave King Records their only Chicago success in the soul idiom as the King Pins with "It Won't Be This Way (Always)," in 1963, which reached number twelve on Billboard's R&B chart. [3] In 1966, the Kelly Brothers reached #39 on the Billboard R&B singles chart with "Falling in Love Again."
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
The Chi-Lites (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ l aɪ t s /, SHY-lytes) are an American R&B/Soul vocal quartet from Chicago. Forming at Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1959, The group's original lineup consisted of singers Robert Lester, Eugene Record, Creadel Jones, Clarence Johnson, Burt Bowen, Eddie Reed and Marshall Thompson.
A cleaned-up version was recorded for WLS but the songs momentum was slowed. [5] The Mauds recorded "HA HA HA" in 1967. Full album of material was recorded called “Hold On” that yielded several other blue-eyed soul songs, including “When Something is Wrong with my Baby,”“He Will Break Your Heart,” and “Knock On Wood”.
Maxwell has never stopped working [4] in her seven-decade career, [2] [14] from opera training in childhood to performing as a soul balladeer in the 1960s, to extensive touring in Europe, [15] to currently performing in Chicago clubs and at the Chicago Blues Festival and hosting a musical and historical tour of Chicago's soul and blues with ...
Record World called it a "James Pankow tune that's done in typical Chicago fashion." [7] In 2019, Bobby Olivier, writing for Billboard, judged the song to be the group's "greatest love song, hard stop." [2] "Just You 'n' Me" was the final song played by Chicago AM radio station WLS before switching to a talk radio format in 1989. [8]
Bob Abrahamian (September 25, 1978 – June 5, 2014) was a soul music deejay, historian, archivist, and record collector. [1] In addition to hosting a long-running radio show, "Sitting in the Park" on WHPK, he built a personal collection of significant soul music records, with a focus on the Chicago vocal style known as "sweet soul."