The Soulful Sounds of the Sixties and Forgotten Gems
The Soulful Sounds of the Sixties and Forgotten Gems The 1960’s are often seen as a golden period for soul music and it is easy to fill several albums with classic tracks of that decade. It is, of course, the big names and famous songs that usually turn up on such occasions: the Supremes, Four Tops, Temptations, Aretha Franklin and so on. There were many artists, however, who passed through virtually unnoticed and left some golden gems of records that deserve wider listening. So instead of Diana Ross et al, these are 10 of those musical gems by those who could have and should have made it, including a surprising number of young teenage girls with amazing voices who were never heard again. Still, maybe these records were hits in some alternative universe, where people eagerly search for a rare copy of the unknown Supremes on eBay. 1 1) Young Boy by Barbara Green, 1964 Chicago in the mid-sixties produced some of the ...