Mellow Mellow AM Radio: Sixties Pop & Seventies Soul

The movie The Comeback Trail with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones inspired me to make this cloudcast. One of the songs on the soundtrack is Rock The Boat by The Hues Corporation, which made me think of the European off shore pirate radio stations in the 1960s and 1970s. They were the ones that played AM pop with its powerful sound. In the mid-70s the more sophisticated sound of FM radio replaced AM radio and around the same time, due to new laws, pirate stations, like Radio Veronica and Radio North Sea near the Dutch coast, were forced to stop broadcasting. That marked the end of an era in which pop music became what it is today.

The closing track is from Marvin Gaye’s soundtrack to the movie Trouble Man:

“Trouble Man might not be as immediate or universally relatable as Gaye's soul-searching on What's Going On or his later sensual fixations, but a deep listen will show it's very much part of the same overarching genius that touched all of his work.” (Allmusic)

The songs by Milly Scott, Doris Duke and Paula Knight are from the excellent new box set Right Back Where We Started From – Female Pop & Soul In Seventies Britain, out on Cherry Red Records, which contains (mostly) British northern soul from the seventies.

Enjoy this second part of Mellow Mellow AM Radio!

Tracklist:

Milly Scott – Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind (1971)
Sam Cooke – Only Sixteen (1959)
Myles Sanko – Rainbow In Your Cloud (2020)
Doris Duke – A Little Bit Of Your Love (1975)
The Hues Corporation – Rock The Boat (1974)
Dionne Warwick & The Spinners ‎– Then Came You (1974)
Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’ (1968)
The Ides Of March – One Woman Man (1970)
R. Dean Taylor – Taos New Mexico (1972)
Adam Wade – Keeping Up With The Joneses (1977)
The Supremes ‎– Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (1967)
Beverley Hills ‎– I Don't Care Anymore (1974)
Three Degrees – Can’t You See What You’re Doing To Me (1973)
Four Tops – Sweet Was The Love (1960s)
Paula Knight ‎– It's The Same Old Song (1975)
Gladys Knight And The Pips – Just Walk In My Shoes (1966)
The Trammps – Trusting Heart (1974)
Teddy Pendergrass – Life Is A Song Worth Singing (1978)
Marvin Gaye – “T” Plays It Cool (1972)