Billboard Hot Soul Singles – October 25, 1975
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There are quite a few pure soul tracks in this Billboard chart. An exception is Fly Robin Fly by Silver Convention that by today's standards is called 'disco' instead of 'soul'. The song was initially called Run Rabbit Run, but when German producers Silvester Levay and Michael Kunze heard a song on the radio called Run Rabbit, they changed it into Fly Robin Fly. The song with its sparse vocals, funky bass, hammering piano and repeating violins went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 5 in the Netherlands in 1975. After being a hit single almost everywhere, Levay and Kunze chose singers Linda G. Thompson, Ramona Wulf and Penny McLean to be permanent members of Silver Convention. The next year they had another huge hit with Get Up And Boogie. Then success started to fade.
Tracklist:
Joe Simon – Music In My Bones
Labelle – Messin’ With My Mind
Syl Johnson – I Only Have Love
Esther Phillips – What A Diff’rence A Day Makes
Silver Convention – Fly Robin Fly
Commodores – This Is Your Life
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Money
Aretha Franklin – Mr. DJ (5 For The D.J)
Curtis Mayfield – So In Love
Natalie Cole – This Will Be
Leon Haywood – I Want’A Do Something Freaky To You
Willie Hutch – Love Power
Smokey Robinson – The Agony And The Ecstasy
Impressions – Same Thing It Took
B.T. Express – Peace Pipe
Sly Stone – I Get High On You
War – Low Rider
Ohio Players – Sweet Sticky Thing
Spinners – They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play)
Faith, Hope & Charity – To Each His Own
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