The UNFORGETTABLE R&B Soul Song That Turned 60 l HITS from 1966
Twelve songs. Every one of them turned sixty this year. And if you've ever heard a slow dance go quiet, a cookout stop moving, or a car radio make the whole drive feel different — some of these records are the reason why.
In 1966, Motown, Stax, and Atlantic were all running at full speed at the same time. What came out of that year didn't just chart. It became part of people. This video counts down twelve of those records — from the Isley Brothers' one shot at Motown glory, to Wilson Pickett's tape that shattered on the studio floor and got pieced back together by hand, to a fifteen-year-old Stevie Wonder who co-wrote his own comeback while someone whispered lyrics into his ear during recording.
We get into Jimmy Ruffin turning down the Temptations — and his brother David taking the spot. Sam and Dave building one of the greatest Stax records from a bathroom interruption. Phil Spector paying Ike Turner twenty thousand dollars to stay home, making what George Harrison called a perfect record, and watching it peak at eighty-eight in America. Otis Redding transforming a 1932 pop standard into something that has never been touched since. James Brown and the woman who actually wrote the lyrics — and what it cost her. And Percy Sledge, a hospital orderly on weekends, who gave away his writing credit, watched an accidental version of his song go to number one, and changed the entire course of Aretha Franklin's career in the process.
These aren't just songs you recognize. These are stories you didn't know you were missing.
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