# Greatest R&B and Soul hits.  Nominate your top 5 favorites.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 14, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-r-b-and-soul-hits-nominate-your-top-5-favorites/709773 "2015-01-14T00:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-r-b-and-soul-hits-nominate-your-top-5-favorites/709773/21 "2015-01-14T23:18:08Z")

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An impossible task for sure. Why don’t you just ask me which one of my children I love the most? Anyway, I’ll give it a shot. Just going to the top of my music files and grabbing a few I haven’t seen mentioned already here’s what I came up with:

Al Green - [Here I Am Baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73FkH3v7yg)

Aretha Franklin- [The House That Jack Built](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=benBtqMSqq8)

Barbara George - [I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Rmm8PrnXk)

Ben E. King -[I Who Have Nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4r3_FqrrsM)

Bobby Rush - [I Ain’t Studdin’ You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672gvf34HD0) If you want to have a :eek: time, just check out some of Bobby Rush’s live videos. Priceless!

Got hundreds more. Man, I love my soul music.  
(Damn! The first one I put up is a repeat from the previous post. Headsmack!)

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-r-b-and-soul-hits-nominate-your-top-5-favorites/709773/22 "2015-01-14T23:55:56Z")

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Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears  
Stevie Wonder - Superstition  
Sam Cooke - Cupid  
Prince - Kiss  
Otis Redding - [Try A Little Tenderness (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddLvbCQbU4)

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**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-r-b-and-soul-hits-nominate-your-top-5-favorites/709773/23 "2015-01-15T05:05:16Z")

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I will add some not mentioned yet…

Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin  
Reach Out (I’ll Be There) the Four Tops  
Devil With a Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels  
Ooh Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson a d the Miracles  
Can’t Get Next to You - Temptations

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-r-b-and-soul-hits-nominate-your-top-5-favorites/709773/24 "2015-01-15T15:49:01Z")

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> [@Labdad](#):
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> Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness”  
> Wilson Pickett - “Mustang Sally”  
> Sam and Dave - “When Something’s Wrong With My Baby”  
> Aretha Franklin - “Respect”  
> James Brown - “Please Please Please”
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> Honorable Mention: Eddie Floyd - “Knock on Wood”

If you can find it, check out _Soul Survivor_, it’s a sort of documentary on Stax in Memphis. Sam Moore does “_When Something’s Wrong With My Baby_” live and kills it. A near perfect performance.

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