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- Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L.) was an American group founded in 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Members were Lee Lovett (bass), Gus Hawkins (sax/flute), Paul Stubblefield (drums), and Walter Winston (guitar). Larry Hancock (vocals/organ) was added in 1971 and Bernard (Beloyd) Taylor (guitar) replaced Walter Winston in 1972. In 1970, the group won the first prize of $1,000 in Cleveland a battle-of-the-bands contest sponsored by the May Department Stores Company, WHK radio station, and Musicor Records. They gained a recording contract with Musicor for their first single "Down In The Ghetto" (1971), produced by the TOP POP Recording Company 223 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City. Two years later, S.O.U.L. were back to New York to record What is It, an LP with seven tracks of covers of jazz and funk tunes, that jumped for two months on the Top 40 album spot on Billboard's soul album chart. The album was released in Europe just in the early 1990s on the BGP label. S.O.U.L. released seven singles between 1971 and 1974 for Musicor, cracking the top 50 Hot R & B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the summer of 1973. After a successful second LP, Can You Feel It?, the group split in 1975. Taylor moved to Los Angeles in 1973 with the group Mellow Thunder headed up by Melvin Ware, after which under new publishing and production contracts with Ware, he and Peter Cor, wrote 27 songs one of which was "Get Away". Wares' publishing company made the deal with Earth, Wind & Fire for "Getaway" in 1976 and his production company struck the recording deal with 20th Century Records. Hancock, also, moved to California and recorded for Decca Records including a duet with Alfie Silas; later he was part of the Platters. Gus Hawkins went back to college and worked as phlebotomist at the Cleveland Clinic before moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Lovett and Stubblefield continued to work in recording studios and labels. Sounds of Unity and Love was inducted into the inaugural class of the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame at Cleveland State University, in August 2013. "Burning Spear" was sampled by the Danish group ETA in 1997 on their track "Casual Sub (Burning Spear)". The song peaked at number 54 in Australia. (en)
- Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L.) fu una band di soul music e rhythm and blues fondata nel 1970 a Cleveland da musicisti autodidatti provenienti dal gospel. Il gruppo raccolse un enorme quanto fugace successo. Alla originaria formazione si aggiunse nel 1971 Larry Hancock (canto e organo). Poco dopo Bernard (Beloyd) Taylor sostituì Walter Winston alla chitarra, andando così a costituire il nucleo definitivo. Il gruppo si mise in mostra nel 1970, partecipando ad un concorso musicale sponsorizzato dal May Company Department Store di Cleveland, la WHK Radio Station e, soprattutto, la . Con 1000 dollari (il primo premio) ed un contratto per un singolo in tasca, i S.O.U.L. incisero il loro primo 45 giri, Down in the Ghetto (1971), prodotto dalla TOP POP Recording Company (223 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City). Tale successo permise al gruppo, nei tre anni successivi, di incidere altri sei singoli e di scalare la RnB Top 50 Chart nell'estate del 1973. Nel 1974 pubblicano il loro lavoro di maggior successo, What IT is, un LP contenente solo sette tracce, di cui tre brani dei S.O.U.L. e quattro cover di brani jazz e funk, che occupò per due mesi la Top 40 Album Spot della Billboard's Soul Album Chart. L'album venne pubblicato in Europa solo nei primi anni novanta dall'etichetta britannica BGP records. Nel 1975, dopo un secondo album di successo (Can you feel IT?), il gruppo si sciolse. Taylor si recò a Los Angeles, dove, tra l'altro, scrisse Get Away per gli Earth, Wind & Fire (1976). Anche Hancock andò in California, registrando per la Decca Records ed entrando nei Platters. Gus Hawkins completò gli studi interrotti e divenne flebotomista alla Cleveland Clinic prima di trasferirisi ad Atlanta. Lovett e Stubblefield rimasero nel giro delle case discografiche come molti altri esponenti della soul music. (it)
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- Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L.) was an American group founded in 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Members were Lee Lovett (bass), Gus Hawkins (sax/flute), Paul Stubblefield (drums), and Walter Winston (guitar). Larry Hancock (vocals/organ) was added in 1971 and Bernard (Beloyd) Taylor (guitar) replaced Walter Winston in 1972. "Burning Spear" was sampled by the Danish group ETA in 1997 on their track "Casual Sub (Burning Spear)". The song peaked at number 54 in Australia. (en)
- Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L.) fu una band di soul music e rhythm and blues fondata nel 1970 a Cleveland da musicisti autodidatti provenienti dal gospel. Il gruppo raccolse un enorme quanto fugace successo. Alla originaria formazione si aggiunse nel 1971 Larry Hancock (canto e organo). Poco dopo Bernard (Beloyd) Taylor sostituì Walter Winston alla chitarra, andando così a costituire il nucleo definitivo. Tale successo permise al gruppo, nei tre anni successivi, di incidere altri sei singoli e di scalare la RnB Top 50 Chart nell'estate del 1973. (it)
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