Joan Osborne - I Feel So Good - Various Songs (200.But he's covered so many soul classics over the years that the two volumes put together are practically a history of the golden era of soul music. This album is an hour and 17 minutes long. Walker & the All StarsĢ6 My Whole World Is Falling Down - William BellĠ8 How Sweet It Is (Paul Weller)ġ3 Meeting Up Yonder (Style Council)ġ9 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller)Ģ2 Abraham, Martin and John (Paul Weller)Ģ4 I've Never Found a Girl (Paul Weller)Ģ5 What Does It Take (Paul Weller)Ģ6 My Whole World Is Falling Down (Paul Weller) Walker & the All Starsġ3 Meeting Up Yonder - Impressionsġ4 Going to a Go Go - Smokey Robinson & the Miraclesġ9 I Heard It through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the PipsĢ4 I've Never Found a Girl - Eddie FloydĢ5 What Does It Take - Jr. Here's a list of the original artists for each song:Ġ5 Heat Wave - Martha Reeves & the VandellasĠ7 Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda HollowayĠ8 How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gayeġ0 Roadrunner - Jr. (Note that I put the year the song first came out in the year field, instead of the year Weller released his version.) This repeats a lot of stuff I've posted on other stray track albums and such. But there's a big number of songs from around 1965. For instance, this volume only has three songs from the 1950s. One can get a better appreciation over the type of soul music he's liked the most. Rather than order these by the years he recorded them, I thought it would be more interesting to order them by the years the original versions of the songs were first released. The second one deals with his 1970s and 1980s covers. This one deals with his covers of songs that were first done in the 1950s and 1960s. He's done so many covers, in fact, that I had to split this into two very big album. Heck, his first band the Jam did soul covers in concert even before they got a record contract. Even though he's mainly a rock and roll guy, he's been massively influenced by soul music. I thought that was cool, but I also knew that he'd covered way more than a dozen such songs. I saw someone on YouTube made a compilation of soul covers by Paul Weller. Here's something a little different I felt like making.
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