Sounds Of Soul chronicles and playlist (10.05.2013): DJ Entertainer or DJ Educator

There has been recently a flare up of the age-old discourse in the deejay community about the true purpose of spinning records, be it on the airwaves or to a live audience in a club. Simply put, you can say that there are two factions – the DJs that see themselves primarily as entertainers and the ones that first and foremost try to educate their audience. The educators accuse the entertainers of being sellout crowd-pleasers and they in reverse blame their counterparts being bores and joy-kills. I see myself as standing somewhere in the middle of this debate, trying to entertain but also to bring new sounds to listeners and dancers. As you can imagine that’s not an easy thing to pull of and you get some flack from both sides of the divide, but as long as my audience keeps tuning into the S.O.S. radio show or filling the dance-floor I can’t be that wrong. Here’s what I played in last weeks show, hopefully entertaining and educating in the same way:

The Sisters Love  Give/Me Your Love/7″ Mowest

Hosanna/Hipit Part I/7″ Calla

Ace Spectrum/Live And Learn/7″ Atlantic

Barbara Jean English/Breaking Up A Happy Home/7″ Alitha

The Quadraphonics/Betcha If You Check It Out/7″ Innovation Records

Flavor/Don’t Freeze Up/7″ Bunky Records

Barrett Strong/Man Up In The Sky/7″ Capitol

Patterson Twins/I Need Your Love/7″ Maloco

Cecil Lyde/I’ll Make It On My Own/7″ Alwest

Solid Solution/Think About It Girl/LP Loving You/Silver Spoon

Mystic Merlin/Just Can’t Give You Up (edited version)/7″ Capitol

Valentinos/I Can’t Understand It  Pt  I/7″ Clean

Reggie Garner/That Ain’t The Way (You Make Love)/7″ abc

Ronnie McNeir/A Different Kind Of Love/7″ Tortoise

William Devaughn/Blood Is Thicker Than Water/7″ Roxbury

Ed Townsend/Where Did Those Signs Go/LP Now/Curtom

Detroit Emeralds/Set It Out/7″ Westbound

Mary Ann Farra & Satin Soul/Stoned Out Of My Mind/7″ Brunswick

Marvin Gaye/Come Get To This/7″ Tamla

Jackie Moore/Heart Be Still/7″ Kayvette

John Edwards/How Can I Go Without You/7″ Kent

Chicago Gangsters/I Choose You/7″ Red Coach

Lee Fields & The Expressions/You’re The Kind Of Girl/7″ Truth & Soul

If you want to hear the show back here is the link to the Sounds Of Soul page at Eastside radio:
https://eastsidefm.org/specialist/soundsofsoul/

And here’s a clip of the epic cover version of the Curtis Mayfield classic Give Me Your love by Sisters Love that opened last weeks show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9buqnprk3KY

DJ Burn Hard