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Poll Question: Choose three songs
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [6.25%]
3 [6.25%]
1 [2.08%]
3 [6.25%]
3 [6.25%]
2 [4.17%]
2 [4.17%]
4 [8.33%]
4 [8.33%]
4 [8.33%]
3 [6.25%]
4 [8.33%]
1 [2.08%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [2.08%]
1 [2.08%]
3 [6.25%]
1 [2.08%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [2.08%]
4 [8.33%]
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It is the season that's a reality,. and for me i can hardly get here to vote or post recently but doesn't mean i'm not trying to check in and listen, or be invested. I love these polls and all of us who come here to take part. I'll try listen and vote soon. 

 
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Could be the season, Lorenzo.  Would be nice to see more votes, but lots are busy this time of year.
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So far just two of us have voted: Nickie and me. Confused




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Wattstax Music Festival 1972, "Black Woodstock"(for illustrative purposes only)




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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Uh oh, looks like I jumped the gun a bit...however, I will stay with my Mascotte vote for Percy Sledge, although assuredly Otis Redding is also a great addition to that pantheon.  Just a wonderful poll, once again!
The Otis Redding video was actually meant as an encore or a contemporary document, out of competition. Another option was live footage from the legendary 1972 Wattstax Music Festival where various greats participated, e.g. the fabulous Staples Singers, Albert King, Isaak Hayes, to name only a few.- I really enjoy this poll, which makes the voting even more difficult of course! Smile 



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Uh oh, looks like I jumped the gun a bit...however, I will stay with my Mascotte vote for Percy Sledge, although assuredly Otis Redding is also a great addition to that pantheon.  Just a wonderful poll, once again!
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Voting is open!

Rules:

1) You can vote for your favorite three songs (no more, and not yours!)

2) You can vote for your favorite mascot: only one vote. You can give it based not only on the song but also on the video, on what brings you into that musical era.

Here are the 4 mascots:


1) Stevie Wonder: Superstition



2) Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman



3) Aretha Franklin: Think



4) Booker T & MGs: Green Onions




5) Ray Charles: What I'd Say



6) Sly & The Family Stone: I Want To Take You Higher



7) Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness
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An addition to my suggested Iconic Mascotte Prize candidate. Otis Redding was, as it were the mascotte of Stax Records. This is footage from the Monterey Pop Festival 1967 where he performed one of his signature songs, accompanied by Booker T. & the MG's.




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Thank you for the Joan Osborne vote, Lorenzo.  So much was sooooooo good here, just a wonderful genre-in-general and incredibly diverse, which is one of the reasons it was so hard to decide on what to vote for.  They all had great merit.  There were more than a few, that if they'd been first listen for me, would have been contenders! 

Also for finding that Ray Charles televised version!  And the vote, of course.  

 Just outstanding, everyone!  Clap


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This selection led to traditional blues / soul songs, often vintage, and to some more rhythmic and funky songs, with a percussive and electric taste.
None of them excited me like what I consider masterpieces do but, on the other hand, I liked them all (more or less), which doesn't happen often to me.


Podium:

1) Joan Osborne
This song intrigued me a lot for its irregularity and hybridization between blues and folk. The singer's lamenting vocal accents and the harmonica are very enjoyable.


2) Living Colour 
Simple, sober blues rock ballad based on the singer's voice and Vernon Reid's syncopated guitar.
There would have been good organ and horns in the background.


3)  Cuby and the Bizzards: Somebdy will Know Someday
Vintage blues (1967), rural, perhaps southern song, with a very distinctive smoky jazz interlude, a pleasure to listen to it. A vintage song could not be missing.


Honorable mentions:

4) Lou Rawls: a piano bar song, in fact more a jazz song than a blues song but the vocals are surely bluesy. I imagine me and Christian listen to it with a daiquiri cocktails in our hands.


5) Ebo Taylor: Ayesama
This song explains what it means to be African American

6) Jackee Venson: great work on the guitar for this electric syncopated blues, the sound is quite pumped.

7) Kool and the Gang: pleasing funky rock song


- Grand Public's Prize

White Denim - Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)

Very fast funky with commercial sound, ideal for dancing.

- Grand Critic's Prize: 
Rhiannon Giddens: Julie.
Soober blues vocals and banjo... it's a real blues, bluesy mood, fantastic vocal performance.


Grand Mascotte Prize:

Hard choice, I love this vintage music and these videos, but I'm going with Ray Charles for its revolutionary song.
But let me say that the greatest pleasure is given to me by the Superstition video: seeing those black boys and girls dressed up in the seventies dancing is really a blast.


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Originally posted by Mila-13 Mila-13 wrote:


I'm not quite sure whether George has posted the playlist already but if not, here it is just in case incl. the Iconic Mascotte Grand Prize candidates. If you prefer them in a separate playlist, please let me know. Have fun!

And Merry Christmas Everyone! Smile

Dance scene feat. Idris Elba, Chris Brown, etc. doing the Soul Train's line . .


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Firstly, I would like to add that the addition of the Grand Prize, Best Mascotte entries were all fabulous and don’t really need me to comment on them individually.  Yet another innovation, thanks to the mind of Lorenzo.  Bravo!

Thanks to Lorenzo for the poll and to Mila for the playlist, which makes it easy to relisten to the final selections.  And all were wonderful contributions, I did know a fair amount of these and there were a multitude of “If You’d Chosen’s,” so not going to list them, even though I sometimes do. 

I’ve got to go with Percy Sledge, another of my mom’s favourites, for the Grand Mascotte, even though every single one was deserving and merited the title.   

1.       Dark Elf:  This one just stuck with me.  I really like the raw, folky feel here.  HIS CHOICE:  Rhiannon Gidden “Julie”  I think I’ve seen her before, but not heard this.  A fantastic Delta or Appalachian style blues/folk tune.  I love banjo when it’s played this way, not so jangly.  I looked her up, now I know that I’ve seen her with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, courtesy NPR.  Excellent choice! 

2.       Mila:  HER CHOICE:   And this one I love for the energy.  Ebo Taylor “Ayesama”  Love the organ and horns, great beat going on with drums, bass and then the horns.  Call and response sort of tune.

3.        Kees: HIS CHOICE:   I love the rawness of this also, it’s raw in a very different way from Rhainnon Gidden.  Cuby & The Blizzards “Somebody Will Know Someday”  Starts with just the soulful, bluesy vocals of the singer and piano, then quiet drums join in, bass is very understated.  Very impassioned vocal.  Nice piano solo about ½ way in.  I like the quiet instrumentation with the powerful vocalist.  Unexpected type of guitar solo, too. 



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Yes, thank you, Mila!  And Merry Christmas to all as well!
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Thanks for posting the playlist Smile

Merry Christmas everyone !! 
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I'm not quite sure whether George has posted the playlist already but if not, here it is just in case incl. the Iconic Mascotte Grand Prize candidates. If you prefer them in a separate playlist, please let me know. Have fun!

And Merry Christmas Everyone! Smile

Dance scene feat. Idris Elba, Chris Brown, etc. doing the Soul Train's line . .



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Originally posted by Mila-13 Mila-13 wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Lorenzo, decided not to include the Queen and Godfather of Soul in the Mascotte poll? Too iconic?

Oh, I was undecided, I'd like to include Percy Sledge and Aretha Franklin too, but then I thought I'd participate with only one artist, being the only forumist to have proposed three...

but if you agree, I also include the Queen and the Grandfather of soul.

I think that a female mascott would make it complete. Wink


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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Lorenzo, decided not to include the Queen and Godfather of Soul in the Mascotte poll? Too iconic?

Oh, I was undecided, I'd like to include Percy Sledge and Aretha Franklin too, but then I thought I'd participate with only one artist, being the only forumist to have proposed three...

but if you agree, I also include the Queen and the Grandfather of soul.

I think that a female mascott would make it complete. Wink



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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Lorenzo, decided not to include the Queen and Godfather of Soul in the Mascotte poll? Too iconic?


Oh, I was undecided, I'd like to include Percy Sledge and Aretha Franklin too, but then I thought I'd participate with only one artist, being the only forumist to have proposed three...

but if you agree, I also include the Queen and the Grandfather of soul.
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Lorenzo, decided not to include the Queen and Godfather of Soul in the Mascotte poll? Too iconic?
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

By the way, Lorenzo, it's "Rhiannon" not "Shiannon" Giddens.

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