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2021 Introduction: Inducted into The SoulMusic Hall Of Fame in May, veteran soul man William Bell created classic recordings during his years with Stax in the ‘60s and early ‘70s including international pop/R&B hit duets with the late Judy Clay. David Nathan met up with him in 1977 for an in person conversation as the single “Trying To Love Two” headed for No. 1 on the US R&B charts and gold record status…

2021 Introduction: Gloria Gaynor’s May 2021 induction into The SoulMusic Hall Of Fame in the category ‘Dance Music Artist’ provides an opportunity to go back in time to one of the first interviews the now-iconic-then-newcomer gave in 1974 to David Nathan as the genre known as disco began to take hold globally…

But it yielded his first smash hit.

Our Motown resident expert Sharon Davis takes a look at "Soul In Print," a new UK book that traces the history of the many fanzines and publications run by ardent British R&B enthusiasts starting in the '60s that proved invaluable in providing info about Motown and other soul music artists...

2021 Introduction: In celebration of the 77th birthday of the legendary Gladys Knight, a SoulMusic Hall Of Fame inductee and the inclusion of Gladys & The Pips (2013 Lifetime Achievement inductees) into the list of semi-finalists for the ‘Motown’ category in the May round of voting for The SoulMusic Hall Of Fame, we revisit this in-person interview by David Nathan with Gladys along with a show review from November 1971 at The London Palladium…

The jazz legend kept them guessing.