

Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grE0lwTsSPg After a short time on Henry Ward I then began to be given other "more difficult" wards....


Shake A Tail Feather - the Blues Brothers (featuring Ray Charles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm0mmkAYwPc The youngest of Henry's residents was a guy called Alec Fitzgerald, known to one and all as...


Land of 1,000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRH-iUhH6E When I first worked at the Royal Earlswood Hospital, I made up my mind that I would treat the...


I Found a Love - the Falcons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQa2n3bHnw I got the job at the Royal Earlswood because someone told me that the best work you could get...


634 - 5789(Soulville, USA) - Wilson Pickett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGuaVAufV0 Michael was very proud of the fact that he was writing his autobiography. After he'd beaten...


Time is Tight - Booker T and the M.G.'s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xx1_CbJTI Someone has suggested to me that the COVID virus was instrumental in dethroning Trump from...


Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPMoAb4y8U In 1986, I and my partner saw Jim Cartwright's first play "The Road" upstairs in the smaller...


Soul Limbo - Booker T and the M.G.'s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GdvFiE2R5I Well, we are in limbo on the American election, the result being too close to call with Trump delay tactics ongoing in case Biden wins. So, instead of the planned posts for either result, and as we are, as stated, in limbo, we need an optimistic spirit lifter from Booker T and the M.G.s and there's few better than their hit "Soul Limbo". It's not recorded how the BBC made the unlikely choice of a soul instrumental by the Stax house


A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE Election Day in America. Kemp Powers' 2013 play "One Night in Miami" imagines what may have...


This Is My Country - the Impressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQ-_mNwQJw It was difficult in the 1960's, just as it is now, for groups to bring out songs that overtly...
