TheGRStars, Jan 24, 2013
Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post presents information about the American music genre known as Soul music, as well as information about Solomon Burke, a key singer in the emergence of Soul music in the 1960s. This post showcases a YouTube video of Solomon Burke singing his hit song "Cry To Me". Information about the Soul music song "Cry To Me" and information about that song's writer/producer Bert Berns are also included in this post. In addition, this pancocojams post includes the lyrics for "Cry To Me" as sung by Solomon Burke. The content of this post is presented for cultural, historical, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes. All copyrights remain with their owners. Thanks to the musical legacy of Solomon Burke. Thanks also to the musical legacy of Bert Berns. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube. **** INFORMATION ABOUT SOUL MUSIC
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music "Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[2] It has its roots in African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues.[3] Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa.[4] It also had a resurgence with artists like Erykah Badu under the genre neo-soul.[5]
According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying".[6] Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and an especially tense vocal sound.[7] The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds.[7] Soul music reflects the African-American identity and it stresses the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black.[8]
Soul music dominated the U.S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere. By 1968, the soul music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, and in some cases more politically conscious varieties.[9] By the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic and progressive rock, among other genres, leading to psychedelic and progressive soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994. There are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music.
The key subgenres of soul include the Motown style, a more pop-friendly and rhythmic style; deep soul and southern soul, driving, energetic soul styles combining R&B with southern gospel music sounds; Memphis soul, a shimmering, sultry style; New Orleans soul, which came out of the rhythm and blues style; Chicago soul, a lighter gospel-influenced sound; Philadelphia soul, a lush orchestral sound with doo-wop-inspired vocals; as well as psychedelic soul, a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music.
Writer Peter Guralnick is among those to identify Solomon
Burke as a key figure in the emergence of soul music, and Atlantic Records as
the key record label. Burke's early 1960s songs, including "Cry to
Me", "Just Out of Reach" and "Down in the Valley" are
considered classics of the genre. Guralnick wrote:
"Soul started, in a sense, with the 1961 success of Solomon Burke's "Just Out Of Reach". Ray Charles, of course, had already enjoyed enormous success (also on Atlantic), as had James Brown and Sam Cooke — primarily in a pop vein. Each of these singers, though, could be looked upon as an isolated phenomenon; it was only with the coming together of Burke and Atlantic Records that you could begin to see anything even resembling a movement."[24]...
"Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1936 or 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.[2] He has been called "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul",[3] and was known for his "prodigious output".[4][5][6]
He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley", and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to honorifically as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul", and the "Muhammad Ali of soul".[7][8][1] Due to his minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding, Burke has been described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age.[9] Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time".[1][8][10]
Burke's most famous recordings, which spanned five years in the early 1960s, bridged the gap between mainstream R&B and grittier R&B.[11] Burke was "a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s."[12] He drew from his roots—gospel, jazz, country, and blues—as well as developing his own style at a time when R&B, and rock were both still in their infancy.[13] Described as both "Rabelaisian"[14] and also as a "spiritual enigma",[15] "perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music."[16]
During the 55 years that he performed professionally, Burke
released 38 studio albums on at least 17 record labels and had 35 singles that
charted in the US, including 26 singles that made the Billboard R&B charts.
In 2001, Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer.
His album Don't Give Up on Me won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues
Album at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards in 2003. By 2005 Burke was credited with
selling 17 million albums.[13][17][18] Rolling Stone ranked Burke as No. 89 on
its 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[19]...
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Solomon Burke was African American.
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INFORMATION ABOUT BERT BERNS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Berns
"Bertrand Russell Berns (November 8, 1929 – December 30,
1967), also known as Bert Russell and (occasionally) Russell Byrd, was an
American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s.[1] His songwriting
credits include "Twist and Shout", "Piece of My Heart",
"Here Comes the Night", "Hang on Sloopy", "Cry to
Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", and his productions
include "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Brown Eyed Girl" and
"Under the Boardwalk"...
[...]
Early life
Born in the Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish
immigrants, Berns contracted rheumatic fever as a child, an illness that
damaged his heart and would mark the rest of his life, resulting in his early
death. Turning to music, he found enjoyment in the sounds of his African
American and Latino neighbors. As a young man, Berns danced in mambo
nightclubs, and made his way to Havana before the Cuban Revolution.[2]: 23
Music career
Beginnings (1960–1963)
Shortly after his return from Cuba, Berns began a seven-year
run from an obscure Brill Building songwriter to owner of his own record
labels. He signed as a $50/week (equivalent to $500 in 2021) songwriter with
Robert Mellin Music at 1650 Broadway in 1960. His first hit record was "A
Little Bit of Soap", performed by the Jarmels on Laurie Records in 1961.
Berns himself had a short-lived career as a recording artist, and in 1961,
under the name "Russell Byrd", Berns scored his only Billboard Hot
100 appearance with his own composition, "You'd Better Come Home",
which peaked at Number 50.[3] That song would later be recorded by the Isley
Brothers, and featured as the B-side of their 1962 single "Twistin' With
Linda". Also in 1962, the Isley Brothers recorded "Twist and
Shout" on Wand Records, written by Berns and Phil Medley.[1] Berns also
hit the charts in late 1962 with the Exciters' "Tell Him" on United
Artists, and with Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me" on Atlantic Records....
Atlantic Records (1963–1965)
Berns's early work with Solomon Burke brought him to the
attention of Atlantic label chiefs Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler. In 1963,
Berns replaced Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as staff producer at Atlantic,
where he wrote and produced hits for Solomon Burke ("Everybody Needs
Somebody to Love"), the Drifters ("Under the Boardwalk" and
"Saturday Night at the Movies"), Barbara Lewis ("Baby I'm
Yours" and "Make Me Your Baby"), Little Esther Phillips
("Hello Walls," written by Willie Nelson), Ben E. King, Wilson
Pickett and LaVern Baker.[1]
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Bert Berns was a White American.
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LYRICS - CRY TO ME
(written by Bert Berns, 1961 and first performed by Solomon Burke, 1962)
[Verse 1]
When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well, here I am, my honey
C'mon, you cry to me
[Verse 2]
When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
C'mon, c'mon, cry to me
[Bridge]
Whoa, nothing can be sadder than a glass of wine alone
Loneliness, loneliness, such a waste of time, oh oh yes
You don't ever have to walk alone, you see
Come on take my hand, and baby, won't you walk with me?
Whoa yeah
[Verse 3]
When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night but there's no one
Don't you feel like crying? (Cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (Cry to me)
Don't you feel like cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cry (Cry to me) cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-crying? (Cry to me)
Don't you feel like cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cry (Cry to me) cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-cr-crying?
online source: https://genius.com/Solomon-burke-cry-to-me-lyrics
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