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Finding greater success overseas than at home, the best Randy Crawford songs reveal a unique voice that deserved to command the globe.

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From creative detours to political outrage and straight-up floor-fillers, the best soul albums answer the eternal question: What is soul?

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The first song to capture the real Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) began one of the most important eras in music.

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For their follow-up to Le Freak, Chic’s dancefloor classic I Want Your Love aimed cupid's arrow straight at the heart of the disco scene.

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Tackling The Beatles, The Band and others, ‘This Girl’s In Love With You’ found Aretha Franklin claiming much-loved songs for her own.

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Shaping soul music in the early 70s, the best Donny Hathaway songs reveal a versatile singer who had so much more to give.

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With Simply Red’s ‘Stars’, Mick Hucknall harnessed the personal, emotional and political to create one of the best pop albums of the 90s.

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A sentimental ballad Otis Redding didn’t think suited him, Try A Little Tenderness became a passion-filled powerhouse in the singer’s hands.

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‘Aretha Arrives’? She’d landed long before. But this album convinced fans they were in it for the long haul with her.

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Sitting at the crossroads between jazz, R&B, gospel and country music, the best Ray Charles songs invented soul music as we know it.

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