To my ears, most of his great hits and LP's are smooth MOR "supper club" soul.
The songs you mentioned are great records but they hardly approach the hard
soul sound of what Otis, James, Wilson, Sam & Dave and Aretha were creating at
the same time. Still he's a great distinctive singer (saw him on some PBS
special a couple months ago) but im not the only one who heard "Sweet Soul
Music" and ever wondered why Lou was mentoned.

Billy

BTW Lou was also the voice of Harvey the Mailman on "Hey Arnold" and also
Garfield the cat!


At 06:48 PM 6/27/03 -0400, you wrote:
>At 05:41 PM 6/27/2003 -0500, Billy G. Spradlin wrote:
>>You mean "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley. That record was produced by
>Otis
>>himself and Aurthur wrote the lyrics, talk about a kiss-ass. Why does he
>>mention Lou Rawls... LOU "Michelob" RAWLS? 
>
>Because Lou Rawls is one of the all-time great soul singers.  "Dead End
>Street," "Your Good Thing (Is About To End)," "Love Is A Hurtin' Thing,"
>"Natural Man," "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"...every one of
>'em a classic.  And earlier in his career, he was a perfectly credible jazz
>singer in the Nat King Cole mold.  That's why.
>
>S
>