The Soul Brothers Top 20 makes its debut on 1001Songs. It's a chart from the March 6, 1975 issue of Jet Magazine and will probably get featured a bit more this year because 1975 issues of Billboard Magazine are getting a bit more rare on Google books at this point.
The ultra smooth ex-Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks hit #1 on the Hot Soul Charts and had a Top 20 pop hit with "Shoeshine Boy". That's despite some Motown executive who thought a song celebrating shoeshine boys would seem demeaning to blacks. The actual message, courtesy of lyricist Harry Booker, once a shoeshine boy himself, is to try to do the best at whatever you can.
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Also on this date, at the Grammy Awards, sniffing soul man David Bowie gave the award to the top female r and b performance.
1975 and Motown still holds 20% of the Top 20 on the Soul Charts. Dayum!
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