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The Staple Singers — I'll Take You There

Bealtitude: Respect Yourself (1972)

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DaidyBoy (Bristol, UK)	Posted: May 09, 2013 - 07:35 Sexiest song ever. Godlike.
maxmox (Broome, Western Australia)	Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 16:27 Listening to the insistent bass line through a compact Bose rig and at the best available download quality. PUMPIN' ${#Dancingbanana_2}$
malvey254	Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 05:18 The Staple Singers do an awesome cover of Slippery People by Talking Heads. Can't find a digital version, but if anyone does, it's worth an upload.
ddbz (The Midwest)	Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 05:08 Imagine that, I never gave this song much thought until I heard it here. It is is a fun little groovy number.
scrubbrush (All lost in the supermarket)	Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 16:09 brulie wrote: I've not scoured the comments to see if anyone else has already pointed out the great stop-animation short that uses this song perfectly. It's called Ode to GI Joe, and I think I will forever imagine GI Joe dolls dancing to Mavis and company!! Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOt3S0Uq4KA The youtube version i found has no audio... but this one does. http://misternizz.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/gregory-grants-ode-to-gi-joe-original/ great video
brulie	Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 07:27 I've not scoured the comments to see if anyone else has already pointed out the great stop-animation short that uses this song perfectly. It's called Ode to GI Joe, and I think I will forever imagine GI Joe dolls dancing to Mavis and company!! Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOt3S0Uq4KA
robotbass (Boston Area)	Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 07:23 Seems like there is a bit of Soul revival going on lately. I hope it keeps going. We miss Mr. Jamerson....
bitbanger (Upper West Side)	Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 07:22 Great mainstream Stax. Hot R&B.
joelbb	Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 19:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bill! Think the Staple singers will help us get that Death Cab dweeb vocalist into the dark faster? Hope springs eternal.
fingerpin (oHIo)	Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 08:14 I'm sure there is a theme, but this set has been an emotional roller coaster ride. Wheeeee?
bluecshells	Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 08:10 Oh yes!
Jim_Highfield	Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 06:52 I thought, great, it's the Liquidator by Harry J's All stars from 1969, happy memories, then some women started shrieking over it and turned it into sucko barfo.
danoodles (Saint Louis, Mo.)	Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 06:50 Loves me some Mavis.
hayduke2 (Southampton, NY)	Posted: May 28, 2012 - 14:52 please play lots lots more, my soul is in dire need (and I really do need to shake my ass)
Bobert_ParkCity (Park City Utah)	Posted: May 12, 2012 - 11:42 Real music from real people, too many good points to list. Always play this at parties!
Toke (Bournemouth UK)	Posted: Mar 10, 2012 - 02:48 misterbearbaby wrote: Nice to hear some music where they come in On The One after all those vaguely Icelandic,toy pianos and whining. Music from real people, not art-school people. Exactly I fully agree with youmisterbearbaby ... this is REAL SOUL.. not the modernistic crap that has stolen the soul label.
misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California)	Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 09:44 Nice to hear some music where they come in On The One after all those vaguely Icelandic,toy pianos and whining. Music from real people, not art-school people.
ziakut (Unmoon)	Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 09:39 coding_to_music wrote: Yuppers Great stuff Second that motion!!!
coding_to_music (Beantown)	Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 14:37 nagsheadlocal wrote: Anyone needing a demo of how a bass player and a drummer should work together, this is as good as it gets. Yuppers Great stuff
dkwalika (Upper Midwest)	Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 06:31 Mercy!
MiracleDrug (Earth)	Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 14:43 and then an engine tech switched #2 on...
jmassoglia (Everybody sez this is NoWhere)	Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 16:01 My will says to play this at my funeral. As they lower me into the ground....Slowly.
Tamster (Thousand Islands Canada)	Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 18:57 very nice............very
Cynaera (South of Neanderthal)	Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 15:07 Oh, man, this is just SO perfect for today! It's 79 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, my chores are done, and I still have a little money in the bank. Mavis's vocal is icing on the cake.... Yum times ten...
nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey)	Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 05:26 Just what I needed this morning - a honking brass section and a thumping backbeat to get me going.
newwavegurly	Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 14:39 newwavegurly wrote: A reminder of a particular person these days. Nice. Full circle. Starting to come full circle. Love this tune.
mvanderford60	Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 14:46 Listen to Pops (Roebuck) Staples play guitar on this - he was actually one of the outstanding blues guitarists of the mid-20th century — loved the Lord, though, so he would never say he was a blues-man. His version of Dylan's "Masters of War" is a powerful and articulate anti-war song, and worth a listen — an anti-war Christian - that's what I'm talkin about.
Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)	Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 14:45 pinto wrote: Look at that album cover. They must have borrowed costumes from the set of Good Times.... The 70s were like that. Compared to some of the fashions going 'round in those days, those threads are paragons of subtlety and restraint.
Dog_Ear	Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 14:44 They used to play this in the Pink Teacup in NYC (1972) this was a soul food shop in Greenwich village (open 24 hrs). Everybody wore pink to match the "decor" and the dishes. When this came on the juke EVERYBODY rocked. More pie please!
dalebryan (Melbourne, Florida)	Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 21:31 No, not this song AGAIN!
dogpound (the island on which I belong)	Posted: Jan 09, 2011 - 07:43 dmax wrote: Bob Dylan asked Mavis Staples to marry him, but she declined, thinking that MLK wouldn't have approved. It's true. maybe she couldn't understand what he said.
(former member)	Posted: Dec 24, 2010 - 12:48 Bob Dylan asked Mavis Staples to marry him, but she declined, thinking that MLK wouldn't have approved. It's true.
tompoll (Seattle WA USA)	Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 17:07 Just a few weeks ago we saw Mavis Staples in a small venue (Town Hall) here in Seattle. She sang this song. At 71 she still blew the doors off the place! Fantastic.
Otomi (La orilla de la civilización)	Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 17:07 Yeah! Take me there!
pinto (west meade)	Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 19:52 Ropes wrote: Yes yes yes. What a great way to start my day. Look at that album cover. They must have borrowed costumes from the set of Good Times. They also must have recorded this when they were bordering on fogey-hood. I hit the "tour schedule" link and my curiosity was confirmed - "we found 0 matches for your search". Guess they're the dinnertime act at the old folks home somewhere in Los Angeles.
Ropes (Cos Cob, CT)	Posted: Oct 22, 2010 - 03:40 Yes yes yes. What a great way to start my day.
Lrobby99 (Wisconsin, USA)	Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 09:53 nagsheadlocal wrote: Anyone needing a demo of how a bass player and a drummer should work together, this is as good as it gets. good post.
stevo_b (Rock Ridge)	Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 09:53 hehehehehehe......
isss	Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 10:53 Love good flashbacks. That song always makes me happy.
Orodrigues (Resende (RJ), Brazil)	Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 10:51 So good, man!!! What a bass line, what a swing... To listen, at least, three times a day forever and ever.
jimbaca (Albuquerque)	Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 10:49 How can you not stand up and move to this song? Love it!
markymarkmon	Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 10:02 mercy.
tipper	Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 12:43 Just got to love this. This is how its done.
LastChance (Sometimes Fort Worth, sometimes Dallas)	Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 12:42 C'mon! Take me there!
nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey)	Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 12:41 Anyone needing a demo of how a bass player and a drummer should work together, this is as good as it gets.
twitterpated	Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 14:58 This song is so funky and cool! Wow.
blades (NYC)	Posted: May 15, 2010 - 20:16 Awesome..let's go
gatorade (Ocean Park, WA)	Posted: May 15, 2010 - 20:15 CyberCoyote wrote: They DO take me there..Summer of 72 @ South Lake Tahoe Good simple times- NO WORRIES..Just fun in the woods, shore and lake Tahoe, with a transistor radio my bro and many be a few friends,, life was easy living' Bumpity bump!
gatorade (Ocean Park, WA)	Posted: May 15, 2010 - 20:14 Takin' it...all the way to outstanding...9
Poacher (Brighton, UK)	Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 08:30 jagdriver wrote: No? NO? You sir, have no soul. Go and buy one and don't come back until it is fitted properly.