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Boz Skagg’s soulful 1969 song “Loan Me A Dime”, which famously features a pre-fame Duane Allman on guitar, was originally a Fenton Robinson song, recorded for the Palos label two years earlier.

Soul singer Otis Redding’s manager was also NWA rapper’s Eazy-E’s manager.

King Curtis made a soulful brass-heavy cover of Led Zeppelin’s song “Whole Lotta Love” on his landmark 1971 album LIVE AT FILLMORE WEST.

A very young James Brown used to shine shoes & dance for troops for money in Georgia’s Fort Gordon. Coincidentally, blues guitarist Howlin’ Wolf was serving in the Army at that same fort, and the future Godfather of Soul was inspired to pick up a guitar by watching Wolf play every day.

James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” (really, drummer Clyde Stubblefield) has been sampled over 1,500 times by artists including Run DMC, Britney Spears, Madonna, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Dr Dre, Sweet T and Jazzy Joyce, Ice T and George Michael, among others.

Soul Music extraordinaire Al Green is an ordained minister, and founded a church in Memphis, Tennessee in 1976, the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church — located just a few blocks from Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.

Soul singer Al Green’s middle name is Leorns.

Soul singer Al Green has won 11 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Kennedy Center Honors Recipient.

Humble Pie covered Otis Redding’s “That’s How Strong My Love Is” on their soul-drenched hard rocking 1973 album “Eat It”.

Freddie King’s eighth & ninth albums, “Freddie King is a Blues Master” & “My Feelings for the Blues” were produced by King Curtis with Curtis’ soul band The Kingpins — cementing an R&B-styled horn-heavy groove for which Freddie would become famous.

Humble Pie made a soul-drenched rock n roll cover of Otis Redding’s song “That’s How Strong My Love Is” on their 1973 album Eat It.

Famed backup singers Venetta Fields, Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews performed the intensely soulful backup vocals on Humble Pie’s “Eat It”

Jazz keyboardist Bob James, best known for creating the theme song to the TV show Taxi, likely rivals James Brown as the most sampled artist of all time, with his compositions appearing in songs from Cee-Lo Green, DJ Jazzy Jeff, N.W.A., Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Heavy D, Mary J. Blige, and dozens of others.

Marvin Gaye’s famously soulful rendition of the national anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game was so moving that it’s popularity far eclipsed the events of the game itself.

One of the most sampled albums of all time, Isaac Hayes’ album Hot Buttered Soul has been sampled by Public Enemy, Beyoncé, Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, The Jackson Five, Ludacris, Cypress Hill & dozens of others.

Dyke & the Blazers’ soul-drenched guitar & horn riff on their 1969 hit “Let A Woman Be A Woman – Let A Man Be A Man” was sampled in The Heavy’s smash hit “How You Like Me Now” & Tupac Shakur’s “If my Homie Calls”.

Charles Bradley’s soulful song “Changes” (and the title of his third album) was a Black Sabbath cover.

Four months after stunning soul singer Baby Huey’s death at just 26, “The Baby Huey Story” was released (by Curtis Mayfield) and quietly became one of the most influential albums of the era, sampled by musical legends including Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, Ghostface Killah, The Roots, John Legend, Will.i.am & Wu-Tang Clan.

Influential soul singer Baby Huey’s sole posthumous album, “The Baby Huey Story” featured a cover of Junior Wells’ “Messin With The Kid” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Going to Come”.

The city of Detroit honored the Queen of Soul by naming a busy downtown avenue Aretha Franklin Way in 2017.

Opening for Steve Martin at the Universal Amphitheater on September 9, 1978, The Blues Brothers surprised the crowd with a lightning-bolt soul revue featuring Stax’s own Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. The performance was released as Briefcase Full of Blues, which hit #1 & went double-platinum, leading to the Blues Brothers movie.

Janis Joplin covered soul singer Howard Tate’s “Get It While You Can” on her final album, Pearl.

The father of blues-based proto-soul powerhouse Shuggie Otis was famed big band leader Johnny Otis. Shuggie’s children are also musicians.

Black Flag’s Henry Rollins has repeatedly cited Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul as one of his biggest influences.

In The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Isaac Hayes marries Will Smith and Lisa in a hilarious surprise “Soul Train” inspired cameo to the Shaft theme.

Booker T and the MG’s album “McLemore Ave” was a soul-soaked homage to The Beatles’ — The album cover even paid tribute to “Abbey Rd”.

Soul legend Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Soul singer Otis Redding’s hit song “Try A Little Tenderness” was released on Volt Records November 14th, 1966.

In 1988, Reggae icon Toots Hibbert made a Grammy-winning album of Memphis Soul covers called “Toots in Memphis”.

Stax Records was located on 926 E McLemore Ave in Memphis, Tennessee. It’s now Stax Museum of American Soul.

FAME Studios, responsible for that soulful “Muscle Shoals Sound”, was founded in 1959 and is still producing hits.

Duane Allman played the scorching guitar solo on Wilson Pickett’s soulful cover of “Hey Jude” while living in a tent in Muscle Shoals FAME Studio’s parking lot.

The White House hosted a soul music concert for PBS in 2013 featuring Steve Cropper, Justin Timberlake, William Bell, Alabama Shakes and many more.

Soul and Blues giant Bobby “Blue” Bland was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 1997.