Ready Steady Soul

06/12/2025

The day before Thanksgiving 1974 (11/27/74), rounding out Sylvester Stewart's week as Special guest on The Mike Douglas Show. Muhammad Ali had been another g...

06/12/2025

06/12/2025

This Friday night from 7-8pm you can tune in Ready Steady Soul at www.cfuv.uvic.ca and dig the sounds of mid-sixties Soul. This week's show will be paying tribute to the Music and Productions of the late Sly Stone who passed away this week. If you have a song request, call or text 250-721-8700

06/09/2025

Sly Stone, the pioneering funk musician of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. After huge chart-topping success in the 1960s and 1970s, Stone had become an enigmatic and largely reclusive figure in the years before his death.

Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, had been in poor health in recent years. His publicist Carleen Donovan said Monday that Stone died surrounded by family after contending with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments.

Formed in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations, communes and love-ins. The singers screeched, chanted, crooned and hollered. The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk.

Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968-1971, but profound. No band better captured the gravity-defying euphoria of the Woodstock era or more bravely addressed the crash which followed. From early songs as rousing as their titles — “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Stand!” — to the sober aftermath of “Family Affair” and “Runnin’ Away,” Sly and the Family Stone spoke for a generation whether or not it liked what they had to say.

06/06/2025

06/06/2025

Dig Ready Steady Soul this Friday night for an hour of mid-sixties soul music, catch it at www.cfuv.uvic.ca (or at 101.9FM in Victoria BC). 7-8:00pm. Have a song request? call or text 250-721-8700

06/06/2025

06/06/2025

Shaggy Dog (Lane-Lane) by Mickey Lee LanePop Chart Peaks: Billboard & Cash Box 38, Record World 43THE 1964 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality l...

01/20/2025

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAin't Too Proud To Beg · The Temptations50th Anniversary: The Singles Collection 1961-1971℗ 1966 Motown Records, ...

01/20/2025

The bespectacled singer with The Temptations provided the lion's share of the lead vocals on their early hits, notably "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg." But his co***ne addiction and unpredictable behavior led to his ouster from the band by 1968.

(Even afterward, Ruffin took to showing up at Temps shows and seizing the mic from his replacement, Dennis Edwards, on songs he originally sang lead on.)

Ruffin died at 50 in 1991 from a co***ne overdose

12/24/2024

"Back Door Santa" is a song written by Clarence Carter in collaboration with Marcus Daniel, and originally performed by Carter. It was released on a compilat...

12/24/2024

"Back Door Santa" is a funk-style song recorded by Clarence Carter, which Atlantic Records released as a single in 1968. In an artist biography, it is described as "a superbly funky Christmas single" and "raunchy". The song was included on an Atco various artists compilation album Soul Christmas (1968).

"Back Door Santa" has been recorded by several artists and Run-D.M.C. sampled it for "Christmas in Hollis". The lyrics include:

They call me backdoor Santa
I make my runs about the break of day
I make all the little girls happy
While the boys go out to play[