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Soul Serenade (song)

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Released
  
1964

Genre
  
Smooth Jazz

Format
  
Vinyl, LP

Label
  
Capitol Records

Writer(s)
  
Curtis Ousley/Luther Dixon


"Soul Serenade" is a jazz song written by Curtis Ousley (King Curtis) and Luther Dixon. The song was released on Curtis' 1964 album of the same name.

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Willie Mitchell cover

Willie Mitchell covered the song in 1968. It peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1968. It was backed by Cannonball Adderley's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"; this song was sampled by the rapper GZA in the title track of his 1995 album Liquid Swords.

Other versions

  • David Sanborn
  • The Allman Brothers Band, at a concert at WPLJ-FM studios (fused with "You Don't Love Me")
  • The Derek Trucks Band
  • Gloria Lynne
  • Aretha Franklin on I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

    • Byron Lee & The Dragonaires was released as the B side of Elizabethan Reggae in 1970

    References

    Soul Serenade (song) Wikipedia
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