O’Jays | music clip of the day

Here, to start off the week, is a thought experiment: imagine what American popular music would sound like without gospel.

The O’Jays, “Love Train”

TV Show (David Letterman), 2006

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Recording & Video, 1973

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In the right hands, anything can be gospel.

Stevie Wonder with Eddie Levert (O’Jays), “All I Do”
Memorial Service for singer Gerald Levert (Eddie’s son), 2006

three takes

“Now That We Found Love” (AKA “Now That We’ve Found Love”)
(K. Gamble & L. Huff)

take 1

Heavy D (AKA Dwight Arrington Myers), May 24, 1967-November 8, 2011

Heavy D & the Boyz, 1991

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take 2

O’Jays, 1973

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take 3

Third World, live

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