Cal Vid's video: Casey Kasem The Soul Years

1. James Brown - I Feel Good 2. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness - Dreams to Remember - The Legacy 2:55 3. Aretha Franklin - Respect 7:38 4. Stand by Me - Ben E. King 12:30 5. Soul Slap - Alan Frederick Parker, PRS|Madeline Bell, PRS 19:58 6. My Girl (Live From Teen Town/1965) The Temptations 21:10 7. Fingertips, Pt. 2 (Live/1962) Stevie Wonder 24:26 8. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge 29:30 9. Take To The Sky - Alan Frederick Parker|Alan Hawkshaw 33:31 Featuring: James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner. Review: Easily the best of the five DVD discs packaged together in host Casey Kasem's Rock n' Roll Goldmine Boxed Set, The Soul Years features riveting performances by some of immortal black musicians who helped define the decade of the 1960s. Taking nothing away from their rock & roll contemporaries, the fact is that many of the soul and R&B artists of that era (along with their musicians, producers, and songwriters) were more experienced, more professional, and simply more entertaining than their rock counterparts. The live turns by the likes of Aretha Franklin (a febrile "Respect"), Otis Redding ("Try a Little Tenderness," recorded not long before his death in a '67 plane crash), Ike and Tina Turner ("River Deep, Mountain High"), and James Brown (check out the Godfather of Soul's dancing on "I Feel Good"), among others, are galvanizing and charismatic. Even lip-synced numbers by (Little) Stevie Wonder and the Temptations have their charm, as do some brief interview excerpts (Brown in the early '80s: "I'm 54 now... hope I don't look it... but I feel good!"). --Sam Graham