70'S SOUL HOUR - SHOW 303 WITH AL RANDALL

 A smooth, laid‑back hour of 70’s soul, funk, and deep‑cut grooves — complete with label history, backstories, and Al Randall’s signature NYC radio swagger. Perfect for fans of classic soul and warm analog vibes. 

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The Brothers Johnson — I’ll Be Good to You (1976 • A&M)

Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band — Express Yourself (1970 • Warner Bros)

James Polk & The Brothers — Just Plain Funk (1971 • Reel Music)

Archie Bell & the Drells — The Soul City Walk (1975 • Philadelphia International)

Ben E. King — Supernatural Thing Pt. 1 (1975 • Atlantic)

Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What (1969 • Atlantic)

The Chi‑Lites — A Lonely Man (1972 • Brunswick)

Chaka Khan — I’m Every Woman (1978 • Warner Bros)

LaBelle — What Can I Do for You? (1974 • Epic)

GQ — I Do Love You (1979 • Arista)

The Presidents — 5‑10‑15‑20 (25‑30 Years of Love) (1971 • Sussex)

MFSB feat. The Three Degrees — TSOP (1974 • Philadelphia International)

Lil’ Buck & The Top Cats — Monkey in a Sack (1970 • Paula)

The Four Tops — Keeper of the Castle (1972 • ABC‑Dunhill)

Yvonne Elliman — If I Can’t Have You (1978 • RSO)

100 Proof (Aged in Soul) — Somebody’s Been Sleeping (1970 • Hot Wax)

Oldies Radio Live 365 NYC — Streaming 24/7 from Staten Island, NYC. Classic hits, deep cuts, and era‑authentic radio hours from The Al Randall Network. 🎧 Listen live at oldiesradiolive365.com 📻 Follow us on Mixcloud and HearThis for new episodes every week. 📩 Contact: info@oldiesradiolive365.com © 2026 The Al Randall Network — All Rights Reserved. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

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For the millions listening worldwide, live from New York City, it's the Al Randall Show.

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Just how you feel.

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The way we love and the way we cry. All these things in the lives of time.

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All you got to do now Express yourself. Whatever you do. Whatever you do, do all do it good. It's not what you look like. When you do it, what you doing is what you doin' when you do it, what you look like you doin'. Express yourself. Express yourself doing it on the moon, y'all in the jungle too. Everybody on the floor, the kangaroo. So let the whore do the day do, y'all. Some people have everything. But everything don't need a thing. If the bang at all, it's a precious hell.

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I do it. I do it. Do it, do it. Golden do it.

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Y'all do it. Yeah. Spread yourself. Spread south. Sprit cell, spray the cell, space cell, space cell, spray cell, space cell, spray, spray self, self, self, self, spent self, and the best.

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Austin Texas funk royalty, right there, baby. That one came out on the obscure real music label. And became a great digger favorite decades later, man. So it's all that random always. Now we should have the Houston's own urgent bell and adrenals, man. The guys who thought America had a tight knock. Well, this is intertaking you on the Soul City War, see you walk in.

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So see you walk in. So you walk in.

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So sit a walk-in, yeah. So sit a walk-in, yeah. Now this day it's starting in Washington, DC And it's spreading all over the land And it won't be too bad along before everybody's up in the hand. Yeah, yeah. All you have to do is come up with both time.

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Just make sure that you won't tie it to the left, move it to the right, and the test on the side. So the wall, yeah. But come on, so the shoulders in the wall.

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So they won't you don't need no partner. You can do it all by yourself.

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If you want to really, should everybody else doing that soul sitting on the battery Come on up everybody, pick up the feet now.

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No bad. That's not a fight. Looking good to me. Right now, you're about to turn around. Take two steps out. Two step back. Don't say that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking good at night.

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You're listening to Oldie's Radio Live, 365, New York City. Be sure to call our 24-7 studio request line at one six four six four six four six-five eight zero six nine nine one for your requests, dedications, shout-outs, and suggestions for future shows.

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When we touch you, give me some body feeling in my breath. I'm so satisfied. Sometimes I don't even know my name.

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When we kiss you, we know you may I break out sometimes, and degrees you give me, give me all you got. Don't start the pain, consign the law. Your love for supernatural pain. Your love, you love supernatural pain. What did you say? In the plenary, it's the author.

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Yes, in the plenary, I like that you know.

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Oh, you give me comes for feed every time that I squeeze. Yo love so electrified, so satisfied, Lord knows I lie.

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Yo love supernatural Benny King reinventing himself in seventy five with that silky modern slow. Supernatural thing on an Atlantic record label.

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The goddamn nation looks like we always end up in a rut.

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Everybody now tryna make it real compared to what come on, baby.

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The president, he's got his war. Folk don't know Jessie what it's for. Nobody gives us a rhyme or reason. Have a one doubt. They call it treason.

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We chicken feathers all the way out one day. God damn it! Tryna make it real compared to what you have.

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You know, some time ago, our pathways parted. Now you may have found bliss. Yeah, but I found regret. Maybe you can smile, maybe even laugh. Yeah, but all the while I'm trying to forget. Tears cannot express my grief, nor words my loneliness, for they can only tell apart. Let my heart tell you the rest.

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I will season every day of my life with you. You better let me tell ya. I will show you just what it means to be a true. You better let me tell ya. Cause after love has come and gone, maybe I'm the only one. But why should a man be lost? Should a man be lost? Should a man be loved when he had someone like you can make you believe that I got a happy baby. Oh, I got a happy baby. Sweet to every owner of my day with you. I better let the tell ya. I would give you all those things. You better let me tell you. For you I'd save up all my time. Give you every time for you, girl. You better let it tell you. Cause after love has come and done, maybe I'm the lonely one. But why should a man be lying? Should a man be lost a man when he has so more life? How can I make you believe that I got a happy baby? Yes, I got a happy baby. Gotta have you baby. Oh, I got a happy baby.

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I gotta travel on down life's highway. Searching faces, some old, some new. Seeking someone whom I need the most. I know there can't be two. Yeah, I'm searching for someone who's the closest thing to you.

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Gotta go on, gotta go. I'm so loonless, I gotta go. I'm so loomless, I gotta go, yeah. I've just gotta go. I feel baby, baby, baby, baby. I've got to go lunette, gotta go lullet, gotta go, yeah.

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I got to go, I just gotta go I'm so low, I gotta go.

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I just gotta go.

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Ah, that's beautiful. Shylight the Lonely Man, the title track for their nineteen seventy-two Brunswick album. Eugene record that is most vulnerable. And now we flip the energy with a debut solo smash. Shaka Khan, 1978 on Warner Brothers, and every woman on the Al Randall I'm every woman, it's all in me.

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I give every woman, it's all in B I can read the vault right now. Everyone from A to Z. I can cast a spell, a script you can't tell. Make special group put by inside of you.

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And in time you feel danger up there, and step me I will appeal.

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I feel it's all done, baby. I'll do it naturally.

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My brain on two seats. I can make rhyme of confusion in your mind. And when it comes down to some good old fashioned look, that's what I got.

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I call someone just asked me to shall be a good one.

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That one written by Ashford and Simpson, New York's own, by the way. And now we head to Philly with La Belle, the host of Lady Marmalade. Deep into their cosmic soul period, man. What can I do for you coming up next?

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Or nothing at all. People want sincerity and purity and nothing more. People need to say that's that we pray. What can you do for me? What can you do for me? What can you do for me?

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I love you so right now. Hey, little daunting. I say, I love you so right now. Never, never gonna let gon' I gon' let you go. No, no, no.

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Try to understand that I want to I love you, love you loving me. My baby, I love you so and I don't want you to go no I'm begging you on bended knees. My girl I'm praying that you love it would come to me something because I love you so bad.

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Girl is about to drop me back, I'll say I love you so right now Pretty Baby, pretty baby I love you so right now baby, I love you so and I don't want you to go no mama.

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Shut in the white, should be the white, show me the white, should show, show me the white, it's just no vibrator, should show, should be the white, show me the white, show me, should like short days when you lady to the soul, should show, show me the one.

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Remembering the things we used to do The places we used to go and everything was also melon I love the shoe right now She loves you right now I love a shoe right now she loves you right now I love your shoe I love the shoe right now forever now five fifteen twenty twenty five three years of love aren't we happy Oh look at the little kids claim and having fun aren't they happy now that reminds you of us we were young five fifteen twenty twenty five days years of go we have so much to be thankful for we have five fifteen twenty twenty five days years of love the heads and walking in the park Only Happy Watching the kids play Girl Bring members back to our hearts Are we happy and again I cry Thank you for giving me five fifteen twenty twenty five thirty years of love Only Happy Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da?

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Peace 54 15 20 25 days of love Are we happy? Just give forever now five fifteen twenty twenty-five days fifteen twenty twenty-five days one album wonders of early seventies soul right there, man.

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And now we go straight to the heart of Philadelphia International Records.

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My name is the Kingdom of the Big Hall of the Big Castle, and what you're gonna have to hear is the best of the truly sound. It began many, many years ago. It continues each and every day. When you hear a song, you say yeah. So to kick it off right now, enjoy T S O Bush.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

It's time to get down.

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SPEAKER_16 56:03

New Orleans Funk that never quite hit the charge, but became a cold favorite nonetheless.

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Oh, can't you see? Are you picking on society? Let the leaves only find a tree. I call on you to come along. You're the keeper of the castle, be your father to your children, and provider of all their daily need. Like a sovereign Lord protector, be their destiny. They'll do well to follow where you leave.

SPEAKER_06 57:36

Oh, yeah, yeah. You don't believe what the God would say. You don't strike out now we're staying. Of the woman of the car. Whatever shape your heart is in. You don't have those extra kids.

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Better keep them in mind. You're the keeper of the castle. So feel good mate. The sunshine is hot. In the core let you see it.

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Feel free with You won't have to the other way. Can't you see? I am thinking of society. I'm begging you to come on home. There's a lot of us being pushed to her. With a yellow black or white brown, on the tear of the home.

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I don't know why I'm surviving every day. When it's got to be no checks for me, my life today. And it doesn't ever have a problem. My team's over waste of time. If I turn the way, am I strong enough to see through?

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If I can't help you, I don't want nobody pay back. If I can't help you, if I can help you, I don't want nobody paid. If I can help you, go if it doesn't matter how I try.

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I give it up to it, to you, to you, mother, two dreams that ever will come true.

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Am I strong enough to see it truth? Go crazy, it's what I will do. If I can't help you, I don't want nobody if I can help you. If I can help you, I don't want nobody made that if I can help you.

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I don't like the I don't like the I don't want to do it.

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I can't have you written by the Bee Gees and originally meant for Saturday Night Favor Show.

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I can feel the presence of someone, somebody been sleeping in my bed. Somebody been sitting in my chair with me from my food, and I don't stand the slurch. My brand new silk, pajamas, they will follow up in a chair. He's still here. Somebody been steepin' in my bed. Ow somebody been sitting in my chair. Cigarettes in my screen, and I don't even smoke. Somebody spinning my best food. I can tell most of the feeling grow. I left my bed no slip broche. That's a shy at the foot of my bed. And I'm not even shade. And my bed wasn't left under me. Somebody sleeping in my bed. Somebody sitting in my chair. I can feel the presence of someone. I can feel the presence of someone, somebody been sleeping in my bed. Somebody been eating up my food. Oh, somebody in my shoe. Oh, somebody been stepping in my jail.