"Contact" - Edwin Starr

Contact with Flick of the Wrist? Tell us this is a Hand-some Peter Powell episode without telling us it's a Hand-some Peter Powell episode.

#TOTP #EdwinStarr #LegsAndCo #OneForTheDads

On January 21, 1942: #EdwinStarr [Hatcher], American soul and R&B singer ("War"; "Twenty-Five Miles"), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2003).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🪽

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens

Edwin Starr:
🎵 25 Miles

#EdwinStarr

https://soulflip.bandcamp.com/track/edwin-starr-25-miles-soul-flip-edit

https://open.spotify.com/track/242Xj1MiRJXNRvSfGCihaA

War ⚔️
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJRJpbGkG4

War 🪖
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw

War ⚔️🛡️ 🏹 🗡️
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

Across the crowded disco-room

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-6968-bbdc-db2b-14e534320401

Song of the Moment: Edwin Starr – “War”

http://aeschtunes.com/2025/08/29/song-of-the-moment-edwin-starr-war/

#Music, #EdwinStarr, #70s, #70sMusic, #1970s, #1970sMusic, #RAndB, #AeschTunes

Edwin Starr's "War" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 29, 1970, and spent three weeks at the top of the chart.

#Music, #EdwinStarr, #70s, #70sMusic, #1970s, #1970sMusic

Ted Tocks Covers

War

Originally posted on February 5, 2019

This #EdwinStarr classic was at #1 on this day 55 years ago.

“Oh, war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest within the younger generation
Induction then destruction, who wants to die?”

#BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #edwinstarr #TheTemptations #brucespringsteen

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/war-todays-classic-song-an-original-recording-and-a-great-cover-musicislife-tedtockscovers-barrettstrong-normanwhitfield-edwinstarr-thetempations-brucespringsteen/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw

Edwin Starr:
🎵 25 Miles

#EdwinStarr

https://soulflip.bandcamp.com/track/edwin-starr-25-miles-soul-flip-edit

https://open.spotify.com/track/242Xj1MiRJXNRvSfGCihaA

Edwin Starr - War (What is it good for) :blobcatgiggle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw

#War #Music #EdwinStarr #NowPlaying #RushHour

The theme for this week's #ThursdayFiveList is #SpyVsSpy. These are the first five songs that I came up with:

The Coasters: Searchin' (1957, a video clip from 1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrxqcxo-Ec

The Olympics: Private Eye (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhH3wOZiUno

Jewel & the Rubies: Kidnapper (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdRMR7kI9s

Edwin Starr: Agent Double O-Soul (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHJXfM91B0g&list=RDCHJXfM91B0g

Jamo Thomas: I Spy (For the FBI) (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S--k_QsBszo

#music #thecoasters #theolympics #edwinstarr

War 💣
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw

Edwin Starr:
🎵 25 Miles

#EdwinStarr

https://soulflip.bandcamp.com/track/edwin-starr-25-miles-soul-flip-edit

https://open.spotify.com/track/242Xj1MiRJXNRvSfGCihaA

War ⚔️🛡️ 🏹 🗡️
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

War 🪖
#EdwinStarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xve9_Adl1Yk

Remembering Edwin Starr

(January 21, 1942-April 2, 2003)

#Music, #EdwinStarr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne

Edwin Starr:
🎵 25 Miles

#EdwinStarr

https://soulflip.bandcamp.com/track/edwin-starr-25-miles-soul-flip-edit

https://open.spotify.com/track/0vstoapfzoOlqD8zurG2uJ

#OnThisDay in 2003, #EdwinStarr [Hatcher], American soul and R&B singer ("War"; "Twenty Five Miles"), died of a heart attack at 61. 🥀
#RIP