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Originally Posted by tabs
Steve Winwood was given the moniker "Blue Eyed Soul" when he was with the Spencer Davis Group.."Give me some lovin"... starting when he was 15.
Later he formed up Traffic... and then Blind Faith for an album.
Low Spark was the center piece of the Traffic album of the same title. it was a 12+ minute opus which is presented here in a live concert at he Santa Monica Civic in 1972.
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Georgie Woods, a Philadelphia radio DJ, is thought to have coined the term "blue-eyed soul" in 1964, initially to describe The Righteous Brothers, then white artists in general who received airplay on rhythm and blues radio stations.[8][9][10]
The Righteous Brothers in turn named their 1964 LP Some Blue-Eyed Soul.[11][12] According to Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, R&B radio stations who played their songs were surprised to find them to be white when they turned up for interviews, and one DJ in Philadelphia (unnamed by Medley but probably Georgie Woods) started saying "Here's my blue-eyed soul brothers", and it became a code to signal to the audience that they were white singers.[13]
The popularity of The Righteous Brothers who had a hit with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" is thought to have started the trend of R&B radio stations to play songs by white artists in the mid-1960s, a more integrative approach that was then popular with their audience.[7] The term blue-eyed soul was then applied to such artists as Sonny & Cher, Tom Jones, Barry McGuire, and Roy Head.[14]
