Top 100 Soul Club Classics
- Tony Temple
- Aug 27, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 2, 2025
🎙️ Top 100 Retro Soul Tracks
🔥 Soul Legends & Timeless Classics
Marvin Gaye – “What’s Going On”
Aretha Franklin – “Rock Steady”
Otis Redding – “Try a Little Tenderness”
Al Green – “Let’s Stay Together”
Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Curtis Mayfield – “Move On Up”
Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”
Bill Withers – “Use Me”
Wilson Pickett – “In the Midnight Hour”
The Temptations – “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”
💿 Motown Magic
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – “Tracks of My Tears”
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – “Heat Wave”
The Supremes – “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
Four Tops – “Reach Out I’ll Be There”
Edwin Starr – “War”
Gladys Knight & The Pips – “If I Were Your Woman”
The Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back”
Diana Ross – “Love Hangover”
Junior Walker & The All Stars – “Shotgun”
Mary Wells – “My Guy”
🎷 Southern Soul & Deep Cuts
Solomon Burke – “Cry to Me”
Percy Sledge – “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Carla Thomas – “Gee Whiz”
Joe Tex – “I Gotcha”
Betty Wright – “Clean Up Woman”
Donny Hathaway – “The Ghetto”
Bobby Womack – “Across 110th Street”
Ann Peebles – “I Can’t Stand the Rain”
Syl Johnson – “Is It Because I’m Black”
Etta James – “I’d Rather Go Blind”
🕺 Funk-Infused Soul
James Brown – “The Payback”
Sly & The Family Stone – “If You Want Me to Stay”
Funkadelic – “Can You Get to That”
The Isley Brothers – “Footsteps in the Dark”
Rufus & Chaka Khan – “Tell Me Something Good”
The Meters – “Cissy Strut”
Earth, Wind & Fire – “Devotion”
Tower of Power – “So Very Hard to Go”
War – “Slippin’ Into Darkness”
Curtis Mayfield – “Freddie’s Dead”
🧡 Modern Retro-Soul Revival
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “100 Days, 100 Nights”
Charles Bradley – “The World (Is Going Up in Flames)”
Leon Bridges – “Coming Home”
Durand Jones & The Indications – “Is It Any Wonder?”
Thee Sacred Souls – “Can I Call You Rose?”
Black Pumas – “Colors”
Lee Fields – “Faithful Man”
Mayer Hawthorne – “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”
Allen Stone – “Unaware”
Eli “Paperboy” Reed – “Come and Get It”
🎧 Hidden Gems & Soulful Surprises
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators – “Keep Reachin’ Up”
Jalen Ngonda – “If You Don’t Want My Love”
Hannah Williams & The Affirmations – “Late Nights & Heartbreak”
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – “Call Me”
Izo FitzRoy – “Day by Day”
Bobby Oroza – “This Love”
Los Yesterdays – “Nobody’s Clown”
The Dip – “Sure Don’t Miss You”
The Meltdown – “Sweet Water”
Theo Katzman – “Good to Be Alone”
🎶 Soulful Voices from the Underground
Marta Ren & The Groovelvets – “Smiling Faces”
Sugaray Rayford – “Please Take My Hand”
Joey Dosik – “In Heaven”
Sonny Cleveland – “You’ve Got Me Running in Circles”
Paul & The Tall Trees – “Then We’ll Wave (So Long)”
Carlton Jumel Smith – “Love Our Love Affair”
Grace Love & The True Loves – “Nobody Sweeter”
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – “Wanna Be Your Lover”
The Soul Jacket – “Pictures on the Wall”
Soul Scratch – “The Road Looks Long”
🎤 Retro Soul with a Twist
Alexis Evans – “Mister Right on Time”
Julie Rhodes – “In Your Garden”
Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal – “Hustler”
The Nightowls – “Don’t It Feel Weird (Falling in Love)”
BJ Wilbanks – “Anything She Wants”
Brian Scartocci – “Days of Glory”
King Corduroy – “Workin’ for a Livin’”
The Savants of Soul – “Honey Child”
Stina Stenerud – “Don’t Turn Your Heater Down”
Dark Roast – “Take the Son of a Bitch Down”
🪩 Final Soulful Flourishes
Lance Ferguson – “2+1 (feat. Kylie Auldist)”
Joel Sarakula – “Understanding”
The Excitements – “I Don’t Love You No More”
The New Review – “Portrait of a Man”
Alanna Royale – “Fall In Love Again”
Karen Lee Andrews – “All in Good Time”
Shirley Davis – “Dilemma”
Dharmasoul – “Love Again”
Julian Taylor Band – “Sweeter”
The Commonheart – “Believer”
🎵 Bonus Tracks to Round It Out
Tomar and the FCs – “Rise Above”
D/troit – “Roll with the Punches”
Ben Pirani – “Light of My Life”
Freedonia – “Heaven Bells”
Mike Farris – “Mercy Now”
The Milk – “Deliver Me”
The Echocentrics – “Gettin’ Away with Your Gal”
Stone Foundation – “Deeper Love”
J.P. Bimeni – “I Miss You”
Sister Sparrow – “Mama Knows”
Soul is an incredible choice of music, serious Club Classics to enjoy at your event!
