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Roberta Flack & Donnie Hathaway: Back together again/ Where is the love/ Be real black for me
(if there ever was a couple in soul music destined to record duets it was certainly Roberta & Donny, although malicious gossip has it that Roberta was the reason for Donny commiting suicide...)
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Nnenna Freelon & Jon Lucien: Will you still love me tomorrow
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Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye: You are everything
(certainly no match made in heaven...but still a nice song)
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Marvin & Tammi Terrell: You're all I need to get by/ Ain't nothin' like the real thing
(well, that's more like the, er, real thing)
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Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick & Patti LaBelle: Superwoman
(one too many for a duet, but done very well by the 3 - hate the pun - superwomen)
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Patti LaBelle & Gladys Knight: I don't do duets
(mmm...but they sing together...isn't that a duet...guess, I have to look it up in the dictionary anyway)
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Gerald Levert & Eddie Levert, Sr.: Already missing you/ Baby hold on to me
(how many artists have the chance to make records with their parents? Love Gerald & Eddie, and you can't tear their voices apart)
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Jon Lucien & Melba Moore: I'll be loving you
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Teena Marie & Ronnie McNeir: We've got to stop meeting like this
(full of drama about a long-distant love affair...love it how Tee hits the high notes)
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Teena Marie & Rick James: The once & future dream
(I know, they did a lot more together, but that's my favourite duet of Rick and Lady Tee)
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Rachelle Ferrell & Will Downing: Nothing has ever felt like this
(two great voices...they should've done more together)
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Stomping at the Savoy
(love this one and nearly every song of their various collaborations)
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Curtis Mayfield & Sandra St. Victor: I believe in you
(They could've sung nonsense and it'd still be great...hopefully it wasn't a bad omen for Sandra that this was Curtis' last duet)
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Teddy Pendergrass & Lisa Fisher: Glad to be alive
(great motivating stuff with another famous background singer)
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Teddy Pendergrass & Stephanie Mills: Feel the fire/ Two hearts
(what else do you expect if you combine two great artists except for greatness?)
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Thelma Houston & Jerry Butler: And you've got me
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Otis Redding & Carla Thomas: Tell it like it is
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Dianne Reeves & Jon Lucien: Separate vacations
(it's Jon Lucien time again :-))
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Dianne Reeves & Joe Williams: Tenderly
(found with the following on The Grand Encounter album)
Dianne Reeves & Germain Bazzle: Side by side
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Sadeuce & Michael Speaks: Ordinary people
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Sunshine Anderson & Anthony: Hamilton Last night
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Celia Cruz y Willie Colon: Latinos en Estados Unidos/ Come to Miami
(more on the latin tip...)
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Nathan Heathman ft. Marjorie Hughes: Guess I didn't really know you after all
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Bobby Womack & Patti Labelle: Love has finally come at last
Bobby Womack & Mica Paris: I wish I'd never met you
(hidden on the flipside of a 12" release...and only the record company knows why...real soul heaven in the full length version)
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Gerald Levert & Mary J.Blige: That's the way I feel about you
(with the right singing partner even Mary sounds good)
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Gabriela Anders & Eric Benet: Forever
(that's a song really worth searching, if you missed Gabriela's album on Warner)
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Rene & Angela: Imaginary playmates
(one of the better songs from Rene & Angela that doesn't sound as dated as their more uptempo stuff)
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Angela Winbush & Ronald Isley: Baby hold on/ Lay your troubles down
(wife & husband doing it together on record...very nice)
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Omar & Angie Stone: Be thankful
(such a pity that the duet with Erykah made it on Omar's album and not this one :-(
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Gary Taylor & Marva Hicks: I will be there
(knowing Gary Taylor is like knowing the secret handshake of soul music, someone once said...well he's right)
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Alyson Williams & Chuck Stanley: I'm so glad/ Make you mine tonight/ Your love is all I need
(another great couple for duets...unfortunately Chuck was even more overlooked than Alyson, who seems to have had her 15 minutes)
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R. Kelly & Ronald Isley: Down low (nobody has to know)
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Cindy Mizelle & Gerald Levert: Smile
(famous background singer gets the chance to do an album and right in the middle is this little gem with Gerald)
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Roger Troutman & Shirley Murdock: Chocolate City
(great funk duet with long time collaborator Shirley from the soundtrack of the same name that brought us new Sandra St. Victor and Eric Benet songs when it was released)
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Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle: Saturday love
(that's one of my favourites duets from the eighties...especially the album cut with intro)
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Opaz & Mica Paris: One on one
(Opaz is the nom de plume for Ray Hayden...and he does a brilliant job with underrated Mica)
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Pure Soul & the O'Jays: Stairway to heaven (Old school love remix)
(ok, it's a coverversion of the old O'Jays song...and no real duet...but fine nevertheless)
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Vanessa Simon & Noel McKoy: Holding you, loving you
(two overlooked British singer come together to record something which will be overlooked again...but that's the public's loss)
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Louis Price & Nikita Germaine: Heart's devotion
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