The DeuxDuel Classic Soul lineup
21 songs · 14 artists · 1961–1990 · listed A–Z, not ranked
What this list is
DeuxDuel draws from 21 songs when it builds a Classic Soul matchup. Two of them appear side by side, you play a 30-second preview of each, and you pick the one you would rather hear. Every track here is a real Apple Music catalogue song, hand-picked for this category — not pulled from a streaming chart — and voting needs no music subscription.
The order below is alphabetical by artist. It is not a ranking and does not imply one.
No ranking is published for Classic Soul yet. DeuxDuel only publishes a chart once a category has real head-to-head evidence behind it, so this page shows the lineup and nothing more. How the ranking works.
Every song in Classic Soul
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Let's Stay Together
Al Green · 1971 -
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Aretha Franklin · 1967 -
Respect
Aretha Franklin · 1967 -
Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers · 1971 -
Lean On Me
Bill Withers · 1972 -
Move on Up
Curtis Mayfield · 1990 -
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Four Tops · 1965 -
Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight & The Pips · 1973 -
I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown & The Famous Flames · 1966 -
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye · 1973 -
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye · 1971 -
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding · 1968 -
Try a Little Tenderness
Otis Redding · 1966 -
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke · 1964 -
Cupid
Sam Cooke · 1961 -
The Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles · 1965 -
Sir Duke
Stevie Wonder · 1976 -
Superstition
Stevie Wonder · 1972 -
You Can't Hurry Love
The Supremes · 1966 -
My Girl
The Temptations · 1964 -
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
The Temptations · 1972
Disagree with what belongs here? The lineup is settled by the
people voting on it — every matchup you play moves Classic Soul closer to
a published chart.