Featuring music from Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Supremes, The Dells, The Metros, The Impressions, Cannibal & The Headhunters,Dyke & The Blazers, Major Lance, Alvin Cash & The Crawlers, The Emperors, St. James Group, Young-Holt Unlimited, The Capitols, Sidney Barnes, The Admirations, Bettye Swann, Main Ingredient, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, The Contours, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Gaynor, Swamp Dogg, Irene Reid, Junior Parker, Lee Dorsey, Kokomo, Average White Band, Soul Survivors, Samuel Purdy, The Alan Bown Set, The Formations, The Vibrations, Kim Weston, Jimmy Hughes, Fred Hughes, Connie Clark, The Ambassadors, War and Hugh Masakela!
The Marquis De Soul Show features the best in R&B, Soul, Funk, Blues and Acid Jazz where you'll hear the obvious and the obscure, all carefully curated. As a youngster growing up in the 60's, Marquis was exposed and enthralled by all of the sounds he heard coming over the AM airwaves on a small transistor radio tucked under his pillow at night. Included were stations from Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia (many hotbed cities of R&B). At first, he was engulfed by American and British rock and pop, but soon after he connected with American R&B (Motown et al). While rock was his main focus, he found himself slowly absorbing more and more of this soulful music through local radio stations that featured the genre almost exclusively. It made for a nice cross-section of styles that he continues to follow to this day. He was a Mpod befiore he even knew what a Mod was! An in-demand, mobile DJ from the early 80's into the mid-90's provided him with a platform to feature these sounds. By the late 80's/mid-90's, a period he describes as his "Acid Jazz Years", he became even more captivated and motivated by this music, resulting in a weekly residency at a small club in Baltimore, MD that included DJ'ing for Guru/Jazzmatazz and Brand New Heavies shows at the club.