The Staple Singers - Touch A Hand Make A Friend

Pick up exclusive collectible items, plus music from your favorite Stax artists and legends. From their gospel beginnings through the folk-rock era to their soul music peak, the Staple Singers traveled a long, artistically-rich road into the mainstream of American music, spreading messages of peace, equal rights and love. When the Staples –comprised of family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples and daughters Cleotha, Mavis and Yvonne– joined Stax in 1968, they were working alongside major rock acts at forums like the Fillmore West and East. Over the next few years, The Staple Singers saw 12 chart hits, including "Respect Yourself" and "I'll Take You There", both off their 1972 breakthrough album, Be Altitude: Respect Yourself. The Staples continued to record through 1994, when they found a new audience with their cover of The Band’s “The Weight” for MCA Records’ compilation “Rhythm, Country & Blues.” Mavis Staples, who received her first GRAMMY® Award in 2011, continues to record and tour, performing everywhere from the White House to the Kennedy Center Honors stage to major festivals like Outside Lands. Most recently, Staples is the subject of documentary “Mavis!”


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[Morethanacolor]

This song should be played on the radio everyday

[bxseqsw]

Much Love ❤ Ethel.May God continue to bless you.Amen.

[sharonsmith]

Great music there will be no good music like this anymore thankful for my generation of music 🎶

[danajetton]

This is the Music we should be listening to again, now! One Love

[jmulvey]

Keep On Pushing + Touch A Hand Make A Friend = A Change Is Gonna Come

[cindystechschulte]

I can feel it in the air now .
Change is a comin yeah.
Love this song. Makes me happy.

[playloud]

Screw social distancing! TOUCH A HAND!! :)

[craigmclean]

This was my favorite song of 1974...still a fave today!

[JS-tnby]

I remember when my father came home with this album! I was a little girl (I was 5) and when I hear this today I long for those days! I miss my dad terribly. I lost him in 2015. I can't explain how much it still hurts. UGH!

[perryhughes]

Takes me back to listening to KKDA AM out of south oak cliff in Dallas....a country boy milking cows and enjoying great music !

[marywatkins]

This song takes me back to the 1970s, and I’m a teen again. Love The Staple Singers. RIP Pervis Staples.

[kimmorgan]

Heartfelt, soulful, tremendously original tune; carries life defining principles too!

[RLJPitney]

Wow it sounds AWESOME MAKES A PERSON hopeful and warm your heart. Voices move the spirit and make one have a BIG SMILE

[nuyenguard]

Great song. Feelings around me touch my soul deep.

[charlescoleman]

The Staple Singers were a amazingly talented family with the ability to express the thoughts and emotions of the (🌍) world for each and everyone that there's a need to make and be a (friend) for all, just to make this (🌍) world a better place for ( everyone) 🎭🌹🌹🌹🌹*

[elizabethpiveronus]

I love this so much..It's how we were and should be today

[PilgrimPiper]

WOW....no idea they done this before The Oak Ridge Boys...peace to all

[PCLA]

- - A Change Is Coming On From Every Walk Of Life - Reach Out Make A Friend If You Can - Beto 2020 -

[jamesorsby]

"Can't ya feel in your heart now, a new thang is takin shape"...I know that's right. And some folks don't like it.

[allenginsburg]

Deservingly they are in the rock n roll hof