The Emotions

Any playlist of feel-good soul music would be incomplete without the jubilant harmonies of the church-bred Emotions. Essentially a sibling group during their most active years, Chicago natives Sheila, Wanda, and Jeanette Hutchinson got their start singing gospel as youngsters during the late '50s. Near the end of the following decade, recording for the Stax subsidiary Volt, they scored a Top 40 pop hit -- and their first of nine Top Ten R&B hits -- with the title song from So I Can Love You, written by Sheila and produced by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Frequently collaborati...