Progressive soul

Progressive soul is a genre of progressive rock that came from the roots of classical, jazz, blues, and experimental music. Some of the progressive soul music came from Motown with The Four Tops ("Bernadette", their cover of The Left Banke's "Walk Away Renee", and The Moody Blues songs "A Simple Game" and "So Deep Within You", both written by Mike Pinder and the latter from On the Threshold of a Dream), Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown", Diana Ross' "Love is Here", "You Keep Me Hanging On", "I Hear a Symphony", and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", The Temptations "Ball of Confusion" and "Papa was a Rolling Stone", Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On, and Stevie Wonder's classic era (1972-1982). Other progressive soul acts came from Jimi Hendrix, The Fifth Dimension (particularly their hit "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" from the musical Hair), Isaac Hayes, George Clinton, Curtis Mayfield, Eric Burdon and War, early albums from Earth, Wind, and Fire, Sly and The Family Stone, and even Todd Rundgren, Traffic, and Chicago performed acts using progressive soul.