Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 Here's a mini review of a couple of cd's - Soul In The Sun and Rare Soul Heaven volume 2 As I obviously have the best taste in music on the site , I've graded the tracks out of 10 so you know what you're getting 1. Catch That Teardrop - Five Royales - fairly pleasant doo-wop dancer 5 / 2. Jeanette - Wade Flemons - storming dancer 7 / 3. Tell Me I'm Yours - Fay Simmons - the epitome of bad R&B 3 / 4. I Can't Please You - Jimmy Robins - the eiptome of good R&B 9 / 5. My Baby's Been Cheating - A.C. Reed - another great uptempo R&B dancer 7 / 6. If I Could Only Be Sure - Nolan Porter - pleasant but overplayed floater 6 / 7. Girl I Love You - Garland Green - overrated midtempo 7 / 8. I Cried My Life Away - Tommy Navarro - nice latin flavoured Stafford sound 8 / 9. My Love Keeps Getting Stronger - Tommy Ridgley - overrated bore 6 / 10. You Should O' Held On - 7th Avenue Aviators - tremendous floorpacker 9 / 11. Emperor Of My Baby's Heart - Kurt Harris - gives northern soul music a bad name 3 / 12. I Love Her So Much It Hurts - Majestics - cracking LA dancer with wondeful string arrangement 9 / 13. Please Stay - Ivorys - utter classic 10 / 14. No One To Love - Pat Lewis - seminal Detroit piece with 'interesting' violin solo 9 / 15. Voltaire Pier - Chocolate Boys - ancient instrumental covered up rediscovered apparently 6 / 16. You Made Me This Way - Ila Vann - awful Mecca oldie 2 / 17. You Brought It On Yourself - Barbara Hall - waste of good vinyl 1 / 18. There Can Be A Better Way - Smith Brothers - plodding early 70's track which never caught on 5 / 19. Independent Woman - Jan Jones - records like this were the reason people stopped going to venues 2 / 20. Making My Daydream Real - We The People - now you're having a laugh 2 / 21. Cry Myself To Sleep - Rhetta Hughes - lovely version on LP only 8 1. Big City Playboy - Jimmy Andrews - like a tougher version of a Major Lance song..6 / 2. Open Up Your Heart (Let Love Out) - Mamselles - lacklustre vibes laden girl group 4 / 3. Lean On Me (When Headaches Get Rough) - Daye, Eddie & Four Bars - good vocal but primitive production, rubbish song 4 / 4. You're On Top Girl - Empires - probably the best of all the soo-wop influenced northern sounds 10 / 5. You Don't Even Know My Name - Hytones - truly rotten blue eyed sounding dancer makes Wayne Gibson sound like Eddie Parker 2 / 6. Joey - Jo Jo Petite - same song as Craxy Crazy by Little Jeanette which is the same song as Ain't Hta Peculiar..7 / 7. My Aim Is To Please - Ted Wilson - undistinguished male vocal 3 / 8. Dear Lord Above - Debbie & The Lads - barrel-scraping girl dancer 3 / 9. Lonely Girl (part 2) - Eric Mercury & Soul Searchers - great but utterly pointless mostly instrumental part 2 to the vocal, magic saxophone though 6 / 10. Oh Mary - Constellations - very very early outing which is actually a tremendous dancer 7 / 11. Man Ain't Supposed To Cry - Topics - the aural equivalent of eating a turd sandwich 3 / 12. Can't Get Enough Of My Baby's Lovin' - Fred Lowery & Big Bo/The Arrows - sounds more like L.S. Lowry 2 / 13. Clip My Wings - Anetta Archibald - the artists name is better than the record, R&B ish and so dull 3 / 14. I'll Give That To You - Sandy Wynns - much more like it, and the arrangement sounds a lot like label mate Gene Toones in parts...brilliant 9 / 15. Gotta Get Away - Slip & Dell - Identikit male group dancer 2 / 16. Jerkin' In Your Seat - Impacts - classic underplayed oldie now picking up again 7 / 17. Did You Mean - Blendels - very soulful midtempo sound 6 / 18. Girl That's An Awful Thing To Say - Neptunes - a sack of rock n roll pigs tits 2 / 19. Don't Come Running To Me - Sissie Houston - few versions of this about, this is nice 6
SteveM Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 Here's a mini review of a couple of cd's - / 19. Independent Woman - Jan Jones - records like this were the reason people stopped going to venues 2 Thought this was because of UK pop, about three years earlier ? Make your mind up Pete It must b the gout (or your shit football team)
Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Author Posted October 19, 2005 Thought this was because of UK pop, about three years earlier ? Make your mind up Pete It must b the gout (or your shit football team) I never stopped going to venues because of UK pop Steve, I stopped going because of records like this, and finding something better to do...nice that you remember every word I type though you weirdo
SteveM Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 I never stopped going to venues because of UK pop Steve, I stopped going because of records like this, and finding something better to do...nice that you remember every word I type though you weirdo Well seeing as Remus is not around much anymore somebody neds to watch you from afar. Seriously, I thought you stopped attending venues around 79 ( a post you made ? ) but JJ wasn't played till around 81 by SoulSam on the modern scene nd at least a year later on the Northern Scene (When I got the second copy)
Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Author Posted October 19, 2005 Well seeing as Remus is not around much anymore somebody neds to watch you from afar. Seriously, I thought you stopped attending venues around 79 ( a post you made ? ) but JJ wasn't played till around 81 by SoulSam on the modern scene nd at least a year later on the Northern Scene (When I got the second copy) I stopped Wigan in August 78 but went to Stafford and Birmingham alldayers til 81...never stopped going to The Vic til I left Wolverhampton in 84....is that ok Inspector?
Guest Stuart T Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 Pete truly you have the best taste on Soul Source. Apart from on Kurt Harris, I like that. "sack of rock n roll pig tits" Don't get comments like this in Q Magazine mind.
Guest in town Mikey Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 In Mikey World Jan Jones is second only to the Ivorys in that list of tunes
Guest Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 "sack of rock n roll pig tits" Don't get comments like this in Q Magazine mind. great record you bugger !!!
Guest in town Mikey Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 / 5. You Don't Even Know My Name - Hytones - truly rotten blue eyed sounding dancer makes Wayne Gibson sound like Eddie Parker 2 I know its only opinions, and they count for very little but Pete. You are wrong about that one. So wrong in fact you should be sent to watch West Brom for a season One of the best records from the Stafford era, and one I would always be singing to myself, turning into the street in our town that had the market setting up on the mornings after Stafford, and there would be the beautiful girl helping her father (please not her husband ) set the stall up.
Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Author Posted October 19, 2005 A most excellent review Pete [/quote Janine, if you can find it can you send me the email you sent me the other day, I flagged it to reply but can't find it now!]
Billy Freemantle Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 (edited) Kurt Harris gets Northern Soul a good name....when the bugle plays. Agree about The Ivorys. Have violins ever sounded better? Probably, yes. But in a Northern Soul record, probably not. Edited October 19, 2005 by Billy Freemantle
Martint Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 Here's a mini review of a couple of cd's - Soul In The Sun and Rare Soul Heaven volume 2 As I obviously have the best taste in music on the site , I've graded the tracks out of 10 so you know what you're getting LOL an excellent read and I agree with most of it (if not all), esp re Kurt Harris, more reviews please
Cheapsiderecords Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 Great reviews, up there with your reviews of the top 100 newies in your old mag.
Guest in town Mikey Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 LOL an excellent read and I agree with most of it (if not all), esp re Kurt Harris, more reviews please I disageed with with the Kurt Harris too Martin. I would have given it 0/10
Martint Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 (edited) I disageed with with the Kurt Harris too Martin. I would have given it 0/10 no I especially AGREED on Kurt Harris, dreadful record IMO, though yes I think you're right and he was over generous ! Edited October 19, 2005 by martint
Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Author Posted October 19, 2005 Great reviews, up there with your reviews of the top 100 newies in your old mag. Oh yeah I remember that, it was pretty funny wasn't it...I only liked about 5 of them if I remember rightly...
Guest Stuart T Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 I disageed with with the Kurt Harris too Martin. I would have given it 0/10 :threaten: Nowhere near as bad as that dreadful Rufus Lumley. -5 out of ten.
Guest Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 (edited) 7. Girl I Love You - Garland Green - overrated midtempo 7 This is good!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMO Carl. / 2. Jeanette - Wade Flemons - storming dancer 7 'Two Of A Kind ' is much better!!!!!!!!!! Edited October 19, 2005 by soulster
Pete S Posted October 19, 2005 Author Posted October 19, 2005 7. Girl I Love You - Garland Green - overrated midtempo 7 This is good!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMO It is undeniably good but I went off it a few years ago after hearing it too many times, now when it comes I just yawn..
Chalky Posted October 19, 2005 Posted October 19, 2005 7. Girl I Love You - Garland Green - overrated midtempo 7 This is good!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMO Carl. / 2. Jeanette - Wade Flemons - storming dancer 7 'Two Of A Kind ' is much better!!!!!!!!!! That Other Place is better too....in fact most things he's done are better including the unreleased Can't Get Away From Your Love that got a few spins at one time.
Guest Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 Well seeing as Remus is not around much anymore somebody neds to watch you from afar. Seriously, I thought you stopped attending venues around 79 ( a post you made ? ) but JJ wasn't played till around 81 by SoulSam on the modern scene nd at least a year later on the Northern Scene (When I got the second copy) J J was played at Wigan in late 80- 81 by Soul Sam.
Guest Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 J J was played at Wigan in late 80- 81 by Soul Sam. Along with Jan Jones, Charles Johnson, Court Davis, Bobby Jason, Willie 'G' a & the Styles, John & Weirdest, Doug Parkinson, James Mack, James Lewis, Cheryl Berdell, Tyrone Barklay, late 80 and to the end Wigan was Shit "I think not" Steve J
SteveM Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 (edited) J J was played at Wigan in late 80- 81 by Soul Sam. I stand corrected on that then Steve. Always thought the first plays were when Sam and Arthur started th modern soul scene. But didn't think Sam asstill at Wigan in 81. Certainly not at the end. And Rs played John and the Weirdest (((Spyder Turner c/u) Sam didn't have that record at the time. SteveM Edited October 20, 2005 by SteveM
Guest Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 I stand corrected on that then Steve. Always thought the first plays were when Sam and Arthur started th modern soul scene. But didn't think Sam asstill at Wigan in 81. Certainly not at the end. And Rs played John and the Weirdest (((Spyder Turner c/u) Sam didn't have that record at the time. SteveM The reason I said that Sam played it at Wigan is I have it on a tape that I did in the main hall in late 80, The tracks I listed are what I remember from the last year at Wigan but on countless times told they are TOTW , Clifton or this & that Club's Sound's, Richard S at the time (thanks to soul bowl) was top dog by far, Some of the records he played first at Wigan have stood the test of time . Steve J
SteveM Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 The reason I said that Sam played it at Wigan is I have it on a tape that I did in the main hall in late 80, The tracks I listed are what I remember from the last year at Wigan but on countless times told they are TOTW , Clifton or this & that Club's Sound's, Richard S at the time (thanks to soul bowl) was top dog by far, Some of the records he played first at Wigan have stood the test of time . Steve J Wouldn't argue with that statement Steve.
Iancsloft Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 A most excellent review Pete ========================================================================= I will second that your funnier than Peter Kay
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