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bob sinclair tribute  what an awfull bloody record. i actually overheard some guy telling his mate it was the most soulfull tune he had heard in years.

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Blimey, some of my favourites not doing very well today, Manifesto is a very unusual but ultimately brilliant sound, what a dancer, and the COD's record is just magnificent.

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You can look through this thread and see some truely crap records but for me the scene has sunk to as yet uncharted depths with this......   WTF!!!!!.....   https://www.youtube

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We Got Togetherness - The Jewels

Scratchy - Travis Wammack

I'm Waiting - Bill Bush

We Can Make It - Mello Souls (Somebody on here once compared it to The Del Larks - the only similarity is that both discs are approximately 7 inches in diameter !!!)

Can't Live This Way - Barnaby Bye

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The Majestics - I love her so much it hurts

I know there are hundreds of worse records but I just cannot abide that twirling, mexican style feel to it, don't know for the life of me why but it just grates on me, strange...

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The Majestics - I love her so much it hurts

I know there are hundreds of worse records but I just cannot abide that twirling, mexican style feel to it, don't know for the life of me why but it just grates on me, strange...

Agreed - total garbage :yes:

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Just Say Goodbye.....Mickey Mouse on helium....Catch Me I'm Falling is great though

and I can't believe people have the front to play that Del Davis.Got a great unknown northern reggae record called Black and White by Greyhound..£500 to you..

Esther Phillips is a shocking singer.

And you are spot on about the Del Davis, probably the worst one mentioned yet.

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Lou Pride - Comin' Home In The Morning, and those bloody trombones at the end!!!!!

Stunned.!! If this was discovered now it would be huge.Whereas Ken Barlow would get a kicking at any welfare for turning out "Turd window" in his set.If fact they'd start the bingo up sooner.Obviously recorded as a joke.A bad one.

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Here you go - from 1997 - I've read through it and they all still deserve to be on that list

1.. NORTHERN NIGHTMARES! THE WORST 50 BRITISH RELEASED RECORDS PLAYED ON THE NORTHERN SOUL SCENE

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS - GIRL DON’T MAKE ME WAIT (ABC 1975)

R.B FREEMAN - I’M SHAFT (AVCO 1975)

FAMILY AFFAIR - LOVE HUSTLE (PYE 1976)

EYDIE GORME - EVERYBODY GO HOME (CBS 1964)

VIC FLICK SOUND - HANG ON (CHAPTER ONE 1970)

TED CASSIDY - THE LURCH (CAPITOL 1966)

JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH TRIO - WACK WACK (COLUMBIA 1967)

DEANO - BABY LET ME BE YOUR BABY (COLUMBIA 1967)

BILL KENWRIGHT - I WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN (COLUMBIA 1967)

SAMI SLOAN - BE HIS GIRL (COLUMBIA 1968)

ANITA HARRIS - THE PLAYGROUND (CBS 1967)

GRAHAM BONNEY - SUPER GIRL (COLUMBIA 1966)

KENNY BERNARD - WHAT LOVE BRINGS (PYE 1966)

ExpressionS - ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLES (EMI 1977)

BLACK ABBOTTS - THE PAINTER (EVOLUTION 1970)

ADRIENNE POSTER - SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (DECCA 1965)

NEWBEATS - TOO SWEET TO BE FORGOTTEN (HICKORY 1966)

DANNY WILLIAMS - FORGET HER, FORGET HER (HMV 1965)

KENNY LYNCH - MOVIN’ AWAY (HMV 1967)

SOUPY SALES - THE MOUSE (HMV 1965)

THE HIGH & THE MIGHTY - HELP ME ESCAPE FROM CUBA (HMV 1966)

TIM TAM & THE TURN-ONS - WAIT A MINUTE (ISLAND 1967)

JIMMY CLIFF - WATERFALL (ISLAND 1968)

SIGHT & SOUND - OUR LOVE IS IN THE POCKET (FONTANA 1968)

SAMANTHA JUSTE - IF TREES COULD TALK (GO 1967)

KEANYA COLLINS - BARNABUS COLLINS LOVE BANDIT (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RONNIE LOVE - LET’S MAKE LOVE (GRAPEVINE 1978)

HAPPY CATS - THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAY GODFREY - COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAL DONNER - NEVER LET HER SLIP AWAY (INFERNO 1979)

DAVE VENTURA - THE HURT STAYS IN THE HEART (MERCURY 1965)

VENTURES - HAWAII 5-0 (LIBERTY 1970)TOMMY SANDS - THE STATUE (LIBERTY 1966)

GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - MY HEART’S SYMPHONY (LIBERTY 1967)

LOS CANARIOS - GET ON YOUR KNEES (MAJOR MINOR 1967)

CONTRASTS - WHAT A DAY (MONUMENT 1968)

MICHAEL HASLAM - THERE GOES THE FORGOTTEN MAN (PARLOPHONE 1965)

BARRY BENSON - STAY A LITTLE WHILE (PARLOPHONE 1966)

DAVID NELSON - SOMEBODY LOVES ME (PHILIPS 1963)

KEVIN KING LEAR - THE SNAKE (PAGE ONE 1968)

EBONY KEYES - IF YOU KNEW (PICCADILLY 1967)

SOUL JOE CLEMENTS - EVER EVER (PLEXIUM 1969)

FIVE & A PENNY - YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES (POLYDOR 1968)

GABRIELLI BRASS - RIDE YOUR PONY (POLYDOR 1967)

TARA - HAPPY (POLYDOR 1971)

BRIAN HYLAND - THE JOKER WENT WILD (PHILIPS 1967)

ANTOINETTE - LULLABY OF LOVE (PICCADILLY 1966)

DAVID GARRICK - LET’S GO SOMEWHERE (PICCADILLY 1966)

BARRY GRAY - JOE 90 THEME (PYE 1968)

TONY SIMON - GIMME LITTLE SIGN (TRACK 1967)

SVANTE - BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING (UA 1968)

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Here you go - from 1997 - I've read through it and they all still deserve to be on that list

1.. NORTHERN NIGHTMARES! THE WORST 50 BRITISH RELEASED RECORDS PLAYED ON THE NORTHERN SOUL SCENE

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS - GIRL DON’T MAKE ME WAIT (ABC 1975)

R.B FREEMAN - I’M SHAFT (AVCO 1975)

FAMILY AFFAIR - LOVE HUSTLE (PYE 1976)

EYDIE GORME - EVERYBODY GO HOME (CBS 1964)

VIC FLICK SOUND - HANG ON (CHAPTER ONE 1970)

TED CASSIDY - THE LURCH (CAPITOL 1966)

JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH TRIO - WACK WACK (COLUMBIA 1967)

DEANO - BABY LET ME BE YOUR BABY (COLUMBIA 1967)

BILL KENWRIGHT - I WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN (COLUMBIA 1967)

SAMI SLOAN - BE HIS GIRL (COLUMBIA 1968)

ANITA HARRIS - THE PLAYGROUND (CBS 1967)

GRAHAM BONNEY - SUPER GIRL (COLUMBIA 1966)

KENNY BERNARD - WHAT LOVE BRINGS (PYE 1966)

ExpressionS - ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLES (EMI 1977)

BLACK ABBOTTS - THE PAINTER (EVOLUTION 1970)

ADRIENNE POSTER - SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (DECCA 1965)

NEWBEATS - TOO SWEET TO BE FORGOTTEN (HICKORY 1966)

DANNY WILLIAMS - FORGET HER, FORGET HER (HMV 1965)

KENNY LYNCH - MOVIN’ AWAY (HMV 1967)

SOUPY SALES - THE MOUSE (HMV 1965)

THE HIGH & THE MIGHTY - HELP ME ESCAPE FROM CUBA (HMV 1966)

TIM TAM & THE TURN-ONS - WAIT A MINUTE (ISLAND 1967)

JIMMY CLIFF - WATERFALL (ISLAND 1968)

SIGHT & SOUND - OUR LOVE IS IN THE POCKET (FONTANA 1968)

SAMANTHA JUSTE - IF TREES COULD TALK (GO 1967)

KEANYA COLLINS - BARNABUS COLLINS LOVE BANDIT (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RONNIE LOVE - LET’S MAKE LOVE (GRAPEVINE 1978)

HAPPY CATS - THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAY GODFREY - COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAL DONNER - NEVER LET HER SLIP AWAY (INFERNO 1979)

DAVE VENTURA - THE HURT STAYS IN THE HEART (MERCURY 1965)

VENTURES - HAWAII 5-0 (LIBERTY 1970)TOMMY SANDS - THE STATUE (LIBERTY 1966)

GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - MY HEART’S SYMPHONY (LIBERTY 1967)

LOS CANARIOS - GET ON YOUR KNEES (MAJOR MINOR 1967)

CONTRASTS - WHAT A DAY (MONUMENT 1968)

MICHAEL HASLAM - THERE GOES THE FORGOTTEN MAN (PARLOPHONE 1965)

BARRY BENSON - STAY A LITTLE WHILE (PARLOPHONE 1966)

DAVID NELSON - SOMEBODY LOVES ME (PHILIPS 1963)

KEVIN KING LEAR - THE SNAKE (PAGE ONE 1968)

EBONY KEYES - IF YOU KNEW (PICCADILLY 1967)

SOUL JOE CLEMENTS - EVER EVER (PLEXIUM 1969)

FIVE & A PENNY - YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES (POLYDOR 1968)

GABRIELLI BRASS - RIDE YOUR PONY (POLYDOR 1967)

TARA - HAPPY (POLYDOR 1971)

BRIAN HYLAND - THE JOKER WENT WILD (PHILIPS 1967)

ANTOINETTE - LULLABY OF LOVE (PICCADILLY 1966)

DAVID GARRICK - LET’S GO SOMEWHERE (PICCADILLY 1966)

BARRY GRAY - JOE 90 THEME (PYE 1968)

TONY SIMON - GIMME LITTLE SIGN (TRACK 1967)

SVANTE - BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING (UA 1968)

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Here you go - from 1997 - I've read through it and they all still deserve to be on that list

1.. NORTHERN NIGHTMARES! THE WORST 50 BRITISH RELEASED RECORDS PLAYED ON THE NORTHERN SOUL SCENE

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS - GIRL DON’T MAKE ME WAIT (ABC 1975)

R.B FREEMAN - I’M SHAFT (AVCO 1975)

FAMILY AFFAIR - LOVE HUSTLE (PYE 1976)

EYDIE GORME - EVERYBODY GO HOME (CBS 1964)

VIC FLICK SOUND - HANG ON (CHAPTER ONE 1970)

TED CASSIDY - THE LURCH (CAPITOL 1966)

JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH TRIO - WACK WACK (COLUMBIA 1967)

DEANO - BABY LET ME BE YOUR BABY (COLUMBIA 1967)

BILL KENWRIGHT - I WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN (COLUMBIA 1967)

SAMI SLOAN - BE HIS GIRL (COLUMBIA 1968)

ANITA HARRIS - THE PLAYGROUND (CBS 1967)

GRAHAM BONNEY - SUPER GIRL (COLUMBIA 1966)

KENNY BERNARD - WHAT LOVE BRINGS (PYE 1966)

ExpressionS - ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLES (EMI 1977)

BLACK ABBOTTS - THE PAINTER (EVOLUTION 1970)

ADRIENNE POSTER - SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (DECCA 1965)

NEWBEATS - TOO SWEET TO BE FORGOTTEN (HICKORY 1966)

DANNY WILLIAMS - FORGET HER, FORGET HER (HMV 1965)

KENNY LYNCH - MOVIN’ AWAY (HMV 1967)

SOUPY SALES - THE MOUSE (HMV 1965)

THE HIGH & THE MIGHTY - HELP ME ESCAPE FROM CUBA (HMV 1966)

TIM TAM & THE TURN-ONS - WAIT A MINUTE (ISLAND 1967)

JIMMY CLIFF - WATERFALL (ISLAND 1968)

SIGHT & SOUND - OUR LOVE IS IN THE POCKET (FONTANA 1968)

SAMANTHA JUSTE - IF TREES COULD TALK (GO 1967)

KEANYA COLLINS - BARNABUS COLLINS LOVE BANDIT (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RONNIE LOVE - LET’S MAKE LOVE (GRAPEVINE 1978)

HAPPY CATS - THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAY GODFREY - COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES (GRAPEVINE 1978)

RAL DONNER - NEVER LET HER SLIP AWAY (INFERNO 1979)

DAVE VENTURA - THE HURT STAYS IN THE HEART (MERCURY 1965)

VENTURES - HAWAII 5-0 (LIBERTY 1970)TOMMY SANDS - THE STATUE (LIBERTY 1966)

GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - MY HEART’S SYMPHONY (LIBERTY 1967)

LOS CANARIOS - GET ON YOUR KNEES (MAJOR MINOR 1967)

CONTRASTS - WHAT A DAY (MONUMENT 1968)

MICHAEL HASLAM - THERE GOES THE FORGOTTEN MAN (PARLOPHONE 1965)

BARRY BENSON - STAY A LITTLE WHILE (PARLOPHONE 1966)

DAVID NELSON - SOMEBODY LOVES ME (PHILIPS 1963)

KEVIN KING LEAR - THE SNAKE (PAGE ONE 1968)

EBONY KEYES - IF YOU KNEW (PICCADILLY 1967)

SOUL JOE CLEMENTS - EVER EVER (PLEXIUM 1969)

FIVE & A PENNY - YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES (POLYDOR 1968)

GABRIELLI BRASS - RIDE YOUR PONY (POLYDOR 1967)

TARA - HAPPY (POLYDOR 1971)

BRIAN HYLAND - THE JOKER WENT WILD (PHILIPS 1967)

ANTOINETTE - LULLABY OF LOVE (PICCADILLY 1966)

DAVID GARRICK - LET’S GO SOMEWHERE (PICCADILLY 1966)

BARRY GRAY - JOE 90 THEME (PYE 1968)

TONY SIMON - GIMME LITTLE SIGN (TRACK 1967)

SVANTE - BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING (UA 1968)

I am surpriced you missed out The Carstairs on Inferno!!! :lol:

I've got to admit there is some shockers on that list. :yes:

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I'm still trying to work out why people don't like Joe Jama! Fantastic beat, good tune, nice lyrics, what's not to like?

Ok imagine the Carstairs are on full blast and you can't escape the room... and... there you go!

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We Got Togetherness - The Jewels

Scratchy - Travis Wammack

I'm Waiting - Bill Bush

We Can Make It - Mello Souls (Somebody on here once compared it to The Del Larks - the only similarity is that both discs are approximately 7 inches in diameter !!!)

Can't Live This Way - Barnaby Bye

Mello Souls-Its absolutely brilliant-dont get you at all-but an agree with the others.

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Third Window always reminds of the sort of songs the large female pig on the Pinky & Perky Show used to cover in the early 60s !

Anyway for me I find Timo Yuro IWNBOFM a real yawn - and how people can trot out Nine Times by the Moments is beyond comprehension - it's exactly the reason we used to travel out of town at week-ends to avoid having to listen to it ...........

I'll get my coat

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Love Bandit..especially when she utters the line...Barnabus Collins...you're a Love Bandit...makes me wanna scream and scream....

Baby Boy...Fred Hughes....have just never liked it...not saying its a bad record or anything....just never hit me...thats all.... :) Del.xxxx

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They're both as bad as each other (says the bloke who has an issue and a demo of barry benson :lol: )

Issue of Barry for me and a yellow Joe Brown demo....Im running for cover as I have about 20 in that list.It's a British thing.That Bill Kenwright is one of the worst vocal performances I have ever heard...no wonder he got into Theatre.

Someone actually played Hang On by Vick Flick...this is a substandard Booker T sort of sound. Am I the only one that doesn't like L Allen Cant We Talk It Over.Reminds me of Arthur Mullard and Thora Hird on a duet or John Shuttleworth on the hammond.

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wank frilson-do i love you?-in deed i dont!.never could understand what all the fuss was about,its rare but like unicorn dung its still shit!!!!

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ruby andrews just loving you drive's me up the wall should be banned and never played again heres hoping

agree, very mouldy oldie

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Okay folks, we've all done it & it happened to me yesterday, iPad is on shuffle & a true shocker comes on.

For me it was yesterday I had the misfortune to listen to DEAN BARLOW THIRD WINDOW FROM THE RIGHT, this is a dire record & it kills me how it ever got plays.

Also another track that it utter drivel, CHARADES, YOU'D BETTER BELIVE IT, this is astoundingly bad. Full of U.S patriotic nonsense, starting with a daft bugle call, think this is worse than Dean Barlow & that's saying something.

Just a bit of fun, don't get offended if you like, or even worse actually dish out hard earned money for any of these.

Okay folks, we've all got our pet hates, what other dross kills you when it comes on the turntable?

agreed , Dean Barlow should be used for a ashtray .

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You lot are having a joke yes?

Nearly every sound you quoted between you are Superb Northern.

A few I don't know, so can't help that.

Doesn't it all depend on who you were with, where you were, and the quality of the place, time, venue and gear you had?

I like Bobby Goldsborough TOO MANY PEOPLE(I so wanted a green demo of this) and TOO LATE and SHE CHASED ME.

I sort of aren't allowed to mention them now.

What about I'D RATHER GO TO JAIL Mitch Ryder, sure it can't equal BREAKOUT and YOU GET YOUR KICKS, but boy did we get our kicks off that record, once upon a time.

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU BABY, by the Toys was absolute class Northern in it's time (still is to me).

Wierdly, the absolutely loved, rare and adored, I AM NOTHING, AL WILLIAMS, does nothing for me, excepting it provides great memories.

DO WHAT YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO by THE 3 DEGREES isn't too far off DUETTES, EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART.

Especially on STATESIDE DEMO, which I have only ever seen one in my life that I HAD STOLEN AT THE CATS (maybe) but I know who stole it. Strangely I re-met him at Cleethorpes weekender. (Funnily enough the thief doesn't remember me.)

I never got much feeling, from SO IS THE SUN-WORLD COLUMN, but now, all these years later, I do, cos of the memories I guess.

I once remember someone saying the only good Modern soul record is a broken one. And , yeah, I aren't far off that way of thinking.

Perhaps tripping or stoned out of one's mind maybe. But no, not really.

I found JOEY DELORENZO late in life and adore it, (although the lyrics are mixed up because one minute he has blown her out, next minute he's going to help her find a brand new man.THAT'S WIERD, I agree, but in my opinion if that had been played in the year it was made (1973?) It would have packed any floor any where.

NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN is poor, sure, i gotta go along with that, but the collector inside me says PAGE ONE DEMO, wouldn't mind it).

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I really can't stand Nolan's if I could only......can't even finish the title it's that bad when I hear it I can see Cliff Richards it reminds me of one of His seventy's thing's like Carrie dosen't live here any more or thing's along that line Derek Allen used to argue about this with me for years but it's crap sorry i know it get's a few dancing but it's cold sick in your porridge time regards Simon.

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Sam Fletcher

Troy Dodds

Wade Flemmons (Other Place)

These 3 piles of dross have got no "northern soul" whatsoever in them. At very best should be left for the chill out stuff played at home on your at the end of a long weekend......at very best!!

WTF!! The Present and the Sweet are to me just the bollox when it comes to producing dance floor action and atmosphere producing moments that will live long in my memory, granted, not alot of soul in them but thats why i love Northern Soul.

Having said that it's each to their own and all that.

Wombat - = Kin' Awesome!!

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Too many to mention and most probably have already. One which springs to mind and I don't know if it has been posted yet - Don Covay - It's Better To Have.

I can't stand it. I might be better disposed to it playing in the background at someone's house or in a bar, but whenever I've heard it out in the past, it sets my flipping teeth on edge.

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Yeah, so much absolute shite played for the last 40 + years. Two that instantly come to mind that I can't abide --

Doug Banks - I Just Kept On Dancing ....... sounds like the theme tune to a cheap and shit spagetti western

Marv Johnson - Come On and Stop ........... 'kin dire

Oh, and The Rock - An Aspirin Would Go Crazy ... novelty record, if there had never been a Mel Williams "Can It Be Me" would have been thrown on the shit pile where it belongs.

Can't see where Lumley's "I'm standing" can be classed anywhere near a crap "Northern" record. Iconic record in it's day but there again it's all personal opinions innit. One person's shite, another person's classic.

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