Something that came up in conversation with a gay friend recently, are there any examples of men obviously singing love songs for men, or the female equivelent, on the soul scene?

I can't think of any at all, but I thought I'd ask the brains trust on here...

  On 02/12/2012 at 20:36, Barry said:

Lappo, f*** me yeah - it was a rough old gaff in the week....but then so was the whole of Warrington at the time ay?

True enough mate, happy days though.

Take care

Aid.

  On 02/12/2012 at 20:36, Barry said:

Lappo, f*** me yeah - it was a rough old gaff in the week....but then so was the whole of Warrington at the time ay?

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/media/set/?set=a.170487826316716.39386.100000664989838&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.170487826316716.39386.100000664989838&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=170499799648852&set=a.170487826316716.39386.100000664989838&type=3&theater

Can you see that?

  On 02/12/2012 at 05:17, boba said:

is he the dude on philly groove? I still need a stock copy of that since the promo is a mono/stereo

I have no idea. The David Lasley from the Utopias has a high voice, but not falsetto. You can probably find his story on the WWW and song clips on Youtube to confirm.

  On 03/12/2012 at 06:53, George G said:

I have no idea. The David Lasley from the Utopias has a high voice, but not falsetto. You can probably find his story on the WWW and song clips on Youtube to confirm.

I assume you mean long haiered blue eyed soul chap, some reasonable, if a little MOR LP. Better known as backing singer and songwriter. Great info about Utopias and googling him he seems to have moved from Detroit to NY so it seems to fit.

David Lasley used to have his own website but can't seem to find it now? His younger sister Julie made up the Utopias.

  On 03/12/2012 at 09:05, chalky said:

David Lasley used to have his own website but can't seem to find it now? His younger sister Julie made up the Utopias.

there's a pic sleeve of the fortune release, it's him and two girls

  On 03/12/2012 at 09:07, boba said:

there's a pic sleeve of the fortune release, it's him and two girls

One will probably be his sister then I assume, don't know who the other Utopias member is.

The other woman is I think an unrelated person named Joan Hughes.

I honestly think that it was far more subversive / successful for gay artists to have non-explicit songs that either didn't mention gender at all or that had coded messages. think about what massive success frankie goes to hollywood "relax" was about and then look at the uncensored hardcore video version of the song. they seriously were much more successful in getting themselves out there by not being explicit. it was like a joke on the world and the people that were in on it knew anyways.

Herman George, "Billy"?

  On 03/12/2012 at 16:49, weingarden said:

Herman George, "Billy"?

I actually always thought this and was confused and then listened again recently and decided he's singing about a girl with that name