Yesterday newspapers - moments in time?

[Mike]

see here for the main 1966 site story https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-articles/golden-world-studios-detroit-20-may-1966-r3755/

but would guess that there are a lot more interesting 'moments in time' out there...

here's some

Del-larks and more appearing live in 1965

 Found on Newspapers.com

 

musical revue will be presented Saturday night at Plain-field Plain-field Plain-field High School to benefit the Kent Jordan Memorial Fund a scholarship fund established in memory of Plainfield's first Vietnam casualty. The show will be staged at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Featured in the revue will be the Del-Larks, a local singing group which will reunite with its former leader, Sammy Campbell, for the two performances.

Also scheduled to appear is the Queen City Revue, consisting of the Parliaments, the Four Wonders: the Plazas, Queenettes, Dellaflors, Tamala Lewis, Roy Handy, the Immortals, Conchords, Ascots and Jimmy Tanner and his Jazz Messengers. The Queen City Orchestra also will perform.

Mayor Robert C. Maddox is scheduled to give a brief talk between performances. Tickets are available at Brooks Record Shop in Watchung Ave., Red Tower Diner in W. Fifth St., Silk Palace Barber Shop in Plainfield Ave., and Gregory's Music Shop in W. Front St.

[Mike]

here's a different slant on the 70s drug outrage

Police etc making out that clubs were cashing in my charging high prices for water

though maybe the claims arenot quite that factual, as I can remember the filling of coke bottles from the taps in m's etc

 Found on Newspapers.com

click to read

[Mike]

not just last century

calling @David Meikle

Found on Newspapers.com

 

[Tomangoes]

3 hours ago, mike said:

see here for the main 1966 site story https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-articles/golden-world-studios-detroit-20-may-1966-r3755/

but would guess that there are a lot more interesting 'moments in time' out there...

here's some

Del-larks and more appearing live in 1965

 Found on Newspapers.com

Now anybody who got a ticket to those two concerts were very lucky indeed!

Ed

 

[Mike]

here's an interesting usa view of the uk northern soul back in 1975....

Clipped from The Tennessean,  22 Jun 1975, Sun,  Page 152

 

Found on Newspapers.com 

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By KIM GARFIELD It's 2 a.m. in Wigan, England and 1,500 people are jammed inside the steaming casino, ready to enjoy the all-night all-night all-night bliss of music, dancing and brotherhood. They are Britain's new baggy-trousered  "wheelies," representing a new youth scene, a new sound, a new way of dancing. And a new way of life. A five-star wheelie carries a dufflebag containing three changes of clothing, toothbrush, comb and a stack of records.

They dance the night away at the Heavy Steam Machine in Stoke on a Friday, catch the early session next day at Blackpool, be in Wigan for the all-nighter  (8 p.m. to 8 a.m.) and still have the strength and legs to tackle the Sunday all-dayer  (noon to midnight) at Burnley's Rose Room. There are more than 1,000 wheelie clubs throughout England and the craze is spreading. But Wigan is the place where wheelie dancing to the "Northern Soul Sound," started. The 23,000 registered members of the casino come from near and far to this fraternity where everybody is referred to as "brother," and where the only motivation is to share a good time.

Wheelie dancing is basically the "Mohammed Ali shuffle," danced continuously until, at some point, three dynamic steps have to be thrown in : The Spin executed on one leg with arms folded; The Back Flip in which the boy bends himself backwards, maintaining the beat with alternate hands on the floor; The Crunch the boy jumps high and comes down on one knee with a thud. The Northern Sound is a big band sound, lots of strings and a driving, hand-clapping  beat. But it's the all-night session that really provides the soul-searching and none of the clubs serve hard liquor. There's simply no time for drinking.

As Mike Walker, manager at Wigan, says : "Most of these kids work in terrible, dreary factories all week and live in grim places. At the weekend they've got to find a safety valve somehow. Northern Soul is their peaceful solution the answer to all those who say the youngsters of today are ignorant, ignorant, selfish thugs."

The dancers themselves, dressed in the wheelie uniforms of baggy pants and T-shirts T-shirts T-shirts (for boys) and three-quarter dresses (for girls), were quick to explain their new lifestyle. "So many of us were sick of disc jockeys in London, record companies in London, television companies in London, telling us how great were such groups as Slade and Gary Glitter," said 19-year-old Gerry, a car foundry worker who's known to the wheelie fraternity as "Spider."

"Right on, brother," interjects Geoff, a 21-year-old black youth. "Northern Soul is the kind of music you can get inside of, instead of having to watch some idiot in a shiny suit jumping about selling himself. "When you meet somebody who's clapping in the right places to that big, beautiful beat and letting the music reach his soul, then you've got something going. Sex, color, religion doesn't come into it. You're brothers. That's what it's all about."

Trisha, an attractive 20-year-old blonde who works in a clothing factory and lives with her parents in Manchester, explained how her parents felt about her all-night all-night all-night activities: activities: "Why should anyone worry about me being out all night when they know where I am and that there's not going to be any trouble? That's the big thing with Northern Soul ... it doesn't mix with trouble of any kind."

At Wigan, 1,000 young people are back-flipping, knee-crunching spinning and floating like butterflies through the night. There's no trouble. Nobody bothers even to keep an eye on unattended duffle bags. As the youngsters say in greeting each other: "Keep the faith, brother, keep the faith."

[Amsterdam Russ]

That was wheelie interesting! 

[Guest Spain pete]

1 hour ago, mike said:

here's an interesting usa view of the uk northern soul back in 1975....

Clipped from The Tennessean,  22 Jun 1975, Sun,  Page 152

 

Found on Newspapers.com 

click to view

By KIM GARFIELD It's 2 a.m. in Wigan, England and 1,500 people are jammed inside the steaming casino, ready to enjoy the all-night all-night all-night bliss of music, dancing and brotherhood. They are Britain's new baggy-trousered  "wheelies," representing a new youth scene, a new sound, a new way of dancing. And a new way of life. A five-star wheelie carries a dufflebag containing three changes of clothing, toothbrush, comb and a stack of records.

They dance the night away at the Heavy Steam Machine in Stoke on a Friday, catch the early session next day at Blackpool, be in Wigan for the all-nighter  (8 p.m. to 8 a.m.) and still have the strength and legs to tackle the Sunday all-dayer  (noon to midnight) at Burnley's Rose Room. There are more than 1,000 wheelie clubs throughout England and the craze is spreading. But Wigan is the place where wheelie dancing to the "Northern Soul Sound," started. The 23,000 registered members of the casino come from near and far to this fraternity where everybody is referred to as "brother," and where the only motivation is to share a good time.

Wheelie dancing is basically the "Mohammed Ali shuffle," danced continuously until, at some point, three dynamic steps have to be thrown in : The Spin executed on one leg with arms folded; The Back Flip in which the boy bends himself backwards, maintaining the beat with alternate hands on the floor; The Crunch the boy jumps high and comes down on one knee with a thud. The Northern Sound is a big band sound, lots of strings and a driving, hand-clapping  beat. But it's the all-night session that really provides the soul-searching and none of the clubs serve hard liquor. There's simply no time for drinking.

As Mike Walker, manager at Wigan, says : "Most of these kids work in terrible, dreary factories all week and live in grim places. At the weekend they've got to find a safety valve somehow. Northern Soul is their peaceful solution the answer to all those who say the youngsters of today are ignorant, ignorant, selfish thugs."

The dancers themselves, dressed in the wheelie uniforms of baggy pants and T-shirts T-shirts T-shirts (for boys) and three-quarter dresses (for girls), were quick to explain their new lifestyle. "So many of us were sick of disc jockeys in London, record companies in London, television companies in London, telling us how great were such groups as Slade and Gary Glitter," said 19-year-old Gerry, a car foundry worker who's known to the wheelie fraternity as "Spider."

"Right on, brother," interjects Geoff, a 21-year-old black youth. "Northern Soul is the kind of music you can get inside of, instead of having to watch some idiot in a shiny suit jumping about selling himself. "When you meet somebody who's clapping in the right places to that big, beautiful beat and letting the music reach his soul, then you've got something going. Sex, color, religion doesn't come into it. You're brothers. That's what it's all about."

Trisha, an attractive 20-year-old blonde who works in a clothing factory and lives with her parents in Manchester, explained how her parents felt about her all-night all-night all-night activities: activities: "Why should anyone worry about me being out all night when they know where I am and that there's not going to be any trouble? That's the big thing with Northern Soul ... it doesn't mix with trouble of any kind."

At Wigan, 1,000 young people are back-flipping, knee-crunching spinning and floating like butterflies through the night. There's no trouble. Nobody bothers even to keep an eye on unattended duffle bags. As the youngsters say in greeting each other: "Keep the faith, brother, keep the faith."

Dance like a butterfly.  ( all night ) sting like a bee ( the next 2 days) 🎶🎶