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Was the 80's a bad decade for soul? Just wondering what peoples favourites were?

I'd like to get an 80's set together just wondering about anyway faves? I always liked the Ruffin and Kendricks stuff? Any recommendations?

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Kashif "Rumors" (Arista)...........a record that had a pretty big influence on me, in turning me away from NS and into contemporary soul music...............MASSIVE RESPECT to Adam for that :unsure:thumbsup.gif

I played it at Prestatyn and it still sounds fookin' brilliant IMVHO!!

Cheers,

Mark R

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Like any decade, good and bad

For me some of the good

Chapter 8-How can I get next to you

Johnnie Taylor-What about my love

Tashan-Keep movin on

Frankie Knuckles-Tears

Bobby Womack-Tell me why/Trying to over you/So many sides of you

Manhattens-Crazy

Glenda McLeod-No stranger to love

Soul II Soul-Keep movin

J D Hall-I wanna get into you

Ze Brass-So good

Color Blind-Crazy

Glenn Jones-I am somebody

Marlena Shaw-I just want this feeling to last

Could go on and on, all in all not a bad decade

Dave

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I hip to some of them tracks - in particular bobby womack! So many sides of you - good track.

One of my faves is Mellisa Morgan - Fools Paradise.

Oh yes and Phillipe Wynne - You Aint Going Anywhere But Gone (Brilliant!!!)

Oh yes mentioned to a couple of my mates about the gig in Solihull - hopefully we will be bowling down!!

That Marlena Shaw is Heavy man!! Fair do's - you know what works!!

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I hip to some of them tracks - in particular bobby womack! So many sides of you - good track.

One of my faves is Mellisa Morgan - Fools Paradise.

Oh yes and Phillipe Wynne - You Aint Going Anywhere But Gone (Brilliant!!!)

Oh yes mentioned to a couple of my mates about the gig in Solihull - hopefully we will be bowling down!!

Have a word with Gav, maybe we can pull out a few 80's things for the upstairs room at Solihull, sure Mark would do the same :unsure:

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lots of nice choons from this decade.......

John Brothers - 'Try To Walk A Mile' - RCA

Superier Elevation - 'It Was September' - Black Satin

Lenny Welch - 'Just What I Need' - Big Apple

Eramus Hall - 'Will You Love Me' - Capitol

Charles Johnson - 'Good, Good Lovin' - Dash

Leon Ware - 'Inside Your Love' - Fabulous Records Inc'

Starvue - 'Body Fusion' - MIR Chicago

Gene Van Burren - ' You've Got Me Where You Want Me' - Tamla

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That philippe wynne track is different from the version i got...dont know which i prefer, this one sounds slower and a bit smoother - still a bad track though.

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I'm learning loads today, bit depressing really - i dont know jack and to think i wanted to start DJing. This song is unreal! WHAT YEAR IS IT? Doesnt sound 80's at all?

1981, same year and label as the Controllers version of 'gamble on your love and lost', a great cover of Ray Goodman & Brown (the Moments) track.

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The trouble with a lot of eighties records is that people don't really like the drum machine beat on a lot of them. And how many of them are ruined by that awful rock guitar solo two third of the way throught them (though even taking that out, King Moses is crap IMO)

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i like a lot of 80ts Soul... but its not Rare or Northern.....i'll be dead when these tunes become rare...gimme brake........

Have to disagree, many 80's tunes are very rare. Inparticular 45's, by the 80's so much was put out on 12" as the main press and the 45's as a small second run. Also all the same principals still applied as in decades before. Artists making records, putting them out on small local labels, having no sucess and many of the copies being thrown away. Also by the 80's you could get a 45 pressed by a plant on much smaller run than in the 70's and 60's, so in some cases runs as small as 500 would be done and with no success, most being trashed.

As to weather you concider it Northern, thats a whole other story, which like a revolving door comes up on this site month after month. What is the definition of northern soul, different with nearly everyone you speak to.

Could list many early 80's 45's which are all most impossible to find, but it's late so maybe someone else will taker up that challenge.

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Was the 80's a bad decade for soul? Just wondering what peoples favourites were?

I'd like to get an 80's set together just wondering about anyway faves? I always liked the Ruffin and Kendricks stuff? Any recommendations?

Peace

The first couple of years of the 80's were great, as it seemed that real Soul was making a comeback after the worst excesses of disco, then everybody started using those damned drum machines and things went from bad to worse in my opinion....(with lots of exceptions I hasten to add!) Here's a few early 80's recordings that I rate highly;

Merry Clayton "Emotion" (MCA) 1980 - one of my all time faves.

Future Flight "Dues" (CAPITOL) - Lamont Dozier. Say no more!

Deborah Washington (first Capitol album was great)

Come to think of it, both Capitol and MCA were really cooking C.1980/81, with excellent new stuff coming out almost every week and artists signing to them like crazy!

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Like any decade, good and bad

For me some of the good

Chapter 8-How can I get next to you - Beverly Glen at it's best

Johnnie Taylor-What about my love - again, gorgeous

Tashan-Keep movin on - good choice

Frankie Knuckles-Tears - if only I'd had piano lessons from Mr Knuckles - genius

Bobby Womack-Tell me why/Trying to over you/So many sides of you What can I say?

Could go on and on, all in all not a bad decade

Dave

Dayton - Sound of the Music

High Fashion - Feeling Lucky lately

Switch - Keeping Secrets

Jenny Burton - Bad Habits

Tramaine - Fall Down

Barbara Lynn - I'm still the same (You're different now)

Arnie's Love - You're out of my life

Roberta Gilliam - All I want is my baby

Lonnie Hill - Galverston Bay

Carl Anderson - Buttercup

Ronnie McNeir - Everybody's in a hurry

Lanier & Co - I don't know

:thumbup: Jo

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Dave, wonder if you can remember an early '80s LP only track by Eddie Holman that was played fairly regularly at Stafford around 1983/84? I've asked about this before but no-one seems to be able to remember it. Seem to recall the album was gospel - we used to buy them down here at Gospel shop in Pekham (I think) and take them up to re-sell. I'm buggered if I can remember the name of the track or the album now though. Have a feeling it was you that used to play it too!

One no-one's mentioned, yet: Goldie Alexander - Go Back (even had a UK release)

Loads of others, but brain has scrambled again

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Controllers '"I Gambled On Your Love And Lost'" (Juana)

I mentioned this great record during the recent conversation on Miami recordings. About time it got some lovelight I reckon...

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i have to say ..rarity does not = quality....its in the eye of the beholder.........when i'm dead ......they will be monsters... :huh:

Didn't say rarity = quality. Just look at some of the crap blued 60's stuff people pay lots of money for, good records are often inexspensive.

Many of the early 80's tunes are alraedy monsters as you call them, does this mean you are already dead :thumbup:

Great soul music can be found in every decade from the 60's onwards, and rarity has little to do with it.

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Could list many early 80's 45's which are all most impossible to find, but it's late so maybe someone else will taker up that challenge.

Simon M is the man for taking up this challenge 80's wise, he's got disks that are far rarer than stuff considered 'rare' or 'northern' in the above post; and I think there one or two Japanese collectors who even Simon would admit would give him a run for his money!

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Butch played Freedom-High on you-Freedom Records

What a record! Love it, great vocals and and the synth at the end is great, but not 80's is it?

Oh my lady my lady.........going to have to put it on now.

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You don't care - wreckin crew - newman

another nice record, Dave do you know what the 1st label was? I have it on Newman but have also seen it Starville.

Edit: Quicker on the keyboard than me Sebastian!

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Seeing that Newman is on styrene and Star Ville is on vinyl I think I'll stick with my Star Ville copy in any case. :thumbup:

Is it? Sounds stupid but i've never quite understood this, and was never too sure what I was looking for, and always assumed it was vinyl.

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Dave, wonder if you can remember an early '80s LP only track by Eddie Holman that was played fairly regularly at Stafford around 1983/84? I've asked about this before but no-one seems to be able to remember it. Seem to recall the album was gospel - we used to buy them down here at Gospel shop in Pekham (I think) and take them up to re-sell. I'm buggered if I can remember the name of the track or the album now though. Have a feeling it was you that used to play it too!

One no-one's mentioned, yet: Goldie Alexander - Go Back (even had a UK release)

Loads of others, but brain has scrambled again

You could be getting this confused with the Don Thomas gospel track played at Stafford

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You could be getting this confused with the Don Thomas gospel track played at Stafford

Cheers Dave - that might be why no-one can remember it :rolleyes: - I hate getting old!

Got a sound file - would love to hear it again?

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Seeing that Newman is on styrene and Star Ville is on vinyl I think I'll stick with my Star Ville copy in any case. :rolleyes:

Star Ville has got a Chicago, IL address while Newman has got a New York address.

Star Ville is the first release, then got leased to Newman, which again was mainly a local release in the New York area

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Haven't got it to hand, but check the sound files on this site as I think someone put it up on another tread :rolleyes:

cheers I'll have a look

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