Guest cyrus Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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
Val (Chunky) Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) here's a nice one off the top of my head, a record I've just bought off a guy on this 'ere site..... Sons Of The Kingdom - 'Modernization' - K.O.G. Edited March 28, 2007 by Chunky
Val (Chunky) Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) oops Edited March 28, 2007 by Chunky
Val (Chunky) Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) double oops.....not sure what happened there Edited March 28, 2007 by Chunky
Mark R Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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 I played it at Prestatyn and it still sounds fookin' brilliant IMVHO!! Cheers, Mark R
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) 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 Edited March 28, 2007 by Dave Thorley
Guest cyrus Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) 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!! Edited March 28, 2007 by cyrus
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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
Val (Chunky) Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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
Tubbs Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Joe Mckeever Dance with me and Lee Mcdonald Let's play luck does it for me. Tubbs
Guest cyrus Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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.
Guest cyrus Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 How about Zingara - I surrender...? Excellent Vocals.
Simon T Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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.
Chalky Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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? it's fabulous, class record IMHO, you'll get a copy for around £30
Val (Chunky) Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 it's fabulous, class record IMHO, you'll get a copy for around £30 Got a M- copy if you are interested £25 & I'll include postage PM me if you're interested
Simon T Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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)
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 I thought this was only on the Bay Sounds LP, did come out on a 7" / 12" then? Hi No it's from the Hot Tracks re-mix series. This is a remix of the LP version, not easy to find
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i like a lot of 80ts Soul... but its not Rare or Northern.....i'll be dead when these tunes become rare...gimme brake........
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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.
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i have to say ..rarity does not = quality....its in the eye of the beholder.........when i'm dead ......they will be monsters...
Guest mel brat Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) 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! Edited March 28, 2007 by mel brat
Guest vinylvixen Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) 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 Jo Edited March 28, 2007 by vinylvixen
Guest uroffal Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) 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 Edited March 28, 2007 by uroffal
Guest mel brat Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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...
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i have to say ..rarity does not = quality....its in the eye of the beholder.........when i'm dead ......they will be monsters... 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 Great soul music can be found in every decade from the 60's onwards, and rarity has little to do with it.
Simon T Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 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!
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 what was the last 80ts track to be played at Togetherness ......no clues....
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 what was the last 80ts track to be played at Togetherness ......no clues.... Butch played Freedom-High on you-Freedom Records
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i told him that was crap and he played it anyway......next......i'm enjoying this....
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i told him that was crap and he played it anyway......next......i'm enjoying this.... Your view, but not that of the 200+ that danced to it
Dave Thorley Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 but your right.......... One of us needs to go to bed, love you lots
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 everyone dances to a Stars 45s.........as he knows.......
Platters 81 Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 your right this is ticking me off big time..........
Guest Adrian Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 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.
Guest Adrian Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) 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! Edited March 29, 2007 by Adrian
Sebastian Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) 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. Star Ville has got a Chicago, IL address while Newman has got a New York address. Edited March 29, 2007 by Sebastian
Dave Thorley Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) refosoul 2016 rsx6 Edited March 29, 2007 by Dave Thorley
Guest Adrian Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) 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. 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. Edited March 29, 2007 by Adrian
Dave Thorley Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 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
Guest uroffal Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 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 - I hate getting old! Got a sound file - would love to hear it again?
Dave Thorley Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 Cheers Dave - that might be why no-one can remember it - I hate getting old! Got a sound file - would love to hear it again? Haven't got it to hand, but check the sound files on this site as I think someone put it up on another tread
Dave Thorley Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 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. 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
Barry Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) the Donn Thomas gospel track played at Stafford 'How Can I Help But Love You'. Edited March 29, 2007 by Barry
Them Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 So different - kinky foxx - sound of new york Anyone knows there's a 45 press of Glen Jones version?
Val (Chunky) Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 I think this is a different group? I think they may be the same group Dave, according to this site they recorded on Starville & Sounds of Florida https://www.thesoulofamsterdam.com/wreckin-...discography.htm
Guest uroffal Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 Haven't got it to hand, but check the sound files on this site as I think someone put it up on another tread cheers I'll have a look
Barry Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 'How Can I Help But Love You'. Which has just reminded me of Leon Patillo's 'I'll Never Stop Loving You'.
Guest uroffal Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 'How Can I Help But Love You'. Thanks Barry - can you remember the name of the album?
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