Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 What underplayed (or overplayed) oldie can envisage overtaking the status of 'Pure Soul Ballad' as such is Tony Middleton's immortal 'Paris Blues'? Is this the best record you've ever heard or what. Both the vocals and backing are monumental!! Nothing can touch this.TONY_MIDDLETON___PARIS_BLUES.MP3
Barry Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Drenched in atmosphere, and possibly one of the first tracks I owned as a lad. It is an unbelievable cut.
Mark Bicknell Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 My Mala Demo ain't going nowhere, timeless division one record....love it. Regards - Mark Bicknell.
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Drenched in atmosphere, and possibly one of the first tracks I owned as a lad. It is an unbelievable cut. Totally agree with you. I only managed to get my original coply (on an issue) back in the last few years. I paid £300 for the privellage, but to own this classicly underated tune once again . . . MAGIC !!! Happy or what??
Guest Roccia Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 My Mala Demo ain't going nowhere, timeless division one record....love it. Regards - Mark Bicknell. The same for my Mala issue, Mark...
Chalky Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 As good as it may be I bet this is played at most oldies venues week in week out. Can think of many records I'd sooner hear now instead of this and can think of plenty that can touch this and surpass it.
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 (edited) The same for my Mala issue, Mark... I always thought, now I know Italians (and Mark Bicknell) had got class!!! Martin Edited October 24, 2007 by martinsbox
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 As good as it may be I bet this is played at most oldies venues week in week out. Can think of many records I'd sooner hear now instead of this and can think of plenty that can touch this and surpass it. Name at least three (and that would last only the max. 9 mins at a soul do)!!
Soulsmith Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 The record sucked 25 years ago & it still sucks today. The only good thing about it is its consistency.
Chalky Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Name at least three (and that would last only the max. 9 mins at a soul do)!! Tommy Ridgely - My Love Gets Stronger Invitations - Whats Wrong With Me Baby John And The Wierdest both sides Thats four and all p*ss all over Paris Blues (IMHO of course)
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 The record sucked 25 years ago & it still sucks today. The only good thing about it is its consistency. So it sounds nothing like punk rock!! I'm glad I like SOUL music!!!!!!! I'm so glad you didn't like the record in 1982, it sounded SO much better in 1977!!
Chalky Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Name at least three (and that would last only the max. 9 mins at a soul do)!! I'll amend my choices as I've just re-read and seen the pure soul balklad.....not just the oldies bit
Simsy Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Don't likers must be in a minority maybe due to the arrangement (in places?). Super soulful vocal imo and that's what makes it an all time winner. Big for the mods?
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 I'll amend my choices as I've just re-read and seen the pure soul balklad.....not just the oldies bit No worries mate!! The Invitations classic track 'What's wrong with me baby' is still brilliant. I'm sure there are still 45's from The Wheel to be re-discovered, even if for a second or third time!!!! Martin
Guest martinsbox Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Don't likers must be in a minority maybe due to the arrangement (in places?). Super soulful vocal imo and that's what makes it an all time winner. Big for the mods? Just listen to that backing track. Even without the vocals . . . a $1000 per second backing!!! Totally moody, totally seventies (60's) Northern Soul at a peak.
Benji Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 My Mala Demo ain't going nowhere, timeless division one record....love it. Regards - Mark Bicknell. arranged, produced and partially written by a german, what else do you need? benji (krautsville resident)
macca Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 paris blues restored my faith back in 1977, along with sam williams. this is all about taste, & as they say in spain, for tastes there are colours...
Chalky Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 paris blues restored my faith back in 1977, along with sam williams. this is all about taste, & as they say in spain, for tastes there are colours... Don 't think the quality is disputed, except by Col Just disputing the comment that there's nothing better...Sam Williams is far better record IMHO.
Pete S Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 To The Ends Of The Earth is better than Paris Blues, and I love both of them
Sanquine Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 What underplayed (or overplayed) oldie can envisage overtaking the status of 'Pure Soul Ballad' as such is Tony Middleton's immortal 'Paris Blues'? Is this the best record you've ever heard or what. Both the vocals and backing are monumental!! Nothing can touch this. Nope.. tho not Soul Ballard ... Milton Jame's - (Indie music) n all time classic .. Gwen Owen's - (contain's everything) Karen Name at least three (and that would last only the max. 9 mins at a soul do)!! Mine would be - Al William's - I am nothing Al William's - Try them Masqueraders - How Karen Don 't think the quality is disputed, except by Col Just disputing the comment that there's nothing better...Sam Williams is far better record IMHO. I also like "The Ohio Player's" version - tho Sam William's the best version of the two... Karen To The Ends Of The Earth is better than Paris Blues, and I love both of them Agree Love them both too... remind's me of after niter session's in the Museum garden's when I was a wee girl... Karen
Billy Freemantle Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 As a beat ballad it's very good. It's one of those records, too, that is simply good in any 'file under' category. If it does have a weakness it would be in the lyrics which don't really go anywhere. I prefer it it 'To The Ends of The Earth' but think that this is lyrically stronger. As others have said , as good as it is, as a Soul ballad it's not really in the same league as 'Love slipped Through My Fingers'. which is superb in every respect and like a lot of works of serious music, as opposed to pop music, takes a lot of listening to fully appreciate.
Pete S Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 'Love slipped Through My Fingers'. which is superb in every respect Except for the out of tune girl backing singer(s) which ruin a perfect 10 and make it a 9.5
Guest rasfoz Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 To The Ends Of The Earth is better than Paris Blues, and I love both of them I will go along with the above
Ian Dewhirst Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Dynamite record! Played this on a Paris radio show a couple of years and blew everyone's mind as they hadn't ever heard it before. I remember the exact time Levine played this upon his return from the U.S. Surely this would have been huge at the Wheel if it had been discovered then wouldn't it? Ian D
Ian Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Got a nice Canadian Polydor copy for sale if anyone interested PM me Ian
Richard Bayley Posted October 25, 2007 Posted October 25, 2007 I want to put a vote in for "Spanish Maiden" by Tony Middleton as being better than both (and I love all three!) Can't argue with Sam Williams, though - and I like the backing vocals..... ethereal, but slightly desperate
BrianB Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 The comments about the Wheel are bang on. Some of the sounds from there are just right for re-activation. Never went, but my older mates at the time did. I could bloody kick myself!
Guest Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 Absolutely fantastique! merci for posting up - lovely to play first thing in the office
sister dawn Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 What underplayed (or overplayed) oldie can envisage overtaking the status of 'Pure Soul Ballad' as such is Tony Middleton's immortal 'Paris Blues'? Is this the best record you've ever heard or what. Both the vocals and backing are monumental!! Nothing can touch this. absolutely top drawer track, so atmospherical taking mine to the grave with me.
Paul-s Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 As good as it may be I bet this is played at most oldies venues week in week out. Can think of many records I'd sooner hear now instead of this and can think of plenty that can touch this and surpass it. WELL PUT CHALKY, I TOTALLY AGREE! When I was 15, this tune seemed very soulful. But, obviously, as ive gotten older, my life experience, exposure to new and brilliantly 'soulful' tunes, has increased and i really dont need to hear this tune again. Id like to remember it as it was then, but if you drag it out now it pales next to many, many, records that are being played today! For me anyway. An example would be Johnny McCall - I Need You.
Corbett80 Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 (edited) The Ohio Players version of 'Love Slipped....' is completely superior to the Sam Williams imho....the vocals are truly outstanding.... Other amazing Tony Middleton cuts are 'Return To Spanish Harlem' on Speed which pips 'Spanish Maiden' for me (and the flip is also great) which was big on mod dancefloors a while back and pretty tough....also 'Drifting' (on UA I think?) which whilst not a dancer has some hair-raisingly good vocals from Tone. Edited October 26, 2007 by mulf
Corbett80 Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 ps. Paul - Johnny McCall...what a record! Stunning...whats this fetching nowadays?
Paul-s Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 ps. Paul - Johnny McCall...what a record! Stunning...whats this fetching nowadays? VERY VERY TOUGH TO FIND, had mine a while now. think about £100/£150, but I think its actually harder to find than people think.....'soul' incarnate really, the guys almost crying while singing....top notch.
Mal C Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 VERY VERY TOUGH TO FIND, had mine a while now. think about £100/£150, but I think its actually harder to find than people think.....'soul' incarnate really, the guys almost crying while singing....top notch. Agree, this is the BIZ!!! always been a tough one, as they say. M
Guest FrostyJak Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 TOP SOUND this coupled with "Wilbur Wolton Jnr 24 Hours of loneliness" BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF GREAT TIMES AT THE NOTTS PALLI ALLDAYERS 78/79/80s Not heard much "out" since just a couple of times.
Kevinkent Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 Nope.. tho not Soul Ballard ... Milton Jame's - (Indie music) n all time classic .. Gwen Owen's - (contain's everything) Karen Mine would be - Al William's - I am nothing Al William's - Try them Masqueraders - How Karen I also like "The Ohio Player's" version - tho Sam William's the best version of the two... Karen Agree Love them both too... remind's me of after niter session's in the Museum garden's when I was a wee girl... Karen Al Williams -I am nothing. Definately my all time number one sound. Great atmospheric dancer, but I personally wouldn't class it as a "Pure Soul Ballad" Paris Blues is good enough for me on that count Other contenders though IMO are: Chuck Jackson - Look Over Your Shoulder Tony Michaels - I Love The Life I Live Loads of others I'm sure.
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