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In a new Pub enjoying a Pint nattering to her in doors when low and behold mixed into the piped background music came out the Valentines "Breakaway".

Mixed in between other MOR fodder Abba, George Benson etc i thought this was the programmer digging a bit too deep! Ok Jackie Wilson, Erma Franklin but Valentines? a wonderful tune in its own right, but certainly obscure!!

Set me thinking of other instances i could recall of Obscure Northern in places where you wouldnt least expect.

So here's two more to get you started.

Valentino's "Sweeter than the day before" in a "Shells" Brandenton, Florida. (OK a minor USA hit in the 60's but.....)

Terry Callier "Look at me Now" on a Cruise ship in Bahamas.

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I was in Thai Restaurant a couple of months ago

and heard Tyrone Barkley : Man of Value

Asked them who"s was the tape,CD etc, couldn"t understand a word I was saying, just grinned and nodded there heads !

:lol: Fook all new there then

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I was in Thai Restaurant a couple of months ago

and heard Tyrone Barkley : Man of Value

Asked them who"s was the tape,CD etc, couldn"t understand a word I was saying, just grinned and nodded there heads !

:) Fook all new there then

superb taste! (ptp) Obviously run by old Clifton Hall regulars, were they CHEWING and nodding :unsure:

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in about 1979 in the old romania, at a beach hut type bar on the juke box was "and get away" by the esquires

on a free cd from an indie music magazine mojo ? inbetween depressing guitar led things appears mary love you turned my bitter into sweet

when very pissed etc went to a bikers hells angel type party at a barn in duffield near derby about 25 years ago, after a while i noticed that the music being played had gone from rock stuff unknown to my ears to roscoe robinson, soul sisters, homer banks, i then went round all the people at the party asking who was into soul, cant remember though if i got a reply

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Sat in a backstreet pub in Scarborough about 2 years ago on a dull Sunday afternoon (you know the one -the Sunday when everybody looks like they're regrettin' the excesses of Saturday night!)

Anyway El Jukebox decides to lob out it's random play................................Whoa Williams & Watson Too Late!!!

Move them chairs quick - woke the place up a bit & the locals found a new dance style to practice!!!

Paul

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  • 16 years later...

After the support act played at libertines gig in Birmingham last night Bobby Kline “say something nice to me” played….

and a few other more well known soul tunes.

 

the libertines were also fantastic great gig all round.

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In the late 90s I was in Toys’R’Us in Romford and Linda Griner ‘Goodbye Cruel Love’ came on via the store tannoy!!!! There was a young girl up a ladder stocking the shelves singing away! I had to ask her and she said one of the store managers was a soul fan and made up tapes from them to play in store. I heard a Bobby Womack song later in too.  

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I think all the great music that lands on mass 'Northern' soul re issue LP's is very common place now. It's the lesser things that surprises me, I heard 'Rokk - Patience' the other week, and thought how the hell have they got hold of that?  and of course it's these SYNC license deals from labels like Numero et al.  

Always strikes me when you hear something really good in your local shop, you think, bloody heathens, these shoppers have no idea how lucky they are to get 'Rokk - Patience' on a trip to Sainsburys...

Should give em all 'Rat Race' get em moving and buying more! lol

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