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You know the chart tracks that are sooooo soulful and each time they played some one always danced "Northern"?

Swing Out Sister - Breakout

Big Sound Authority - This House is Where Your Love Stands

George Benson - Love X Love

ABC - When Smokey Sings

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Hot House Flowers - I'm Sorry

Fairground Attraction - Perfect.

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A lot of the early eighties acts mentioned above never made any secret of their huge love for soul, and the influence it had on them.

They were often wrongly dismissed en masse as superficial, plastic, or similar. Some of my favourite music comes from that era.

I think ABC in particular would describe themselves as a Motown band made up of 4 working-class lads from Sheffield - what a wonderful, soulful record "Lexicon of Love" is.

My favourite of the lot though was Dexys.

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This may sound bizarre but have a listen to Who Do You Think You Are by Candelwick Green and it's a great Northern track, if it hadn't charted it could have been covered up. I listened to it by accident recently and was very surprised. And then I see it on John Manships website :thumbsup:

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Candi Staton - You Got The Love (always dance northern to this at weddings)

CeCe Peniston - Finally (i really throw myself around to this one)

But the best non-northern 'northern', which deserves plays in my opinion and i don't mean mixed up with another backing track as i have heard out recently :thumbsup:

Basement Jaxx - Good Luck

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You know the weren't

But you wished they were

You know the chart tracks that are sooooo soulful and each time they played some one always danced "Northern"?

Swing Out Sister - Breakout

Big Sound Authority - This House is Where Your Love Stands

George Benson - Love X Love

ABC - When Smokey Sings

Joe Boxers - Just Got Lucky. A great record to dance to :thumbsup:

Taf

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How about...

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Sounds like an updating of one of those plaintive 'stigma' soul tracks.

Another Bronski Beat one, 'It Aint Necessarily So'

I've got it on a 7". Hmm i wonder... :thumbsup:

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Might have drunkenly stomped to this at weddings.

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Guest Matt Male

The Pasadenas - Tribute (got a feeling this was actually played out when released) :wicked:

What ever happened to them... :thumbsup: (yeah i know)

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A couple of them were Yate boys.

Good friend of mine I've mentioned a few times on SS - Tony Gordon from this band, also put a couple of his pics up. He was a Mecca, Wigan & Yate regular. He's still collecting records and attends the local soul nights in my home town (Poole/Bournemouth).

fabulous dancer - he dances like he means it :thumbsup:

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Guest peter burke

A couple of them were Yate boys.

Hi, Karen here, through a fuzzy memory of Yate, I remember Neeta from Stroud, regailing tales of spending an odd hour or two in a squat [in London I think] with the 'Blue Boys' there were loads of them! at the time of them cutting the demo, all seemed SOOO glamourous at the time, ahhh memories.

Karen xxxxxxx

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Maisonettes - Heartache avenue

Haircut 100 - Favourite shirts (for shuffling to)

Edwyn Collins - A girl like you

One of which was played at Wigan :thumbsup:

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'Blue Boys'

loved Blue Rondo (and still do ) Carioca is GENIUS !!!

pretty sure Mark Reilly (the one sitting down) went on to form Matt Bianco and have no idea what happened to Chris Sullivan

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loved Blue Rondo (and still do ) Carioca is GENIUS !!!

pretty sure Mark Reilly (the one sitting down) went on to form Matt Bianco and have no idea what happened to Chris Sullivan

Tony from Blue Ronda has a new project up and running if you are interested

https://www.fieldeffect.co.uk/

also doing a lot of session work - heres Tony playing Sax on a 'trippy' litle thing with Gangaloya Gangaloya

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