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  1. yeah its getting tiresome
  2. do us a favour check out this guys other threads first before using words like passionate whining about price of records then trying to justify fact he's playing mp3s of a poxy laptop
  3. this has been done to death 5001 times use the search engine to see previous discussions thread closed
  4. what has pub nights got to do with this thread or come to think of it this site
  5. nah not yet though going by your posts, reckon a event review by yourself be interesting and enjoyable read, mike
  6. anyone going this weekend ? if so shout up and sure be appreciated if pass on a quick or lengthy report save you walk over to front page bit here's the flyer
  7. soul source always been about spreading the word just a shout that if got any info, news, views, reviews, thoughts or ought thats soul related then do the right thing ....throw it up
  8. perfect example of "feel good" northern ???
  9. ritchie andrew (on here) should have full score on johhny m, you out there ritchie??
  10. ta for letting us know any chance of plays, styles, background or ought ta mike
  11. ouch, never got back to this one, apoligies as you say possible causes are a bit of a mystery, hopefully wont show again ta for letting us know mike
  12. tested it with avant, fresh installation on xp and all here looks like it should try going to the menu and seeing what setting "view/text size" is set medium ?? mike
  13. it may do never had no dealings with avant browser but will have a dig ta mike
  14. mike if can throw up browser/os as well mate the login shouldnt change things as forum and front page shoul ddisplay different ?? ta mike
  15. craig can you shout up what browser and if pc/mac you using as can tailor it to suit ta mike
  16. The Kent label has had a long and happy relationship with Old Town Records and its subsidiary Barry. The first recordings we put out was the wildly named “Think Smart Soul Stirrers: Jerk It At The Party In Chinatown” Various Artists LP. A c... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
  17. The Kent label has had a long and happy relationship with Old Town Records and its subsidiary Barry. The first recordings we put out was the wildly named “Think Smart Soul Stirrers: Jerk It At The Party In Chinatown” Various Artists LP. A contender and probable winner for any “Let’s see how many track titles we can get into an album name” contest. That was in 1987 and featured all the labels’ Northern Soul classics like the Gypsies It’s A Woman’s World, Lorraine & The Delights Baby I Need You and the Fiestas Think Smart. It was also the period when the label was being reassessed by soul fans as a source of “newies”, ie 60s soul sounds that had never been played on the Northern scene before. Also the desired tempo of records had dropped and the big beat ballad was very much in vogue. So tracks like Freddie Houston’s If I Had Known and Donald Height’s You Can’t Trust Your Best Friend were more than acceptable to Northern devotees of the time. These sorts of records also made great listening for the general soul fan. In true Kent style we put in a ballad or two and even managed some Latin boogaloo to rile the purists. When LPs became a doomed species Old Town was one of the first labels to be transferred to CD, which due to lack of space on the cover was merely called “Old Town & Barry Soul Stirrers”. We went with this soul source because there had been more exciting discoveries on the label, the tapes were great and label owner Hy Weiss and Ace were by then old buddies. The extra music we could squeeze on included: the Sparkels enchanting Try Love One More Time, a Jobete song from the New York pens of Sidney Barnes and George Kerr, Frank Howard’s rousing dancer I’m So Glad, Rosco & Barbara (Mr & Mrs Gordon to you) Could This Be Love, a Rhythm and Soul classic and Peggy Scott’s magnificent, modern mover Things Have More Meaning Now. When Hy Weiss got out of the business in the 1990s and sold his masters to the Music Sales company, we had to delete our CD. But now we have re-established a good relationship with the new owners and it has been possible to look at the whole catalogue again. The good news is that we’re contracted to issue two CDs, this one mainly for dancers, and another for the ballad and southern soul style aficionados. Plus we’ve realised there is enough top quality material in the vault for a second volume of primarily dance tracks; so any of the previous comps that didn’t make the cut are likely to feature somewhere along the line. ...................... TRACK LISTING IF I HAD KNOWN - FREDDY HOUSTON • COULD THIS BE LOVE - ROSCO & BARBARA • SOUVENIRS OF A HEARTBREAK - THELMA JONES • LEFT OUT - JESSE JOHNSON • I GOTTA HAVE LOVE TOO - BOBBY LONG & THE DEALERS • NO ONE HOME TO COME HOME TO - CHARLIE THOMAS • YOU CAN’T TRUST YOUR BEST FRIEND - DONALD HEIGHT • ALL I WANNA DO IS CRY - BILLY BLAND • TRY LOVE (ONE MORE TIME) - SPARKELS • SAY IT WITH A FEELING - BEVERLY McKAY • LET YOUR LOVE SHINE - LESTER YOUNG • THINK SMART - FIESTAS • I’M SO GLAD - FRANK HOWARD & THE COMMANDERS • IT’S A WOMAN’S WORLD (YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT) – GYPSIES • BABY, I NEED YOU - LORRAINE & THE DELIGHTS • HOLD IT BABY - KING ERNEST • KEEP ON LOVING YOU - BUDDY & ELLA JOHNSON • BABY, I NEED YOU - JESSE GEE • . THE TIDE HAS TURNED - MARK IV’S feat SAM FAIN • LONELY MAN - JOHN STANDBERRY Jr • YOU TOOK MY LOVE FOR GRANTED - BILLY BLAND • SLOWLY I TURN - BILLY PROFIT • STOP AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK - THE DIVINE MEN • I MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT - IRENE REID • SECOND CHANCE - THELMA JONES • THINGS HAVE MORE MEANING NOW - PEGGY SCOTT nip over to http://www.acerecords.co.uk/gotrt/2005/apr05/CDKEND244.html for rest of info https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8139
  18. TRACK LISTING IF I HAD KNOWN - FREDDY HOUSTON - COULD THIS BE LOVE - ROSCO & BARBARA - SOUVENIRS OF A HEARTBREAK - THELMA JONES - LEFT OUT - JESSE JOHNSON - I GOTTA HAVE LOVE TOO - BOBBY LONG & THE DEALERS - NO ONE HOME TO COME HOME TO - CHARLIE THOMAS - YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR BEST FRIEND - DONALD HEIGHT - ALL I WANNA DO IS CRY - BILLY BLAND - TRY LOVE (ONE MORE TIME) - SPARKELS - SAY IT WITH A FEELING - BEVERLY McKAY - LET YOUR LOVE SHINE - LESTER YOUNG - THINK SMART - FIESTAS - I'M SO GLAD - FRANK HOWARD & THE COMMANDERS - IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD (YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT) - GYPSIES - BABY, I NEED YOU - LORRAINE & THE DELIGHTS - HOLD IT BABY - KING ERNEST - KEEP ON LOVING YOU - BUDDY & ELLA JOHNSON - BABY, I NEED YOU - JESSE GEE - . THE TIDE HAS TURNED - MARK IV'S feat SAM FAIN - LONELY MAN - JOHN STANDBERRY Jr - YOU TOOK MY LOVE FOR GRANTED - BILLY BLAND - SLOWLY I TURN - BILLY PROFIT - STOP AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK - THE DIVINE MEN - I MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT - IRENE REID - SECOND CHANCE - THELMA JONES - THINGS HAVE MORE MEANING NOW - PEGGY SCOTT nip over to https://www.acerecords.co.uk/gotrt/2005/apr05/CDKEND244.html for rest of info
  19. New Releases for APRIL 2005 from Ace Records JACK NITZSCHE STORY 1962 - 1978 / Hearing is Believing - ACE - CDCHD 1030 Arrangers are truly the unsung heroes of rock'n'roll. Stanley Applebaum, Riley C Hampton, III, Robert Mersey, Paul Riser, Perry Botkin, Jr, Nick De Caro, Garry Sherman, Harold Battiste, Alan Lorber, Herb Bernstein, Jimmie Haskell, Gene Page, Claus Ogerman, Charles Callelo, Bert Keyes, Belford C Hendricks - these consummate orchestrators (and many others like them) deserve anthologising. Peers, musos and aficionados laud them, yet they remain virtually anonymous to the public at large. One of the most illustrious of their number, the late Jack Nitzsche, is the subject of HEARING IS BELIEVING - one of this month's key releases from Ace, and an oeuvre-defining compendium that will hopefully open the door for other similar sets from his contemporaries in the future. more THE VENTURES / In The Vaults - ACE - CDCHD 1031 Now I just bet that all you Right Track readers love to show off at 60s music quizzes. So here's a question for you: name the 60s sixth biggest seller in the US Top 100 album charts? The Beach Boys? The Rolling Stones perhaps? How about the Monkees? The Dave Clarke Five maybe? No. Beating all of those mega-grossing acts were the VENTURES. Yup, the instrumental quartet who began their chart life in 1960 with Walk Don't Run out-sold all of those during music's most exciting decade. In fact they were the first rock band to realise the potential of LP sales with no less that 33 entries in the US album charts - 37 if you extend the time frame up to 1972. more HADDA BROOKS / That's Where I Came In - ACE - CDCHD 1046 I cottoned on to Hadda Brooks fairly early - or so I thought. In 1950 I purchased I Hadn't Anyone But You, on London Records, her first UK release. Sometime later I witnessed her performing that selfsame Ray Noble song in the Bogart film In A Lonely Place. Then, one night at the Wembley Pool, during a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game, somebody wheeled a piano out into the middle of the auditorium. A loudspeaker blurted that, during the interval, we'd be entertained by Miss Hadda Brooks! And for fifteen glorious minutes Hadda sang and played superbly, in intimate style, while the audience generally indulged in grabbing crisps and ice-creams or merely heading for the nearest loo, totally ignoring Hadda doing it Steinway and leaving me mentally screaming. more THE CHECKERS / "Checkmate" The Complete King Recordings 1952-55 - ACE - CDCHD 1047 The Drifters are usually considered to be Rhythm & Blues' first supergroup, in terms of the names that passed through their ranks in their 50+ year history. A strong case for that accolade can also be made for Billy Ward's Dominoes, whose membership included not only future Drifter, Clyde McPhatter, but also Jackie Wilson and the great Eugene Mumford, formerly of the Larks. Somewhere in between those two lie the Checkers, one of King Records' greatest-ever groups, with a personnel that included both former members of the Dominoes and future members of the Drifters and Clovers. more THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY / Spreading From The Ashes - BIG BEAT - CDWIKD 245 Wafting in on a warm Californian breeze comes this magical collection of rare tracks, previously unheard demos and out-takes from one of Los Angeles' prime exponents of psychedelic folk rock, the PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY. Spanning their career 1965-67, from pre Peanut Butter outfit the Ashes through to their Columbia Records era, this collection is an Aladdin's cave of priceless musical gems from one of the most prolific song writing teams of the time, John Merrill and Alan Brackett. Add the intoxicatingly beautiful vocals of Barbara "Sandi" Robison to the mix, and you have a perfect blend that produced some of the most outstanding music to emerge from the mid-60s Sunset Strip scene. more THE RADIATORS / TV Tube Heart - BIG BEAT - CDWIKM 251 How to paint from memory the oddly fertile desert that was Dublin in the mid-1970s? The palette would require sepias for the old town still tantalisingly glimpsed alongside the risible chrome-blue monuments to commerce and international diplomacy; a thick brown for the malodorous Liffey; perhaps, on a good day, a generous leafy wash for the eternal sanctuary of St Stephen's Green; ecclesiastic purple for the bitter swill consumed in the modish cellar wine bars. A variety of umber and ochre tones for the G-plan decor of the aspirant - if still comparatively poor - middle class; and a flickering snowy-grey for the new medium of the (nominally black and white) telly in the corner. more THE RADIATORS / Ghostown - BIG BEAT - CDWIKM 252 "No Irish band has ever attempted anything as ambitious as Ghostown, and no one ever will. Why should it? It has been done and, like Pet Sounds, it's a monument forever." - George Byrne, Sunday Times, 1998. Strumpet City in the sunset / Suckling the bastard brats of Scot, of Englishry, of Huguenot / Brave sons breaking from the womb, wild sons fleeing from their Mother. - The Old Lady Says No! by Denis Johnston, 1928. The actor playing Robert Emmet takes a blow to the head and imagines himself wandering in 20th Century Dublin. more SOUTHERN SOUL SHOWCASE: Cryin' In The Streets - KENT - CDKEND 243 This is the first in-depth look on CD of the high quality output of the SSS International Group run by Shelby Singleton out of Nashville, Tennessee. Shelby had his greatest commercial success with Jeannie C Riley's Harper Valley PTA so it comes as no surprise that his musical tastes veered towards the country side of soul, which, as any self respecting soul fan will know, is the essence of Southern soul. Revered soul artists like Bettye LaVette, Johnny Adams and Sam Dees were taken into the great studios of Muscle Shoals, Memphis and Nashville in the late 1960s/early 1970s and came up with many classic Southern and deep soul tracks. more OLD TOWN AND BARRY SOUL SURVEY - KENT - CDKEND 244 The Kent label has had a long and happy relationship with Old Town Records and its subsidiary Barry. The first recordings we put out was the wildly named "Think Smart Soul Stirrers: Jerk It At The Party In Chinatown" Various Artists LP. A contender and probable winner for any "Let's see how many track titles we can get into an album name" contest. That was in 1987 and featured all the labels' Northern Soul classics like the Gypsies It's A Woman's World, Lorraine & The Delights Baby I Need You and the Fiestas Think Smart. more JOAN BAEZ / Any Day Now - VANGUARD - VMD 79741 For someone who wasn't sure about having a second guitar on her early folk recordings - because it might be considered too "commercial" - Joan Baez had certainly revised that philosophy by the late 1960s. In March 1968, Baez had married anti Vietnam War draft resistance leader David Harris. Harris's country music tastes reignited Baez own admiration for the genre and in December of that year she released ANY DAY NOW, a double album of Bob Dylan songs, replete with country music backings delivered with impeccable taste by the cream of Nashville session men, including Harold Bradley, Kenneth Buttrey, Fred Carter, Norbert Putnam, Jerry Reed, Hargus 'Pig' Robbins, plus rock contemporaries like David Briggs and Stephen Stills. more JOAN BAEZ / David's Album - VANGUARD - VMD 79746 DAVID'S ALBUM came out in 1969 and was a heartfelt response to David Harris's imprisonment on draft resistance charges. Baez appeared at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York, heavily pregnant with their child. The resulting movie captures her talking with both pride and apprehension about her husband being carried away to jail, shackled between two threatening guards. "David's Album" contains one of her finest performances ever in Poor Wayfaring Stranger (with vocal harmonies by Mimi Fari±a), a stirring Will The Circle Be Unbroken (with Elvis Presley's old backing singers the Jordanaires) and a strong country rendition of Green, Green Grass Of Home. The presence of many of the country session greats who graced "Any Day Now" helps establish a relaxed, assured mood. moretion ________________________________________________________________________________ _ THE R&B INDIES - Second Edition Whether your favourite musical areas are blues, R&B, doo wop or jazz; whether you are an interested collector or a researcher and compiler of CDs; we all need to consult discographies from time to time to see just which records were released and when. Normally, these are organized by artist and whilst being a perfectly good tool to see the output of the artist, it's not very good for getting a view of records that shared similar sounds through a commonality of producers, arrangers, writers and record company owners. For that you need to be able to view a the output of a particular record label or group of labels. moretion ________________________________________________________________________________ _ Produced by Ace Records Ltd eTrack is a monthly newsletter which you have asked to subscribe to by entering your email address at www.acerecords.co.uk
  20. A lookback at the live artists performance at Prestatyn 2005 by John Smith has just been published on the Midnight Hour soul weekenders site. ..... Although she looked more like a cat-walk model than singer, the stunning Adrianna certainly possesses a top quality jazz tinged voice. She demonstrated this to full effect as she laid into cuts such as "Heaven", "Reality" and "Looking For Your Love". All too soon, following a wonderful rendition of "God Bless The Child", she excited the stage and........ full review can be read here https://www.soul-weekenders.co.uk/prestatyn...ticle.php?id=34
  21. HITSVILLE UK: Motown in Britain The ultimate photographic history of TAMLA MOTOWN is essential viewing this spring! Redferns Music Picture Gallery is pleased to announce a one-off MOTOWN exhibition In anoclation with Motown UK! April 6th - June 4th 2005 Private View 5th April 2005 Passed on by member Jo Wallace (vinylvixen)
  22. yep, german columbia one aware that its actually the jackie lee of rupert the bear and sebastian white horses thing fame under a one off name? there's a website devoted to her somewhere, they weren't aware it had a continental release till asked em about it
  23. As part of the IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS festival Sat 9 Apr 2005 Muscle Shoals Rhythm section: David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Bryan Owings, Spooner Oldham, Clayton Ivey, Larry Byrum Guests: Bonnie Bramlett, Donnie Fritts, George Soule, Larry Jon Wilson, Tony Joe White Special Guest: Mavis Staples A hinterland compared even to Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is home to its own cultural collision between black and white. The members of this sinuous rhythm section made stars of Percy Sledge and Aretha Franklin, made hits for Willie Nelson and Cher, and were more recently "rediscovered" in the superb Country Got Soul releases. This evening, they perform the Country Soul tracks with Bramlett, Fritts, Soule and White, plus there's a very rare reunion with Mavis Staples, whom they backed on I'll Take You There and Respect Yourself. Plus FREE live music in the foyer from James Hunter, and Seasick Steve - FREE ClubStage after the gig with the Country Soul DJs, and the Larry Love Showband. Also Charlie Gillett broadcasts live from the Barbican on BBC London 94.9fm FREE Clubstage after the gig with Country Soul DJs For 3 weeks in April, the most comprehensive festival dedicated to the music of Memphis ever staged takes place at the Barbican, supported by MOJO. Artists include Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm, North Mississippi All Stars, Mud Boy & the Neutrons, Mavis Staples, Bobby Rush plus many more. The festival also includes free live music throughout, a short season of films and talks with the artists. see other news post for more info on this festival
  24. gash out of interest whats pic cover like is it plain one with crappy airline type stickers ??


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