Little-stevie

Just back home after the trip to London..Time for a good rest.. The night was what New Year should be...To spend time with freinds..Listen to the music you love and meet new folk with the same passion...Plus have a safe,warm and comfy venue..... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

The highlight for me was to realise that some folk aint what they seem... ...

Just having a quiet moment,sat in the study on my own,no sounds from anyplace..Will spend a few mins to pay the man my respect.. "Dont take your love away from me".. little stevie x

Seperate topic i think or just a few pms between us....I was at a Peterborugh in the 80s too ,could have been the same night as you,Eddie Holman and Junior Walker live,had a good section of the crowd in front of me making Hitler salutes while the acts were singing ,not just one or two folk,we are talking about many here..I did not really give toss back then,had seen plenty of them types at Scooter rallies and other places..They did not make any salutes at me,just to the stage,they must have thought,he's ok,he's black but he's one of us ..Mixed up foooooookers indeed.....Like i said its for another topic and some would be un-easy with this subject on here because they know or have known some of these pond life and still have them as freinds...Some of the pond life could be watching this topic too ...

Hi Brian Thats a subject all in itself....I have met many of the Far Right brigade over the years on the mod/scooter/soul scene..I have also asked the question on here in a topic and got little or no reply from folk..Quite a few on this forum will know people like your so called freinds and go to soul events with them,they like the music but hate black people,you aint gonna get many coming on here to admit that though..Most folk don't really look at the politics behind the music and what was going on in America in the 60s/70s...Like i said,thats another topic in itself and would get pretty heated if we started it..Many many folk on this scene are sitting pretty with a good income off the back of these soul tunes and have shall we say right wing leanings..I think its best to leave it there... For me it was looking into the politics of America,civil rights,King and many other issues that made my passion for the music that much stronger..I think the pain and sorrow that a lot of the artists suffered comes out through much of the music,and that is what we call soul...The racist is a person without Soul...Now that would be a topic to start..

Yes very sad news indeed..It seems that Simon was a well respected man with some good mates on the various forums.. R.I.P..

What tunes have you re-activated again..Always good to hear about them... I was at a soul night in Scotland last year heard Little Girl Lost..It sounded like the greatest soul sound ever because i aint heard it for a long time...I love songs and djs to do that for me..Thats whats kept me going on the scene.. Some think i am in the rare tunes only gang,no no no..Just wanna hear something fresh alongside great tunes that have been left alone for a while and not clubbed to death like a baby seal.. ..

Moody Woman..Loved the record when i was younger but it means nothing now..It was sold two years ago with many others..I thought i would never sell any of my tunes but some just fade away...Thats life... Frank Wilson....Do I Love You.. Indeed i did but now i don't....When i first danced to that record in 81/82 at Morecambe Pier it was my world..It will never get me onto the floor again though.. Fortune teller...Another tune i would jump through glass windows to dance to when i was younger but sold that along with many others,the words mean nothing at all..talking of being happy wed to the fortune teller and signing off with the words "and now i get my fortune told for free".. I was at Crossfire in London a couple of years back and this tune came on,its one of them moments when you hear an intro and think its another song..I burst onto the dance floor,after about 20 seconds it hit me..The Duck,another tune of my youth but now it sounded so dull,the longest 2 mins of my time on the dancefloor ever since i had to slow dance with a girl at a party to Careless Whispers ,fooooooooooooooking George Michael.. The other side of the coin is.. Jerry Williams..If you ask me..Not heard that tune for a long long time and thought i had left that tune behind in my search for deeper soul..Got to hear it on a big sound system last year and it was like the first time all over again.. Love slipped through my fingers... Another tune that will never ever die for me.. We could go on and on and on..

Nice one Mike..Lets see what we can do...I like to see folk pulling together and helping others..

Ok Rachel..I knew there was somehting like that someplace but folk did not really know...They can all find it via here now ...

The Dog started a topic in soul on the web on here..Not many people know where it is because i see very few views on any topics there..Here is the story below..You can go into forum and click on soul on the web on follow the topic..Dave Moore is setting something up to help.. The fire killed her husband and destroyed everything. But not Sugar Pie's spirit. Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Printable Version Email This Article Today was a good day for soul queen Sugar Pie DeSanto. She could laugh a little, even talk about the fire without crying. She may have wakened her manager with a panicked phone call around 5 that morning, but she was OK for now. [MP3: "Life Goes On," Sugar Pie DeSanto] She lit a cigarette and opened the window in the studio apartment the Catholic relief agency found for her in the Satellite Senior Center in downtown Oakland. The small, spotless room has only a few small pieces of inexpensive, brand-new furniture. She sits on a folded futon, where she sleeps at night, her sheets and blanket neatly stacked by the side. It's been six weeks since she lost everything in an apartment blaze that killed her husband, "the love of my life," the 71-year-old R&B star says. Jesse Earl Davis was married to the singer twice over the course of a 27-year relationship. "I think he saved my life and gave his own up," she says. "I think he really did. He shoved me down the whole hallway. I think he died trying to save my life." The petite spitfire of a woman, who is known to the Red Cross, St. Mary's Center and all the other relief organizations as Peylia Davis, has carefully listed in a notebook the names of people who have helped her in the past weeks. She awoke in the middle of the night on Oct. 26 to find her Oakland living room in flames. Her husband, she says, pushed her out the door to safety. Wearing nothing but her nightgown, she didn't even have her teeth and she cut her bare foot on the way out. "They hand me a metal box and his teeth," she says. "My husband's dentures and a box with some papers. That's what I got." Down at the busy intersection of MacArthur and Telegraph, her burned-out, third-story apartment glares angrily at the street below. The blackened apartment is a total loss. Jesse Earl Davis was said to have been burned beyond recognition. "He was my guy," she says softly, looking away, her eyes brimming with tears. Davis was a strapping 26-year-old the day his future wife, sitting on her porch, saw him walking down the street in a pair of orange continental slacks, "skin tight to the bone," she recalls. "We were together 27 years on and off," she says. "We did divorce for a few moments. Everybody has their problems. This takes the cake for me. I would never marry again. That's my last. I never will. I have to say he was the love of my life." She is living on assistance, taking antidepressant medication and sleeping pills at night -- "nights are the worst," she says. She hasn't cooked for herself since the fire and says one takeout meal usually lasts her two days. The tiny woman has dropped from 129 pounds to 112. "My nerves are bad, and I'm under great strain," she says. Some of her colleagues in the music scene have thrown fundraisers, although the Celebrity Ballroom in Daly City is not the scene of rock star benefit concerts. Some of the old-time East Bay R&B guys such as the Dynamic Four or Johnny Talbot and De Thangs got together for an evening that raised more spirits than money. DeSanto herself jumped onstage and belted out some music. "The spirit hit me," she says. Another old colleague, bluesman Jimmy McCracklin, turned his recent Biscuit & Blues performance into an event for DeSanto, and some local R&B singers such as Maria Muldaur dropped by to pay respects. There was a night at Kimball's Carnival. But only old-timers remember her now. Although she has done shows in Europe and elsewhere over the past several years, DeSanto has not been a national figure since she returned to live in the Bay Area in 1968. For the past 35 years, she only made records because of Jim Moore, a retired Kaiser carpenter, who has been putting out DeSanto's records on his Jasman Records label since 1970 and serves as her manager. Moore knows something about what she is going through. His home burned to the ground in the Oakland hills fire 15 years ago. She was the oldest girl in a family of 10 children who grew up in the Fillmore district. Her Filipino father worked making mattresses. Her African American mother was from Philadelphia. As a teen, one of her friends was a tough, plump delinquent who would change her name when she started her own recording career -- to Etta James. "This was one crazy family," wrote James in her 1995 autobiography. "I liked hanging out with them." Bandleader Johnny Otis, who discovered and renamed James, also brought young Umpeylia Balinton to Los Angeles to record and gave her the name Sugar Pie (DeSanto came later). Her national career started with the 1960 recording, "I Want to Know," done with her first husband, guitarist Pee Wee Kingsley. Recorded by Oakland R&B pioneer Bob Geddins, the track was sold to Chicago's Chess Records and DeSanto moved to Chicago, leaving Kingsley behind, where she made records on her own for many years, as well as writing songs for other Chess artists. She never made the big time. She had a midchart hit in 1964 with "Slip-In Mules," a sexy answer to "Hi-Heel Sneakers," and another 1964 record, "Soulful Dress," has been revived by Marcia Ball, among others. She is probably best known for a 1966 duet with James, "In the Basement." After the No. 2 R&B chart success of "I Want to Know," DeSanto toured for two choice years with the James Brown revue. Known for her athletic, acrobatic stage manners, she and Brown would often close their show by jumping off pianos together and landing in splits. Brown, not famous for acknowledging his colleagues, introduced her to a Circle Star Theater audience in the early '80s, bringing her onstage (although Brown admitted in his autobiography that she was the only one of his female vocalists he didn't sleep with). She also toured Europe in 1964 as the unlikely female vocalist with Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and others on the American Folk Blues tour. "I refused all them old goats," she said in a current interview in Living Blues magazine. She is a feisty dynamo known for turning flips and other, more raunchy, stage antics. She can be boastful ("I have had quite a life") and, a sentence or two later, turn shyly modest, almost girlish, talking about a social worker driving her to appointments "just like I was somebody truly special." The Red Cross put her in a motel and gave her food vouchers immediately after the fire. Her sister contacted the mayor's office in Oakland, which put them in touch with Catholic relief agencies to help find her housing. "I had offers, but I didn't want to stay with my family," she says. "I'm a grown woman and I wanted to cry on my own. I wanted my privacy." Some of the relief workers recognized her, even without her stage name. "They knew I was Sugar Pie after they saw me on TV," she says. "How can I hide? Hell, I've sung in Oakland for 50 years." Her booking agent gave her a new electric keyboard, which is carefully poised on one of her few chairs. Another friend knew how much she loved the mink coats she lost and gave her one of hers. She also lost her house cat in the fire. "They let you have pets here," she says, "but you have to ask." She doesn't have any plans. There are no gigs on her calendar. She really doesn't know what she is going to do. "I have no living right now," she says, "since all this happened. But I do plan to come back, if I live to do it, one of these days." She perches on the edge of her sofa, a straw-colored ponytail hanging out the back of a floppy knit cap. She is wearing around her neck a cell phone her brother gave her. She can laugh and talk dirty, but she is still a stunned victim, living in shock. The breeze blows through her hollowed core. Behind her glasses, dark thoughts cloud over her eyes, this spunky old dame who had the stuffing knocked out of her. It's been a long, hard life for DeSanto, but never any harder than it is now.

Sorry it was you Jo ..Sorry my brain don't work toooooo good now..Great moment all the same.

I will give that track another play..I was a regular at the side door back then..Good days indeed..

Good points there..I don't mind the spot a boot part too much,part of the fun sometimes..Its just all the buy now at £4.99 that get me..I like to think ebay is a auction site,some treat it just as a shop now to flog cheap pressings..I now know how to block the buy now stuff after info from above..Thanks for that..

Just seen one listed for 100 dollars on Gemm ..Is that a fair price???

Thanks Tommo That will really help...

Just going through an old pile of records and have got a James Brown album from 1975 called Hot..Don't really know owt about this album.. polydor....2391214... Its in near mint,could any of you give me a price for it...Is it pretty rare or ten a penny.. cheers steve

Yes mate Thats all i ask for...Seperate box/page/ for re-issue and original 45s..The dealers at soul nights have this system and it makes it so much better..

Just been onto ebay for the first time in a while..Its just full of shite now with re-issue crap all over the place.. Toooooooooooooo many buy now at 4.99 ....All over every page and that makes the site look cheap,just like the plastic ashtrays for sale at 4.99 ..I would like to see a seperate page on ebay for these records..Sorry if this topic as been done before.. Not against a mix of stuff on there but it seems to have been taken over by the Netto bargain bucket re-issue brigade..

On the case now..There could be a few copies knocking about still..Gonna get back to Shaz now.. Spike x

Cheers my old freind..I love to see all this footage...Got another clip here of one of the great soul ladies...Ady dropped this tune at the 100 club about 4am in the morning one night a few years back,the place fell silent,only 3 of us danced,on the dance floor in the middle on the morning with this tune...Thats where i wanna be..Clic on link below..Can you get moist in 2.44 .. Betty Lavette - Let me Down Easy 02:44

Wigan Casino, Soul Boys, Suedeheads & Skinheads 05:31 This was some of my experience growing up in the 70s too...Its all about soul..American or Jamaican and the British tribes that that took it all on..A way of life indeed..Soul is for life and not just for xmas.. ..Click on the video and have a look..

I moved to Manchstester in 88 and was the joint promoter of a club called Landslide,in a cellar bar off Oxford Road every Friday...One day this crazy looking guy walks in and straight onto the dancefloor,it was Maccers,he had just moved over from Belfast to get away from the troubles..Northern soul crazy and a great but strange lad too..I saw him last year on my street jogging i think,he still had the same gear on and that hair ...Would like to see him again,i think he lives in my area still..

I think thats the way to deal with things,like they say in the office a win win situation..Thats what this site is for,to let people share the great music..It only takes one night out a city center pub with piss heads,hen nights and dickheads to thank the lord we have found heaven ..