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Wakefield Sun - Trypt On Love (Man)..

well mixed up! maybe I'm confusing the neville brothers with the meters. good lord. dementia sets in. thanks godzilla!

Indeed, Parlo is a corking NOLA label. A lot the Meters stuff is on it too.

Bloody brilliant thread guys. Keep it going. The King Mojo's passing sounds as if it was just as traumatic as Wigan's was to a later generation. RESPECT to you all. Mac p.s. Krissi, I think, mentioned Plebians Halifax earlier on in the thread. There's some fantastic footage of the place on Youtube, with dancers grooving in a decidedly non NS fashion at a Root & Jenny Jackon show. Just search The Impressions 'Can't Satisfy'.

Cool then and now and bugger the naysayers. The video collage ain't bad either. ;-) https://youtu.be/_yHLzDwEfTY

Davis & Tyler. Cool, very cool Northern Soul back then. Great NOLA label too. Who cares if people turn their noses up? :-)

There ain't one there I don't like. Don't understand today's pooh-poohing of intsrumentals. They remind of the way we were.

barnaby bye - can't live this way. massive floorpacker everywhere around 1975-6. I readily admit to dancing to it. I looked for it on youtube recently and struth. must have been the gear talkin' again, and again, and again... ;-)

I'll wager a signed copy and a review in spanish and gallego that 'PYRAMID' is in the first 100.

Flynny is bang on. I think I might have first heard stuff like Garnett Mimms - It Was Easier To Hurt Her, at West Hampstead or 100 Club. A week later the same record at The Fleet Peterborough was quite underwhelming. Club Soul in smoky (not now), pokey places, dripping ceilings etc. Big Northern stompers a la Bob Relf, Velvet Satins in a big ballroom. It could be the way our minds have been conditioned, too. :-)

I don't think so. The Showstoppers intro and song structure is completely different to my ears...

I bought one off Mick Smith for 25 sovs (the normal one) in 1989 when I started my second collection which I've long since sold. :-(

Ahhh.. now I understand. Thanks very much for that. Blue Max, Pep and The Cats. What would the scene have been without 'em, eh?

Now then chaps. My first inkling that Northern Soul existed was sometime in 1973 when a geezer from Peterborough had Saxie Russell is our friend written on his school satchel. This guy went on to DJ at St.Ives very briefly around 1975 and his name was Bruno, of Italian extraction. Anyway, I posted the record on Facebook as a tribute to our elder Hose Street brethren, Max Rees, Dave Taylor, Dave Ferguson and Paul Donnelly. However, and much to my surprise, I was told it was never actually played there. Was this a post Torch, transitional record, played at somewhere like Sale Mecca, before going big at Wigan/Blackpool then?

It's a curse. Last saturday I had a 25 year Latin Soul-Jazz DJ come running behind the decks to photograph Leon Hayward 'It's Got To Be Mellow'. He was raving about it, hadn't heard it till then. I smiled to myself as years ago I'd have given the same record short shrift on the grounds of its commonness and midtemponess. To get hung up such considerations is shallow, very shallow. I like to think I've mellowed (forgive the pun) with age and now accept virtually anything with open ears... within reason...

Sorted now chaps. Many thanks for the input. M

In Spain, the ones I've been to, were small to medium size venues (S.O.U.L. Luanco, Euroyeye Gijón, Magic Soul Madrid, Movin' On Barcelona), usually 70s vintage discotheques with lots of mirrors and parquet floors. I've never been to Soul4Real Bilbao, but I've stayed in the hotel where they hold the event, and it's your typical pokey 70s discotheque type venue. I think Dani & Albert's Big Thing event in Valencia is along the same lines. I think there's much to be said for a hotel based venue for weekender events, though I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, especially those who like the drill halls and community centres we grew up with in the UK. Not sure which 'big European events' are being referred to here.

Yes, yes.. I know the musical pedigree is irreproachable, obviously. Just never been really keen on their vocals. You'll have to explain that party line thing to me, and In plain English, as you know I went troppo yonks ago, hahaha...

Can't wait for Gordon, Peggy, Tezzás response to this.

I agreee with you. The point I was trying to make was that stuff like Reflections, Dalton Boys etc rub me up the wrong way and that artists like Dean Parrish and Johnny Maestro don't 'cos to me they sound black. There are artists of course that are black that sound (to my ears) white, almost croonerish. Gene McDaniels for example.

Johnny Maestro 'I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture' as an ender is fabulous. Southside Johnny stole him blind.

As far away as possible. Seriously though, I like to distinguish between a record made by a white artist aimed at a black audience (Dean Parrish) with an evidently black vocal and stuff like Gary Lewis. I was listening to a thing by the Dalton Boys on one of those 'an intro to NS' cds the other day. It had the beat but the vocal was gross .I find the same with the Reflections stuff on ABC and Golden World. It just rubs me up the wrong way, but if folks like it, then fair play. Choices and rights etc...

Cheers. That's me sorted then.

FLORA WILSON AND THE SOULVATION ARMY BAND - DANCING ON A DAYDREAM. Would like to locate a clean copy of this please. See PeteS and NeilR had copies for sale earlier in the year. Muchas gracias amigos. M

You may very well have opened a can of worms, good sir...