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Seem to remember Rixey IDed the person singing - but was then told by a very upset Lada Edmund that it WAS her singing.

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Toussaint McCall singing Nothing takes... in Hairspray (the proper one).

Has anybody mentioned Ray Pollard being an extra in Ghostbuster.

Stevie Wonder singing Little Ole Man to Bill on the Cosby Show.

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On 28 August 2016 at 09:30, crazylegs said:

thanks peeps!!!! Sometimes I mishear lyrics too. Theres a track where I definitely hear "torch my pants". ?

Southside Movement 'Do It To Me' - 'this love for you will bust my pants'... Much source of hilarity over many years. 

The Ice Man, I'm a Big Man and Mr Bang Bang Man... Would've thought the 70s was a bit more direct with things like Menage et Trois, In the Bush, Weekend and Spank (Jimmie Bo Horne's best - : ) ).

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10 hours ago, LEN said:

I like that 'Susan Maughan - That Other Place' (I think I still have it actually)

This may be the wrong way round, but for years, and I mean years! I have been trying to find out who did a different version of 'Baby Dolls - Got To Get You Into My Life'. I don't actually like the 'Baby Dolls' one - I had a really storming Northern version (Oh yeh - 'Banger') of it on a tape I got mid 80's entitled 'Newies'

In actual fact, I have bought the one I didn't want twice! 

If anyone can help on this I will kiss you!

All the best,

Len 

NOT THIS ONE! 

 

Surely you mean the brilliant Chris Clark version?

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11 hours ago, Mick Sway said:

Come on chaps, give it a listen.....Thanks

Sounds like Margie Joseph to me - like it.

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I believe there are still NS nights at Abingdon Football Club (at least I saw one advertised earlier this year when I was down seeing my parents - indeed I used to run one there myself about 27 years ago with Paul Dunn) and also Steventon Golf Club.

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Following on from Derek's topic how about records labels with really strange basis for their names - we all know about Shrine and JFK - how about Denise Lasalle's local label for 'A Love Reputation'? Tarpon... A legendary 'big game' fishing target which is a kind of giant Herring (up to 200lbs).

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4 hours ago, the yank said:

A few more- Palmer (Palmer James), MAH'S (Mike A. Hanks) , Anna (Anna Gordy), Ashford (Jack Ashford), Mirwood and Mira (Randy Wood's daughter Mira), Harvey (Fuqua), DaCo (Don Davis, Robert and Hazel Coleman), Dee Gee (Dizzy Gillespie),  Chess (Leonard and Phil Chess), Omack (Ollie MacLaughlin), Carla, Karen, Moira (Ollie MacLaughlin's daughters) and Drew (Andrew Mike Terry).

 

You forgot Ranwood. 

Also LaBeat - Lou Beatty, Renfro - Mike Renfro, Rouser - Tommy Rouse, Silver - Lee Silver, (plus Gordy, HBR - and MGM !)

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Always loved 'This is my Prayer' picked it up for about 50p many years ago - don't know how, but I knew it from when I was  kid.

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It would be interesting to see how much more turntables have tended to get 'accidentally' set slower as we get old and creaky and less chemically pitched up : )

...Is this how interest in deep soul develops?

Must admit the cheapo turntable I have at home DOES seem to run significantly slow.

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Brilliant.

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Didn't Mr L get him onto Terry Wogan when it was remixed and reissued - he certainly appeared under another name on there?

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Weren't discotrons available as an option on some cars?

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The yellow ones were always considered boots when I was a pup - the labels certainly look like boots.

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Great

Way before my time - but yes there WAS a Blackpool club - also called the Twisted Wheel (as it happens my old boss used to go) - whilst soul-ish it was much more lightweight/mainstream than the Manchester club.

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PS Don't think they ever ran all night.

7 hours ago, Kegsy said:

But did they cross from Modern to Northern or Northern to Modern or did some swing both ways ??

It seems to me (and especially given the inital listing and mentions of things like Kiss My Love Goodbye that there's a confusion on wht acrossover IS - to me it isn't modern that crossed over to northern or vice-versa it is a genre of sounds that sit musically/cronologically BEFORE modern, but after the 60s stomp period of sounds - mainly stuff between say 68 and 73. Dx

Is that the same Richard Anthony that did No Good/Boston Monkey that was covered up as Mitch Ryder at Wigan?

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8 hours ago, RobbK said:

I listened to the entire Fluffy Falana song, and I didn't hear ANY ocean sound effects.  I thought it is strange to hear a man's voice, who is called "Fluffy Falana".  I thought I've heard that artist before, and she was a woman.  Am I remembering incorrectly?

 

I think it is also interesting that Bobby Martin operated out of New York, and George Kerr wrote a song for New York's Jobete Music office in late 1963, a song with a very similar title. (Come With Me to) "My Little CABIN by The Sea".  I've heard the Jobete Music acetate of it, and I believe it is George Kerr, himself, singing it.  The song is not the same song as Martins (actually bears no resemblance, other than the title and gist of the "story").

My Little Cottage (BY THE SEA) - maybe off topic a bit. 

Fluffy Falana - My Little Cottage  - or how about New York Port Authority.

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Though you'll probably disagree, I think that it was largely due to the reassertion of the mainstream record industry's control (or the guys that ran it - the 'whiteification' of Motown management following the move to LA being an good example) over the minors and RnB/race-based sub-labels that led to a large extent to the watering down of the 'proper stuff' towards lowest common denominator vinyl mush aimed at maximum general chart success - as it did in the disco era (with the changeover from gay and hardcore to mainstream and fucking Abba, Bonnie Tyler and the BeeGees) and as it has done in recent years through Syco, One Dimension and the like... All those 'controversial'/emotionally demanding soul recordings (by fabulously talented artists, writers and producers that only sold in limited numbers into the ghettos and to relatively tiny numbers of enlightened white fans) dumbed down into musical magnolia, with the result that the old hardcore fans lost faith, whilst the pop buying public had limited interest because the more mainstream releases STILL weren't bland enough.

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On 17 July 2012 at 17:49, Manfromsoul45s said:

Originals - "Young Train" Soul

This was apparently actually the music for an advert for a furniture store according to Ty Hunter jnr and Hank Dixon - along with Soupy Sales it would seem they were being lined up to become the Jobette Jingle department.

As an aside Ty told us his father's best friend was Jimmy Soul Clarke, sadly he apparently had a serious habit that eventually killed him.

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We couldn't give a toss about the Watts 103 etc for the most part it's his early career that WE are interested in - pity the book is all about NOT singing.