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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 - : ) ). Dx

Surely you mean the brilliant Chris Clark version? Dx

Sounds like Margie Joseph to me - like it. Dx

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. Dx

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). Dx

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

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. Dx

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. Dx

Brilliant. Dx

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

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

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

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. Dx PS Don't think they ever ran all night.

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? Dx

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

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

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. Dx

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. Dx

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.

I used to have the Champion on EMI and the notorious Sweet Talking Guy inst from the Casino (part of my sod you collection that included most of the Soussan insts), remember Mr Buck (NOT to say I don't have massive respect for JB) used to play Are You Ready For This off EMI at the Unicorn - and much to everyone's amusement it jumped too! Dx

I think you're rather teaching your granny to suck eggs here. Like most I have the album AND the single - Don't Leave Me/Back Up Train etc have been played on the Northern scene since they were on local Hotline release in the US in the 60s and indeed were even reissued as a result on Action records. Dx PS Just remmbered I forgot Get Yourself Together - the best of the lot.