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I was thinking of playing British beat as well...Crawdaddy Simone by the Syndicates and You Said by The Primitives both having northern soul appeal.lol

To Stu...that's what I've been collecting over the last few years...those records that fell through the cracks from.the rapid turnover of new sounds...some cheap and some expensive.I've just opened a package containing Abstract Reality Love Burns Like A Fire inside...when did you last hear that out??

I have got Melvin Davis and Denise Laselle..I've also got Soul Bros inc but I wouldn't play Melvin or Soul Bros until the end.Yum Yums is on the uptempo side.The Zola Taylor acetate I have mentioned below is mid tempo so I wouldn't play it mid set.You can only have so many enders!!

If you're hearing freakbeat then it can't have been a northern do....probably one that advertises rnb Latin mod etc etc.Re the pre 65 sounds and ballads.Probably my worse nightmare.Had enough of this in the eighties and nineties.When I dj its uptempo all the way with a midtempo at the end.Most of the music is post 66 when the labels were throwing the kitchen sink in with brass sections..strings...melodies and great productions.Rnb Latin etc etc...are not on the radar but some seventies is.The stuff Pete talked about earlier.No wishy washy hi hat n cymbal nonsense.

Len you might have a long wait for Joe Bataan doing Bad Breath.It's actually Bobby Valentin.You would have loved Dave Huckers club in London late eighties full on latin soul bugaloo.He did some comps at the time when the Fania stuff was all being reissued.I got into Latin soul at the time and that led me to heavier stuff Cal Tjader..Willie Bobo..Machito....Tito Rodriguez etc.I do find it funny when the soul snobs say that's white music or pop.Most of this music is pop after listening to Coltrane or Pharoah Saunders.

I regularly do Soul City in Cologne.This is a young European Soul Club with a bit of everything.It has got nothing at all to do with the UK Northern Soul Scene.The music spans R and B,Crossover and the odd northern soul track.The organisers are from a funk background.There's a hardcore following mostly from a mod background plus loads just out for a good time.I enjoy it for what it is but saying this is the future of northern is ridiculous.

I don't see why people want me to listen to funk at northern soul gigs...why?? Certain records have their place the fast funky wah wah baby boy style records but not the ghetto funk or jerky jb style deep funk.I actually like it but don't believe it has a place at northern soul gigs.It's like me going to a heavy jazz dance session where they are playing batucadas and heavy afro cuban and asking for The Salvadores.When I get the f off I start saying they are blinkered and should open their minds.The northern soul scene was an escape from funk.

Anybody had stuff done at vinylcarvers and bought their labels for printing.I need a template that I can print to exact size...I'm sure someone on here must have done it in Photoshop.

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Here's a few UK Things ... Pm me if you fancy anything.I think the Clyde Mcphatter is UK Only. Clyde Mcphatter-Only A Fool.UK Deram 1968...sublime mid tempo from his brief UK recording career.Ex Cond 30 UK pounds. Woody Herman- The Sidewinder UK CBS 1967...a great jazzy version on a demo 35 UK pounds ex cond The Skatalites-Don't Knock It...b side I Know...b side is a version of Barbara George..UK Decca demo 68.Ex Cond.30 UK Pounds Bo St Runners...Baby Never Say Goodbye...Get Out Of My Way...UK Columbia 1965...an eighties mod classic Ex Cond 50 UK pounds.

I've talked about Punk Northern in the past....Fishbone.What is northern? I see flyers with popcorn..r and b..crossover...Latin and across the board.Now we have to add Ghetto Funk...Gospel...and Punk Northern.I love all of this music even the Punk northern but....I don't want to hear it all at a northern soul do.Take the Latin...I've hundreds of records on cotique fania..tico ...uptite and I'm very deep into the Latin big band sound so when I go to a northern soul do I want to hear northern not Jack costanzos stab at Latin pop bugaloo.Same with Reggae...I've a massive reggae collection.Do I want to be at a soul do listening to Del Davis when I could be hearing Billy Procter.

I'm saying the same old records...I have two editions of the top 500 and I have all the books along with about 300 old blues and soul mags..I have actually put several 1 and a half hour mixes of underplayed and forgotten northern soul..one has over 30,000 hits so there must be people out there who want to hear forgotten underplayed stuff.The Top 500 is now a generic term for overplayed oldies.I have several tape masters and exclusives so I'm definately interested in one upmanship and the exclusive sound.Not interested in gospel though...I can see it live down the end of my road in church.

How about northern soul?? Mid to late sixties uptempo music that is based on the Motown beat...is that too radical?? Hopefully the oldies scene will have got sick of the same records being played over and over again and start digging for all the great northern records with the uptempo beat that fell through the cracks.

From.John Vincent.....he bought this as a total unknown acetate in 83 from John Anderson.It was unlabelled so he called it The Just Brothers.At some point it was briefly swapped with Searlings copy of Larry Clinton.John sold it back to John Anderson in 84 which is where Butch presumably got it from.An original Morecambe spin for John Vincent.

I think Chalky named them all on the actual thread when I originally posted this tape.

And the Brothers in Jazz,Trevor was from a northern soul scene background.Irven was from a jazz funk background.They went on to the Urdang academy in London and were regulars at the Wag in the eighties.This is pure jazz though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGDWczYvUq8 Heres Trevor explaining it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttW-m68Jiq0

Heres some early eighties northern dancing.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=ruIn8y6FOMw&NR=1

Oscar Romp is in this film.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlUYYdmBRU8

This was a big spin on the mod scene in 86. 87.....

Saw some amazing dancers in the early eighties.What ever happened to all those fast shufflers that used to dance to It Takes Time.You never see that now.I went on to the Jazz scene late eighties and nineties.Upstairs at The Wag some amazing dancing.Brothers In Jazz ...one of their members was an old northern soulie...I think there were a few that did jazz along with Northern inc myself Oscar Romp and Paul Sadot...I'm sure I saw him a few times at Dingwalls and a lover of Capoeira so the batucadas suited him.All the young revivalist dancers have chosen the mid seventies backdrop...throwing shapes style.Right got to get my pegs,kung fu slippers and sort my wedge out.

Theres a yellow label black alligator styrene boot...

Got a UK copy on Mojo with a mispelling of his name....Winfred 20 quid ex cond.

Boot has a thin white moon like circle on the outer rim.Printing mistake on the labels..a great clue for us Arthur Negis types...

Here's part 3.........hope I'm not duplicating your stuff.This is Neil Clowes and Neil Allen https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-johansen/great-yarmouth-northern-soul-weekender-part-3/