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I'm with Dazdakin..I remember whole sets of midtempo in the 90s.At around 3 or 4 oclock its just not on..people putting both hands on their heart whilst barely moving.You were happy as a baby child......ddddddd d kept on dancin..I just kept on dancin....don't you need someone..do do do do do do...hey lonely eyes....you're just.plain nice...hey girl your just plain.nice.All should have stayed tapeswappers stuff.I was glad when the born agains came back and the stompers came back....but you've got to he so be careful what you wish for as they won't move past 1981...the odd one but whole sets of it.!!

Am I the only one who cues up a record and then decides to take it off and replace it with another at the back of the box halfway through.....but takes an age in finding it only to look round and find theres only four revolutions left on the record playing....cue sticking it on and a hail Mary before the arm hits the edge of the beginning of the styrene like a Led Zeppelin divebombing.Ive now taken up the Ginger Taylor technique of cueing.....sod headphones.Aim it above the first turn....mike on for waffle then arm down and we are off.

Going through some old sixties music mags and it struck me what a stir this record made...Guy Stevens reckons it sold 70,000 copies after the the pink Island release.

It is funny that in the eighties and nineties people didn't wear the revivalist clothes.There's all sorts now...the baggy men and circle skirt women...the rocknroll Hawaiian shirt keb darge look...the Alan Patridge style...the mod look...but nobody in pegs and karate slippers.These youngsters need to get ahead and get that eighties look.Love Stoke and I am one of the complainers about hearing the same old sounds....if o get bored I just go into that other room.It's the same on the scooter scene...blokes with new parkas with brand new 79 patches....bouncy castles,tribute bands,barbecues and bootlegs.There was a time on runs you could hear passionate deejays playing the current biggies.I will leave the last word to Randy Cozens from.June 1978.

Was booted on a pink soul fox label I think...ive got the original Lp by The Folkswingers only because it has some sixties pop classics in a sitar style....Amanda Shankas Jumping Jack Flash was an underground club track in the 90 s easy listening boom....right soul tracks with sitar...sitarthern its the future...

I've the Mean Green version....wasn't it booted as well.Was the record that big in the seventies to warrant the boot or was it a case of pressing before the demand.

My daughter loves em thank god although she did telle she was going to skip them.She finds it fascinating you can get sound of plastic and a needle.

I hear Marc Forest play it at Solid Hit Soul and liked it that much I asked him what it was..that was a while ago now so it must be an oldie.. now its been pressed it should be dropped from.the playlists.If these DJs that had it covered it up they might have got a bit of life out of it.

Progressive is heavy early seventies music....Atzachel,Dark,Gygafo,Mellow Candle,Gracious,Bent Wind,Arcadium....nothing to do with soil ask D The Drug...

Another great nightclub scene (Stu Gardener) ....................although I think I prefer pidgeon toed orange peel.Wasn't You can Count On Me played by Searling?

Suprised to see the Sammy Davis...from.the UK film Salt and pepper with George Peppard....groovy go go.music.Also another UK thing The Deltones Gimme Some Lovin on UK Columbia..version of the Spencer Davis group.Sean is a genuine enthusiastic deejay and probably doesn't go anywhere as a punter as he is booked every weekend.I would say a lot of this stuff is mod slanted.

This was pressed in the mid 90 s and I'm sure it was remixed as well to make it longer...I'm.sure the lot at Happiness Stans club were involved as it was a big tune there.

D get it published...!! I thought you should have been an advisor on the new northern soul film although Ben hur got made quicker than this one.

The James Bounty is not that hard to spot..the lettering on the boot has a washed out faded appearance and the lettering on the orig is sharp and no washed out lettering.

Definately a new pressing...very professionally done ten inch with typed labels etc and a good recording.Flogged it on e bay as I would never play it out.Will try and find it in my sold items.

I had a ten inch acetate of this which I'm sure was a repress..very professionally done as well with great sound quality.

I think the 90 s were the low point.Beat ballads and midtempo crap forced me on to the jazz scene.The Ritz alldayers sparked my interest again...the southern scene was crap imho although I liked the underground vibe.

Remember the key to the padlock on your record box.

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.