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The outakes are a lot better especially the two lads at the end...one with a P Funk T shirt and the one in white trousers and braces.I'm sure the dancing on Out On The Floor (the BBC/ITV play was better as well..although I have lost that footage.

Massive in Erope apparently on the rare Okey scene Okey Keep The Faith

I will have an opinion on what i believe to be bad music.As I said Darrell Banks/Nurons/Ruby Andrews are all good records.Dolly Gillmore is terrible.

Anyone know when the term crossover started getting used?.A lot of the above tunes are mid tempo/down tempo northern end of the night style closing tunes.I wonder if it was a ploy by UK dealers to get rid of all that old dead stock.Darrell Banks and the Nurons aren't bad records.....but to my ears they have always been mid tempo northern.(Darrell Banks being an end of set record).Ruby Andrews/Darrell Banks/Ace Spectrum are the new 3 before 8.....should i say 3 before 11 (bar closing) and probably the precursors to a bit of okey cokeying hands together stuff.When did deejays stop digging for stompers/uptempo stuff and started plundering everyone elses genres...including mediocre mid tempo and dreary b sides/reggae for god sakes/mid sixties latin novelty pop/boogaloo/old Keb style deep funk etc I could go on.It seems northern soul is so diluted it is losing its identity.I hear the term "open minded" all the time on here.I'm not interested in having "my mind opened" to other styles of music at a northern do.I can go to mod clubs to listen to latin,go to JOJOs to hear funk/go to numerous clubs to hear reggae/listen to my tapes for bad b sides.I'm not purely into oldies either before that gets slung at me....oldies and great uptempo new ones are what i want to hear but it seems a lot of deejays are too busy searching out "open minded" other styles of music.

I'm waiting for The Jewels b side to get spins

Other genres Beat ballads Reggae Island soul Popcorn Giffer Funky as in keb style funk Funky as in northern style funk baby boy Rare soul the term upfront is often used Modern not modern ie seventies mecca style Upfront modern new releases New breed r and b Oh and not forgetting the okey cokey

Does anyone remember buying stuff like this blind. Played once then into the crap pile.I just want good records.Good enough to be played in s main room.I collect other forms of music and I have the same ethos there.Everything should pass the main room test unless you are trying to fill that c90 tape.

Have seem it on here for 350 an old he who should not be named spin

A lot of the stuff here sounds like B sides of northern records or the stuff that used to get thrown into soul packs or tapeswappers sounds.....fast forward.That Dolly Gillmore record is taking things down to a new level.....messy production,no direction and no tune.Can you blame the top 500 oldies brigade for not broadening their horizons if this is what they are subjected to when they go out.

Got mine from Kev Roberts....paid about £25 I think last year.Never know he might have a box of them

From my mobile

Edited and on a seven I think this would get plays out.I prefer the original take Ian.Think I will pester his management.

The video to it

It was an impromptu PA by him....priceless when everyone sang back to him aint no need for sunlight....aint no need for moonlight etc.Will check the remix.Amazing record IMHO.

This took the roof off at the Dingwalls reunion on Sunday especially when Gregory got up to sing it.........probably a bit too jazzy for the soul scene unless there was an edit.I know i would prefer it to remixes of double barrel.What do you think.

You get real I have just come back from a Dingwalls reunion...heavy jazz/jazz funk dancing,spinning,knee drops,russian rolls.The whole lot.Not a drop of talc in sight.It's all about balance and practice.Only one spilt drink.I've done floors from the Kings Hall/Ritz/100 Club/Morecambe...etc etc.Never needed talc just a good pair of leather soled shoes a lot of practice and good balance.

Are you saying he is doing a Bo Duddley

No there isn't any talc.No I wasn't there....I have met the Nicholas Brothers when they came over from the US(about 89) and did a talk at the Barbican.Brothers In Jazz (UK Dance troupe are big fans).I would not be so stupid to ask them if they used talc.How come other dancing scenes don't use talc..Lindyhoppers/jivvers/rock'n roll.It's just one of the naff bits that everyone thinks they need (in the manual).I have actually slopped water on a floor to get rid of talc.Anyway off to the Dingwalls reunion today.....ton's of great dancers, bumpy floor,spinners,splits,knee drops....and not a bit of talc in sight.

Got the Levi Jackson issue.....Mr King tried a myriad of other styles....I know because I have bought nearly every other release by him hoping that there would be another "Beautiful Day" style track...as if this track wasn't trodden.Anyway Life Child (Polydor) and Don't be a Sinner (Columbia)aint too bad.Unfortunately he will be always be remembered for She Wears My Ring.A bit Like Long John Baldry with Le Those Heartaches Begin.

Reminds me in parts of this track...............

I'm anti talc....used to do a lot of dancing on the jazz dance scene where the dancing is far more acrobatic and faster.Never needed talc then so don't see why shufflers need it.Can still knee drop from a jump (without pads) and talc does your trousers in.It's like the men you see in baggies...you expect them to do some mad spins but they shuffle....same with talc, I expect Olga Corbett when they throw it on the floor but usually get to see Ronnie Corbett.Can't see any talc on the floor here

Got the white demo in the box......great record was it ever big??.I'm sure mine has reservice on it...always intrigued what that was about on Columbia records.

Darrow Fletcher double sider.......a unique voice and vocal phrasing and and most of his records cheap as chips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMUpDydn4yU Is it still a tenner?

Maximum clappage of the male and female variety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1QkFKWJiw Hitting the mid eighties on this.

And if you like old scooters and northern sounds here's something I prepared earlier