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Not really a fan of the Rudie sides.Their best track (soulish wise) is Never Gonna Let You Go which is the b side of You Must Be Joking (doomy prog with hammond.). Their LP is rare and expensive and a proggy affair.Not soulish.

That Judy Hughes record is great..............last heard it out at Warrens Boogaloo

I'm not a big fan of boots and reissues and have sold or trying to sell most of them.I feel if youre paying your fee on the door you are buying into an experience.You are buying into 30/40 years of soul music and the direct link to it is the shiny bit of plastic turning around on the turntable.That is your link to the USA.I believe that in the 70's records were dropped once booted.The only way to have them if you were a punter was on a boot or tape or a very expensive original and the links to get them were in the USA which is why there were less deejays.Now with the internet it is wide open and everyone can own them and everyone can deejay.Were there more principals and ethics then by the deejays then?.I know i have seen in print a certain Blackpool dj in print deriding a certain gentleman in the US for bootlegging records.In theory it kept them on their toes and they had to constantly find high quality new sounds but buying boots then you were lining criminals pockets.Don't people get embarrased by playing boots??? I was heavily involved in the jazz scene in the eighties/nineties Gilles Peterson/Patrick Forge/Snowboy etc........no bootlegs or reissues and Im certain Brian Kelson etc on the reggae scene don't spin boots.There's loads of £20 sounds out there that are as good as those big money items..Here a few cheapies in the box....all quality and won't cost an arm The Masqueraders-I Got It, Winfield Parker-Im on my Way,Invictas-New Babe,Total Eclipse-You Brought,The blossoms-Wonderful,Curtis Smith-The Living End,The Casualeers-You Better Be Sure,The Players-Get Right,The Groovers-Bashful Guy,Barbara Jean English-Living a lie,Devastating Affair-My Place ....there's hundreds of quality sounds that won't cost an arm or leg you have just got to do a bit of digging.It's easier than ever now with youtube...no more crappy C90's with mis spelt titles.

Ah so Steve Jameson cut it as the Javells.....got picked up by northern jocks without any pushing by Pye and repromoted as a black group with two black girl singers in the publicity who probably never sang on the record for black credibility/Northern Soul purposes after initial northern soul plays and repressed on Pye Demand..................the SWONS eh!

Wasn't this a tailor made? or was it picked up by deejays. I know there was some Dave Mcaleer involvement who was involved in the Pye set up were pushing the Disco Demand stuff. I would be interested to know if this came before the Disco Demand stuff or was just a record that the northern soul jocks got behind without any influence by Pye or Mcaleer/Disco Demand.

Not sure on the Lee Fields but look out for the alternative version.This was in my watched list recently https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280690911966&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I've bought non stop since I was 12/13.....all sorts of music, psych,jazz,latin,beat etc etc.I used to buy doubles if they were good and cheap enough as well.I have a rule now that I only use money from stuff I sell to pay for the northern.Offload all them boots...you will be suprised how much you will get for them and invest in a good collection of originals.People have been saying that vinyl will die...when did Brothers In Arms Come Out??? and there's no sign of it.Prices just keep going up.When do you ever see good £5 records now . The base is £15-£20.If youre hoping for a crash then I think you will be waiting a long time.I know an investor that has stopped putting money in the bank and buys mint only rare UK Progressive LP's...instead of stocks and shares.

A few from me

Ian Dewhirst watch a lad spin himself to death.....come on .

Maudlin Giffer record.....sling it in the skip with Doug Banks,Soft Walkin,George Lemons and The Magnetics.....or comp them on an American Graffiti style LP..

Can anyone tell me why I found a bin bag full of OOTP boots mixed in with US Verve originals in Brick Lane Market a month ago???

The Open Mind LP.Got a UK copy (without a cover) and want a cover, any condition.Come to think of it UK Pulse LP cover,Downliners Newport St,Small Faces French My Minds Eye EP,Manfreds Inst Assasination,Neil Christian UK Columbia EP,Pretties UK Rainin In My Heart EP,The Sect Sing Sick Songs UK EP,Blues Vol 1,Its The Temptations EP,Five Yardbirds EP,Four Tops EP,Cyril Davies EP,Impressions I'ts Alright EP,Festival Of The Blues Vol 1 and Jimmy Reed Rhythm and Blues EP covers wanted, Sam and Dave UK King Lp.....get rid of those knackered copies and reunite them with a new home.

Belfast was a UK pop hit with a disco beat....a German group singing about the troubles in Ireland!! Macca started it off with his Give Ireland Back To The Irish

Theres loads of examples and some very suprising uk covers The Dynamics-Misery reworked by the High Numbers as Zoot Suit/the b side Im The Face reworked Slim Harpos Got Love If You Want It.From Guy Stevens collection and mod slang by Peter Meaden. The Manfreds covered Garnet Mimms Look Away The T Bones covered an obscure Mongo Santamaria track called Get The Money Loads for The Yardbirds, Got Love by Slim Harpo,A Certain Girl-Billy Boy Arnold,Smokestack Lightning-Howlin Wolf Small Faces-Plum Nellie (Booker T),Shake (Sam Cooke),Every Little Bit Hurts (Brenda Holloway), You Need Lovin (a cover of a Willie Dixon Blues.Led Zepp covered it and changed the lyrics to a Whole Lotta Love and were sued by Dixon) The Action-Hey Shaloney (Mickey Lee Lane),Shadows and Reflections (Lonely Crowde),Harlem Shuffle and the Sissy (Bob and Earl) The Creation- Cool Jerk (The Capitols),For All That I Am (The Tokens) Brian Auger-Green Onions(Booker T),Red Beans And Rice (Booker T),Foolkiller (sure it's Mose Allison),Bumpin On Sunset (Wes Montgomery) The Who-Daddy Rollin Stone (Derak Martin) UK Sue Guy Stevens connection and the entire James Brown Catalogue. Eyesight To The Blind (On Tommy)-Mose Allison

A master scammer who got together with Georgie Fame and persuaded Berry Gordy that Motown music was massive in the UK.They then came over and played to empty halls!.

What i'm saying is that they are two different sorts of nights.Rare Soul nights tend to be a mixture of different styles and tempos and northern nights are mostly uptempo.Some venues advertise as Northern Soul and some rare soul and northern soul.If I went to a venue that was advertised as rare soul and northern soul I wouldn't expect to hear uptempo all night.You should read an article a music journalist called Dave Godin wrote which defined northern soul to differentiate the more uptempo soul sort of sounds that "northerners" were buying and the funkier soul sounds that the south east were into.I thought that this was day one stuff!! There were loads of clubs as well, The Pendulum,late Twisted Wheel,Catacoombs,Wigan Casino,Va Vas,Blackpool Mecca Leeds Central,(have a look at old blues and souls and see the difference in the music played in the north to what was being played in the south).These were all in the north.The south preferred slower tempo soul and funk but there were a few places like The Wheatsheaf etc that played the stuff.Londoners and the south had to travel up north to get a fix of this faster "northern soul" music.You need to read a few books.Northern Soul and Rare Soul scenes are different.I like rare soul by the way but it needs pointing out that it is different from northern.This is hard work

....you're an idiotic wind up merchant and total tw*t and posts like yours are one of the main reasons I spend less and less time on the forum, all of which is of course merely my opinion.

Living in the south since 1987 I have had plenty of experience of "rare soul" nights and in my opinion they are a mix of mid tempo/popcorn r&b/uptempo sounds.I am not winding anybody up!!. I believe the rare soul and northern scenes are different.I'm not against rare soul.I like a lot of it but I don't like going to an advertised northern night and hearing mid tempo/r&b all night.We are treading the same old ground here.

So having an opinion is rubbish.The "rare" soul scene acceps midtempo/downtempo records.The backbone of the "northern scene" is based on motown derivative danceable uptempo soul.The Mello Souls is a great uptempo northern record.We have been here before.....dejavu.

At a 'Rare Soul' night I expect to hear rarely played records/lesser knowns/unknowns/some forgotten oldies/overlooked cheapies and I expect them to be up tempo and danceable................thats a description of a northern soul night.

Love this sort of stuff, don't know if it has been posted before. Some great live recordings from back in the day.It is interesting that the deejays were more into the presentation and the way the records flowed.Levine playing the Quadrophonics and following it by Little Ritchie!! I wonder if there was a mass exodus or people danced to both records.I would have stayed on. https://www.milliondo....com/mixes.html

At an advertised northern soul gig Uptempo sixties and seventies all the way with an ender ballad with some unknown/lesser played.Rare Soul gigs I expect mid tempo/crossover and a few uptempo things then there are the mod/boogaloo gigs latin/r&b etc.All on ovo of course.I don't go to a rare soul gig and expect northern all the way or a r&b gig and expect northern.....I'm sure this is old ground.

I'm waiting for a northern soul clock with a Tutnkhamun feel....for now I have to make do with this Elvis one

I'm sure Paul's Boutique beat them to it some time ago with a northern soul mod parka

Just dug these out. Most are relating to the buying an selling of rare soul records.Seems like there was a healthy amount of trading via letter and not only at venues.It gives a good idea of what sort of sounds were being chased/discovered.Theres also a letter to Blues And Soul by Randy Cozens about his early Mod days which he sent to me. Most are from The Wheel/Catacoombs era