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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

Always thought this was a bit strange. The ex drummer for the Shadows with Chase Side Shoot Up from 74.Jack Wardle from Middlesbrough told me he was selling this as a cover up for ages and was a big sound at one point.Brian Bennett was massively into Library session work for KPM,Bruton etc .My mind has it set as the golf theme but it looks as though that started in 1980. Ditto Mike Vickers and On The Brink.Mike Vickers being the saxophonist and flute player in Manfred Mann.He moved massively into session work and TV work....Captain Scarlet,Please Sir etc

I'm after one.If I don't get one before 25th June bring it to Southend.

Here's a few from me.....i've some more stashed somewhere...

Wasn't an advert.It was a very small fashion feature for a programme I think was called Network 7.Keb dances in it and it was filmed at a club called Dance Chase.Very slim story about a lad dancing all night and then finishing and going straight to his postie round.Lots of baggy pegged trousers and Rokit gear.Still got it on video somewhere.

You think you got it bad....you will soon move on to Fast Jazz Fusion...Azar Lawrence,Johnny Hammond,Airto and Flora,Patrice Rushen,Chick Corea,Dom Um Romaeo....a fluffy dice and Capri is the only future

Had this acetate for about 25 years and found it in a junshop.One side is Ben E King's I Can't Break The News To Myself.It is a Shapiro Bernstein acetate so I'm assuming a UK publishers acetate to use to tout the song for either release or a cover version.(I know the Dakotas released the track on the B Side of Spider And The Fly). The problem I have is identifying the other side. I'm sure someone on here will ID it straight away but most people I have played it to have not known it.Apologies for the crackles. recorded on my Crosley burger.It is just titled My Love Come Home. The second one is a recent buy and entitled Honey Child by Zola Taylor.It was advertised as unreleased but I'm sure she had something to do with the Platters.Does anyone know it and was it released? The hiss only comes out on the Crosley burger!!!

Is Kitch playing it from acetate as well? Was it ever released? Sounds like Chuck to these ears.Just got an acetate myself from the US by Zola Taylor who I believe was a singer for the Platters.It's a ten inch and you have to put the needle halfway across the vinyl to play it!.

Just wondered if anyone can identify the singer?. The advertiser thinks it's Chuck Jackson.Could it be Ben E King? A great record nevertheless. https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300549770635&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:GB:1123