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Is that on UK Mam label the black one......... one I see everywhere is 5 Flights Up-black cat which is basically a reworking of Loves Gone Bad...even got a UK release on Bell.Great sound tho.

We must have the same tastes bought that 2 weeks ago on US playboy.....great record about $5.

I was speaking to Russ recently about things he would try to break that never took off three of which were Trade Martin-She Put The Hurt on Me,Gerri Grainger-I Can Take It (straight off the back of I Go To Pieces) and Family Child-What About The Music....gave them a week and they got dropped...turnover of sounds was that fast.Trade eventually made it but the others didn't.........makes me think about the Phillips 45 The Free-Taking It Away that Richard S is holding in that photo ....another never made it tune....I've the Observer colour supplement article from 76 and all the lads in the photo are gathered round a box with Debbie Flemings-Long Gone.....never hear this out anywhere....must have been big but now forgotten.

Have these ever had their day in the sun Casualeers-You Betta Be Sure (Laurie) Chris Calloway-Youre Something Else(CUB) Alaina Reed-Don't Let Me Fall In Love Alone (Capitol) Debbie Taylor-Don't Nobody Mess With My Baby (GWP) Marvellows-Piece Of Silk (WB) Gambrells-Fall In Love For The First Time (CUB) Otis Brown-Will You Wait (Lujuna) Timoth Carr -A Stop Along (Hot Biscuit) Jeannie Fortune-Once More With Feeling (RCA) Southwind Symphony-Coming Home (Glolite) Gentle Persuasion-Dynamite Explodes The Casualeers I thought would have had plays off the back of Dance Dance Dance??,The Southwind Symphony off the back of Lou Pride it being the instrumental (in every Domar soul pack I bought) and the Gentle Persuasion a cheaper version of Honey and the Bees Dynamite explodes...........all still cheapies.

Rob Messer regularly plays it out

One that baffles me is the 4 Tempos-Got To Have You on Rampart.(maybe it was big somewhere for a week)...still cheap as chips and a stormer of a record.Not even on youtube as is Chris Bartley-You Get Next To My Heart.....all these great soul records and people seem to be chasing novelty latin soul/pop that was big in the early eighties.

It was a popular mid eighties record on the mod scene and also the london jazz scene in general. Im sure there are a few sat in collections.These records were also collected by World Music Collectors/Latin Jazz afficionados around the early to late eighties as well....there was an early comp released (memorys going...but it's the one with Bad Breath on) by Dave Hucker and there were the Jazz Juice things that fueled it..These records infiltrated London club land around that time with the jazz Working Week/Absolute Beginners boom ....Club Sondico/The Wag etc and places like Soul Jazz opened up.Bought most of my latin soul things around this time (but not Bobby Valentin) then started buying the latin jazz.I know a mate who I will be visiting at New Year whose buying stopped in 87....and I'm sure he has this along with Gypsy Woman,Soft Walkin,Ernstine Anderson,Mowhawks Lp,Little Sonny, Berts Apple Crumble,Shmon etc etc....it's a mod time capsule of records up to 87.I'm sure it was that popular it got booted on a 3 track ep..I know from the mod scene at the time it was Ray Barretto's Soul Drummers/Mercy Mercy BabyJimmy Castor-Hey Leroy...the later Magic Saxaphone(got both US demo and UK issue ),Joe Cubas-El Pito,Hey Joe,Sock It To Me,Mongo Santamarias-Cloud 9,25 Miles, Prince And Princess,Rubies-Spanish Boy......some clubs played this stuff all night.I'm sure Dave Darlow in Scarborough had a copy and I would bet Paul Hallam having a copy.Dean Rudland on here may have a copy.Baz Fe Jazz has probably got a copy...Right On by Ray Barretto was that popular in clubland that it got booted on a uk 12" backed with Gerry Woos Jive Samba........It seems Bobby V is a same old same old oldie now.....but an expensive one (for the moment)?

Bet theres a few of these tucked away in 80's mod collections (circa 1985)

Ive an Italian Tamla comp Lp with all the artists singing in Italian

Sent an e mail to Illuminations media who produced Dance Brittania who hopefully can put this thread to bed...........

Where does this footage come from...........I wonder if its from the So It Goes programme https://www.youtube.c...feature=related . There seems to be quite a bit of Wigan footage This England, This England outakes,the one above (there must be a full programme or piece...it's not just stock footage)and theres also another piece with a lad doing spins in stripey socks (probably not just stock footage).All from different dates.There must have been local news bits especially on the fire as well.....

It's probably from episode 3 of BBC4's Dance Brittania series and it does look like The Top Of The Pops set.Can anyone give a precise transmission date of the Top Of The Pops Footsee showing.....I did write to Tom Hasset in Letchworth re the super 8 stuff (lead from D The Drug) but got no reply.I shouldnt have bothered as Taff knows him!!.This stuff is out there. Mick Pacey from the Scuinthorpe Pathfinders has recently had his old super 8 stuff from the northern scooter scene transferred(mid seventies stuff) onto DVD.Ive recently got a load of old Canadian radio stuff on reels which i need transferring with Doors and Jefferson Airplane stuff on it (priceless!!) from a house clearance near me.What about this then....

Think this is it......anybody know what documentary this small snippet came from.You can then trace it back to the source...I can't believe there is only this 5 second bit.If this bit is featured then the whole thing must exist.I'm still after a feature on northern from 78 on a programme called Something else. or was it So It Goes..think they visited Skelmersdale??.Theres also footage from Scarborough from 77 Im after filmed by Yorkshire or ITV which has footage from the scooter rally that year... https://www.youtube.c...h?v=di02cko2SMM

A list of records provided by Richard S to a well known rock rag NME or was it Sounds....

"Northern Soul 2010" ...great uplifting uptempo motown based soul music.........not a schizophrenic latin jazz pfunk/opera mid tempo/reggae (soulful),latin (soul, not descargas) navel looking fat bald bloke based boring night....

You are joking.....it's usually oldies from boots/CDs or collectors impressing their mates with rubbish obscurities from the mid seventies sixties reject pile....which is why I started my own gig! I love UK Sue.boogaloo r&b stuff and I have a 500 box of early reggae ska/bluebeat stuff plus loads of Cotique/Fania Tico 45's and a great collection of jazz lps etc....but i do have a problem when people play it and call it northern soul.It isn't!!! I'ts the emperors new clothes scenario.People are digging everything but the basics of those great records played at The late Twisted Wheel/Torch/Wigan etc..its like the motown uptempo soul beat is uncool.....we need claves/bongos/latin piano.....early r&b guitar.........bo diddley riffs........anything that isn't Motown based. Re the above "child of the eighties".I do feel that the young kids of today have taken to the uptempo beat like it or not and the days of the collector as deejay are numbered.........Im even worried about vinyl (they honestly dont care).Last Crossfire there were loads of them.........anyone over 40 and you were in a minority. Theres no room for mid tempo....thats so eighties!

Play northern soul(Im assuming this is a northern soul website not a rare soul website)........its not friggin hard, not mid tempo allnight,&b[, reggae WTF (Lynn Tait being discussed as a northern soul record FFS?),popcorn, latin boogaloo, Jazz R&B,Punk Funk,beat ballads..........lets get back to basics and all those overlooked oldies and "QUALITY NEWLY DISCOVERED DANCEABLE RECORDS".DJ's stop looking at your navel and your mates and how you can add your DNA and slant and lets sort this crap out. I'm into northern soul ie uptempo based motown sounding sixties music.....You can stick your rare soul where the sun don't shine,I'm not into rare soul,......which can be anything but not necessarily dance music.Northern soul all the way....FFS it might even get exciting and we might even get converts on the way . I do not think im the only one. What is "our scene"??? as described above

The SRT label in the UK specialised in custom pressings.Theres an album on that label from 71 by Grannie worth £800. They also pressed up a lot of club sort of acts that were sold at Butlins etc I believe they pressed up in limited runs to avoid some sort of tax as did the UK Purdah label (releases 99 copies).Oak was another UK label that specialised in very limited runs and they didn't specialise in any sort of music.I suppose it was some sort of cottage industry in limited pressings.Lyntone pressed up flexi discs for all sorts of uses....company promotion/Readers Digest etc etc. On the soul side. Can previously unreleased tracks like The Producers-What Is this,Mirwood Orch-Oh My Darlin etc be classed as originals then (always lived in my boot box). https://www.djhistory.com/features/working-man%E2%80%99s-soul

Instrumentals never released before the seventies so must be original issue

Cliff was always played by the more adventurous seeking out latin stuff, stick with it and he covers The Blendells too......great northern dancing as well Wasnt Reach Out by The Brotherhood comped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBbNH5HZMKs

I think the backrooms/function suites in pubs should be looked at more.Drove through south London up to Willesden a few weeks ago and I couldnt believe the amount of tinned up pubs there were..........the ones that are left would probably give these rooms for free if they knew there was going to be a load of ale over the counter.....then promoters would be able to give cheaper entrance fees..just a thought

We will be getting on to Flemmings next.......what type of jeans were they...anyway a few more pics.Still no answer on the beer towel question.You would think it was all Abba and Spacehoppers acording to the middle class twats on tv.........no bootboys/3 day weeks/queing for bread or your mam attempting to bake it/spitting (very seventies),proper graffiitti wilth mis spelling ie rools ok,cross earings/saint man tattoos/borstal dots,dealer boots....bought from Darkie Tans gipsy shop (air wair/lace up brogue ones/tan or ox blood)....click click click....segs or blakeys,staining your white adidas t shirt blue when it pissed down when you had your new levis jacket on,old men in pubs with grey hair with nicotine streaks in it and brown fingers,woodbines and capstan full strength, alpine lorries, mysterious tyres around lamp posts...I could go on. jacket.bmp

These ones.....What was the beer towel thing, tucked in the belts, backs of parkas, scarves ive even seen a picture of a lad who had a pair of bags made out of them. york in pub.bmp york white hart.bmp