Here's a mini review of a couple of cd's - Soul In The Sun and Rare Soul Heaven volume 2
As I obviously have the best taste in music on the site , I've graded the tracks out of 10 so you know what you're getting
1. Catch That Teardrop - Five Royales - fairly pleasant doo-wop dancer 5
/ 2. Jeanette - Wade Flemons - storming dancer 7
/ 3. Tell Me I'm Yours - Fay Simmons - the epitome of bad R&B 3
/ 4. I Can't Please You - Jimmy Robins - the eiptome of good R&B 9
/ 5. My Baby's Been Cheating - A.C. Reed - another great uptempo R&B dancer 7
/ 6. If I Could Only Be Sure - Nolan Porter - pleasant but overplayed floater 6
/ 7. Girl I Love You - Garland Green - overrated midtempo 7
/ 8. I Cried My Life Away - Tommy Navarro - nice latin flavoured Stafford sound 8
/ 9. My Love Keeps Getting Stronger - Tommy Ridgley - overrated bore 6
/ 10. You Should O' Held On - 7th Avenue Aviators - tremendous floorpacker 9
/ 11. Emperor Of My Baby's Heart - Kurt Harris - gives northern soul music a bad name 3
/ 12. I Love Her So Much It Hurts - Majestics - cracking LA dancer with wondeful string arrangement 9
/ 13. Please Stay - Ivorys - utter classic 10
/ 14. No One To Love - Pat Lewis - seminal Detroit piece with 'interesting' violin solo 9
/ 15. Voltaire Pier - Chocolate Boys - ancient instrumental covered up rediscovered apparently 6
/ 16. You Made Me This Way - Ila Vann - awful Mecca oldie 2
/ 17. You Brought It On Yourself - Barbara Hall - waste of good vinyl 1
/ 18. There Can Be A Better Way - Smith Brothers - plodding early 70's track which never caught on 5
/ 19. Independent Woman - Jan Jones - records like this were the reason people stopped going to venues 2
/ 20. Making My Daydream Real - We The People - now you're having a laugh 2
/ 21. Cry Myself To Sleep - Rhetta Hughes - lovely version on LP only 8
1. Big City Playboy - Jimmy Andrews - like a tougher version of a Major Lance song..6
/ 2. Open Up Your Heart (Let Love Out) - Mamselles - lacklustre vibes laden girl group 4
/ 3. Lean On Me (When Headaches Get Rough) - Daye, Eddie & Four Bars - good vocal but primitive production, rubbish song 4
/ 4. You're On Top Girl - Empires - probably the best of all the soo-wop influenced northern sounds 10
/ 5. You Don't Even Know My Name - Hytones - truly rotten blue eyed sounding dancer makes Wayne Gibson sound like Eddie Parker 2
/ 6. Joey - Jo Jo Petite - same song as Craxy Crazy by Little Jeanette which is the same song as Ain't Hta Peculiar..7
/ 7. My Aim Is To Please - Ted Wilson - undistinguished male vocal 3
/ 8. Dear Lord Above - Debbie & The Lads - barrel-scraping girl dancer 3
/ 9. Lonely Girl (part 2) - Eric Mercury & Soul Searchers - great but utterly pointless mostly instrumental part 2 to the vocal, magic saxophone though 6
/ 10. Oh Mary - Constellations - very very early outing which is actually a tremendous dancer 7
/ 11. Man Ain't Supposed To Cry - Topics - the aural equivalent of eating a turd sandwich 3
/ 12. Can't Get Enough Of My Baby's Lovin' - Fred Lowery & Big Bo/The Arrows - sounds more like L.S. Lowry 2
/ 13. Clip My Wings - Anetta Archibald - the artists name is better than the record, R&B ish and so dull 3
/ 14. I'll Give That To You - Sandy Wynns - much more like it, and the arrangement sounds a lot like label mate Gene Toones in parts...brilliant 9
/ 15. Gotta Get Away - Slip & Dell - Identikit male group dancer 2
/ 16. Jerkin' In Your Seat - Impacts - classic underplayed oldie now picking up again 7
/ 17. Did You Mean - Blendels - very soulful midtempo sound 6
/ 18. Girl That's An Awful Thing To Say - Neptunes - a sack of rock n roll pigs tits 2
/ 19. Don't Come Running To Me - Sissie Houston - few versions of this about, this is nice 6