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Marvin Holmes - "You Better Keep Her" 7 inch & album are totally different cuts.

Leon Haywood - "Consider The Source" - Capitol then 20th Century

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/258999-01.htm Escapism - Metropolitan Jazz Affair Came out last year (so it's not really modern ) - try the Patchwork Boogaloo mix - got a Northern/6ts feel to it. Btw - Love & Happiness is a great vocal too !!

Everytime I hear Bill Bush - "I'm Waiting" I think to myself that is a a definite vinyl disaster .

Lady Lady Lady - Boogieman Orchestra Rosemary What Happened - Popcorn Wylie Bari Track - Doni Burdick The Gallop - Milton Wright Breakaway - Steve Karmen All these instrumentals are better than their vocal counterparts IMVHO.

I see now - it's that overwhelming thrill of putting needle onto vinyl - albeit a carver. Putting a CD into a tray just doesn't give you that buzz.

1 CD = 20 pence (max.) & it can hold 80 minutes of music (over 30 Northern Soul tracks) - fits neatly in your pocket - ideal for the "party" DJ. How many carvers would you have to buy to equate to the above ? & what would be the cost? I am just trying to see the logic of carver over CD.

'Tis the devil's work - don't go there!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am curious as to whom these "big money" tunes belong to - & are they willing to lend them you to carve ?- simply put them all on a CD - every "party" has a CD player

So what came first - Doni Burdick or Rose Batiste?

See Dese - To Buy Or Not To Buy

A guy once asked me what was that record they play at The Highland Room & Wigan called "Brylcreem" - it turned out to be "Doomsday" by Evelyn Thomas - if you listen to the chorus you can kind of understand where he was coming from. Knew a girl who thought Lou Edwards was "Talking About Uncle"

My youngest son has just got back - he is a massive Jay Z fan & he really enjoyed it. He also thought Candi Staton was good value. Think we should be thankful that a black American is headlining a gig like that (anything that upsets the Gallaghers makes it even sweeter) - of "our heroes" I think only somebody like Stevie Wonder could possibly be the main attraction at a venue like this.

Soul Improvisations - Van McCoy is a fantastic piece of music - brilliant on the album where you get parts 1 & 2 together.

Love Mirwood stuff to bits anyway - so much so that I got a signwriter to make a sign for my house in the correct font - sad really!!! Mr Soussan has never done much worthy of a pat on the back but he nearly makes amends by putting these instrumentals out. Have you noticed on "The Same Old Thing" how in the quieter passages you can hear the vocal bleeding through in the background. I am right in thinking there were 2 different cuts of "Don't Pretend" instrumental? One with added strings?

Always liked Hold On Help Is On The Way - G Davis & R Tyler Harlem Rumble - Frank Foster Rhona's Theme - RPM Generation Fiddlin' Around - Don Renaldo love the Mirwood instrumentals as well - even if they may be a tad suspect in origin.

As usual somebody who doesn't seem to be too keen on a record (ie The Younghearts) tells us there are a thousand better records that have been played - they then list ten good records so as to illustrate that point. What I actually said earlier in this thread was I was looking for an alternative top 500 which are as good as if not better than the original list.

I also think it was via Inferno - over to you Mr Rushton.

When people who played "Police Story" - "Theme From Joe 90" & not forgetting that soulless turd "Interplay" thought it was a good idea. Why - well just listen to them

By your "rule of thumb" it is only All Nighters that have ever meant anything on this scene. I am sure people who attended The Catacombs - Highland Room - Blue Room Sale - Cats Whiskers Burnley etc etc. certainly don't class themselves as people "who like a bit of a jig,few pints". The Northern Soul Top 500 is regularly slagged off on this site - can somebody who is a "proper soulie" because he "does niters" furnish me with a list of 500 records played in the last ten years which are as good - if not better - than the original 500.

Pictures are OK - it certainly beats listening to them !!!!

One on Ebay "Buy It Now" for £4.99.

Don't think dumbing down is a new phenomenon to the scene. Huge TV & Newspaper coverage of this "underground" scene was brought to the masses over 30 years ago. Tailor made records - badges - record labels cashing in - they were all around in the seventies. As regards people voting with their feet I think you will find the more "commercial" the venue the larger the attendance. Of course people on here will argue that the attendees of thes gigs aren't "real soulies"(whatever that means). The scene is not perfect - it never has been - until something else is available that is better we have to live with it - warts & all - probably best just getting on with it & perhaps ENJOYING it !!!

Seem to remember Ian Levine saying the same thing - and that was thirty years ago!!!!!!!!!!

Think we have to face facts that the Northern Scene is no longer underground - it hasn't been for a good many years. Of course there are still little pockets where rare & underplayed soul is played. Think a lot of it goes back to the mid seventies when your local club would play "a bit of Northern Soul" alongside the pop tunes of the day. I can remember Dobie Gray, Creation etc. being popular with "non - scene" people back then. 30-40 years on these people have bought the CDs & attended a few nights & realised this is their comfort zone. They don't mind that eveybody is 45-60 years old - it is indeed this that makes them want to go to these gigs. Yes - a lot of these events have become the "School disco" for the over 40s.

Best thing to do is completely wipe Ms Winehouses voice off the record - put Marvin & Tammi in her place - now that would be a tune !!!!