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I remember Les Walker having northern soul karaoke at her birthday party couple of years back. I must confess to having a go, but I was very, very drunk.

Good shout Bridgey! Never dreamt I'd own a Frank Wilson on SOUL. No never had that dream and never owned that record.

Have to disagree a bit with that mate. Playing pressings in a freebee pub do is one thing. However somebody hammering Soul Inc (for example) on cd, then you come along and play a real one and they can't be arsed to dance because it's been hammered, how would you feel?

You didn't want this when I was selling mine! lol Good luck buddy, killer tune..

PM'd you.

Another great from the birthday boy - "if you don't like soul music, fook off"!

Nothing 'plastic' about Spectrum 9 SC.. Proper authentic modernists! Regards, Spectrum 9 SC Bishop's Stortford.

Wah giggy - a giggy goo gah.. The shing-a-ling's not the thing

Clocked one of these on the decks (Sam) at Rugby and exited quick to have a step about. Great tempo, great tune! Mick H has got one as well. Who else?

Approval no, discussion? That's up to us but yes, it's a discussion forum. How much integrity is there in spoon feeding someone northern soul? Don't bother hearing the music for the first time and being wowed out of chair and just got to dance! Nah skip on down, you can pay ninety six quid and just fast forward to fitting right in-ness.. Integrity?

Sharon Louise Danielle Finch who told you you could teach dance NS style? How do folk know that you're not a bit crap and you're going to teach them to be a bit crap too? There aren't any video clips on the website to suggest any evidence to the contrary. Very crass and unpleasant all of this. Said it before and I'll say it again, soul music - in through the ears and out through the legs. If the soul doesn't move you, then perhaps soul isn't for you. That and pull the curtains in your living room and have a practice. Don't pay ninety (count em) pounds to a cheesy chancer!

This guy picked a good time to sell. This was played by Butch at the January 100 Club nighter (first time in ages) and it was talked up on here in the Box section not long before - by some blabber mouth or other...

Goosebumps & hairs on the back of your neck type record. One of Sam's finest imvho. (SC ACIGC Not in Refo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48K5Y0421Ig

Goosebumps & hairs on the back of your neck type record. One of Sam's finest imvho. (SC ACIGC Not in Refo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48K5Y0421Ig

Be a smidge boring if you didn't?

Yes. It was massive at the time though. Only slight but enough that it should have been mentioned imo.

Paid £80 from someone on here, got it home and it had a slight warp.

Early 70's - 71?

The greatest imvho. Think the size of the guy aids that unique vocal range he has.

Would like to fully include myself in the 'us' and wish George a speedy recovery to full health.

Soundclip?

Not directly from a soul star, but this souful tale told on General Johnson's website makes for interesting reading; February 18, 2006 Gentlemen, I'd like to share an experience with all of you that I thought might interest you. In June, 1970, as a "short-timer" in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam I was guarding 6 Viet Cong prisoners who were helping to rebuild a sandbag bunker that their comrades in arms had demolished with mortar fire. As I kept watch over the captured enemy soldiers I was listening to The AFVN (Armed Forces Vietnam Network) on my battery powered radio. The DJ announced "and now a just released jam "Give Me Just a Little More Time" by The Chairmen of the Board! It wasn't the first time that I'd heard it and I liked it very much but this time I noticed one of the prisoners was not singing but was lip syncing the words, even the part that goes ..... "and our love will surely grow....bluuuurrrrtttt"! I asked him if he spoke English and he told me that he attended the University of Michigan. When asked how he came to be in his current predicament he told me that North Vietnamese Soldiers held AK-47 Assault Rifles to his wife's, father's and mother's heads and demanded he serve in their army or they would kill his family. He got himself captured the very first opportunity that he got. That day, instead of being the "inhuman animals" that I had been trained, even brainwashed to believe, I saw my enemy as being human beings for the first time. I believe that event helped me to overcome prejudice more than any other single lesson in my life. You guys clearly had a part in that experience. Thank you for making such a horrible part of my life and the lives of thousands of others a little better, if for just a couple of minutes at a time, through your music. Thank You and God Bless You, Harry A, Rogers Captain, Charlotte Fire Department, Retired https://generalnormanjohnson.com/my%20life.htm

But it is the best Northern instrumental ever, fact! Nothing else has those fat horns, that tempo, the break. I know not of anything else that comes close. It's a tough task for an instrumental to be soulful, few manage it. This record has it in aces!

The Paradox - 'Ring The Changes' is better than the vocal version by David Walker.