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Remember hearing 5000 volts 'I'm on Fire', at the Casino. I walked off the dance floor in a Huff. Another record to consider is John Miles 'One Minute Every Hour'. I met John in the 90s and mentioned the record, he was bloody amazed anyone knew it.

R I P. A damn good singer whose wonderful voice enthralled the northern scene. Today is a day of Paris blues.

Looking forward to hearing this. Will pick up from P.O. tomorrow. Another Ace/Kent gem.

I said to my wife,"I'm going up north". She said "OKeh, love, be up soon, just watching the end of this film".

My fave Major Lance. He definatly had Soul in his shoes.

Again sad news,love reading shrine stories (interviews).another soulful legend passes us by. Kudos to you Andy for your painstaking hard work in your love for Washington soul. I still have the Eddie Singleton interview you did on tape.

This will indeed make a great birthday present,to me of course. If the mags are anything to go by this book will be superb.

Yes looking forward to this but why oh why has the lp got less tracks,why don't numero put out track for track likeness.

A friend of mine who is into Philly soul,rare groove,disco and funk etc is Djing in the city of brotherly love and the two days (approx) he's there for,would like to visit somewhere of musical significance.i suggested maybe a recording studio (SIGMA) of some sort as I believe the Philadelphia International shop etc are no longer in operation. Any suggestions anyone?.

Knowing Maryam all these years I can guarantee she's all female and so nice with it,(please don't take that the wrong way),as for the strange bit,that's my bag along with all crate digging socially inept males.and proud of it I am.

R I P to Lucky,a brave courageous and intelligent man. he,ll be sorely missed.

I for one never came across racism and speaking to my mate Sammy Dee neither did he,when I hear these comments I do wonder of the origin. its always been a puzzle to me why(for example) people go to black music gigs,buy exclusively black music yet hate black people,it just doesn't make sense.i think a lot of these comments from people that they encountered racism at soul venues was not from regular soul attendees but people from outside seeing what the fuss was all about at all nighters.

If you listen to "Mr Soul Satisfaction" by the legend that is Mr Timmy Willis, is what we ever wanted to be to the girls,in fact he's so bad he should've been born twins, Good god y'all.

Same thing happened to me a few years ago where my parcel was intercepted by someone in this country and my goods were swopped with items of no use,sender was 100% reliable of whom I knew personally,the items replaced in package were UK items. On another note when buying records in the U.S. ,have you noticed sometimes the name of the record is on the package,surely this makes your items more at risk if the 'perp' knows his stuff.

A true legend that gave us arguably the biggest ultimate 'northern soul' dancer.This guy was on the Right Track for all of us. R I P.

Hard to do with one record I'd say you'd need to have 5 records,one male,one female,one male group,one femme group and one instrumental. Major Lance-You don't Want me no more. Rose Batiste -hit and run. Natural Four-I thought you were mine. The Sherry's-put your loving arms around me. San Remo Strings-Festival time. These 5 were off the top of my head,could change if I thought about it more.

Excellent posting feels like your actually there,try it with head phones on. good stuff.

Superb boxset a winner all the way,well done Ian and harmless records now how about the long awaited philly 7 inch boxset

Always bad to hear about nicked records on the scene,happened to me years ago before I got on the scene only it was family,(he's always been scum),but for it to be a mate,those that we choose as family that hurts,these are the kind of things that happen that put me off selling on eBay,I've brought over a thousand records online and only 2 have not turned up,1reissue from Germany and 1 from the uk(bobbettes demo), I felt so bad for the dealer who sent the latter one as I know his background but he was getting a lot of records nicked at his local P O OFFICE he was sending the records through, he eventually sent another copy out of his own collection, the one he orig' sold was a spare. So good luck guys with the records hope they turn up and name and shame the scum.

All the kent stuff is great and great liner notes, The soul of detroit on soul supply, The southern soul CDs 1-3 on ace are effing amazing, Not always a big fan of the goldmine stuff unless it was the detroit stuff, but boy could they put a deep soul cd out,top marks for them. Obviously the Dave godin albums, The tommy Tate on pvine excellent. Not a big player of CDs I tend to put them on IPod and leave them in the corner, more interested in the sleeve notes,it'd be a perfect world if downloads gave you the liner notes too,and if APOEL won the champions league.

Aware of love -the impressions-the fabulous impressions

Books list authors name first then title:- Jack Ashford the view from the bottom Florence Ballard the lost supreme - Benjamin Sidney Barnes standing on solid ground Jerry Butler only the strong survive Dennis Coffey guitars bars and motown superstars Al Green take me to the river Singleton Berry me and motown David Ritz divided soul Marvin Susan whittall fever little willie john Gladys knight between each line of pain and glory Bettye lavette a women like me Marc Taylor original marvelettes Scott freeman Otis Teddy pendergrass truly blessed Motown the golden years Bartlette off the record motown master number Tony Cummings TSOP Keith Rylatt. Groovesville USA Al Abrams hype and soul Martha Reeves Dancing in the street Mark ribowsky the supremes Sly stone I want to take you higher Ludie Montgomery my sister tommie Mark ribowsky ain't to proud to beg Otis Williams and p romanowski temptations Tony Douglas the Jackie Wilson story the man the music Bobby Womack the midnight mover Ben jaminson Mary Wells Brian ward just my soul responding Andrew Wilson Northern soul music drugs etc Alex Mckenzie motown stars John Barrett keeping the faith Tommy hunt only human Rob Bowman soulsville USA ROBERT PRUTER SOUL RECORDINGS Robert PRUTER Chicago soul John a Jackson house on fire Dave Rimmer northern soul A-Z Pete guralnick sweet soul music Dickerson going back to Memphis Arthur kempton boogaloo Peter Burns Curtis mayfield Kingsley Abbott motown reader Ben stickings searching for soul David freeland ladies of soul Rob mceever the right track Marc Taylor a touch of classic soul volumes 1&2 (2 books) E mark Windle it's better to cry There are loads more so you better start reading, Not forgetting all the fanzines

Try the new book from E Mark Windle "it's better to cry",arrived this morning via Blurb.com/connect Only arrived this morning and a riveting good read it is,I'm totally engrossed already. As for other books there's a lot your missing out on, when I have time I'll make A list for you.