Hooker1951

If it sounds good catches the emotions touches the soul and captures the Time and spaces it tries to do Embrace it because you will never stop it, Let’s be honest it’s got a hell of a mountain to climb to match up with the real thing , but you can’t stop the future just hope it gets better n better, if it finally arrives at a good place, Music will win in the end and your imagination will do the rest Mick

It was if you snorted it or swallowed it LoL, Mick

To be honest with you I’m sick and tired of Appointments there seems to be more and more f them every week, I feel like cancelling them there are far to many of them for my liking even more than the drifters LoL, ML

Hi There Contact Tony Brookes if anybody can help you in that neck of the woods it’s Tony he,s already established in the area, a lovely guy to work with ML

Hi Troy just to let you know your Dads recording of Think it Over has brought happiness to thousands of us on the Northern Soul Scene a thousand times over for decades and still does, Make sure you tell your Mother that we really appreciate that and he will never be forgotten, I’m sure your family is really proud of him I know I would be. Mick Lyons

I did a thread a few years ago titled ( what were your Golden Years of NS) everybody as there own personal opinion depending on what they were doing at that particular time or years, their health youth enthusiasm etc etc, my own favourite Years were 1986 till 1996 , Most people on the scene had matured , loved the stronger tunes that were coming through at the time, a lot of the lightweights on the scene had fallen away, Those left still had the energy and enough vitality to make it a very special time , The Nighters still had that edge that made it unique, I’m not decrying the early 1980, s because it’s from that. For me that NS it it’s peak and sorted the wheat from the chaff, It’s today that disappoints me , it’s become watered down , fragmented , pretentious and completely lost its edge, in fact a butter knife has more edge than NS night or nighter these days, In answer to the question it depends entirely on where you were and what you were doing in the 1980,s God Bless ML

Hi Julian if it was running weekly from September 73 to May 81 that would’ve been around just short of 400 nighters, but they did run a few Friday nighters wether it added up to another 100 over that period is another question, It weren’t my cup of tea anyway I stopped going to Youth clubs in 1965 and visited real nighters from then on cheers Mick

Remember me Blue boy 1997 has got a similar sound Mick L

The rifts in this tune have been used in a good few tunes late 1980,s early 1990,s what comes to mind to me is ( Soul to Soul group) but a good few more very familiar one in particular stands out it charted in 90,s ML

Another piece of British RnB n soul tragically gone he was always simmering just below the big time in he 1960,s soul scene

It was called think it over

Great singer R I P.

And come home in a taxi Cheers Mick

Yes keep training, keep that blood moving, it stops depression , helps you think clearer , puts everyday problems into the right priorities , prepares you for adversity what’s not to like! Except it’s hard work LOL, but I will keep on doing it otherwise Lose my Sanity. If I had any. Keep doing it you will feel better. Mick

Hi Shonuff that is one good record, great 100 % soul ML

A fantastic singer with a voice full of Soul ML

Get well soon Mark ML

GC is one of the best no doubt about it, his catalogue of music covers so much that there must be something somewhere that you like, a Great Artist who has definitely stood the test of time. ML

Special tune to me too, always played in my sets early 1990,s has the edge on temptations version a real good record with atmosphere, ML

Very sad news indeed , condolences to Marie and all his family and friends, Another lovely guy gone but never forgotten. R I P. Carl Mick

A nice flip side nobody played much is ITs The Magic of You Babe, B side of Steams Na Na Na, circa late 69 - 70 always liked it ML

I was blessed that I saw them 4 times live and they always delivered even after the line up had changed the last two times I seen them they were still at the top of their game, They will always be part of me growing up and their early sounds are Timeless. ML

God Bless Abdul Duke Fakir and Rest in Peace ML

Nearly everything that Otis Reading and Wilson Picket recorded in the md 1960,s at a profound influence in making RnB popular in the1960,s, and of course James Brown and he,s take on RnB. There were literally thousands of artists , Tamla artists, girl groups west coast sounds they all put their pennyworth in , So I would say it was a landslide of artists recordings, spearheaded by the Obvious better known Artists and recordings rather than a particular record, It all depended as well on the particular Soul Club you were visiting at the time and what you were listening too, different sounds different memories, ML

I always thought Tom jones could’ve done some big Tamla oldies and Chuck Jackson type sounds, he would’ve been a good substitute for Levi Stubbs I’m not saying better by any means but I think he would’ve been able to put his own marker down on a lot f the soul and Motown classics. Mick