Soulstu

Got to have the best quality/price ratio of any northern soul record!… up there with the very best IMO.

It's people like me as well Gaz. I'm buying vinyl again 'cos my missus bought me a deck for my 50th (not because of the film!) and I'm slowly replacing some of my 2nd issues/pressings with 1st issues (along with records that are new to me), so some of the records I'm buying are the bleedin' obvious.

Quittin' Time, nicks a little instrumental figure directly from Get Ready - just enough not to get sued. And don't forget the Green Onions organ break on C'mon and Swim I reckon we're scratching the surface here...

If he had lived imagine the music he would have made in the mid to late 60s!

That'd be a major blow Matt - it's not just the music, there's the science, historical docs all that... it's like food to me. Bin BBC3 instead - can't remember when I last watched that.

Will the DJ's have to 'pitch' the records up a bit? etc etc etc etc

This is why I'm happy to pay my licence fee. BBC4 music documentaries are the nuts!

The Seeds???? played at the Casino? I'd love to have heard that!… garage rock at niters - the new r'n'b?

Done. Nice, Nice, Baby.

Same experience as Jazz really, we go out every weekend around South Yorks / North Derbys - Notts etc and very very rarely see non-soulies gawping or trying to 'do the dance'. There are some who look as though they've never danced 'Northern' in their lives, but you can see them mouthing the words to songs that you wouldn't expect them to know, so.... On the few occasions I've seen the odd drunk, or non-soulie, they didn't really seem to be taking the Mick, they were watching and trying to have a go - in fact I was talking to one youngish lad at an all-dayer, who was a bit drunk and seemed to know nothing about N Soul but to be fair, he really liked what he was hearing and was fascinated by the dancing. So there could be a positive side to the younger non-soulies turning up and having a look....but for the late middle-aged 'motown morons' there's no hope. Maybe it's not as bad as you think Barney, you go to J36 and the like don't you?... I reckon we're OK for a while yet. Should be easy to spot the crap do's.

Tommy Dodson One Way Love, Charles Shefield both under 1:50 - there's more than you think. That's what I love about these records - they never outstay their welcome!

'Discontented'

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271673289036?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I've been banging on about this record in another thread, cos I love it... Although this is pretty much my favourite northern soul record (hence the avatar) I understand it's not particularly rare and was never much of a floor filler back in the day... and today it's pretty much ignored. Am I missing something?... or are these kind of prices the norm for a record that no one's bothered about much? (and it's a VG+ with an edge warp).

These hundred and 80 odd posts kind of confirm that generally, yes we are indeed 'bovvered' about instrumentals!

Kev. does that mean it's failed forever? Surely due a spin - a great record is a great record... is a great record! PS is Leonard no other than Len Jewell Smith? I'm sure I heard that somewhere.

,,,and this, Georgie's storming version of the Spinners Sweet Thing. Heard it out on Friday Night - the floor was mine!!!!! (yeah right). Beautiful. How about a SS British Record Club?

Tony Owens - Nice tune! Let's go back a few years from that Peter!.... to 1967 (nurse!!!! smelling salts for Mr Nice!!!!!) Blue eyed northern soul at its very very best!

Yesteryear still going then Kev? Thought it was an early 70s thing.

I've got loads, they make a nice little collection. I like the label, they look great as a set! Even though they're official only worth a few quid each tops I would guess.

HANK JACOBS!!!!! Elijah... Don't think I've ever passed on this one. Would sprint from the bog doing me pants up if it came on. I'd certainly play this at home if I had a copy. Fingersnappin' instrumentals like this do it for me - they add colour and life to a set.

When was this first played?... it's pretty much my favourite record ever and I know very little about it. In fact when I got a copy in the very late 70s it seemed to be the only copy around - I didn't know anyone else who had it or even knew it. Nice to know it was a Wigan spin.

Don't post on the record club very often, though I often 'lurk' - it's pretty much the best thing about SS. This is a bit slow and shuffly for me, but it sneaked up on me from behind when I had the iPod on shuffle. I love it to bits...beautiful!

Got Wombat's 'Getting On Life' in a soul pack in the late 70s - nearly stopped playing A sides after that!!!!

Evening Meal? Sunday Carvery?...sounds like a Warners break. Great, there'll be no kids!..hope the music's not too loud or I'll not be able to have a nice chat with Doris and Albert.... FFFS

Yep I read that and can certainly hear the female backing, but no Jerry, Nick and no bona fide male group members!... What I'm trying to say is did Joe and George hear the playback and think "am I on this?"