Soulstu

I'm confused - I'm sure I started a topic about having your records stolen? I'm relatively new to SS - does this meandering happen a lot?

Nobody Loves Me - Ikettes - slows down as well!

Great - sounds like a good place to start out. I've been to the 'Wheel (!) before but not on a northern night. Soul nights transform regular buildings into something else, something magical. Thanks for the heads up.

The deafening silence points to one of two things: 1. It's crap 2. It's so cool and exclusive that SS members aren't even aware of it! I guess I'll have plenty of room on the dance floor

Wow! started off like background music from Carry On Follow That Camel, but whaddaya know - quality soul ensues! Great! More please!

Bloody hell Jo - you got it BAD! It may make you skint but sounds like you're happy. Hey, you can't take your sounds with you so enjoy as many as you can NOW, girl!

I keep wanting to click 'like' against these comments but that doesn't seem right. There should be a 'I feel your pain' button.

Thanks Mal, Should a looked at the label!

Little Richard obviously!

Everybody's flipped this I guess but how good is Hurry Sundown on the back of I Don't Want To Discuss It. Part Soul, part cowboy film soundtrack - WHAT a vocal performance! Love it. With a voice like that I often wonder what other awesome soul records he would have made in the 60s if he'd toned down the good time rocknroll stuff. Imagine him singing on some proper detroit stuff (not that he wasn't surrounded by great musicians at OKeh & Brunswick etc...) You're all going to point out all his great soul sides now aren't you?!!!

So, I'll be going on 5th April. However this is a BIG DEAL for me. My last northern night was in 1980! I've been practising my dancing on the kitchen tiles. Hope the dancing hasn't changed too much as mine is straight out of the late 70s! Anyway if anybody has been it would be good to know what it's like - is it a good place to go to ease myself back on the scene? Just in case you want to tap me on the shouder and say hello I'll be wearing a tight yellow vest with brown piping and patches, a pair of very wide Spencers with a beer towel stitched to the waistband and a pair of polyveldts. Seriously tho - is it worth going? - not all mid tempo stuff and smoothy modern is it?

Sorry everyone - deal done! Stu

Hi all, I've got a white promo of Body Chains (1975 - same both sides) that I've had for donkey's and never play. Not taken it out of it's sleeve for 30 years till today. Looking around it's worth getting on for £30ish. See the pics - it's in superb condition (M-) I'm looking for a straight swap for a good clean original US 1st issue classic oldie northern track such as: Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart/Our Love on pink Revilot NF Porter - Keep On Keeping On (Lizard) Mitch Ryder You Get Your Kicks or Breakout on New Voice Spyder Turner - I Can't Make it Anymore (MGM) Williams & Watson Too Late or A Quitter never Wins on purple OKeh A 'played' copy of Kim Weston 'I'm Still Loving You' (Tamla) would be good! (worth a try). You get the idea - if you're clearing out your oldies and buying up some modern and have got owt like the above or similar pm me? Ta, Stu

It's a new one on me this one, and I quite like it. Each to his own and all that. Intro's a bit dodgy but when it gets under way it's pretty groovy, nice tune etc... but 3 grand?!!!! If it was £25 I'd defo buy a copy Good for my soul to be hearing new (to my ears) tunes after a long break from the scene.

Aaaargh Frank Dell was on my stolen lis - what a record! Maybe this post is gonna cause some pain and very negative feelings - not what our scene is about. Shall we close it? Never lost owt in the post though Robb, that must be a real bummer.

Picture the scene - Chesterfield art college 1982 and my mate Mitch, having been turned on to northern soul by me(!) has asked to borrow some of my 45s so he can tape 'em. So he tapes 30 of my favourite records and leaves them in a tesco carrier bag in my locker....well you can guess the rest. Some chump helped himself all kinds of good stuff - MY good stuff, like NF Porter on Lizard, Dave Love (which I've just replaced!), Jimmie Raye on dark blue KKC which I am sure was an original, even weird sh*t like Jon & Robin on Abnak. I still seethe about this 32 years later. (Hey maybe Mitch didn't put them in my locker after all). I guess there are a lot of people out there with 'hot' stuff in their collections and they seem to be able to sleep at nights. Any particular piece of vinyl that you have had 'taken' from you that really REALLY stings? And what would you do to the knob who took it? Or have you subsequently found a record that used to be yours for sale and tried to get it back? Maybe if there were any way of identifying particular lost records - I don't know, if you were daft enough to write your name on the label rather than the sleeve! we could use the forum to shame people into giving records back! - For example all mine were in cardboard sleeves with 'Stu' in the top right corner (I know, I know....)

Back to pre-history - The Cheater - Bob Kuban Hmmm endings aren't such a rare occurrence after all. What about guitar solos!....

As I said in my post, nothing that'll get anybody hot under the collar - Dave Love - Colalined Baby, Ethics - Look At Me Now/Think About Tomorrow, Mamie Galore - It Ain't Necessary Just cheapies I guess (I'm on a budget) but I'm not going to buy anything I don't LOVE. Speaking of my first £100 record - my heart is set on Kim Weston - I'm Still Loving You on Tamla. Not this month tho!

Cheers everybody - some great comments and good advice. I know I'm doing the right thing. Buying and playing soul vinyl makes me very happy - it's pretty simple really. Just got to look carefully for the best places to buy.

I know I know..... I want some more... NOW!

So here's the thing - I've got probably the archetypal late 70s teenager's northern collection - a big mish mash of pressings, UK re-issues and the odd original - all the usual suspects, about 300 in all, each one in a cardboard sleeve decorated with magic marker writing and crap drawings of labels. It's sat dormant for donkeys years like a time capsule. I stopped buying singles around 1980 (doesn't mean I fell out with soul, I was skint!). Anyway over the years I've since bought loads of stuff on CD etc which I thought was a great concept at the time but somehow felt a bit hollow. Well, recently I've bought my first vinyl northern records since 1980 (half a dozen or so from Manships - I won't bore you with the titles, they're pretty obvious). Now here's the point - when they arrived (like an old 'soul pack') I can't begin to describe the thrill of opening them, looking at the beautiful labels and getting the vinyl out and putting it on for the first time. It was a FANTASTIC feeling, just like when I was 14 or 15. Can't say I feel the same when I get new CDs or download albums. Do you seasoned collectors, or even those of you who just keep steadily picking up the odd single still get the same thrill (I hope you do) or have you become immune to it? Just thought I'd put it out there!

NS - A Floater RW - Better get a stick!

Today's solid northern three for me are: Betty Lloyd - I'm Catching On Dave Love - Colalined Baby Marvin Smith - Have More Time OK, OK they've got whiskers on, but a good record is a good record is a good record. Can't get them out of my head at the mo. It'll be three totally different ones tomorrow (or even later tonight).

Dead right bud, To mark my impending 50th I'm just in the process of replacing some of my boots/reissues with US 1st pressings. It's going to be a long job. I'm picking up some decent stuff for about £30 - £50 but there's a hell of a lot of records that are way out of my price range. I'm planning to get a couple or 3 a month so it's gonna take ages. I'm beginning to wish I'd done this a couple of decades ago! However there's a lot of quality motown to get my teeth into.

Recorded 6 years after he went solo