Kenb

don't know what the line up is anymore- don't know what they sing anymore...but worth the risk. anyhow...let's remember

ah..... the question stuff - 'you into it then': i have quite a bit of stuff hanging on my stairs hallway walls in view of visitors (see my post in Clubs section if remotely interested), and it's always the Gas Man, Carpet Fitter, Gutter Man etc, delivery man ( god bless them all) who ask that question. They then proceed to tell me about their mate, or there Punk experience. But it does make for for a jolly 30 minutes-with me then thinking they just don't get it.

i think the tie thing was to put (some) people off. a bit like No Trainers ( was that the 90's). Didn't Fred (was it Fred) the badges-pins man lend people ties?

Memory is hazy -but i do know this was before ’75. We went (i know not when) from parallels and 22” centre vents, 3” pocket flaps, 5 button sleeves, to blazers with patch pockets and wire emrodered County or footbal badges. I remember queing up outside Hurley’s Golf shop to get my Slazenger cardy ( i could see the opposite side of the road, corner of Whitworth St from here: the Wheel). For some reason we never wore FP’s. (for conext only, it's not a "back in the day" moan - most of us were used to standing on a duck-board 5 days a week and skilled guys got £26 a week). Money was tight. Then it got more casual. Not only were records imported, clothes too. There was a guy we knew who was a manager at Johnsons the Cleaners- very smart, and had a car. Trouser bottom widths got larger but not branded (i certainly didn’t know what Oxford Bags or Spencers were). Shirts- notched collar, short sleeves (not Hawaiian or bowling) Mr California, Penney’s. Bizarrely, i see these worn by the lead actor on the TV programme Two and a Half Men. I still have some of the shirts-and still wear them to NS nights, because they did what they did then...allowed me more freedom to dance ( is that just too sad?). We never got to the more flamboyant styles - we'd gone.

Seems like I wasn’t asleep after all : re dates. Just asleep on reading previous posts.

Although recorded in 1966, i thought this only turned up in the tape vaults of Motown in 1980. I've obviously been a sleep.

i'd explored a lot of stuff on the Neville Brothers for the #14 article i recently posted. So the news of his passing was really sad news. RIP.

Steve's been about for years in the (uk band -Soul Survivors which went on to be) Love Affair. indeed Paul Weller's influence is all over it.

Jackie Wilson-May 10th.

Nosmo (the Javells)

I wasn't there myself...but i think the Detroit Emeralds were in Mid 70's?

i still think i can...and that's all that counts Joey my friend.

Northern Soul Connections #14 - Confessin A Feeling For The Philharmonics - Latest connections just published and it's a big one... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

I’ve read the OP several times now ...and just don’t get it? are you saying you can’t find the NS music you want to hear at a venue(within a reasonable distance to where you live)? and... who is We? Is there a group who feel the same? other than that, you are entitled to your own opinion.

I've been researching this for over 18 months (on and off) for maybe one of my Northern Connection articles. without too much luck on Ann herself, i have to say. Armco to American Sound Corp to Ardco (allied record dist co) to CIRCA (consolidated international record co america) - are the distie/label clues to follow, but these and other non-Ann stuff is all i have at the moment( and expect ever to get).

liner notes on CD's are to die for...more often than not.

Last CD i bought was 'Birth of Soul-Special DETROIT Edition 1961-1964' -Kent

best known for his work with the post-Motown Holland-Dozier-Holland label Invictus Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

I think i get the tone of your thread Jam66, and have some empathy with it in general. But...there's 360 million people in North America and many of them are in-tune with their ( and our NS /R&B/Soul) music history and culture. It's "like us" though, how many out of the total population of the UK ( is 54 million?) 'get it'?

thanks for that Dave. Corrections, or further enlightenment are encouraged and appreciated. cheers Ken