Kenb

you can't drive 1/2 mile without seeing a "Northern Soul Keep The Faith sticker" in the back window of a car.

It’s not all doom-and-gloom…just when I think it can’t get any worse, up pops Ace with their Shrine box set, or Butch coming to Ukrainian, or the numerous other event/ release highlights

I'm guessing the majority of people on this site would maybe run-a-mile if engaged in conversation with the general public and Northern Soul was mentioned. Why? because any nostalgia that was once present for many of us, has been firmly trodden into the ground by what has become the ubiquitous commercial nature of what many people now think Northern Soul is. Unfortunately, i think this reality is the future.

must say i'm a bit lost on the time-line here... you say "Now I have been a Club & Mobile Dj for some 50 years now and only recently retired ... Surely you must have been using vinyl at some stage during the 50 years. MP3's (Post 1995 at least i think), Laptops (just about the start of the 80's ( if you could afford one).

PDF for a quick, fresh look and filling in some of the blanks. Four Andantes soul source.pdf

Don't get too excited...i can't do it every time The Van Dykes (Mala 584) - £330 Syng McGowan (Hope 551) - £400 The Tranells (Flo-Jo 101) - £5,000 Johnny Wyatt (Bronco 2052 dj) - £180 Howard Guyton (Verve 10386 dj) - £300 The Matadors (Chavis1034) - £330 Gene Chandler (Constellation 172 dj) - £275 Willie Hutch (Dunhill 4012 dj) - £901 The Autographs (Joker 714) - £800 Don Scott (noD ttocS 1001) - £150 Sly, Slick & Wicked (Paramount 0165) - £200 Barbara & Brenda (Dynamo 120 dj) - £225 Us Everyday People (L.B.J. (What Now) 292) - £210 Eloise Laws (Music Merchant 1013 dj) - £171 Lynne Randell (Australian CBS 221387) - £180

amazing....

i thought Darrell Banks...but i think you'd have got that?

I'm not saying you or anyone else is wrong...but i have them as Doretha and Lolietha. And that came from a 1967 delinquent tax report, which you wouldn't have thought got it wrong.

Gold Star a month after it closed in 1984. Also, Effie Smith was the main exec behind Tri Disc. ( and possibly a lesser exec for the Marc label)

Agree...but i don't think i'd have gone anywhere ( or been attracted to anything) that was being descibed as "cool".

think i'd be Self Medicating, more like

Guitar Ray (Shagg 711) - £907 The Tomangoe's (Washpan 3125) - £8,210 The Adorables (Golden World 25 dj) - £375 Larry Atkins (Highland 1193) - £418 Lada Edmund, Jr. (Decca 32007 dj) - £350 Trade Martin (Stallion 1003) - £250 Ellie Greenwich (Red Bird 10-034 dj) - £280 The Intentions (Kent 455 dj) - £250 The Valentinos (Chess 1977 dj) - £250 Sold Brothers Six (Lyndell 747) - £205 Jack Montgomery (Scepter 12152 dj) - £250 The Age Of Bronze (Guava 103) - £250 L. Allen (Green Dolphin 115) - £1,300 The Servicemen (Patheway 102) - £350 Superlatives (Dynamics 1012) - £351 The Chashers (Uncle 4311) - £300

Stephanye (the record label, and the pub co) is something i've never been able to get my head around? I've seen Stephanye pub co associated with; Gene Redd, Leonard S. Mietus's copyright management company and Fred Fioto. I do know that Cleveland Horne's daughter was called Stephanye (perhaps a nod to the label name there?), and also know Gene Redd Snr daughter was Pennye ( Penny), so perhaps something there?

Danny & The Dreamers https://dannyandthedreamers.bandcamp.com/album/baby-somethings-wrong-i-couldnt-come-back-to-you?from=fanpub_fnb

See further up the thread. Northern connections # 20 someone took the names from my article and put them on discogs back in 2019

That makes sense. Wasn't it Bumps that leveraged Sam away from the Soul Stirrers

Hi Jordan, Great Article. I have been abroad until today, and so although i could read your article i coudn't get to my PC files back home. Having now done so... ...So it's George (not Elree) on Chelan records. well well. FYI, The Duprells 1964 line up; augie jones, ben garth, douglass graha, jim gilstrap & ollie channel.

Fair enough

Surely you can “shoehorn” any ‘extreme/ unusual/ ADHD/spectral type behaviour’ into anything…Beit Northern Soul, Football Fandom, Train spotting, stamp collecting, Eurovision, and so on. None of which is cause… just effect.

Oh blimey…logged in whilst on hols..thought I’d had too much sun.

Porto Morgan, Gran Canaria 10am today

There was definately "a Marke Jackson" gigging (short lived) in New Jersey in 1968, with Donna Lee (Clown Town on Columbia) & Others.