Sean Hampsey

Nothing there to criticise. It's a very simple, honest and straightforward account of the life of a typical UK Soul fan. Nothing 'Godinesque' about it. Reg cuts to the chase and just tells it how he saw it. I'm sure most of us can relate entirely with his experiences. In summary: its a smashing little book. Just couldn't put it down... and I read it in one take! Well done Reg for having the initiative and for taking the time out of your life to put your thoughts and memories down on paper.

No Malc, the 'uptempo' quote was from elsewhere. You dont arf come up with some beauties though mate! For the time being, that's all I can find out for ya. Gotta go and make a Spag Bol for me starving herd! If you need any more info meanwhile, you should contact Craig Charles!

It appears that Bobby and Harvey were the 'Moonlighters' - a 'group within a group'. Just copied this of a page on the net:- As another added attraction, in the early days of the Moonglows Chess years, they provided fans with 'the group within a group' concept recording as The Moonlighters. Originally to be just a duo of Bobby Lester and Harvey Fuqua for the Checker label as they were on "I'm So Alone", the full group recorded the songs "Shoo Doo Be Doo" one of the greatest up tempo vocal group sides ever, and the follow up "A Hug And A Kiss". Soon after the Moonlighters concept was dropped and the Moonglows made musical history through the decade. Some resouces quote the release as 'Moonglows' others as 'Moonlighters'. Another resource is quoted as follows:- The same month that Chess released "Sincerely," they issued a Lester-Fuqua duet, "Shoo Doo Be Doo," as Bobby Lester and the Moonlighters. Feeling they had an up-tempo hit but not wanting to wait for "Sincerely" to die down and not wishing to distract from the ballad image they were projecting, Chess's sister label Checker became home to the Moonlighters. Though not charting nationally, "Shoo Doo Be Doo" received extensive airplay and sales in pockets of the country, and booking agents looking to hire the group found out that to get them, they had to take the Moonglows too (I wonder why). The Moonlighters' schizophrenia lasted for one more single in 1954. "Hug and a Kiss" failed and they went back to being full-time Moonglows. Have you got the record Malc?

Yeh... you're right....if you're gonna start counting! Anybody under 50' is a teenie to me and Malc!

https://home.att.net/~marvart/Moonglows/moonglows.html Some awesome resource here Malc.

Hi Malc, That release, by all accounts was just Bobby and Harvey. Bobby was born in 1930 and Harvey 1929... so they were very young - teenagers! Bobby passed away in 1980 (only 50) so he was certainly a young guy at the time of the Columbia LP & 45! Sean

Good stuff guys! So that's just over a dozen! (we managed around a hundred last year). Any more for any more? Need to build up those Wants Lists!

Oh... and a Happy (and Soulful) New Year to all! Sean

Tis the B side to "All The Waiting Is Not In Vain". Great double sider!

Just played Delfonics "You're Gone" Tasty!

To All At Soul Source PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A SECOND ISSUE COPY (Possibly a Boot). Roger (45Cellar) has the original! All the very best to all Soul Sourcers for 2008. Sean

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For reference, the 2007 thread can be found here: /index.p...t=0&start=0 Top Tips for 2007 included the following: Al Williams "Try Them" Grapevine O C Smith - I'm glad I fell in love with you - Motown (Love Changes LP) Mary Hunt -I wanna love and be loved - Soul Mate, Little Herman - Im gonna walk --Gina HARRY CALDWELL - PLEASE COME BACK - CARNIVAL Chuck Jackson - Look Over Your Shoulder - Wand LAINEY ALLEN I CAN'T TAKE IT J.W.J. ALFRED O - DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO - MO DO. JOE CLARK - WON'T YOU SETTLE DOWN - WILDCAT. THE RAVIN MADS - WHERE IS LOVE - RAVIN VIKKI STYLES - TEARS WON'T STOP FALLING - O DEX RAY POLLARD - SOULMATE - OMNIPOTENT ROTATIONS - TRYING TO MAKE YOU MY OWN - Mala Ann Peebles - If This Is Heaven - Hi The Boss Man - Youre Taking Too Long -Gamble Satisfaction Unlimited - Lets Change The Subject - Hot Wax Jackie Moore - Do Ya Got What It Takes- CBS GEORGE SMALLWOOD - YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU - SMALLWOOD Douglas and Lonero - This Time - RCA M J Wade - I'm Gonna Ball Baby - Helva Choo Choo Montgomery - I Know He's Got Another Lover - Capricorn La Jay Alexander - Say So - Black Gold Brenda Holloway - The Bottle Brief Encounter - What about love - Capitol Rideout - Spend some time - Hotlicks Detroit Magnificents - Is This A Woman's Way - Grapevine Cynthia Brown - Heaven Must Have Sent You -Giana Eddie Kirk - Monkey Tonight -King David Ruffin - I can't get over losing you - Motown David Ruffin - One lucky day i found you - Motown Imagination - Love Diet - 20th Century Brenda Lee Eager - When I'm with you - Mercury Bunny Sigler - Sunny Sunday - Parkway Barbara Lynn's "Nice And Easy" Atlantic Sonics - Do it with Soul - (feat becky bower) - copyright Herde Something - We Made Up - Alcon Luckey Jamaml Davis--Love Is Better--Big City Leon De-Bous-- Every Fellas Girl--Bold LP Raving Mads Where Is The Love Ravin Renovations - Thanks To Him - Angel Town Sweet William - Maybe Baby - Companion Jerry Walker - Mr. Limp - Ten High The Strands - Breeze From The Trees - Tarx The Nomads - Tell Her No Lies - Mo Groove Lynn Tanner - Moonlight Girl - Sho-Boat Johnny Shabazz - I've Got Life - Shabazz Ebonies - I Cant Help But Love You - Avis Idols - Check Her Out - USA The Contessas - Time For Crying - WGW King Sound Interpreters - Hi Note - Talent of Music Mickey Denton - Now I'm Mr. Blue - Mala Johnnie Hoyle - What About Me - Ray-Bo Romey Rand - I'm Coming In - D-Town Blue Sharks - These Things Will Keep Me Loving You - Grand-Prix Clydie King - BREAKAWAY Chuck Armstrong - Better Place -Black Rock Clarence Glover - Keep Your Promises - Lyndell Nate Adams - Why is it taking so long - Atlantic Garland Green - I Can't Believe You Quit Me - Uni The Harvey Laverne Band - Struttin Slow - Uptite Vikter Duplaix - I see the sun Livin' Proof - You And I - Ju-Par 532 Viola Wills - I've Got News For You - Supreme George Smallwood - Hey Mama - Smallwood Chuck Armstrong - How sweet it is- SS7 Johnny Moor - You Fixed it Our Brothers Keeper - You've Been A Long Time Comin' - Columbia. Johnny Wyatt - Any Kind of Love - Challenge Johnny Copeland - Just One More Time - Golden Eagle, Tony Middleton - Already Satisfied - Speed Dry Well - Gypsy - Lauren Meditations - It's wrong to fight -Checker VINCE MONTANA/DOUBLE EXPOSURE YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING HUNTER HAYES - WHY CANT WE LIVE TOGETHER - BLAZE REMIX RANCE ALLEN GROUP - EVERYBODY`S TALKING NEW WORLD - WERE GONNA MAKE IT - POLYDOR SWEET DADDY FLOYD - I JUST CANT HELP MYSELF - SUPER STAR EON - WE`LL GO ON - Scepter TRUE IMAGE - DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE - JUANA HENRY JACKSON GROUP - WHATS THE MATTER - TRUTH Ruby Andrews - Wonderful Night - Zodiac Ko Ko Taylor - Fire - Checker Prince Phillip Mitchell - In Her Own Way - Ichiban American Girl /Rosce Thomas. world records (or sound gems) Finger poppin woman /dell vikings. fee bee Thats what you say / Gloria scott. Casablanca Willy Wiley Just be glad King Brief Encounter What about love Capitol Jimmy Lewis I quit you win Tangerine Carl Douglas I don't care what people say 20th Century Rumpus my loves gonna get ya Dash Odia Coates and Paul Anka Make it up to me in love Epic Latimore shes all that The Dramatics "Since I've Been In Love" (Volt) The Ethics "Think About Tomorrow" (Vent) I Can be Happy - Don & Debbie - Amos Montclairs - Unwanted Love Continental Showstoppers - Not Too Young Bloodstone - Just wanna get the feel of it - Motown Chuck Bridges - Don't you make me cry Little Jewell - I want to Right Out Of Time - Betty Lavette - Betty J. White "This moment with you" Dana The Elites "Sir Galahad" Era Records Tony Washington - Forever more - Peacock Count Everything - Timi Yuro - Liberty The Contessas - Keep On Keeping On Vinnie Monte - I Dont Have The Heart To Tell Her -- RCA Don Ray Sampson - Baby Come Back Relatives - Lenient With My Love - Archway Harold Melvin - Reaching For The World - ABC BERNIE MOORE-I WANNA BE LOVED TO DEATH ELDRDGE HOLMES-WORRIED OVER YOU GLADYS KNIGHT-STEPPING CLOSER TO YOUR HEART Lou Rawls - Time Will Take Care Of Everything - Philly Int Herman Griffin - Are you for Me? -Magic Touch Claude Baby Huey - Drifting Tee Fletcher - Would You Do It For Me Jimmy Soul Clark - Tell Her ARTHUR CONLEY- WHO'S FOOLING WHO - Jotis. How did they do? Certainly my old Windmill spin 'Bloodstone' got exposed here and there.... and the George Smallwood things are still doing the rounds! Any others? Sean

Phew, Where did that year go? Exactly 12 months since we did the last 'Top Tips' thread... so here we go again! Here's your opportunity to tip the tunes in your box for future greatness over the next year... or simply list any number that you'd like to recommend to other Soul Sourcers. You might be a DJ with that tasty unplayed, unknown, hardly played or semi-known stuck in the back of your box that you'd love to play... but haven't yet got around to it. You might be a collector, sitting on a tune that you know, if it got into the right hands, could become massive in the next 12 months. It could be an LP track that, for whatever reason, has never been given the recognition it deserves. It might be a tasty 'B' side that, given the right exposure, might just become a monster! No need to post sound clips. Just let us know what you've got that you think deserves a plug in the coming year! As a quick lookback, the Top Tips for 2007 will appear on the next post. So come on. Look at your box and let's have your top tip (or tips) for 2008. Sean Hampsey

Everyone except John F, Rob? Who do I need to kill then mate to get a copy? What a night that was. I've got a few pics but never seen the vid. Sean

To clarify, I didn't intend to add to the eternal 'what is Soul?' debate, merely intended to express a measure of bemusement as to how we in the UK (particularly on the 'Northern' scene) tend to ignore real Soul talent... while it's current. Sure, we go well out of our way to heap adoration and appreciation on talented soul artists in retrospect, but rarely do we recognise it while it's right under our noses. In some bizarre and twisted manner, wannabe's such as Winehouse / Paul Weller etc. are often lauded (particularly on these pages) as having some kind of 'Soul' credibility over their stateside contemporaries. Not too much wrong with either (IMO) but, come on, own up, how many Northern Soul fans have ever even heard of Floyd Taylor, Donnie Ray, Anthony Hamilton or Calvin Richardson never mind put their money into supporting the artist by buying their music... while it's still available . The UK Soul scene has a meritous track record in giving struggling artists a brief moment in the spotlight, but often this comes far to late in their lives to make a difference... and sadly the likes of Winehouse will stick more up her nose in a month than some of the artists above will earn in an entire career. Of course, the mere fact that she had a hit with 'Rehab' makes her a Journalists and PR mans dream. All standing by to come up with the latest headine as she publicly self destructs. Perhaps one of our current Soul artists should make an album called "I Was Doomed to A Life at The Car Wash (Until The UK Discovered Me... Sooner Rather Than Later)". I've said it many times on here already. There's some excellent music and some fabulous (authentic) Soul artists doing great things - right now - in the US. Soul music fans should check 'em out now - that is unless we're all happy for history to keep on repeating itself. Sean

Don't be silly Martin, Need to wait another 20 years for the artist to be near Bankrupt and almost lose their voices before that happens. Can't believe the column inches on this forum during the past 12 months Re: Winehouse... with hardly a murmer on real deal Soul artists, doing superb things right now! (Sharon Jones, Donnie Ray, Ryan Shaw, Charlie Jones, Floyd Taylor etc.). Just plain weird! Will be worth logging on in 2020 to see these artists getting 'discovered'.

Worth repeating that post Mark! Took the words right out of my mouth!

Yes it was the hottest thing around... for about a fortnight! UK Private Stock label. Picked one up at its peak for pennies at Tony's in Lincoln.

Ms Winehouse is (by her own admission) heavily influenced by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Sharon Jones Band (The Dap-Kings) backed her on her US tour - the 12 coast-to-coast US shows that helped propel the Winehouse album into the US Top 10 in its first week. Think Soul Sourcers should seriously check out the 'source of the soul' on https://www.myspace.com/sharonjonesandthedapkings Sean

Not nearly as much as it should!

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. https://www.myspace.com/sharonjonesandthedapkings

Recordsbymail have one on now @ $70 (so as Baz said... around £40). Bargain!

TFFT - Had me thinking it had been issued twice.