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    Dean Anderson's Sound of Soul, Thursday 8pm.

    in Soul Media

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    On 28/06/2019 at 20:07, Chalky said:

    Joining Dean Anderson and Gez on the Sound Of Soul ™ is the dynamic duo from Diggin' Deep Records Sean Hampsey and his very good long time mate Kev Briscoe.  Both have a wealth of knowledge all things SOUL and bring you two hours of pure quality.

    Thanks Chalky.

    While ya'll were sunbathing / sat outside the pub, I had my secretary type up the playlist x

    Bobby Womack – I Don’t Wanna Be Hurt By Your Love Again
    OV Wright - Nickel And A Nail
    Sir Ted Ford - Right Now
    Claude And The Brotherhood - What You Gonna Do Now
    Al Perkins - Yes My Goodness Yes
    Melvin Hicks And The Versatile - I’m Just Passing Time
    Sam Dees - What’s It Gonna Be
    Willie Hutch - Walking On My Love
    Lawrence and Jaibi - You Make Me Feel Good
    Lollipops - Cheating Is Telling On You
    Bobby Womack - Runaway
    Deon Jackson - When Your Love Is Gone
    The Mighty Whites - Living My Life For You
    Coke Escovado - I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
    H Ellis - Won’t You Come Back To Me Baby
    Lorraine Johnson - If You Want Me To Be More Of A Woman
    Autographs - Loves Going To Do You In
    Five Stairs Steps -I’m The One Who Loves You
    John Edwards - Spread The News
    Radiations - That’s The Way
    Enchanted Five - Darling I Need You Now
    Frank Turner – All For My Kids
    Patti Drew - Falling In And Out Of Love
    JP Robinson - Keep Me Satisfied
    Jeanette Williams - Friend Of Mine
    Jaibi - It Was Like A Nightmare
    Soul Stirrers - I’m Trying To Be Your Friend
    Otis Clay - Holding Onto A Dying Love
    Tommy Turner - I’ll Be Gone
    Art Jerry Miller - Got To Get Home

     

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    New Diggin Deep 45 Jaibi 'Nightmare' / 'You Make Me Feel'

    in All About the SOUL

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    THE NEWEST ‘DIGGIN’ DEEP’ LIMITED EDITION 45
    Two superb sides dedicated to the memory of our old friend Dave Godin.

    Showcasing the talents of two artist’s he championed: Joan Bates (AKA Jaibi) AND Larry Banks!

    Can You Dig It?

    DD 007A Jaibi ‘It Was Like A Nightmare’
    DD 007B Lawrence & Jaibi ‘You Make Me Feel Good ’

    This is the latest Diggin’ Deep 45, available to pre order on what would have been Dave’s 83rd birthday.

    It is no exaggeration to say that Dave was one of the most influential, if somewhat controversial, figures on the UK Soul scene. He will mainly be remembered for promoting Tamla Motown in this country and coining the terms ‘Northern’ and ‘Deep’ Soul. No mean feat!

    His contribution to ‘Soul Journalism’ was exceptional and his ability to unearth or exposure underrated talent was legendary.

    Both Joan Bates and Larry Banks were artists very dear to Dave. It’s no exaggeration to say that their musical legacy would be ‘lost’ to many of us if it wasn’t for him.

    Both these tracks are from the GWP production team out of New York which included Larry Banks. Banks was responsible for bringing acts such as Kenny Carter, The Exciters and The Dynamics to the fold as well as recording himself and his then wife, Joan Bates.

    The ‘A’ side, ‘It Was Like A Nightmare’ was written by Joan and Larry Banks and we feel it is a typical ‘Dave Godin side’.

    Taken just below mid-tempo it’s the familiar tale of a ‘lover’s triangle’; a well-used idiom for some of the very best Soul records.

    Our heroine is at the alter waiting to take her vows but has she got the man of dreams? One thing is for certain, the indecision is giving her nightmares!

    Whatever the outcome, she is definitely with the man of her choice on the flipside, ‘You Make Me Feel Good’. This was co-written by Zerben Hicks and a version by the Dynamics was issued on the flip of his magnificent opus ‘Lights Out’.

    Quite why this superior version remained in-the-can is a mystery and was beautifully described by Dave himself:

    “Working with an escalating intensity and depth, their gospel-based question and response technique, takes the record to dizzying heights of brilliance”

    Now if that doesn’t whet your appetite and have you eager to own this music on a 45, nothing will!

    Please take a few minutes to listen to the promotional video. We hope you’ll agree, this great double-header is a 45 that every Soul fan will want to have in their collection.

    Both sides are now available on a beautifully mastered 45.

    DD007 collector’s release is a limited pressing @ just £12 each plus postage and packing.

    Avoid Disappointment. Pre-order ON WEBSITE ONLY now, while stocks last: www.diggin-deep.com

    Diggin’ Deep Records – Sheffield, England. Making available a series of excellent Soul recordings from the 60’s and 70’s, most of which will be released as a limited edition 45 for the very first time, and the occasional, carefully selected, re-issue. Dozens more titles are already lined up for limited future release. Keep informed by collecting the vinyl, joining the mailing list, visiting the website and social media pages regularly and ensure you’re among the first to know!

    In Memory of Dave Godin 21st June 1936 – 15th October 2004

    Avoid Disappointment. Pre-order now, while stocks last.

    www.Diggin-Deep.com

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    Charade Rotherham

    in All About the SOUL

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    On 12/03/2019 at 12:26, Billy Jo Jim Bob said:

    Nice to hear the Windmill mentioned. I went there a few times in my youth. We caught the train north to Rotherham one day and walked towards the venue. There was 3 of us and we were around 15 years old or so, as we wandered towards the venue a heavy rocker came running at us waving a piece of 4x2 shouting that we were part of a certain gang and we'd beat up his mate the week before. So it was fight or flight.....we chose flight knowing the old rocker wouldn't catch us. Friendly place Rotherham...😀

    Andy Mac

    Interesting that Andy, Masboro area was certainly more Rocker than Mod, so choosing flight was definitely the best option.

    You'd have been made a lot more welcome in Mod Town Kimberworth, just up the road.

    Sean

    Charade Rotherham

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    3 minutes ago, Kegsy said:

    Well the rovrum names that spring to mind are Matchie,  Johnny Keegan and Glyn. There would have been some Barnsley lads about too, Steve Midgley, Kev Holt,  and obviously  Bub. 

    Yep, John Keenan and Glynn Olivant mate. Still see them around to this day.

    Matchie was also a regular Charade goer as he only lived down the road.

    Enchanted Five Full Listing Anyone ?

    in Look At Your Box

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    On 05/03/2019 at 07:25, Blackpoolsoul said:

     

    I just found this post as I am relatively new to this site

    I Found this about the group and their connection to the Ultimates

    The Ultimates were formed as a result of the untimely deaths of Ray Railey and Alvin Freeman from the CVS outfit, The Enchanted Five whose remaining members were Donnie Scales, Earl Railey (brother to Ray) and Jimmy Radford. The CVS label emanates from Clarke, Venieriee & Smith. Arthur Venieriee was one of the original managers for The Ohio Players and Joseph Peppy Smith was a buyer and marketing rep at J & R Music World. The passing of those 2 band members led the survivors of the Columbus, Ohio outfit to bring in new blood in the form of Nate (Nathanial) Hayden and another member whose name has long been forgotten to form the Ultimates. 
    Bruce Clark recorded the Ultimates in New York. They stayed in town for three or four days, completing a session of tracks, which appeared on their later album ”You’re my lady” and when that was over, they left again. Clarke didn’t have any control of the group or what they did work wise except for the recording on BR-Roma. The Ultimates reputedly completed one other recording after Clarke lost touch without knowing what name they did it under.

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    Thank you. I also found that info last year on a page about Bruce Clark. Great stuff.

    Also found this great pic of The Enchanted Five on there.

    Thanks a bunch,

    Sean

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    Charade Rotherham

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    On 13/02/2019 at 19:57, Martyn Hall said:

    Remember it well.....Lived in Barnsley and went to Rotherham Tech with two lads from Kimberworth. They introduced me to the Charade AND to the record shop at top end of market - Sound of Music - went their most lunchtimes to get the latest import!! Happy and carefree days.

     

    Do you remember the names of the Kimberworth lads Martyn?

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    Charade Rotherham

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    Posted · Edited by Sean Hampsey

    Thanks Chalky.

    Yes, I remember the Charade. It was the first proper club I ever went to. And ended up being resident DJ there for nearly 4 years during the mid 70’s.

    I started going in 72 when Dave Growns was the DJ.

    He was a very influential figure for me at that time.

    Dave was an ex Wheelite and his taste in music was sublime, introducing us to so many great sounds.

    In addition to the oldies, he was always on top of his game for what was new and upcoming.

    Records I heard for the first time and that I associate with my early years there included:

    Guy Darrell – I’ve Been Hurt

    Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love

    Dean Parrish - I'm On My Way

    Cooperettes – Shing a Ling

    Bobby Hebb - Love, Love, Love

    Syl Johnson - We Did It

    O'Jays - Time To Get Down

    John Miles - One Minute Every Hour

    Jimmy James - A Man Like Me

    Johnny Johnson - Honeybee

    Della Reese -If It Feels Good Do It

    Don Downing - Lonely Days Lonely Nights

    Blue Magic - Look Me Up

    Mixed in with the likes of the Fascinations 'Girls Are Out To Get You' and the Impressions 'You've Been Cheating' it was a heady and enticing cocktail.

    The club had a long association with the whole Mod thing, so Soul Music was its natural stock in trade. From there me and mates heard about the Mecca, Torch, etc and first started understanding ‘Northern’ soul as a genre. Made our first visit to Blackpool late ’72 and never looked back. But the Charade was always my favourite haunt.

    I took up Deejaying in ’73 and proudly took up residency at The Charade in ’75.

    I was resident for nearly four years, working 2-3 nights a week there and elsewhere, all over the region on other available nights. Very busy times.

    The Charade became a hub for Northern and New Release Soul in South Yorkshire and the records I played would have been a mix of classic soul and oldies with a huge accent on new and recent releases:

    Bill Harris – Am I Cold am I Hot

    Invitations - Look On The Good Side

    Brothers Guiding Light – Getting Together

    Bobby Moore - Call Me Your Anything Man

    Jackey Beavers - Trying To Get Back To You Girl

    Notations- Think Before You Stop

    Bobo Mr Soul – Hitchhike To Heartbreak

    Bobby Womack – Check It Out

    Grover Mitchell – What Hurts

    Fantastic Puzzles – Come Back

    Johnny Baker – Shy Guy

    Bobby Womack - Home Is Where The Heart Is

    The Crow – Your Autumn of Tomorrow

    Natural Four - Love's So Wonderful

    We weren’t afraid of Funk either and I would have mixed the likes of James Brown ‘Sex Machine’ with War’s ‘Me And Baby Brother’ as standard to get the floor buzzing and lure in the ‘regular’ nightclub crowd.

    Finding the floor receptive to newer sounds I found a following for some of the 45’s from my British collection and I gave the likes of Bobby Patterson ‘I’m In Love With You’ and Darrel Banks ‘I’m The One Who Loves You’ their first spins at the Charade. They’ve been with me ever since.

    Samanthas and Cleethorpes were in full swing mid 70’s and, along with the Mecca, we always had similar playlists to these venues as the new sounds came through the same sources.

    Miracles – Love Machine & Night Life

    Rodger Collins – You Sexy Sugar Plum

    Johnny Baker - Operator, Operator

    Eula Cooper – Let Our Love Grow Higher

    Tamiko Jones – Spellbound

    James Fountain – Seven Day Lover

    Voices Of east Harlem – Cashing In

    Juggy Jones – Inside America

    LJ Johnson – Your Magic Put A Spell On Me

    Bill Brandon – Streets Got My Lady

    Magic Disco Machine – Control Tower

    Eddie Holman – This Could Be A Night To Remember / Time Will Tell

    Moments – I Got The Need

    Reggie Garner – Hot Line

    Jeff Perry – Love Don’t Come No Stronger

    And I always mixed stacks of well established and in demand sounds into the mix to keep the floor busy:

    Jackie Edwards – I Feel So Bad

    Edwin Starr – I Have Faith In You

    Soul Brothers Six - Thank You Baby For Loving Me

    Freddie Chavez- They’ll Never Know Why

    Otis Smith – Let Her Go

    And always plenty to satisfy the ladies:

    Eloise Laws – Love Factory

    Dena Barnes – If You Ever Walked Out Of My Life

    Linda Jones – Just Can’t Live My Life

    Ann Sexton – You’ve Been Gone Too Long 

    etc.

    Fortunately, I was also working for the region’s finest record outlet, the Sound of Music (mentioned earlier in this thread) for 3-4 years during the same period. Consequently I had a standing order and always had first dibs on the new releases & imports coming through and was able to experiment with new releases such as:

    Johnny Guitar Watson – I Need It

    Etta James – Out On The Streets Again

    The Notations – Think Before You Stop

    Controllers - Is That Long Enough For You

    Natural Four – Love’s So Wonderful

    Boz Scaggs – Lowdown

    Marvin Gaye – I Want You

    Soul Children – Finders Keepers

    Gwen McCrae – Damn Right It’s Good

    Laura Lee – You’re Barking Up The Wrong tree

    Shelbra Deane – A Man’s Got Too Much Dog In Him

    Dionne Warwick – Once You Hit The Road

    Gladys Knight – Make Yours A Happy Home

    O’Jays – Living For The Weekend & For The Love Of Money

    Brass Construction – Movin’

    Chi-Lites – You Don’t Have To Go

    Fatback Band – Spanish Hustle

    Otis Clay - Special Kind Of Love

    Ohio Players – Who’d She Coo

    Dramatics - Choosing Up On You

    Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free

    David Ruffin – Walk Away From Love

    Some of which stayed around, while others sank without trace.

    The Charade was a fabulous place to learn your trade as a DJ as the policy was so inclusive and the crowd were always up for a good time. The management were happy if people were drinking and the best way to ensure that was to keep them on the dancefloor. Nothing did that better than Soul Music and I was always happy to oblige.

    By mid 1978 I upped sticks and went to do a season in Skegness, ending up living in Lincoln for a while, but by Winter of ’78 I was headhunted by Mecca and became resident at Tiffanys right in the middle of the Disco boom, and Rotherham Windmill where I was able to help keep the Rotherham Soul Scene going, pre Clifton Hall and all that followed.

    The Charade was a very important club in South Yorkshire and in the development of the scene in Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster, so much so that a book ‘The Charade Nightclub: The Untold Story’ was written a few years ago by club regular Keith Brisland.

    Worth picking up if you’re interested.

    Sean Hampsey

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charade-Nightclub-Untold-Story/dp/190843113X/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

    This is Keith Brisland's story of a small, unlikely corner of South Yorkshire that was at the cutting edge of the music scene for eighteen years and was the start of a multi-million pound leisure empire. The nightclub was the Charade and its owner was Dave Allen. He put his house on the line to finance the lease - it was his first ever nightclub. These days he's worth £60m and presides over an entertainment empire - that empire grew from the Charade. The book includes interviews from former DJs like Eric Dewsnap, Melvyn 'Speedy' Kaye, Sean Hampsey and Neil 'Noddy' St John and explains how the venue helped shape numerous music genres including the rise and fall of Tamla Motown, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock, Disco and the New Romantics. It explains how the the DJs learnt their trade and chronicles the rise of Rick Stuart who went on to mix three number one hit singles for Jive Bunny and worked as a Radio One producer alongside Bruno Brookes, Mark Goodier and Paul Gambaccini. There are first-hand accounts from the people who used to work for Allen at the Charade such as Mick Bradford, Dave Growns and John Rose. And we will learn about Allen's involvement with Foreign Secretary William Hague's family who used to supply the drinks to the Charade and his growing nightclub business. It is a story that describes the evolution of Northern Soul, of night time trips across the country to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Stoke on Trent, the All England Dancing Competition, drugs, jail sentences, Formula One, mayors and chief constables.

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    Darrow Fletcher Secret Weapon

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    Posted · Edited by Sean Hampsey

    At Last - Out On Kent Select 45 26th October 2018

     

    The nights are drawing in and the fall is not too far away! So to brighten a dreary Autumn, we have something very special on the horizon.

    Darrow Fletcher’s superb ‘(Love Is My) Secret Weapon’ written by Grey and Hanks with Jerry Butler and recorded in Los Angeles in the 70’s is a true in demander, folk have been hankering for, for many years.

     

    It’s a track that’s been central in my every set since the heady ‘Just Soul’ nights of 2011. A ‘modern stomper’ in classic style and with immediate appeal which has graced dance floor’s as diverse as Soul Essence, Great Yarmouth, The Windsor Suite, Stoke and London’s famous 100 Club! It certainly covers a lot of bases and pleases all camps, totally across the board.

    ‘Secret Weapon’ has a very different feel to his earlier, Chicago recordings. It was to have been included in a previously unreleased Darrow Fletcher album, which eventually saw the light of day on an excellent Kent compilation, back in 2012; CrossOver Soul: 1975-1979 Los Angeles Sessions. Still available on AceRecords.co.uk

     

    Coming your way on a shiny new Kent Select 45, scheduled for end October 2018. Backed with the brassy ‘How Can You Live’ it’s something to look forward to, and an absolute essential for those looking for a killer Soul track for the dancefloor.

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    YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW

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    29 minutes ago, Roburt said:

    Sean, if you look back at the initial post on this thread & read the Sept 70 press release I posted there, you'll see that DG was Bill Downs UK represenative as early as summer 1970. A deal via Bill certainly brought Chris Bartley's Soul City tracks & the Ad-Libs Deep Soul tracks to Dave's labels and that was back in early 69.

    I had dealings with Bill Downs myself in the 80's when Move Records (Edinburgh) sourced their Chris Bartley tracks via Bill. 

    Hi John, yes that's quite right.  What I was saying is Bill Downs involvement with the Crow record was only relating to Right On. The Inner Ear 45 was certainly given to Dave directly by Stan Vincent.

    YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW

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    Dave Godin was given his copy of The Crow directly by Stan Vincent as a virtual new release. In the back of my mind Dave told me he was given it personally in Stan's flat / house in New York. It did not come from Bill Downs.

    Dave had had the record for several years before he started pushing it around UK / Northern clubs and writing about it in depth (in BM, B&S etc.). He believed the scene wasn't ready for it before then.

    Bill Downs involvement was only via Right On several years later, although Dave and he had known one another for years. Bill Downs had strong links to Chris Bartley, and Sam Nesbit, Greg Carmichael etc. via his long standing association with Dave Kapralik (the man who made all those Okeh, Columbia, Epic 45's possible) so it's easy to assume it came from Bill, but certainly the 45 was given to Dave directly from Stan Vincent.

    Sean

    Rhonda Davis - Long Walk On A Short Pier

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    On 02/07/2018 at 13:17, still diggin said:

    The track I was on about is from 79 on that purple/ white reactivated logo distributed by fantasy. It would have thought it was cut around 79 as it does have a disco vibe. John manship has a copy for sale and the vocal is very similar to my ears, However as you say the Hot Sauce lady is also from that range.

    A couple of us used to play 'Touch Me Up' late '70's , early 80's. It was always a bit too 'DISCO' for my liking although she was a prety good vocalist. I never connected her to Rhonda Davis in any way, but it's not beyond the realm to think it could be Rhonda Washington, though Hot Sauce would have ceased to exist at Stax / Volt 4-5 years prior.

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