Chris L

Get on your knees - Los Canarios Johnny Jones - Purple haze

I guess that's why he's called "Chubby"............

And the second best version of "Make me yours"

No it was Jon Slater, heres an example :

So are lots of things in this world, best action is "if you can't influence it don't worry about it".

Well said that man !! Well in part anyway, don't be too harsh on us Londoners, we brought a fair amount of records up to the North in the early 70T's Chris L

Meethinks this is on the Outakes of This England, also in colour.

What a coincidence, I was just about to ask the same question : I have just bought this, I thought it was a boot, it has 4 turn run in and 7078 & 7079 scratched in run-out. So I guess this is an original, I have always had the blue copies before. Thanks Chris L

"Lets hear songs with a Motown beat and a great melody again." Aahh................I remember them...................wonderful................

Welcome aboard Ian, don't rise to the personal attacks, let it run down the guttering. Make positive only contributions, don't give anybody the excuse to start spouting off. Good luck..............................

Why personal sniping ? I do hope you are not sick and that you can't help but post these kinds of mails, if so do get better soon.............

Here's a couple of pics of the Chubster, in his prime and today..............he looks great !! Chris L

You're right the thing became far too personal, it's not about Ian Levine but all the artists that got found, filmed and recorded. I'm curious to see the finished product. Chris L

10 years ago at the Mecca re-union, Dave Burton came up to me and said "Helo Chris" hadn't him since 1973, 25 years thus. We keep in touch, I went to his wedding in Hong Kong where he lives, we DJ'd together in the Philippines and we went to Soul USA in 2006. It's like you've never been apart. Chris L

Not quite right here Mark, sure the music is a part, where do you play it ? In a pub, your bedroom your back garden or a venue with a dance-floor? Northern Soul has and still is about going out to a venue and dancing all night long. If you're making a movie situated in 1974 and with NS as a backdrop then the Casino is as good a place as any (although the Mecca tended to play more soulful stuff). Making a NS movie and holding BIDDS as your Northern Soul example wouldn't be correct either. Of course with all projects you have a goal, what is the goal of the movie ? If that goal is a story set in the mid-70Ts with NS music then so be it, lets wait and see the finished product, if your a "Roger Banks is the best DJ in the world" kinda guy/gal then this movie may well not be for you, then of course everybody is free to make a movie about anything including the latter day scene with perhaps the 100 Club as the centrepiece and good luck to anyone who does that. Chris L

It's so easy and rather pathetic to stand on the sidelines and pick holes in other peoples work. I'm not sure but I believe Soul Source has a couple of thousand members but on this thread there are about a dozen people who have repeatedly posted devisive and derogatory comments. I challenge anyone who's been knocking this film to list their contribution to the NS scene. I don't mean finding a dodgy naf record for $1.00 and selling to a DJ for a grand (mind you if that person did send back some of that money to the original artist that would be nice to hear about). What a comment "Northern Soul look ridiculous to those on the scene." really choice, an awful lot of people today on the NS make it ridiculous, trust me, the amount of garbage that gets touted as "Great Northern Soul ne Rare Soul" all of which deserves to be recycled into garden knomes. Any poor newcomer to the scene could be forgiven in thinking that the NS scene is cross between Cha-cha and bad R & B. No wonder there are "only 3 known copies" it's so bad there shouldn't even be any copies. I hope these guys make their film and what the heck, with Wigan as a backdrop (sorry for those who never went there and can't forgive the people who did) and I hope it's a big success, so what if all the music isn't all 1960T's released stuff, in 1974 both Wigan & the Mecca were playing current releases. Go for it guys, looking forward to the release date, wouldn't be marvelous if it brings in new fans who will just love that Motownesque music.

Wonderful, PM'd you.............

True, there's nothing quite like a female grabbing your trumpet. Northern Soul was never for me an obssesion say in the same way it was for some like Ian Levine or Richard Searling. When I got out of it I di realise how much I had departed from the real world took me a few months to get back into shape.

We all hope that the film "tells it like it is" in so much as possible. Apart from the dancing one does get the impression they are a little short on technical and historical input. Not much to do now except sit back and wait for the release, no matter what they'll be a lot of NS fans who'll go see the movie for sure (or buy the DVD). I predict the biggest SS thread of all time once the film is availble, something to watch out for. In any case I wish the film crew the very best of luck, trying to please NS fans is not for the fainthearted. Chris L

First time round I spent all my money on records and getting to the North of England, once I started dating seriously I couldn't afford the 2, have to admit sex beat NS :-((

That's not such an unsual occurance, you know NS boy meets girl, NS boy shags girl, NS boy marries girl, NS boy becomes a NS big boy and girl becomes a woman, have children, get a mortgage, have a life, etc. etc................. All sub cults have had this phenomena I wonder how many Teddy Boys are still alive, if so are they still kicking (parden the pun)? I guess one day NS will be consigned to the history books (or just Wikepedia) someboday will make a movie about it, set in Bolvia, slow dancing to cha-cha's, driving tractors and wearing Scottish kilts............come to think about it a bit like the Rare Soul Scene

Barry The 25 year old chinstrokers will take over, any NS choon with strings will be banned, any record with more than "3 Known Copies" will burned (at night on a big fire), dancing will only be allowed to slow R & B grunge. We'll be carted off to re-education camps, somwhere around the London area and everybody will have to line up in the morning and sing the praises of "Rare Soul". Of course we'll all deny ever going to a venue in the 70Ts or 80Ts. Now there's something to look forward too..............................

Does anybody know where I could get a back issue of a Togetherness magazine. About 3 or 4 years ago I wrote an article for it (about the Four Larks) I seem to have lost it, I can't for the life of me say exactly what issue it was but if anybody should know I would be grateful for that information, would help me in my search, many thanks in advance......................

Free for all - Philiip Mitchell, it really was a biggie at the Mecca circa '72, dropped dead the day it was released on Jay Boy