An almost impossible task trying to choose just 5 sounds. I guess it must be these.
Christine Cooper - Heartaches away my boy. I just can't seem to get tired of this, I fell
in love with this (and her) around my 3rd or 4th visit to the Highland Room circa '72. Hard
to believe it didn't hit the charts and surprisingly done by those Kasenatz Katz guys !!!
Help me - The Spellbinders. Loved this since my youth club days. What can one say,
Ken Williams & Van McCoy behind it doesn't get much better for me. What a voice
that Bobby Shivers has (he once sang to me in a hotel lift !!!)
Heaven Must have sent you - Elgins. The record that started it all for me when I was
a young lad ( I've always been a big kid). Oozes Motown polish.
Hurt on the other side - Jerry Cook. Has for me everything a soul record should have,
great voice, lyrics, backing track, unknown singer and legendary arranger...............
sigh................
Bobby Reed - I'll find a way. Very much a "cry your eyes out" choon, bought this for
2/6d in some London junk shop l..o..n..g....l..o..n..g...time again, still gets me there every
time. It's Van McCoy, what can yer say ?
Suppose there's about another 100 I could add. But if I was stranded on an industrial
estate down on the Belgian/German border this is what I'd smaggle past the guards.
Love & peace
Chris L