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Pretty sure Otis Clay sings it on The only way is up

Heard this last weekend and enjoyed it. Reminded me how superb early Jackie Wilson tracks can be, incidentally found a beautiful copy of "Thats Why" on Coral in a charity shop yesterday!

Hi all My daughter is working towards a dance degree in London and is learning about loads of interestiing dance styles. Having grown up in a northern soul household she is aware of our scene and is interested to join an event see the dance styles and so on. Its been so long since I was at an event I am completely out of touch so question I guess is where might she go to see some decent dancers in central Londoon? I wondered about the 100 club as she is really near - any thoughts welcome?

I have a few of these, used to buy off the mail order list around 1984-5-ish Here is a pic of a demo of Get out and let me cry on Landa I sold a couple of years ago, same stamp...

Absolue hero. One of my favourites:

Jocelyn Brown at her finest! Disco all the way

you know its only this discussion made me realise that something to go on is the A side - great track in itself but whatever were they thinking!

I picked up a copy of this in about 1984 from a DJ at the Brewery Tap Barking and it looks a bit different than the above picture particularly it has capitalised lower case track titles both sides with all upper case artist name. Discogs reckons what I have is the 1st with Audio Labs stanped in the runout which mine is, but I couldnt say for sure its definitely a 1st pressing

Thank you gentlemen for the warm welcome, look forward to joining a discussion or 2

Been a long time viewer of this site and forum, and have benefited greatly reading various threads here, discovering more than a few new to me records. I have had a longstanding love of soul music, and was prompted to sign up following posts on the Terry Callier thread - I knew a little of his work but was blown away by "I don't want to see myself"! So background to my soul journey - parents had some motown and chubby checker records so that was a good start, but in the early 1980s joined the Mod revival as a teenager, and soon found my way into the northern and 6Ts soul scene - inferno singles (sorry!) and Kent albums (still being played today!). Visited Carnaby St most weekends to buy records and clothes in the old flea market. In around 84-85 used to frequent a place called the Brewery Tap in Barking where a mix of 6Ts and modern soul was played, records like Charles Johnson never had a love so good, Lets spend some time together - Larry Houston, On the Beach - Chairmen of the Board. Attended a couple of events at the 100 club, but dipped out of the scene around 85-86, nevertheless retained the love for soul to this day, and recently started buying singles again after a long long break - can't pretend to have the musical knowledge of a lot of the people on the forum but wanted to join anyway and share in the discussion a bit rather than reading from the sidelines.

Had to sign up to thank everyone! Did not realise that Ordinary Joe was originally done by Jerry "chalk it up" Butler - absolute dynamite!