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If this league table thing happened ....... the venues with the fewest attending (the rarest events) would cost hundreds, even thousands of pounds to get in to & there would be a special Manship auction site for rare tickets all of a sudden, bootlegged soul fans would start turning up at events - they'd look pretty much like original soul fans on those crappy ebay photos but turn out to have photocopied & stuck on faces there would be lots of alternative league tables published, all with conflicting figures, and raging rows over who's was the most accurate I say do it! You'd have to have official Soul Police, trained in counting, on the door at every event. I think we should all be tagged like cattle with barcodes too, so that the latest technology could be used to confirm numbers. Just a thought ... York City for the Conference! (and next year too, I fear)

This is the other side - "Shuffle" - I dislike the Blues side less Happy Soul Birthday (Shuffle) - robert murphy - romur 14436 refosoul

Here's the Robert Murphy one (A side - "Blues", it says) 13528 refosoul

I've listened to it now. A reasonable introduction to Northern Soul, I suppose - mainly features Ian Levine, Stuart Cosgrove & Tim Brown, with a little bit of Wayne Hemingway going on about wedge haircuts & high-waisters. Might get a few Radio 4 types tapping their feet, but I don't think you Soul Sourcerers will find much of interest (or, for that matter, too much to complain about).

Now available online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod....elfsatisfaction. Just about to give it a listen..

There's a post on Chuck Carbo on Dan Phillip's "Home Of The Groove" New Orleans-themed blog here.

Why Can't We Live Together - timmy thomas - glades 13916 refosoul And this one is dedicated to the Soul Sourcers still slugging it out in the Freebasing "War on Terror" threads

Love Potion Number Nine - coasters - king 13915 refosoul Also has a pretty label!

Fever - alvin robinson - red bird 13914 refosoul Inspired by the pretty labels thread

Newsy Neighbours - first choice - philly groove 13911 refosoul This one really is on Philly Groove!

Oops - I got the label wrong - it's on the US Sussex LP Migration. Confused myself by listening to First Choice!

Harlem - creative source - philly groove 13909 refosoul Time to get in that funky Friday frame of mind

Knock On Wood - the upsetters - uk trojan lp 13788 refosoul From the "Eastwood Rides Again" album

Chocolate Chip - isaac hayes - uk abc 13699 refosoul

I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Mind - four tops - abc dunhill 13698 refosoul

You've Got Me Running - the impressions - abc 13697 refosoul

You're Fooling You - the dramatics - abc 13685 refosoul

I'm sure it used to be played on Radio 1 as that was the only place I ever heard music at that time & I know the song - I thought it was re-released in the 70's as well & got onto Top of the Pops (I would like to think I can remember Pans People dressed as American Footballers, but that's probably just fantasy on my part).

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It's from their Soul Sesame Street album 1969 or 1970, re-released a couple of years ago (some covers of Sesame Street songs, some of their own stuff). Village Soul Choir were Sir Charles Mattews and Clip Hightower plus session players - there was something on SS about Sir C M towards the end of last year. Didn't he produce the first 12" single or something? Stepfather of Soul had a post about the Cat Walk: https://stepfatherofsoul.blogspot.com/2005/...l-favorite.html Simon

Hi Ken I was surprised when the Impressions track I uploaded the other day showed over 150 listens - I wonder if mike has put Beverley Jones as the default track on playlists where nothings been added or something? Otherwise there has to be something wrong with the database - how many people have been logged onto SS in the last couple of days, after all... Glad to see Village Soul Choir up to No5! Simon

How about starting up a "rare Ham Forum" - Northern Ham is best of course - York's famous for it (you have to be careful though - there are some dodgy ham merchants who sell York ham that's not actually from York & the like. Pressed ham, it's called).

Say You Need It - barbara perry - goldwax

It's All Over But The Shouting - ann sexton - seventy 7 13322 refosoul

Walk Away - ann peebles - hi