Soulfinger

Cheers for this Pete, absolutely top stuff. Tommy McCook - Down on Bond Street; is just fabulous. Merry Christmas

This is a new one on me: https://cgi.ebay.com/70s-Soul-45-LENA-ZAVARONI-Ma-Hes-Making-Eyes-STAX-/270613368234?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f01d04daa How did that ever happen?

The Complete Stax Singles - three box sets of 9,9&10 CDs. The Complete Motown Singles - I stopped at Vol 10 of these The Temptations - Emporers of Soul 5CDs There are also a superb couple of 3 CD sets of Brunswick stuff, The Best of Brunswick Rhythm & Blues and Chicago Cool Breezin'

I picked one up in King Bee at the weekend for £3. Bargain! I listen to 94.9 The Surf on internet radio quite a lot, consistently better music than most UK radio and the adverts are pretty funny...if ever my swimming pool needs tiling and I am in Carolina....

I've never understood why How Come My Bulldog Don't Bark? never really got played. It's a fabulous, R&B type thing.

It's that Boden clad, whole food, earthmother thing.....and that's just the blokes.

Proper live soul music. What an incredible performance, only spoiled slightly by the proportion of the crowd who looked like they came from Didsbury and seriously did not know when to shut the fuck up. Sharon's talking between songs was drowned. Nice to see her do Everybody Needs Somebody to Love as a tribute to Solomon Burke. If you didn't go and could've, you should've.

In some specialist fields, this kind of pedantry is very helpful. Now if you could just persuade everybody else to work with this mighty sensible nomenclature that would be lovely.

I watched it on Sky Indie a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed it on the whole. A lot of poetic licence was taken. Beyonce's singing was great but her overacting wasn't so good. The guy playing Howlin' Wolf was terrific. In the general spirit of movie reviews on SS... the wallpaper was unconvincing, the lighting was much too understated, the hairstyles were slapdash and the trousers were all the wrong length.

Just listening to 94.9 The Surf internet radio from Carolina and stumbled into a General Johnson tribute. He died aged 67 last night. A stellar talent on the soul scene from It Will Stand to Bless Your Heart and all points in between. Rest in Peace. Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

Thanks for that. It was fabulous. I think Edwin was taken for granted; mainly because he was so accessible. It seemed he performed within half an hour of wherever you lived every week. He lit up some of the dodgy cabaret venus in the North West whenever I saw him.

If you are happy with 2nd hand, there are a few about. https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/northern-soul-top-500-kev-roberts-/250696788435?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3a5eb169d3

I had a look on my bookshelf to see if there were any there I had forgotten about and found an interesting one from 1969: "The Soul Book" An A4 - ish sized soft back from The Soultown Press, Chicago, Illinois; Editor Gary D Friedman. It's a kind of A-Z thing with big pictures and some basic text. What's weird about it is that it includes, amongst the obvious Jackie Wilson, James Brown etc, sections on Jose Feliciano, Blood Sweat & Tears, Elvis and Bob Dylan . You couldn't make it up

You do make me laugh Tony. . Is this indisputable .......I suppose you'll say I could have edited it. Your order #026-6279784-4127528 (received August 09, 2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qty Item Price Delivery Subtotal --------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon.co.uk items (Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L.): 1 A Cellarful Of Motown Vol. 4 £6.99 1 £6.99 Dispatched via Royal Mail (estimated arrival date: September 01, 2010). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Subtotal: £5.95 Delivery and handling: £1.24 VAT: £1.26 Pre-order Guarantee: £0.00 Total: £8.45 Our Pre-order Price Guarantee covers one or more item(s) in this order.

Jim's right about Chicago Soul - it's the Bible. Others not already mentioned that I rate are: The Soul Book - Ian Hoare, Clive Anderson, Tony Cummings & Simon Frith (Methuen 1975) is worth searching out. Let's Hear it One More Time for the Brokenhearted - Barney Hoskins(Fontana 1987) - is good if you are not strictly uptempo! Where Did Our Love Go - Nelson George (Omnibus 1986) - is a good warts 'n' all Motown tale. Calling Out Around the World A Motown Reader - Kingsley Abbot (Ed) ( Bath Press 2001) gives a variety of personal perspectives on Motown. Guitars, Bars & Motown Superstars - Dennis Coffey (Bee Cool 2002) : One man's Motown story only blighted by his (understandable) obsession with Scorpio - which I have never been able to get on with. I no longer feel able to recommend Charlie Gillet - The Sound of the City - not because you have to trawl through all the rock 'n' roll stuff but because the print in my copy appeared to have shrunk when I tried to re-read it recently. Of more recent stuff I liked Ginger's book written by / with Rob McKeever - On the Right Track which is probably still all over ebay, Reg's very personal passage through Soul and Neil Rushton's glossy opus.

I think that's spot on. It's not aimed at us but we couldn't help but go and see it.

A couple of others in Manchester that haven't had a mention: Robinsons Records on Blackfriars Street and Global Records (later Yanks) in a basement off Oxford Road - where Richard Searling worked at one point. There was also a stall in the underground market that was good. I guess so many of us were doing all these in a circuit that bargains were hard to find. Some of my best were in odd places - in a first floor room above a papershop in Chorlton, a stall on Altrincham Market and (of all places) in a supermarket in Stretford precinct where every week I checked the couple of boxes of imports that were 50p and suddenly one week there was an influx of Blue Stax and Mirwood. Happy days. All that's left for us now is King Bee in Chorlton.

I saw it on Wednesday at the Wigan Empire; it was about three quarters full. Mixture of old hands and youngsters - with a few family outings. It was Orange Wednesday though so probably a few BOGOF added to the attendance. My 16 year old daughter (who I guess is right in the target audience) thought it was great and is going back to see it again with a bunch of her mates. I think if you just take it for what it is, a bit of an adolescent angst, half comedy / half drama set to particular musical backdrop (no pun intended), it's OK. If its very existence challenges your entire value system you probably shouldn't go because it's only going to upset you. I haven't trawled all the way through the earlier posts (paul's predictable rant made me laugh so hard) but for an unbiased view....it got film of the week in the Independent last week. The reviewer can't be a complete idiot because he's rather complimentary about the music. Soulboy (15) (Rated 4/ 5 ) Reviewed by Anthony Quinn Friday, 3 September 2010 Film of the week, by a distance, is this charmer about provincial youth in 1974. Joe (Martin Compston), frustrated by the pinched horizons of Stoke-on-Trent and his delivery-van job, falteringly finds his groove when he ventures (by bus, of course) to the legendary Wigan Casino, home to Northern Soul and its ecstatic bendy-bodied dance moves. The writer-director Shimmy Marcus styles Joe as heir to the kitchen-sink realists of the 1960s, less fly than Albert Finney, less muscular than Richard Harris, but in Compston's touching portrayal blessed with a grave charisma of his own. The cast around him is equally assured Nichola Burley as a too-cool-for-you hairdresser, Felicity Jones as an aspiring art student and the brilliant Pat Shortt as his chivalrous workmate. The film, made on a shoestring, is a little rough around the edges, yet driven by such a genuine love of its milieu and the period texture (pasty complexions, Gola bags, rare vinyl) that you find yourself cheering it along. The music, most of it imported from black America, is superb.

I don't give a monkey's if you believe me or not; that's where it came from. I scanned the CD's to demonstrate that they were physical copies after your economical with the truth crack. Why on earth would I lie about where it came from? The vagaries of Amazon's despatch system aren't for me to explain. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for this Ian. It's fascinating stuff. My CD arrived yesterday and has been played all day today in the car. It's simply brilliant. It's so difficult to pick out a favourite....every tune is superb.

Not in the least economical with the truth. It came from Amazon actually Tony. The bastards are lying to you. It came with the Tom Moulton - so double joy.

Mine arrived today. Miss Lonely Heart - The Vandellas, I'll Turn to Stone - Dennis Edwards (Did Chris King have this a while back - as the Contours?) Lead Me and Guide Me - ?Holland-Dozier? hit the spot nicely first time through.

What? People who listen to Smooth Radio voted for what "Northern Soul" they like, not what you like? Surely you're not surprised! Not very soulful - bit harsh.

Junior Walker gets a mention in Baby That's a Groove - Roy Handy