Soulfinger

Isn't it on the Avco mobile disco compilation album from the early seventies? I have it somewhere but can't find it right now.

Good luck with that mate. I'll check back soon to see if you get anything from a bit earlier than 1978!

That's it for me in a nutshell. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or what you're talking about. Every cell in your body is suddenly telling you "Stop this now, get out there and dance". It often just takes the first note and I'm away with the missus trailing in my wake. She's used to it by now. I also like that feeling you get when you go to a venue you haven't visited before and you get there early doors, enter the big room and do the mental checklist: plenty of interesting looking record boxes, big, proper dance floor; big, long bar with lots of people ready to serve, lot's of good sitting space, vaguely remembered nice tune playing, friendly faces all around - woohoo

Don't be downhearted if you have little kids. They get bigger if you don't watch 'em too closely and before you know it they are mid teens and you get your life back (and your inclination to go further than your local soul night).

I Had it All - Barrino Brothers

I agree. The video is brilliant though. We should give whoever is responsible the challenge of reworking some of Ian Levine's strange world ones.

It's the same old bland, synthetic twaddle. It's just loathsome garbage! It sounds like it was recorded in a studio with marshmallow walls. I bet it's also got an annoying video with all those swooping multi shot split screen nonsense like he did on the SWoNS. To be fair, the lass sounds like she might have a decent voice if it was less overproduced. That guy who did the wade in the water remake would have made a much better job of this.

Aretha had brilliant material to work with and sang it wonderfully. I loved Gladys with the pips but never really got her solo stuff. For me, I get more pleasure from the lesser known female vocalists who may have had only one or two tunes like Mamie Galore or Joy Lovejoy. On the Motown front it has to be Barbara McNair and Chris Clarke. I remember the first time I heard You're Gonna Love My Baby. I'd swapped with a mate to get the Motown Memories Volume 2 just for Ghost in my House in 1971. I heard Baby and couldn't believe it and I've loved it ever since.

Two years ago in Trinity Beach near Cairns in Oz......me, the mrs and the kids walked out of a beachfront restaurant and the bar alongside was playing Pressure Drop by Toots & the Maytals. I remarked on the quality choice of tune and when it segued into Can't Satisfy - The Impressions; I had a dance in the street - much to the amusement, bemusement and entertainment of the drinkers outside the bar and to the eternal humiliation of the offspring who legged it of down the street. It just felt like the right thing to do! In my defence, I had partaken of the odd amber.

It's not anywhere near as good as Left, Right & Centre which he wrote when he was about 15. I'm not knocking him though as he's one of the few folk making mainstream music which acknowledges the importance of of 60's Soul.

People who hardly dance all night and then, when you've been on the floor for hours come and invade your personal space because (insert timeless classic of your choice) comes on. People who routinely slag off Russ Winstanley just 'cos it's become kind of expected that that's what die-hard soulies do. People who still think women and young 'uns can't deejay. People who worry more about what a tune is worth (or rather what it costs) than what it sounds like Blokes who amble in to a soul night at 11.30 after a dozen Stellas in the alehouse and hit the dancefloor, sending all and sundry flying, only to retire with a John Barnes hamstring or asthma attack symptoms 90 seconds later People who are never knowingly wrong. Apart from that little lot I'm cool

That's incredible! As good as the David Ruffin acapella on Ain't to Proud to Beg which, for me, was the best on the 6 box set.

Oh, that's a bit harsh!

I have the 6 CD set which I paid £15 for from a US e-bay site. It's brilliant. I hadn't realised there were more until Richard played them on Cellarful of Soul. I'm keeping my eye out for them but I'm not optimistic. I also have a Marginal compilation of Choker Campbell / Earl Van Dyke versions called Detroit Instumentals which is crackin'.

They're available at not much difference from Amazon. https://amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-8...=13&Go.y=12 Who I don't work for but did get mine from.........

I agree entirely and they can be had cheap nowadays. The third box of 10 CD's cost me £42 recently! Margie Joseph - Medicine Bend has always been one that did it for me

I remember the crow from first time round, I read Dave Godin raving about it in B&S and as his word was law, couldn't wait to hear it. Didn't believe it when I heard it -what a dirge! Truly awful. He released it on Right ON and people bought it . I didn't think Levine had anything to do with it, though that might explain why I loathe it...........

The Girl's Alright with Me / I'll be in Trouble:Temptations (Gordy) Though I think I maybe had Jr Walker's Greatest Hits first.

First: Landslide - Tony Clarke (Chess) in 1972 Last: Heaven in the Afternoon Lew Kirton (Alston) Saturday morning

I think that's fantastic, I'd be on the dancefloor to that. My lad who's a keyboard player says he likes the way the keyboard notes have been bent whatever that means! And a mention in the thread for Zoot & the Roots - I first met my Mrs at a Zoot gig in the dim and distant.

I'm new to this forum and didn't put two and two together to realise it was Pete who was responsible for putting all that great innercalm stuff on youtube. I'd been enjoying the clips for a while and can't see how them being posted up there infringes copywrite any more than stuff like the Legends of Rare Soul DVDs; which surely can't be legit. I guess youtube was certain to go the way of Napster once it got all corporate. I think Pete should be proud to have done what he did and though there's a noticable collective arching of eyebrows hereabouts at anyone trying to make an honest crust - e.g. the Casino Cafe, I'd be completely cool about him making a few bob flogging the same stuff on DVD . I'd also be thinking about having "I sent a DVD to Etta Bloomin' James" as my epitaph.

I can't help with Northern backing tracks but I have the 6CD Motown original backing tracks set if any of those would be any help. It's at https://www.dvdstars.com/product.php?sectio...hiPgKD9AyDh8vgP

Bunny Sigler for me too which is odd as I love Chuck Jackson's voice usually ... What am I Gonna Do Without You would be my favorite.

Jimmy Thomas - Where There's A Will I remember that as being very short indeed. If I could find where I've put it I'd know how short. Found it. Says 2.05. Nomination withdrawn. I must've been standing a long way from it and it just looked shorter.

I'm two albums short of a complete Kent Various Artists collection (yeah, I know ) so if anyone has a spare Soul Cities or Down to the Last Heartbeat....