There has been previous similar threads about this and this is what i wrote back then
As we are all aware many different types of music have been played on the scene over the years.Not all by Black artists and many not very soulful.This is why despite the commercialised exploitation i still prefere to call it a NORTHERN soul scene.This is because the Northern Scene is first and foremost a dance scene and no matter how old we get and how knackered we feel its all about hearing those first couple of bars of a tune that create an uncontollable urge to get on the dancefloor.
Over the years ive heard many records being described as non soul pop stomper shite.But the same records have the power to make grown men and women cry,throw themselves round the dancefloor, and sing every word.So if a record can bring about these emotional reactions it must surley have some Soul content.