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For sale a mint copy of the rare 1976 Green H I B vinyl press RE-ISSUE of LUTHER INGRAM---IF It's All The Same To You Babe--HIB Very hard to locate in this condition price £ 25 plus rec delivery cheque or cash only no paypal PM to reserve Cheers---Patto

Hi Guys After a nice clean copy of C L BLAST----WHAT CAN I DO(when my thrill is gone)--UNITED cash waiting for a fair price.PM me please

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Yep i would also choose to be the best ever dancer,but when you look at the adulation that DJs such as Butch get maybe some would choose that option along with their records of course.I once got told that a dancer's ability was inversely proportional to the size of his record collection.However this is blown way out of the water when you look at the Likes of Keb Darge and more recently Liam Q who have it both ways --The Sods

Ok people here is an awkward question recently levelled at me what would your amswers be to this one If you could by magic transform into either the Greatest Northern Soul Dancer you ever saw on the scene,or the D.J with the best collection you ever saw .Which one would you prefere to be

Yep mine same no date stamp.as said earlier hold it up to a bright light and the vinyl is brown and you can see the light through it.Still treasure it though part of my Northern Soul journey,also think the first counterfeit is now quite hard to get and can fetch a tidy sum.Hate the look of that recent boot

Thats Brill SolidSoul thanks for the info.Knew it was an old casino spin but never seen any other records by the artist was it a one off ?

Recently picked up a nice copy of Tojo--Broken hearted lover,on a yellow TEC label.Great forgotten uptempo dancer,does anyone know anything about it VALUE,ARTIST,LABEL ORIGIN,and does it get plays out there

Bloody Hell this has got far too heavy for me at times.But at the risk of sounding like IMBRBOY'S agent i still 100% agree with his thead openning post.I totally get you Simon could be its a Yorkshire thing mate,and as for Helen Shapiro i remember well her track( He Knows How To Love Me ) going massive at the early 90s Keele nighters.As you say there are a lot of people out there who refuse to accept or dance to anything but old Wigan anthem sounds that probably made up about 20% of wigan's actual output.One of the Greatest ever records to get spun at the Casino was COURT DAVIS---TRY TO THINK WHAT YOUR DOING.If anyone lucky enough to own this masterpiece were to play it at a died in the wool oldies night i fear it would clear the floor only for the DJ to have to rescue it by shoving on Jr Walkers Tune Up. the longer they keep playing the same oldies the harder it will be to introduce anything else.Maybe we are in the death throws,and this is how its all going to end with the last old knackered soulie turning off the lights at the last ever soul night and pulling his copy of SOUL TIME off the turntable before walking off into the night.

THe Kittens---Ain't No More Room brill track but never liked dancing to it tempo very hard

This has been the best thread i've seen for ages, and the debate has made me re- evaluate my own opinions. Tell you what i'd just love to attend a soul night full of all the posters from this thread,100% till death Northern Soul's finest

Hi Sarahleen,I to went to Dewsbury and think the place has great promise if the rare room is ditched and some underplayed quality sounds are played in the main room.I agree with most of your posts. Just like you i love to dance to forget about the crap and stress i left behind at the entry door,but like loads of soulies i know to fully enjoy the dancing experience you have to be enthused and motivated by the track your on the floor to,you have to feel it inside.It gets harder and harder to rush to the floor to dance to the same tracks you hear over and over again.Put simply it gets boring This is the point i think peple are trying to make whereby the nostalgists have retreated into a box of a couple of hundred safe oldies that get played week in week out at lots of venues.I have my faves and will dance to them but sometimes i just don't understand how some people can go through the soul equivalent of groundhog day for years on end.I have been to oldies nights when fantastic Wigan sounds have been played and cleared the floor,the same records that used to cram the floors back in the casino heyday are dismissed.As for the fantastic Stafford sounds well i have been told by some that they are not true Northern soul it is that attitude that is todays depressing reality. There are imaginative progressive venues out there who do have fantastic oldies playlists and do have good dancefloors,Crofton and York are two that spring to mind,but on the whole you are correct when you say that the nostalga venues are usually bigger/better attended. Its sad but i think the scene is splitting into separate camps and the retro fancy dress is not helping it just causes cliques that can seem offputting to new attendees I don't think people are being snobs,it's not just dance music,it's more complicated than rocket science,always has been a very important part of peoples lives and i don't think anyone just 10 mins on the scene could grasp that. This has been a brill thread maybe a bit to intense at times but great to read thanks to IMBERBOY for getting it started

Fantastic uptempo dancer this is just the type of track that needs playing pure northern soul and not known to many.I first heard it mid 90s and it blew me away

Guess What-----------I'm judging Strictly Come Dancing Next week or Guess What-----------I used to be the greatest Northern Soul DJ on the planet

Seen loads of comps over the years and in every case there have been better dancers in the venue than the winners, and after the comp is finished the better dancers return to the floor only for people to tell them you should of entered you were miles better than the winner.The comps are entertaining and good to watch but be under no ellusion they do not find the best dancers just the biggest egos

Agree with all that Mark Bicknell has said.I treasure The Northern Soul oldies and love dancing to them but i hate the fact that they are being represented by a crowd that are basically a re-inactment society of Wigan Casino cica 1974.Also hundreds of the casino tracks are just not played anymore and the entire 80s Northern scene dicoveries are just ignored.I don't know the answer, these days my circumstances and work/family don't allow me to attend nighters regularly where i suspect the real scene still exists.I mainly attend Soul Nights and its getting harder and harder to hear and dance to something you ain't heard and danced to a million times

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Brill post Imber agree with most of your comments well put.Similar to yourself i was just 16 when the Casino closed and i only made it once in its death throws during 1981.But as you say the late casino Searling playlists jumped into the post casino venues Stafford, Clifton Hall,Morcambe,Warrington,etc etc.I went to a few Staffords,and lots of Clifton Halls.Now when you go to a soul night its as if most of these venues never existed and we are constantly driven back to the old casino and torch sounds.I think you are correct most of this is caused by the returnees who never heard any of the 80s venue stuff so they grasp onto the youth club stuff we could sing in our sleep we have heard them so often.Don't get me wrong i treasure some of the Wigan oldies they are amoungst my fave alltime sounds and are the reason i got into the scene in the first place.But hundreds of fantastic Northern Soul records are just not getting revived because they are not known by 50% of todays punters who refuse to dance to something they don't know off by heart.

Think this question deserves a little thought Barney.If your Dancing your being entertained so it follows that the fuller the dancefloor the more people are getting entertained.However i've seen full dancefloors dancing to crap records that are defo not entertaining me.Think it is the Duty of any Northern Soul DJ to educate by slipping an unknown,underplayed,or long forgotten tune onto the slip mat.All the great spinners have introduced new sounds to us and all the crap Djs just play the safe same olds over and over again.Think the DJ himself can make it entertaining by injecting enthusiasm in the way Sean Chapman does. This way sometimes even the regular plays can come across better. One thing is certain DJs can make or break a night and over the years i've seen it go both ways Cheers PATTO

Hi Guys I'm after a nice clean copy of CHRIS MORGAN --WHO AM I prepared to pay around £75 any out there please Pm me PATTO

Some great suggestions so far gonna try my Mill Evans after this.Another one from me is Moaning,Groaning & Crying which is the flip to The Fuller Brothers--Times A Wasting

I never owned an original phil closest i got was the lookalike 70s boot which i still have 20 years on.Always thought just can't take no more was a Stafford type of spin but as i say never heard anyone play it.Never seen it on CD either unless someone knows different.Think its a nighter track leaving the stomping A side for the soul night crowd

After many years on the scene i have never heard any DJ play the brill flip to JIMMIE RAYE--PHILLY DOG AROUND THE WORLD.The flip is called JUST CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE.It is a mid tempo spine tingler with a pounding beat that would sound great mid-nighter.Has anyone uesd it in their sets and did it get spins in the past.Can anyone PM me a mp3 of it would love to share it around. Cheers--Patto

Yep your right there Earnie,and the soultown release sounds a crisper recording to my ears