Goldsoul

Relevant background info and useful trivia on all entries. Hopefully after 40 years on the scene, I have enough info for you!

Brilliant- I just batted it to her! Keep em coming.

Kevin- A general overview of what I see at the venues I frequent backed up by DJ feedback plus a survey to over 1,000 on Facebook late last year. Most of the titles are in there.

The weirdest thing of all in the last decade or so, is how and why some tracks reach astonomic proportions floor wise. Here's a few leaders: Bob Sinclair How/Why? Paul Anka 'When'. Bigger now than the 70's Billy Davis 'Stanky'. Soul packs in 72 Hamilton Movement. A grand and lukewarm in Northern arenas now 2 and half and floor filling Soul In The Sun- Tommy Hunt. Then again, I guess Travis Wammack- Scratchy sounded weird alongside You've Been Cheatin back in 66.

Well I never. He bought his first rarities from me in Nottingham 76/77

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Sneak Peek preview anyone....... 80's spin Elbie Parker is at 407 while Jackie Day-Naughty Boy is at 420. Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas for you Stafford fans Meanwhile back at 338 its The Flirtations-Stronger Than Her Love.....Mark Freeman show your appreciation

Chalky-Good valid comments except don't fall into the trap that todays scene are made up of returnees. Judging by the numbers at big do's, it's more a case of the 'Jean Genie' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' person has switched to Northern as there really isn't anywhere for them to go . I mean, when did you last see an advert in the local rag for a Top 70's night playing Racey, Chris Spedding and Pickettywich? Simple...there isn't one. SOUL is the only game in town! The reality is, the 'newbies' have obviously been smitten with Frank Wilson, Dobie Gray and Bobby Womack but to be fair, they are enjoying The Tempests and in some case This Is My Rainy Day. To a more hardened fan, it all gets a bit strange when 'newbie' is into Paul Anka, Bob Sinclair, Julian Covey and Get Ready-The Temptations in the same set. Since my original book 12 years ago, the scene has expanded as you know only too well. For me as a promoter its good news but then again I have competition from every town and in a lot of cases, regular fans now running nights every weekend...just to DJ. Welcome to the Northern mass scene....2012.

Sadly not. I'll leave it open until midnight. Maybe PM me?

Peter-Thanks for bringing a very out of date press release to my attention, that must have been re-used instead of the current one. Many apologies, that isn't my view today. Clearly the 80's sowed some pretty good seeds to which the masses are enjoying today. One thing is for sure, you can be on this scene for decades, but it never ceases to amaze. From a pretty heavy piece of research on Facebook around a year ago, I found one single Top 5 'current Northern favourites' as follows; 1. Beggin-Timebox 2. Tribute- Bob Sinclair 3. Soul in the Sun-Tommy Hunt 4. When We Get There- Paul Anka 5. Pow Wow-Manny Corchado No Frank Wilson, Epitome of Sound and from the other side, no Mello Souls, Combinations, Chuck Cockerham or Natural Impulse. Yet, She's Gone-Hamilton Movement scored more votes than ever before. Weirder and weirder........

Close but one of em is not in there.

There are a few Burnley hits in there although for the life of me, I have forgotten them.

Thanks Nick- I have signed a copy for you. Pick up at Stoke on Dec 1st or Blackpool Tower

Surprisingly no.

Anyone who can name the Top 3 in order wins a FREE COPY.

Kegsy....Kegsy....My collection is originals only. Check the deck cams at the big venues(oh I forgot, you don't attend them ) And the ones I don't have, my close friends do. Now get bloody ordering

Pete-A lot of chart positions have changed to accomodate popular floor fillers today. That means Beggin-Timebox but also This Is My Rainy Day-The Parliaments. The images are also in colour, which was price prohibitive 12 years ago. Please buy it......its the difference between a Steak and Kidney Pie or Turkey Dinner

Hey if you don't buy my new book, there'll be no turkey this Christmas. The kids will be getting an apple and orange at best, so please, give generously x https://www.goldsoul.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=68 Images now in full colour, this is a perfect Christmas gift to all. Available from Goldsoul, Amazon and good record stores such as Beatin' Rhythm(Manchester) Hopefully receiving favourable reviews from Steve Cato, Mike Lofthouse, Trev Thomas fairly soon. Signed copies at no extra cost.

I interviewed him some 20 years ago and was surprised to learn how many copies of 'I Got The Fever' had sold. A really good commercial voice. Top guy!

This thread, move,Event lookbacks..........yes/no?

The pair of us from 9.30-12 played originals from our immaculate collections.Clearly Matt is all over the place!

Hi Kegs.......This isn't one for you mate. Best stay out of the big events lol

Here's KR......Why an open letter to me? Goldsoul, Music and Media and the Tower share in the success of the event. As for your comments, the event is operated as it always has.......through playing to a mass audience. The figures do not lie. In direct answer to your questions(See below)...here ya go....... However I must write to say how disappointed I am, not at the overall music policy but the fact that for two and a half hours, in the closing session of your weekender, two grown soul DJ's(You must mean Richard and I where we only have ORIGINAL Vinyl and in most cases the rarest issue of a particular title!) played close to 80% bootlegs in front of a crowd of many lifelong soul collectors. (Many lifelong Soul collectors...I doubt that) The Saturday night main room was peppered with underwhelming repeats and flogged dead oldies from a genre of music that spans over ten years from over 50 states. (The DJ's respond to the public demand) The fact that your events will never have the same quality of DJ's and music as the likes of Cleethorpes and Prestatyn is to be expected, but to endure a painful stream of bootlegs from the likes of Prince Phillip Mitchell, The Epitome Of Sound and The MVP's was nothing short of an insult. And in a world where punters pay hard earned money for original 45's, completely unacceptable. (Now funny you should talk about Prestatyn you left out Kings Hall Stoke though. Your other comments are woeful to say the least)) In stark contrast to this, the previous night saw one of the world's top rare soul spinners play perhaps the greatest hour of music I've heard in 15 years. In a corridor. On a carpet. (World's Top Spinners.....Thanks...but hardly. They are a bunch of in tune enthusiasts who did a marvellous job.) To place this disparate quality of DJs on the same bill is an indignity to those who search long and hard to provide people with an original record. (Get real!) Never would I begrudge having to pander to the tastes of a largely 'classic soul' appreciating audience but to do this on a series of £5 reissues really is embarrassing. (Not embarrissing at all. Most of our hired hands have excellent collections and those the don't are either working because of their heritage branding or they are consumate floor fillers) One of the DJs in question defended his case with the opening line, 'Some people use CD's, now we don't do that'. Before telling me to 'get a life'. As an aside he also reacted angrily to another woman who questioned the provenance of his records. (Poor question. The scene at the 3,000 level is a complete open book-clearly you should not have been there) Had I and my friends not made a 450 mile round trip perhaps we would have felt slightly less aggrieved, but I can assure you that we were far from the only ones who had travelled great distances and felt so short changed. (Better luck next time) Your claim that Blackpool is perhaps the greatest weekender in the world is due in whole to the grandeur of the venue rather than your commitment to providing an interesting offering to a knowledgable audience. (To each his own) Although we shall sadly never return, in future I think it only fair to other punters to ensure that the whole cast of main room DJs reflect in someway the level of skill, commitment and talent of those who crafted that beautiful ballroom. (Thanks for your comments although Richard and I disagree completely)

Price offered dependent on condition Ramona Collins £1,000-1,200 Tomangoes 2,400-3,000 Danny Monday 7-800 Kurt Harris 300-350 Pm or e- kev@kevroberts.com