Goldsoul

To me last year during the 50th celebrations may have sounded a good idea, but would it have lost sales owing to the amount of other 50th stuff being issued ?

I will buy one whenever Kev, and if you do not mind me asking, what basis has been used to place titles in order? and are unreleased tracks included ?

Looking forward to a good read.

Will you be at Glanford Park next Wednesday?. I am looking back over my shoulder at the moment.

Steve

The basis of the book takes into account the all time great club plays ie The Elgins, Isleys-This Old.... with Northern winners Suspicion etc.

I have the final 'definitive Northern Soul Top 500' to come first, as people have bought into that brand.

A decision on the Motown one will be taken later this year.

As for Glandford Park......what is it?

Cheers,

KR

WHAT ABOUT PUTTING INTO BOOK FORM?

It's already done(2006). I held back on it until the market picks up.

Kev

A bit of a lead....the label was owned by James Chavis.

I cleaned out all of his stock at a store in Wilmington, Delaware.

I had 500 copies Like A Bee- The Spiedells but only one of The Empires which was sold to Tim Brown for £400 in 1990.

Kev

The track was recorded and manufactured in 1965. George Blackwell pressed it for Sammy Campbell.

Source: SoultripUSA 2006 but told to me in 1977 by Sammy when recording with Ian Levine as Tyrone Ashley.

Goldsoul put the group back together for the first time in April 2006 at the Hilton, New Brunswick, NJ

Soul Night needed on the way to stoke please

The South Yorkshire Soul Searchers are doing the New Years Party at Stoke, we will be coming from the Barnsley/Sheffield area and we are looking for a "Soul Night" warm up prior to the Nighter, any suggestions/recommendations? We aint interested in doing the "5 4 3 2 1 Happy New Year" thing, we just wanna party like its 1999!

https://www.youtube.c...h?v=_3rN7Txg48g

A no brainer......WESTGATE SUITES,WESTGATE,LONG EATON JNCT 25/M1 Special group admission if you text me.

Expecting 5-600! Only thing that might put you off.....it's usually full of women!

3 rooms,10 DJ's

£15 Advanced Ticket. £20 on the door.

Ticket agents are listed in the thread running in Events.

hey kev didnt you find the blue jays point of view ? seem to remember you having afew copies at colony records

I did-it was difficult to sell. £6 I think.

can anyone talk about the stuff on shrine. like who discovered eddie daye and the four bars, how did the rest start to surface. turn up . were there really only twelve singles. a mte of mine talks about owning an album on shrine. was this a re-issue or are there originals floating about?just spent last couple hours on this thread bloody marvelous,thanks to evryone who has shared .

No idea where the first Shrine single surfaced from. What I can say is, following my hit in Baltimore in 1978, I found Shirley Edwards, Ray Pollard multiple copies. That was the first time I had ever seen the label.

The JD Bryant was discovered in '81 when I cleaned out a guys appartment in New York. His landlord ordered him to sell them or be evuicted as the ceiling below was starting to crack.

Off topic....if I had kept what I found in the Jay D load, you would be staring at half a million quid today.

Every Columbia,Epic,MGM,Decca,Coral,Swan demo imagineable! 250,000 45's for a grand!!

Little Ann was an Ady C, from Dave Hamiltons archive, never released until Kent put it out a few years back.

Little Ann....Surely a discovery by John Anderson around 1978? who gave it to Richard.

Andy 'Tats' Taylor then discovered who it was by several years later.

Hawksbee and Jacobs use Bo Junior's-Coffee Pot as their theme. Featured on the Hipshaker album from Goldmine.

Andy Townsend and Mike Parry use Bongo Rock-Incredible Bongo Band US Pride/UK MGM

Billy's Bag as mentioned is a current background filler along with Jimmy Fraser. Obviously one of the behind the scene's team is fascinated by the Mod/Northern cd's.

Good call. That would have been my fourth choice. Played it at the last Move On and it sounded great out loud. I'll be spinning it again next year. Gives the lie to that bollocks that we don't like new releases on this scene, they have to be quality though (unlike Jimmy Abney)

Trying to be realistic....and this from promoters who see real crowds;

THAT DRIVING BEAT- WILLIE MITCHELL is certainly the most popular revived 45, largely due to Pete Roberts and his incredible success at the Wheel.

And...as a new giant...BACK SLOP-BABY EARL

Both appeal to the masses right now!

No, they are different. The Showstoppers now reside in Rhode Island with the lead singer attending SoultripUSA 2006. The Four Perfections were high school kids led by Marvin Steals.

The song incidentally was recorded at Cameo Parkway's studio in late 1967.

Irononically they failed to meet each other while at the event. I did manage to reunite the original engineer on the session(Joe Tarsia) with Marvin.

I expect most of the musicians became MFSB.

Kev

A real surprise Barbara West going down at Wigan, it's so far removed from the playlist back then. I remember it as a Soul

pack 45 from Contempo around 72. Someone else had a lot of it too.... FL Moore?

Either way it's a great side.

As Marvin Steals(lead singer 4 Perfections) said to me, why is the UK interested in this song when I won a Grammy for Could It Be I'm Falling In Love!

I think Arthur once told me he found the first copy of Four Perfections on Party Time at Val Shivley's.

I doubt that one. Soussan was circulating acetates in 1974. I don't remember anyone being at Val's in that year except John Anderson.

Anyone owning up

to discovering '(The Walls In My Room are only) Six by Six- Tony Turner?

My friend and I created a website that allows for the indexing of old soul and funk performance clips that are spread across different youtube,

dailymotion, etc. accounts. The site is here:

https://www.changings...%20Performances[

The idea is that there is a bunch of cool video content spread across the internet and I wanted to collect and accumulate it in one place and index it by artist, date, TV show, etc. So I created this forum on this site.

Anyone can go to the page I linked above and view the already submitted content. If you click on the "filter" tab you can browse the existing content by artist, year, TV show, etc.

Additionally, if people want to

participate and submit new content or comment and rate existing content, they can sign up on the main page at www.changingscene.com, join the channel I linked above, and then they can comment on existing videos on submit new videos by clicking the

"submit" link in the upper right hand corner. This isn't a video hosting site, you just submit links to existing youtube, dailymotion, or other video hosting site videos. You can also subscribe to the channel and get an email on each new clip on the "dashboard" page.

The channel above is only intended for artist performances or real artist music videos, not recordings or fan-made videos. There is also a gospel performances channel at

https://www.changings...%20Show%20Clips

There is also a sweet soul recordin channel at:

https://www.changings...%20Sweet%20Soul

Eventually I will let users create channels for anything they want but the site is in beta for now so they can't. But if someone wants me to create, for example, a northern soul dance clips channel, or anything else (doesn't really have to be music

related even), and you think you can get people to participate, I can do that for you, pm me. Thanks.

Bob.... Truly great stuff.

Kev

Last hour at the Mecca methinks for Lainie Hill(Elaine Hill by the way on Myspace)

Vel-Vets..... Either IL or RW via Simon S. Mecca/ Wigan not the Torch

Edward Hamilton. Unsure

Hi Kev ,I never said it was a failed Wigan spin , those tapes were home made from Gillys records that he brought round .Think Skip Jackson was a Mecca side wasn't it ? Best,Eddie

Eddie. Apologies.. I get so used to saying 'failed Wigan'.

It may have been played at the Mecca, but I had endless copies in 1975. It was very difficult to sell. The very awful(IMO) Superbs- Happiest Girl In The World(from the same company)though was easy to sell!

The mid 70's were a little wayward. John Poole met me in 1976. I gave him a choice.. Nikki Blu on Parkway for £20 or The Professionals Thats Why I Love You.....he chose Nikki Blu as it was more popular that year!

Ha Ha , you're too kind Gilly ..Still got the tapes from those days , Skip Jackson , Fantastic Epics etc ...All the best ,Eddie

Eddie. Skip Jackson on Dot Mar came from me in 1975. It's not a failed Wigan spin, as I never played it!

I had quantity from Journal Square records, owners of Catamount.

The Moses Smith (OOTP) version was speeded up for the market as you know,but what about the Sandbag orig?.Any takers on that,first spun,found etc??.

Was it Soussan?.

Simon Soussan Yes. A fantastic ear and top notch discoverer of Northern Soul and one of the funniest guys I have ever met. Calling Ian D..

who was the 1st to play garnet mimms-looking for you, mel britt-shell come runnin back and jo armstead- i feel urge coming on just 3 of my favs that would like an insite into please

MEL BRITT- Ian Levine 1974

JO ARMSTEAD- Les Cockell/Tony Jebb 1971

No idea who played The Flirtations first.

So you played it first ? Firm Wigan tune.Off topic slightly - Babysitters on Spectator...boot or not.?

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Not a boot. That plus the Charlotte Stokes on Tip were made by Herb, the owner of the masters. Both were unreleased in 1967. The Ltd 45's were released in 1978. 300 copies each if I remember correctly.

The Baby Sitters were led by Ken Williams, he of the Superiors and Okeh]

Stronger than her love - Flirtations .Was that "he who should not be mentioned"?

Written as a toothpaste commercial minus the title of course. My dear departed friend Herb Abrahamson gave me tapes to the instrumental which was included on a Goldmine cd 15 years ago. The same source supplied me with the Baby Sitters- Wait Til I Get To Know Ya and Charlotte Stokes- Is This The Price I Have To Pay.

Now back on topic.... Who discovered/played 'I Walked Away- Bobby Paris.