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As the starter of the thread, glad too see I managed to alert a few to it. I too bought it from a source on Amazon for £8.50, how do they do it? Hopefully one day I'll get a promo once I get a few gigs under my belt! Simon.. No, it's nothing to do with a homemade production such as 'wrong side' it's a just a belting unreleased that Ady turned up. Ironically. I met her in 1975 in Downstairs records, New York with her manager John Bennings who handed me a test pressing of Love Has So Many Meanings. I gave it to Ian Levine to break at the Mecca as Wigan was totally unsuitable. Back to Lily Fields on Kent, my no.1 spin on Radio from this weekend.

Charity eh.....a very convenient way for some promoters to sail on by unoticed. I've counted tons of 'charity' events conveniently running off hundreds of CDs to give away on various nights. It's totally bollixed the niche market of cd sales, yet everyone turns a blind eye! We are not in the music business anymore, but still find it hypocritical to see a fair few on here continually getting success at venues simply working the old 'first 100 get a free cd' If you ever thought vinyl reissues were bad, check out the reams of 'anniversary and charity cds' currently handed out gigs and sold openly too! Vinyl is minor believe me to this almost accepted epidemic.

Check out the Lily Fields unreleased track on the GWP pt 2 cd from Kent. Absolutely mind blowing.

Absolutely. Surprisingly though, my favourite unreleased track until Kent issued it is Aint You Glad- Mill Evans. Even this 5 star epic would have failed.

Mark....make that every night. During my time working for Burton/Daniels agency in 73/74 I worked 7 nights a week. You are spot on. This is why the youth back then remember Moses Smith, Salvadors etc and don't know The Antellects. Simples.. To quote an overly used word!

Jackie Day's Naughty Boy would have been massive in the early stages of Wigan's life. I heard George Soule- Cross My Heart recently and that too would have been a title contender. The Casino really had no rules. The Velvet Satins was huge, the Servicemen-Are You Angry wasn't. One of my favourites is The Inticers that too failed. The Parliaments recent giant Rainy Day would have failed against the Javells. We were all very young back then and the euphoria swept away any gameplans we may have had. Thankfully most of today's venues play the best of today and the past. I always remember getting a wants list in the mail from Ian Clark, during my time in New York 1978. Eddie Garrigan. Wakefield Sun, Bobby Diamond, Peter Jarrett, The Buckinghams, Jamie, Burning Bush etc etc Hey, but years later Larry Trider, Joey Delorenzo. So not much has changed. There are quite a few of Butch, Mick H's spins I absolutely love, but then again I can't stand Teardrops by Soul Bros Inc neither Holly St James. Opinions opinions! Sorry Russ if I got slightly off topic.

Surprisingly the Silhouettes wasn't as big as you may think. It matured like a fine wine. Ernie Marbray was one of my failures in mid 74

True

Hi Russ, As the original DJ there along with Russ W, I can assure you none of the above would have worked. There's a handful that would have done the business..Joe Jama and Bill Bush spring to mind, but the receptive audience had so much to choose from and, don't forget the playlist was short. We might only play 100 records a night due to 2,3 and 4 plays a night. Wigan was unique in it's make-up. Today we are older, wiser and willing to accept different styles. If the Seven Souls and Silhouettes failed to entice at Station Rd, I can assure you the Mello Souls would have failed. In my humblest opinion of course! Kev

Course you can.. Providing it's Landslide, Lou Pride and Chuck Wood!

Course you can.. Providing it's Landslide, Lou Pride and Chuck Wood!

As for the World Northern Soul Dancing Championship held at Blackpool Tower ,Sat Nov 14 we welcome the very best dancers. Don't be shy, get up there!

Billy should be gracing the Stoke venue this coming weekend.

then 'spirit' needs to email us as we have no idea who he or she is! See you at Stoke on Saturday.

No idea who 'spirit' is. I'm sure anyone who has a beef with us, contacts us with the usual threat 'if you don't agree with us' we will go to Soul Source. 92 needed compensation at Whitby for counterfeit tickets that had been distributed without our knowledge. 210 got in FREE the following year, using the same threat. We are available daily to deal with any issues at sales@Goldsoul.co.uk We are also at the Kings Hall, Stoke this Saturday. We run a transparent business. If we didn't we would not be trading.

We are unsuccessful promoters and ask the moderators to erase Biggray1 from Soul Source, due to his agenda of personally attacking us at every opportunity.

Mike. Another personal attack against a successful promoter. Please remove the comment and hopefully the author.

A very offensive statement. Mike could you please remove. We are thepromoters of Stoke, Blackpool and Whitby among others! All successful.

Northern Soul,Motown and Jazz Funk are back at one of commercial Radio's main stations in the Midlands. Signal 2 covers Staffordshire/Cheshire on 1170 Medium Wave, DAB and www.signal2.co.uk From Saturday, September 19th and weekly thereafter, 6-10pm. The area gets not only a feel good night of Classic Soul but a weekly competition with great prizes(after 6) solid gig guide(after 7) plus weekly guests from the artists who made the music and DJs/Fans who keep the scene popular. Wide variety of Classic Soul(Northern,Motown,Club Classics 70's/80's) with interesting conversation from Signal 2 Note: If you organise or wish to promote your events on the show you can load up to Soul Source Events section, we'll check weekly.. DJs/Local and National/ Fans who grew up in the region will be contacted for potential interviews once the programme gets underway. Tonight sees sees Colin Curtis talking about his career and more after 8pm.. Forthcoming guests include;Melba Moore, Jesse Davies, DJ's Butch,Dave Evison and more. STARTS TONIGHT at 6!

STARTS TONIGHT at 6!

Northern Soul,Motown and Jazz Funk are back at one of commercial Radio's main stations in the Midlands. Signal 2 covers Staffordshire/Cheshire on 1170 Medium Wave, DAB and www.signal2.co.uk From Saturday, September 19th and weekly thereafter. 6-10pm. The area gets not only a feel good night of Classic Soul but a solid gig guide plus weekly guests from the artists who made the music and DJs/Fans who keep the scene popular. Wide variety of Soul with interesting conversation from Signal 2 Note: If you organise or wish to promote your events on the show you can load up to Soul Source Events section or contact us direct. DJs/Local and National/ Fans who grew up in the region will be contacted once the programme gets underway. September 19th sees Colin Curtis talking about his career and more.

Our thoughts are with him and his family. A SoultripUSA real character and terrific party animal.

A fabulous person! Met her at the 'Leader of the pack' opening night at the Bottom Line in New York before it made Broadway. She spent around 40 minutes talking to me about her career while Joey Dee and I looked on in amazement. And what a night that was...Ronnie Spector,Shirley Alston, Paul Schaeffer(David Letterman's Band leader)and just about everybody from the Brill Building. Ellie.....I Want You To Be My Baby.....RIP Kev