Ian Dewhirst

The same exact same thing happened with Black Box's "Ride On Time" which featured the main vocal sampled from Loleatta Holloway's "Love Sensation" but was credited to Black Box. It was the biggest selling single of 1989. Ian D

I agree with Jack. You can't copyright a rhythm. Also, musically, Marvin's record, whilst brilliant, really was all over the place. The way Jack described it, is exactly how I thought it was made. A pure jam. Ian D

Mmm. I haven't heard her name for about 35 years. I don't whether this was the track in question in the other thread but I had this for a while in the mid 70's - a brisk 'lil pounder with a nice punchy chorus..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP0v1JPulL4 Ian D

Prince Phillip Mitchell has never sounded better to my ears....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJIMQBshQ8 Ian

Too many originals being played? Ian D

Sorry Steve. Typical opportunism going on here. It's actually quite collectible for the rare Disco crowd too. I actually promoted the Decca version in the mid 70's I seem to remember but the U.K. Aquarius label looks so beautiful.....whoops....there I go again...... Ian D

Got a lovely mint UK Aquarius copy here for £25 if anyone wants one...... Ian D

Well it sure as shit ain't me...... Ian D

Yep, my favourite too! Great track! Ian D

I've bought many a record in the U.S. and some 40 years later, have ended up sending it back to the same city in the U.S. I bought it from. A 40 year boomerang effect. I sold a TK release to Henry Stone in Florida the other week which I seem to remember buying from the same area he now lives in. Strange old world. Ian D

I've bought many a record in the U.S. and some 40 years later, have ended up sending it back to the same city in the U.S. I bought it from. A 40 year boomerang effect. I sold a TK release to Henry Stone in Florida the other week which I seem to remember buying from the same area he now lives in. Strange old world. Ian D

Yep, the Philly Re-Grooved Vinyl box set will be with us on 28/10/13. It went back a week due to a hold-up in the production process. Be sure to pre-order! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philly-Re-Grooved-Moulton-Remixes-VINYL/dp/B00F6A8ZFQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1381088551&sr=1-1&keywords=philly+re-grooved Ian D

Best blind find I ever had was the Si Hightower mini album Test Pressing from a skip outside Monarch in L.A. in '76. A true one-off I believe..... Ian D

I stumbled into this whilst researching a project and I had it spinning around my head ever since.... .......plainly ridiculous. A blistering Ben E. King Northern Soul version of a Christmas anthem which is now lodged in my brain.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxIRBzG_mQE Ian D

Hahaha. Brilliant Penny. I love your posts. Ian D

Blimey, "Out Of Time", brilliant record though it is, was a pop hit. I thought you were talking about "Don't Just Look At Me"....... Ian D

You mean the one's that can no longer compete with their 18 year old selves from 45 years back dancing to "You're Gonna Make Me Love You" and "Too Late" Kev? You can get away with a mild sway to Willie Tee. Plus, it's a brilliant record as well...... Ian D

My experience exactly. Tons of people say they love Northern Soul but none of 'em know anything about it. It comes in and out of fashion all the time. I remember hearing exactly the same stuff in London in the late 90's when there last seemed to be an influx of people apparently into Northern but they were basically just catching the fad of the moment....... Ian D

It goes in cycles in my experience. It was underground when I started at the beginning of the 70's and then it was overground by 1975 or thereabouts. The amount of people that tell me that they love Northern Soul yet can't give me a single title seems to have multiplied in the last few weeks though..... Ian D

That's 'cos it's the perfect tempo for 50+ ers..... Ian D

Latest count 7200. Plus more arriving tonight. It's the biggest Northern turn-out I think I've ever seen. Plus sunny too.... Ian D

Yep. Packed to the brim and apparently 6K here. Staggering. Ian D

Which was exactly the point I made earlier. Fast dance music generally = drugs whatever the decade. Ian D

That's amazing. Effectively one sixtieth of the UK population watched that show. I thought the figures would be good because there was a nice feel about the program but that's a phenomenal figure for the Culture Show. They could make a series out of the amount of footage they have! Ian D

Please bear in mind the way the program was edited which didn't necessarily have time to deal with the complete context of all those sound bites. The point was that there has always been a parallel between fast music and the drugs du jour whatever the decade. Essentially most types of uptempo dance music since the 60's have generally had a drug of choice whether it was speed in the 60's and 70's, coke and E in the 80's, Ketamin in the 90's or MDMA in the 00's. So 70's Northern Soul = speed and late 80's House = E. The BPM and age group was essentially the same. That's not in any way trying to compare the music but rather the sociological circumstances. They could have used a lot of other stuff but they chose that which is OK by me. I never took drugs when I was into Northern Soul, but I was in the minority. Ian D