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Blacktrackin' is at the Woodside Social Club on Saturday 25th July with guests Soul Sam and Arthur Fenn Southern Fried is at The Pollok ex servicemen's club in Titwood Road on the last Saturday of the month (except when Blacktrackin's on) Friday Street is a mod club which meets in Blackfriars on the last Friday of the month and plays a mix of Nortern, R&B and mod sounds depending on who the guest is. The Friday Street DJs play in McChuills in the High Street for free on the second Friday of the month. Soulsville is in Mono in Kings Court on the last Friday of the month and it's free. Tune into Souful Allsorts on www.subcity.org live on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 or on Listen Again for up to date details of soul events in central Scotland.

I preferred it when the echelon members knew how to use apostrophes.

found this in an Obituary of Billy Preston

But does she claim to play on it? No she only claims to play on the hits.

Carol Kaye did not play on any hit versions of Motown songs released on any of the Motown Labels. And this topic has been done to death elsewhere. Dr. Alan Slutsky refutes her claims here. I enclose the killer point. Now if you can't tell the difference between a bass played with a pick and string plucked by a finger you should not be on here raising the question Carole Kaye is a great musician and has played on 100s of hits many of which I own. I do have her playing on a What does it take but it's by The Fifth Dimension. Can we get back on topic and I'll cite

We do try and play OVO at Blacktrackin' but we also use a top class sound system and retain an engineer to keep it sweet altho he has explained to me that as the top end of my hearing has gone I'm always asking for more treble. It's a three way system with amps for bass mid and treble with horn loaded cabinets.We have monitors for our deaf DJs and side fill speakers which means everybody can hear the sounds. We increase the volume progressively as most of our people like to listen to the tunes but also like a chat. As the venue fills and the dance floor gets busy the amps are turned up. We use a Rane mixer and hope our DJs keep the levels out of the red. We keep an ear as well as an eye on the dance floor. I've been to a few clubs with a bigger PA than any of the big dance halls of the seventies in a quarter of the space with a tenth of the punters. The sound tends to be distorted, too loud and sometimes the decks have a different EQ balnce on their respective mixer channel.

Wikipedia gives a good summary of how the Funk Brothers were released as the Soul Brothers Funk was a term that jazz players used and it was associated with the smell of sex. It was not a word used in polite middle class (Black or white) Soul Stomp was released by Earl Van Dyke and The Soul Brothers on Soul in September 1964 and two months later on Stateside.

Dawson and Haydn are correct in ID'ing a Citronic Hawaii with BSR decks. I used one with Garrard SP25 decks and Stanton 500 carts. Late seventies decks that were the Mobile standard till Technics took over.

The BBC has very few clips of anything from TOTP in the sixties so it's no use wishing. That's all there is. It should be noted that 1969 was the year of Motown dominating the UK charts and the dancehalls. Which I think was also the year that Tony Blackburn had 20 million listeners on BBC radio 1 and played a lot of Motown on the show. There are six Motown singles in the January 1969 chart Would I be correct in saying this is when Motown disappeared from the playlists of what were to be Northern Soul clubs.

The other club that Fraser and I had an interest in was also featured in the Times this time The New York Times. "Our favorite spot, over all, was the Riverside Club, at 33 Fox Street, (44-141) 248-3144, a barnlike hall that is one of Glasgow's oldest music venues."

Michael Jackson did a version which is on Farewell my summer Love and a remix on The soul of Michael Jackson

No it's for the UK market and rather than put an unissued on vinyl track on the B side they've repeated what they did for the last batch of Motown 45s and that means mostly stuff that's already on vinyl and one crumb. Last time it was Chris Clark's version of Do i Love you

The Mary Gresham and Doris Allen cuts and the Natural Implulse releases have been featured by Fraser Dunn on his Soulful Allsorts show. Catch them and more great soul tunes here. Soulful Allsorts All shows are available on Listen Again at the above web page

Absolutely right. Robert Townsend wrote produced and directed The Five Heartbeats and went on tour with the Dells before making the film. The Dells influence is seen in the film giving it a realistic feel to life on the road but they kept their line up intact for forty years. The Five Heartbeats is a disguised biography of The Temptations.

That's a late version of The Coconuts in the pic. Kid Creole released his own version Of there but for the grace of God and I ahve a live version by him on some NME cassette.

Pretty much the same as elsewhere. Scotland had major clubs in all of its cities and i presume there were differences between the cities and among the clubs in those cities. It's a big decade to cover when in 1970 the major dance halls still had live bands through the Saturday Night Fever boom to the rebirth of clubbing through alternative nights by 1980. Most clubs played decent contemporary dance music but they'd been empty if they had not also played crap but popular current dance tunes and a sprinkling of decent stuff still popular from years gone by. A minority of people would have placed "decent contemporary dance music" as their prime reason for attending a venue in the years of major changes to the licensing laws, the upgrading of sound and particularly lighting systems and expensively decorated clubs hyped to the hilt in the local press. Commercial Radio started in the seventies in the UK which meant you could actually hear dance music played more often on the radio and of course a significant number of presenters came from teh ranks of club DJs who in turn became more popular and better paid in the bigger clubs. In Glasgow Ultrateque and Henry Afrikas, The Warehouse and a whole number of other clubs had similar playlists which contained every dance number that hit the charts as well as record company promos that sounded good and imports bought from specialist record shops. I'm sure the same could be said of most cities. However there were a couple of clubs outside of cities which attracted punters to a guaranteed good night out. h eTop of The Town in Bathgate was one and there was another in the East Coast in Fife maybe that pulled in good crowds. There are people better informed than me who could say talk about Clouds which played Northern at the start and end of a club night but I presume the usual mix of contemporary and older popular dance music in prime time. BTW as souljack advised you'll find some info at SoulScotland including a link to Scottish Soul where you'll find some reminiscences from the period and the names of a good few clubs.

Alan Beattie guests on Soulful Allsorts today with a box full of soul sounds on UK Labels. Presented as always by Fraser Dunn tune in today to Subcity for two hours of great soul music between 2 and 4pm. You can Listen live, Listen Again, check the playlist and catch up on older shows by heading to Soulful Allsorts

Dave Box was in Glasgow at the weekend and spent two hours with Fraser Dunn host of Soulful Allsorts on Subcity Internet radio. Dave played a selection of Chicago soul records some rare, some cheap and all great. Dave bought his first soul soul single in Yorkshire in 1964 and three years later was visiting the US to buy them. If you want hear the records , listen to the chat and check out the playlist head for Soulful Allsorts Soulful Allsorts goes out Live on Saturday afternoons between 14:00 and 16:00 GMT on Subcity and appears on Listen Again 30 minutes later with a full playlist. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of Soulful Allsorts which will let you know when there's a new show available to listen to by visiting: https://subcity.org/shows/soulfulallsorts/rss.xml If you're new to RSS, the BBC has a useful guide here: BBC Help on News Feeds.

I've just read the five pages of posts and thought nobody's mentioned Chris Clark and Do i love you and then the above appeared.Well done you bastard:0

Fraser Dunn has returned to to Subcity with a box of records and some good chat. Check out Soulful Allsorts on Subcity Live every Saturday between 2 and 4pm and on Listen Again Subcity Internet radio

Fraser Dunn played it yesterday on Soulful Allsorts on Subcity radio. Good single. Click to check the playlist and Listen Again.

Northern Clubs' Federation Brewery was set up as a cooperative by workers in a variety of industries not necessarily coal. It was taken over a few years ago by Scottish & Newcastle who had previously got rid of their old tied estate to a splinter company. That splinter company has been leasing pubs out and selling them off if they could not find a leasee. Just as there are still thriving pubs there are also thriving social clubs but the licensed trade over all is in trouble. Social clubns in Scotland started losing trade in the late seventies when public houses were finally allowed to open seven days. However the good ones survived. they do tend to have an aging membership and a memeber ship that smoked. They were male dominated for ages but the survivors have adapted and can compete with local pubs.

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