Strictly ‘does’ Northern Soul at Blackpool this weekend , but this trailer suggests it will be Strictly embarrassing and a missed opportunity . Im not ashamed to reveal myself as a regular viewer of SCD , which at its best is a celebration of dance , sparkle, fun,, and hopefully achievement . This trailer was aired on the BBC2 It Takes Two.., and described by John Gilkinson Creative Choreography Director as :
“ a great opportunity to create a bit of a battle between the Ballroom dancers
Please note the forum house rules are now titled 'Soul Source Site Guidelines' and can now be found via the following link
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/guidelines
Another Kindle pass on in the occasional series where the site makes the most out of the amazon "look inside" to provide some heads up reading on both old and new books available on kindle, thanks to member roburt (john s) for highlighting this one
Here's the soul source heads up read...
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Published: November 12, 2013
Author: Robert Gordon
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and siste
Seems just a bit more "Northern Soul" film news has been pushed out in the mainstream via a MEN article entitled Keeping The Faith...
Clip below, can read the full article via the link below the below....
Steve Coogan plays a teacher, it's a small part but I'm really pleased he agreed to do it and Ricky Tomlinson plays the granddad
Elaine says it was a 'no brainer' to shoot here in the north west, but she's keen to point out that the town in the film is fictitious. "I know the main tow
H B Barnum told me he had passed in the last hour or so.
Ady
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He was born to James Wilson and Samantha Gibbs. While still in his teens, he moved to Los Angeles, California.
In 1965, Berry Gordy asked the producers Hal Davis and Marc Gordon to set up an office of Motown in Los Angeles. Wilson accepted an offer to join the team. In December 1965, "Stevie" by Patrice Holloway (V.I.P. 25001) was the first single released from the West Coast operation and feature
As you may be aware the recent BBC 'Northern Soul At the Proms' feature was broadcast live on BBC radio back in July,
You can read our 'busy' Source Forum topic on the showing here - tap here to read
The concert was also filmed for a later TV broadcast and as such the feature will be broadcast in the Uk on BBC TWO this Saturday 26th August at 19:45 - 21.15 hrs, that's a 1 hour, 30-minute show.
Details from the BBC website on the tv show follow below
Northern Soul at the P
Just seen that former Parliament & Brainstorm singer Belita Woods had died of heart failure.
Very sad news.
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as the msm info below shows someone who's work touched many lives in many ways
Belita Woods is a former lead singer of late 70's R&B group, Brainstorm.Brainstorm had a disco hit in 1977 called "Lovin' Is Really My Game". Their follow-up album, 1978's Journey To The Light featured a more soul-funk sound, anchored by the album tracks "
The Top of the Pops showing of Wigans Chosen Few dancers back in 1975 is often mentioned when talking about "all our yesterdays" on here and other places and sure that those who were around at that time can remember the actual show or indeed the follow on effect that it had.
As has been said many times it was thought that no copies of this episode have survived the years due to the practice of wiping and re-using tapes that the BBC had at the time
Online archives do put the appearance
Things now starting to show up for the talked about forthcoming Northern Soul Film entitled "Northern Soul" with the appearance of an interview on youtube involving two of the actors
Directed by Elaine Constantine web sources say that filming is planned to start shooting this summer/autumn.
Already the way it has been presented online does show that it's taking a different path than other recent similar projects, it could be said they are doing things in a way which owes more to tradit
Ian Levine asked me to pass on the following Would you please post on Soul Source that Liz lands passed away this morning in Atlanta. Added by site: Born Elizabeth Lands 1939 in The Georgia Sea Islands, grew up in New York City. Lands supposedly had a five octave vocal range started her Motown career before Gordy decided to make a name for her in the R&B/Pop market, sadly it wasn't to be. She had a brief career away from Motown before disappearing altogether until Ian Levine recorded h
Word of things moving forwards with the forthcoming film "Northern Soul"
The Manchester Evening news just featured in its business section an article titled
"The film-maker who wants to strike a note with Northern Soul fans"
Basically after the first read it seems the article informs of a opportunity for investors to play a part in supporting this project via an investment scheme....
The below clip gives a basic idea, but seems may be best to view the rest of the article for the full s
Looks like the story with this series of vids just keeps on growing May have seen them mentioned in various threads on here, the first just only 3 months ago The first... http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Southern-soul-Levanna-dances-way-video-hit/story-20269027-detail/story.html<> 82 Comments Comments Photospot Dec 07 2013 02:14 PM WTF, no wonder people laugh at our scene, 1 stupid girl jigging about in the street looking like escapees from an asylum
Northern Soul BBC4 Living For The Weekend
The shape and form of a talked about earlier BBC4 documentary are showing up
It has a name, looks like its on a Friday July 25th, 2014, more details are knocking about and is showing in a BBC trailer...
Friday Night Music: Trailer - BBC Four
and here's the blurb...
Northern Soul: Living For The Weekend, made by independent production company Somethin’ Else, tells the story of a genre of music unlike any ot
The soul source gallery has just come to the end of a long overdue upgrade
Not only has the engine been upgraded but all the images/cats have had a going over
last count creeping up to the 100,000 mark
here you go
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Some time ago I compiled a CD of live recordings from the Normanton Baths Hall soul nights for some of my friends. To make it look professional I included a CD booklet containing a short history about how the soul nights started. I thought this may be of interest to some of you who are old enough to remember those very early days of the UK soul scene.
For those of you that can remember the club and the fans who attended, I have been asked to arrange a reunion soul night at the Pontefract Co
News is about that signed deluxe hardback copies of the forthcoming book from Richard Searling are now available for pre-order from Anglo American.
Titled 'Setting The Record Straight' and with it having taglines such as 'Music & Memories from Wigan Casino 1973-1981' and 'The Sounds That Shaped My life' and being billed with enticing descriptions such as...
'This unique account reveals many closely guarded secrets and delivers a fascinating insight into the thrill of finding rare
Ongoing improvement work on the front page news/article feature means that this is an after-event chance to listen sort of shout. Basically Dave Thorley had a 60 min interview with the man himself Richard Caiton broadcast on the weekend as part of his appearance on the Soul People show via Solar Radio
If you missed it you be glad to know that thanks to the wonders of mixcloud you can listen to the show in your own time via the link below
Here's the link
http://www.mixcloud.com/dave-thorle
Am sure that many of you will remember the recent requests from BBC researchers regarding the BBC series 'The People's History of Pop' that showed up here on Soul Source.
Well going by some msm pre-reviews it seems that this Friday the second episode touches 'Northern Soul' and features an account by Cheryl Summers of her experiences of Wigan Casino Allnighters
Here's a preview of the blurb from the BBC, a link to the programme webpage follows at the end
The People's History of P
local news carrying this story
Men jailed for ‘fake’ vinyl records scam
Two men have been jailed and two others given suspended sentences for making and selling tens of thousands of niche counterfeit vinyl records.
Christopher Price, 68, Stephen Russell, 65, Robert Pye, 63, and Alan Godfrey, 61, were part of a group which distributed unlicensed recordings of 1960s Northern Soul artists.
On Friday a court heard about 55,000 unlicensed records were seized by police follo
New set of podcasts dedicated to the Stafford era.....
http://www.soulunderground.co.uk/StaffordTOTW/
First two podcasts online and feature two sets of Modern and Crossover Soul from Dave Thorley. Hopefully a set of Dave's 60's spins will be added tomorrow.
Download and enjoy....
HOW TO DO NORTHERN SOUL PROPERLY - A Handbook for the 21st Century by Tony Ellis - now available
With my tongue planted firmly in my cheek I take a none-to-serious look at the Northern Scene
Have you ever thought that sometimes we take our scene a little bit too seriously? After all this seriousness is not apparent when we go to a soul night, there has always been a large amount of piss-taking and general larking about in and around the scene. However this hasn’t been reflected in t
For those growing up in the early to mid 80's, with little knowledge of "Northern Soul" Kent Records introduced many great sounds to young eager lads and lasses eager to hear more of the music. Who would have thought Kent Records would still be here today and still introducing many great previously unheard records to not so young lads and lasses and to the next generation of "soulies" eager to see and hear what the fuss is all about.
Northern Soul is still the greatest underground music sc
Soul Boy - Our Lives Series 4
Soul Boy - Our Lives - A teenager in care finds a home on Nottingham’s Northern Soul scene.
Details of an upcoming real life documentary due to be shown on BBC One on Wednesday 27th May 2020. Billed as a 'heart warming' film this 30 minute documentary follows teenager Anthony Flavin as he finds his place on Nottingham’s Northern Soul scene.
Here's the BBC info...
Northern Soul is more than just music to Anthony Flavin - it’s a way of life. Anth
One Kent release many of us have been waiting for, The Pied Piper Masters. You will have to wait a little longer as it is scheduled for release on 28th January.
This CD heralds the biggest unearthing of Detroit and Northern Soul masters for decades. It is as important and thrilling as the Scepter, Wand and Musicor cache, the Dave Hamilton tapes or the unissued RCA treasure of the 80s and 90s.
On this volume alone there are previously unhear
A dual post just to pass on two soul related news items First is that today see's the official release of Northern Soul: An Illustrated History This has been mentioned on here a fair few times over the last year or so and today see's the official release day arrive. A more detailed site article will follow in a day or two, but for now here's a few images and some release text from the publishers The story of Northern Soul is one of practically total immersion, dedication and devotion,
Looks like Bear Records of Germany have just pushed out a legal re-issue of 500 copies of this much wanted 45. Comes complete with a look a like pic cover and says sourced from the original tapes
This 45 does have quite an odd background, as it is one of those of obscure releases that has originated from US forces stationed overseas.
Here's the blurb from Bear Records
British Northern Soul DJ Paul Sadot was probably the first to spin Hangin’ In by John Harris & The Soul Sayers
Thanks to twitter user monkey for this streaming pass on tip.
The documentary 'Betty... They Say I'm Different' is available to stream fully online for a limited period, hosted by Lush player this legal availability appears to be part of its release schedule and you can watch it while available fullyembedded below
Heres the blurb
Original Funk Queen Betty Davis took on the 1970’s establishment in America and changed the course of women in music forever. Then she vanished.
'If You Don’t Know Me’ is the untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary soul singer Teddy Pendergrass, the man who was poised to become the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME
The Rise, Fall And Resurrection Of Soul’s Sexiest Superstar
UK FILM PREMIERE IN CONJUNCTION WITH SKY ARTS BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE (BFI) 19th FEBRUARY 2019
includes Q&A session with director Olivia Lichtenstei
Towards the end of the 80's one of the Rare/Northern Soul Scene's most colourful characters, Pete Lawson, published two issues of his magazine "The Gospel According To Dave Godin".
Part homage to Dave Godin, part Pete's view of the scene, the people involved and not so involved who thought they were. Pete was sometimes very critical of those who he thought gave little and took a lot, some of Pete's views can be seen as harsh, some of his views are without doubt hig
A while back here on Soul Source, you may have noticed amongst all the usual online arguments, daily dramas and such the odd reference concerning a planned film that was said to have a northern soul influence. As the months passed more comments and snippets have followed becoming more frequent and that bit more interesting.
Words of a website, a dance club/school setup surfaced, a few videos on youtube mentioned, a facebook group and other such 'social' affairs showed up. Of course I can't spe
It seems that Cecil Womack passed away earlier this week in Africa where he had been living with Linda (Womack & Womack) for the last few years. site note :added 06 Feb 2013 The info below was originally posted on the Southern Soul Yahoo group by various soul fans The author of this news item failed to give any credit to the original source You can read the original post here http://launch.groups...l/message/73096 please see comments for further explanation Both Bobby &
I am sorry to report that Mary Love died on Friday. She will be hugely missed by all soul fans and 6TS and Kent fans in particular will always have a special place for her in their hearts.
Ady
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Clip from Soul Source Article (see below for link)
...sterling efforts on demos were soon rewarded, as again with Marc Gordon producing a number of mainly Frank Wilson penned songs were cut with a view to landing Mary her own recording contract. Arthur Wright was th
Ben E King & Jimmy James UK Tour 2013 Ben E King http://www.beneking.info Early life King was born Benjamin Earl Nelson on September 28, 1938 in Henderson, North Carolina,[2] and moved to Harlem, New York, at age 9. Career In 1958, King (still using his birth name) joined a doo wop group called The Five Crowns. Later in 1958, The Drifters' manager George Treadwell fired the members of the original Drifters, and replaced them with The Five Crowns. King had a string of R&am
Shelbra Bennett (ex of the Soul Children) has passed away. This sad news has just been posted up on the Stax website ....... http://www.staxmuseum.com/video-images/videos/view/r-i-p-shelbra-bennett-of-the-soul-children I have loved the tracks the group made ever since I first heard one of their Stax 45 outings back in the day. They made great records for Stax till the company went bust and then moved across to CBS/ Epic where they made yet more goodies. My fave Soul Children track .......
This was posted up by Bob Jones on Facebook in the last 15 minutes Déja Kia Bianco This page is so heart-warming. I'm Terry Callier's great niece. I regret to inform you all who really seemed to love him and his music that after a lengthy illness, my Uncle T has passed away Very sad news indeed, a true gent and incredibly talented man, added by site From the myspace page Bio: Early days: born in Chicago on May 24th 1945, Terry grew up singing alongside soul greats Jerry Butler, M
Just a quick word on the initial door opening of a fresh feature here on soul source .
Now as part of the site setup we have the early start of an online shop that as well as doing shop things also allows us to offer some new features to the site
Features
1. Intergration - as its all part of the site, once you are logged in, the shop can take advantage of all the current features of the site and streamline the whole actual ecommerce process
2. Normal ecommerce features - all the usual
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Last few days have had various reports coming in of various going ons. In an attempt to clear up the situation have posted the below. Northern djs top sounds stolen At a recent event at the Rocket venue in London, two of the most respected and famous Northern Soul DJs fell victim to one of the most underhand "soul" crimes around. The two djs concerned were Butch and Ady Croasdell, both are considered amongst the top northern soul djs,
It's all over the net & Facebook that Denise LaSalle has died.
I'd expect her local newspaper (the Jackson Sun) to be reporting this fact but so far they have nothing about her passing (though they did a big piece back in October when she had a leg amputated).
I have no reason to doubt this sad information though.
The recent Marley film (released to cinemas earlier this year) is to be pushed out on dvd come the 20th August.
Can find the link for ordering info after the review clips and video trailer
Uk Mainstream Review
The picture begins in West Africa at an old fortress on the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Through its "Door of No Return" leading to the sea passed many of the millions of shackled slaves who were shipped across the Atlantic. This was the journey made by his ancestors that shaped Marley
‘The Odyssey: A Northern Soul Time Capsule’ is the single most comprehensive overview yet of a truly unique UK musical culture which has now lasted over 45 years and had spread across the world. The current popularity of the film “Northern Soul” and it’s soundtrack plus the attendant publicity within the mainstream media - a UK Top 10 film smash, a UK Top 10 album smash and No.1 DVD smash have well and truly put Northern Soul at the forefront of people’s interest again. This is a very, very exci
Ian Levine reports that Mel Britt passed away last month, new came from Mel's brother.
I think Mel's music is going to live on forever though...
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yet more sad news
Here's a clip of the local Battle Creek Obituary
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/battlecreek/obituary.aspx?pid=162958119
Melvin Curtis "Cookie" Britt Battle Creek
Melvin Curtis "Cookie" Britt of Battle Creek, Michigan died on February 1, 2013, in Select Hospital in Battle Creek, Michig
Digital release of unreleased motown tracks from 1966
Thanks to copyright laws recent years have seen an annual release of unreleased motown tracks that are just about to hit the 50 year old mark. It's all basically down to a copyright legal requirement to publicly release any track by a certain age or lose the copyright protection
This is normally done via digital means, and yesterday thanks to the Soulful Detroit topic click here to view word was out that this years release is now live
One of the pains about getting older is that it seems that everywhere you turn you can read even more of our unique history getting rewritten in various ways.
If you do need refreshing on just what the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s were really like then just get yourself over to the Soul Yesterday section of our Soul Source Gallery, where you can find 1000s of images from the people who were there!
All in easy to navigate members albums
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/gallery/categor
Mainstream and local papers currently reporting last week's purchase of Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) by Lee Jeffries
The mainstream take goes like this...
Harborough Mail
'It's like finding the Holy Grail' - Harborough multi-millionaire spends £100,000 on the world’s most valuable Motown record
In what he described as 'the most incredible fortnight I’ve ever had', he also got married and bought a Ferrari
More here
https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/new
OK, it may not be up everybody's street, but there's some seriously great stuff within this beautiful package.....
Harmless Records proudly present another superlative box set celebrating the 25th anniversary of one of the most iconic UK independent labels of all time…
Acid Jazz, the brainchild of Eddie Piller and Giles Peterson was born in 1987 and immediately hit a chord in the UK by appealing to a cross section of serious fans from old school Jazzers, s
GOING BACK Memories of a Soul Boy - NEW BOOK
To all Northern Soul/Wigan Casino fans:
About 20 years ago I attempted to write a short book
It could have been the first out there-but is wasnt!
Now my mate Stuart Raith has helped finally get it to print
It is more about my personal passage on the scene and short stories - rather than records and facts
I have only self published as yet so you can only get them direct from me at the moment as d
Happy New Year!
Posted by djmelismo, 01 January 2012
Wishing to spread
the positive vibes
in the new year
here via MIX #50:
PLACE-2-GO - Count On Me/Step Into My Life (2000) Intro
TWILIGHT - You Look So Good (1986)
BAND OF THIEVES - Love Me Or Leave Me (1976)
HEAVEN SENT & ECSTASY - We're Together Again (1980)
WESS MACHINE - Make Love To You (1978)
JANNIE HOEG - You Make Me Dizzy (1978)
CHUNKY, NOVI & E
My forthcoming book.
I Searched For Soul and Found The Stars.
Well at last I can announce that this much anticipated book will be available for your pleasure in November 2020.
It tells of the 5 trips I made to the States (85-94) and along with others, what we got up to, record finds, and more importantly who we met and the quality time with those people 'The Stars' that we met along the way. In most cases a first for anyone outside the USA.
From day one it has always been my
